River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-04-09
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
UniIy Summary Of the WOriS Done In
the Senate End Assembly in
Session Mt Madison.

Madison, Wis, March S1.-Bills have been
passed in the senate giving interurban rail-
ways one year in which 10 equip their cars
with toilet rooms for patrons; authorizing
counties to pay a bounty on rattlesnakes:
increasing the powers of life insurance
companies.
Madison, Wis, April 1.-The senate re-
ceived a message from Gov. La Toilette
Withholding his approval of No. 1873, bill
to allow county boards TO appropriate not
to exceed $4,000 for soldiers and sailors
monument without submitting the ques-
ton to vote of the people
Madison, Wis, April 2.-In the senate
yesterday the primary election bill was
amended to make it apply to the election
of city and county officers and to compel
the submission of the measure to the peo-
pie for approval at the election of 1904
Madison, Wis, April 3.--The senate con-
CURED in the assembly so-called gypsy
BILL" which prohibits camping on the pub
lie highways without permission from
abutting property owners, and also in the
bill permitting the taking of game birds
for purposes of propagation.
Madison, Wis, April "A bill for COM
pulsory attendance at school has been
passed by the senate, 1t provides for nine
months year for children under II years
of age ana that those under l6 shall be
kept in school if they are not az work. A
senate bill for a dam across the Chippewa
river near Eau Claire has been adopted
by both houses, with an amendment pro-
Niding for tishways. Assembly bills proVid-
ing for the care of children born of moth
ars committed to the home for the feeble
minded, and to reimburse the normal school
fund for money lost by Il mortgage on the
Eau Claire armory has been concurred in
The committee on corporations introduced
a bill regulating the issue of bonds. and
he m n
city can issue them without going to the
formality of holding an election to ascer-
tain the opinion of the people Adjourned
to April Is.
In the Assembly.
Madison. WIS., March SO--Tn the assem-
bly, on Saturday the bill prohibiting po-
utical lobbyists from attempting to nhu-
ence votes of members of the legislature or
candidates for any elective office and from
receiving or soliciting money from cor
porationS and other sources for personal
use in return for influencing votes, was rec
commended for passage.
Madison, Wis, March S1.-The assembly
has passed bills providing that suicide more
chan a year after the issuance of 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 Il North
western Railroad company right of way
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 black board in the
station at least 20 minutes before the sched-
ue 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
Madison, Wis, April 1.-The assembly
without discussion, has passed the Smalley
bill fixing the rate of taxation for the com
mon school fund income at slN-tenths of u
mill.
Madison, Wis. April I'm the assembly
the Joint committee on fish and game rec
commended the passage of a law forbdding
the marketing of all kinds of game all the
year. This is the result of the agitation
in favor of a law to permit spring shooting
of ducks
Madison. Wis, April 3-The assembly has
passed bill appropriating $4,000 as a con
tingent fund to prevent the introduction
and spread of Asiatic cholera, buboniC
plague smallpox and other dangerous and
contagious Diseases also a bill requiring
state repositories to give United States
state, municipal or surety company bonds
in the sum of so per cent. more than the
amount of state moneys they are author
lied to receive.
Madison Wis, April 4.-The assembly
state affairs committee has decided that
$15 600 is sufficient for the Wisconsin eX-
hibit at the st. Louis worlds fair. The
joint committee on claims agreed to report
the following amounts for the maintenance
of the charitable and penal institutions for
the next two years; State hospital for the
insane, $4,000; Northern hospital, $4,000:
home for feeble minded, $4,000; school
for deaf, $1,000 school for blind. $4,000;
Industrial school for boys, $4,000; state
prison. $105,0 0O; school for dependent chill
dren, ISL 900; reformatory $4,000; total,
1895 O00. This is $3S, 900 below the estimates
Of the board of control, Bills have been
introduced increasing the limit of dam
ages for death by wrongful act from $1,000
to $4,000; providing for taking one-half
the hunting license fees and one-third the
penalties collected for violations of the
law, and using the money to pay bountles
for killing wolves; bill creating a depart
ment of state forestry. 1t provides that
all the state lands, known as swamp lands,
shall be appraised before August !, and
sold at public auction between October
10 and November Is Of this year Lands
left unsold in addition to certain lands
to be reserved in Iron and Villas counties,
are to be known as the state forest reserve,
and the chief clerk of the state land office
is to be superintendent Of forests Nd
journed to April IL.