Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-04-04
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
Daily Summary of the Work Done in
the Senate and Assembly in
Session At Madison.


legislative committee appointed to visit the
state charitable and penal institutions $3.50
each for expenses incurred.
Madison, Wis, March 26.-In the senate
yesterday committee was appointed to re-
ceive President Roosevelt when he visits
Madison on April3 s. Resolutions relating to
the election of United States senators by
direct vote were laid over till April 7, as was
also the resolution relating to trusts and
unlawful industrial combinations. bill
to refund the inheritance tax collected un-
der an unconstitutional law, the amount
being $59,672, was passed.
Madison, Wis, March PA bill has been
introduced in the senate by the committee
on education to create a pension fund for
the retirement of public school teachers in
Milwaukee. The committee on public
health reported back the bill to license bar
bers and recommended that it go to the
judiciary committee, which was ordered.
The assembly primary election bill was
passed, which provides for primary cleo
zion nominations of county officers and for
al extension of the system to all officers
after being approved by the people in
referendum
Madison, Wis, March 28.--The senate has
passed bills as follows: Extending terms
of regents until their successors are ap-
pointed; providing for exemption from tax
alton the part of a banks capital invested
in a building; creating a pension fund for
police and fremen in Milwaukee; proVld-
ing for the distribution of license fees of
street railway and electric companies OPP
Grating in different towns; appropriating
$4,000 for the governors contingent fund;
relating to the terms of supervisors in cities
and providing for annual elections, except
where otherwise provided in the charters;
providing that no decree of divorce shall be
entered until one year after it has been
granted; authorizing the reporter Of the
Mi1yJ-o ictr n11rt
cents a folio for transcripts of testimony
in cases where boys are sent to the indus
trial school.
Madison, Wis, March 31-,Bills have been
passed in the senate giving interurban rail-
ways one year in which to equip their cars
with toilet rooms for patrons; authorizing
counties to pay a bounty on rattlesnakes;
increasing the powers of life Insurance
companies.
In the Assembly.
Madison Wis, March 25.-In the assem-
bly, a bill has been passed providing that
supervisors shall be elected annually in
cities operating under separate charters,
unless otherwise provided. This does not
affect cities in which supervisors are now
elected for two years. The committee on
state affairs decided by vote of five to
two to recommend the Williams anti-negro
marriage bill for passage. The action
came after long and spirited hearing on the
bill. The measure if adopted will prohibit
marriages between whites and negroes
within the state.
Madison, Wis. March 26.-Bills have been
passed in the assembly providing that dis
trict attorneys shall receive the amount Of
their expenses actually and necessarily in
CURED in travelling within and without their
counties in the discharge of their office; ap-
propriating $4,000 as contingent fund for
the governor; providing for the registra-
pf M UahiolfS of kinds
owners liable for damage caused by the
careless or unskillful handling Of them, and
empowering any city, town or village to
enact special ordinances governing the run
ling of automobiles.
Madison, Wis, March 27.-The assembly
has passed the following senate bills: Pro-
vidng that an insurance of 80 per cent. Of
the value of the buildings shall be carried,
and the state insurance commissioner is
directed to look after the matter from year
to year; providing that a diploma granted
by the board Of regents Of normal schools
to any persons who complete the training
course for teachers of manual training and
domestic science shall legally qualify the
holder to teach the subjects mentioned one
year in any school in the state, and that
the state superintendent may cOunterSign
the diploma Of any such person who has
successfully taught the subjects one year,
and this countersigning shall make the d.
poma good until annulled by him; appro-
priating $3.50 to each of the three members
of the legislative committee appointed to
visit the state charitable and penal institu-
lions to reimburse them for their expenses;
extending the terms Of university regents
until the appointment and qualifications
of their successors; prohibiting the sale of
unclean and unsanittiry milk or its use in
the manufacture of food products, and
requiring creameries, cheese factories and
milk dealers establishments to be kept in
a clean and sanitary condition. The anti
cigarette bill was passed. II prohibits the
manufacture or sale of cigarettes or cigar
cite paper and takes effect July 1 next.
Madison, Wis. March 2S.-In the assem-
bly, yesterday the senate bill requiring rail-
way companies to post bulletin board at
all stations having a telegraph Office,
which at least 20 minutes before the sched-
ule time for arrival of train shall be posted
the fact whether it is on time, and if late,
how much, was concurred in Bills have
been passed making it unlawful to take
beer or other intoxicating liquors into a
voting booth during the progress Of an
election; authorizing the commissioner of
! Ia Dor statistics and the inspectors en-
pIoyed in his department to inspect tene-
ment houses for the purpose of ascertaining
their sanitary condition.
Madison, Wis, March 3O.-In the assem-
bly, on Saturday the bill prohibiting po-
iitical lobbyists from attempting to infiu-
ence votes OF members OF the IeglSlatu are or
candidates for any elective office and from
receiving or soliciting money from cor
porations and other sources for personal
use III return for influencing votes, was rec
commended for passage
Madison, Wis, March 31.-The assembly
has passed bills providing that suicide more
than year after the issuance of a life in
surance policy shall not make such policy
void providing for the assignment of estates
and the giving of receipts therefor; granting
the Eau Claire, Chippewa Falls 81 North
western Railroad company a right Of way
over a portion Of the grounds Of the home
for the feeble-minded at Chippewa Falls;
requiring railroad companies to bulletin
the time of arrival Of passenger trains, the
bulletin to be posted on a blackboard in the
station at least 20 minutes before the sched-
ule time for the arrival of each train; al
lowing villages to borrow money to the
amount of three per cent. of the assessed
valuation of their real and personal prop
erty for the purpose of building sewers
Destroyed by Fire.
ST. Hyacinth, Que, March 31.-The
home of the Marist Brothers, a Cath
oIic benevolent institution was burned