River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-19
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
Daily Summary of the work Done In
the Senate and Assembly in
Session at Madison.

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| Importance was transacted in the senate
yesterday.
Madison. Wis, Feb. 1.-THE primary elec-
ton bill passed by the assembly last Fri
day was received by dhe senate tonight,
and after being read the first and the second
| time was referred to the committee on priv
| ileges and elections. Bills have been intro
duced increasing the annual appropriation
| TO the State Dairymen's association from
| 5000 to $1,000 year; to extend the term Of
Office of the state labor statistician from
| tour TO six years; to provide for an add
tional clerk in his office; 10 provide for a
municipal court in the northern district of
| Marinette county; appropriating S215, for
| the University of Wisconsin; creating
! grain commission and providing for the
| licensing and regulation Of warehouses, the
weighing and inspection of grain
| Madison, Wis, Feb. 12-Bills, have been
introduced in the senate creating a grain
and warehouse commission at superior; to
extend the terms of university and normal
| regents so that they shall hold office until
their successors are appointed and quail
| fed; providing that all owners of factories
/ shall provide separate dressing rooms for
male and female employees; providing for
an additional annual appropriation OF SILL
| coo to the university.
| Madison. Wis. Feb. ia bill was intro
! duCed in the senate to make the teaching OF
the doctrines of criminal anarchy felony
| and punishable by Imprisonment for not
more than ten years or a fine of not more
! than 5000, or both; permission % use prem
! lses for assembages of anarchists is mace
! n misdemeanor Senator Whitehead intro
! duced a bill providing that owners, OF horses
! that have been locked shall be required To
! register them with the county clerk within
! 60 days and the penalty for violation is n
| fine of from 800 TO $500 and impris onment
| from 80 to 80 days. Senator WNlte intro
| duced a bill requiring all corporations and
! stock companies doing business in WGscon-
| sin to file statements with the attorney gen
| aral after Jme'4, 1904; all contracts or agree
ments in restraint of trade are declared
void and persons making same are to he
| punished by one year Imprisonment or a
fine of 5000. Property of illegal trust COM
| panieS is to be forfeited.
Madison, Wis. Feb. l4.--ln the senate
bills have been introduced to prohibit per
sons under 16 years of age from working
over ten hours a day; providing that the
state superintendent shall receive an an
nual salary of $500. instead Of $1,000 and
fees of various kinds; making the office Of
assessor an elective instead of an appon-
tive one; to create the towns OF lilies ana
Laona in Forest county; to amend the
laws relating to the national guard by al
ding an assistant surgeon general to tie
governors STAFF. and raising the annual an
preparation 5000 year; to create the town
of Beaver in Marinette county, out of pOr-
| tons of Crivits and Coleman; to bring all
| cities under the general laws and repeal all
| special charters; to prohibit the giving OF
! trading stamps as an inducement for trade.
| A memorial to congress was offered calling
for a constitutional convention to provide
an amendment to the federal constitution
| providing for the election of United states
senators by direct vote
In the Assembly.
| Madison wis, Feb. 1O,-Two sweeping
| antitrust measures were introduced In the
assembly yesterday by Mr.. Dudgeon by re
! quest. One of the measures authorizes the
| attorney general to prosecute any trust or
commission formed in restraint of trade,
! and the other is joint resolution directing
| himl to investigate the business Of the
Standard Oil company in this state, and IL
| he finds that it Is charging unfair and I'M
| reasonable prices for it's products to take
| such action as he may deem necessary to
| secure reasonable prices.
| Madison Wis Feb. 1l.-In the assembly
| bills have been introduced prohibiting any
| party designations on ballots for school and
| judicial officers and providing separate bal
| lots therefor; providing a new system for
| securing and preserving vital statistics; re-
| pealing the coemploye act of 1898, which
prevents an employe from receiving Dam
ages for personal injuries caused by the
negligence of coemploye, and enabling an
employe so injured to recover appropriate
gent fund; authorizing the state game war
den to allow game birds to be taken and
| transported for propagating purposes;
| making an additional appropriation Of
| 5000 900 for an exhibit at the st. Louis
| worlds fair.
! Madison Wis. Feb. ia Joint resou-
| ton was introduced in the ass emily yester-
6ay inviting other legislatures to join in
| constitutional convention 10 secure an
amendment to the federal constitution pro-
! viding for the election Of United states SEN
| ators by direct vote. Bills have been intro
| duced prohibiting railroad companies from
| granting rebates; allowing municipalities
| to buy and use a voting machine; appro-
| prfating $4,000 for live stock for the uni
vcrsity experiment farm; providing that
! no sheriff shall receive salary Of less than
| 81 200 q year and that sherffs of counties
! having a population Of 10000 and less than
| 10000 shall receive a salary of $4,000 those
of counties having n population Of 10000
and less than 40, 900 81, 500 in counties Of 600
or over $1,000; increasing the regular an
nual appropriation to the normal schools
from $215 900 to $2500O0.
Madison, Wis, Feb 14.-Bils have been
introduced in the assembly prohibiting the
sale of Intoxicating liquors within a mile
of the soldiers home in Milwaukee; appro-
priating $780, 900 to the state board Of agri-
culture for improvements on the state fair
grounds; exempting homesteads TO the
value Of 81 900 from taxation; appropriatng
$780, 600 for the establishment of state san
itarium for the treatment Of incipient pull
monary tuberculosis; appropriating $500
annually to the Central Wisconsin state
Fair association Of Marshfield; repeating
section 4543 of the revised statutes requir-
ing candidates for nomination and election
| to public office to file statements Of their
| expenses; providing that eight hours shall
| constitute a days work for all employees Of
| the state, counties, cities, villages and
| towns; authorizing the state superinten-
dent Of public instruction to grant life Ger
| tffcates to teachers who have taught 70
| wears or longer in thiSstate; providing that
! all children between the ages of seven ana
| 16 wears shall attend school eight months
| a year in cities and five months year in
rural districts; making February IL, Lin
coins birthday, a legal holiday; providing
| for the creation Of commission to pass on
! the legality of bills before they are intro
| duced in the legislature.
Bank Fails.
Washington, Feb. 14.-The First ma
tional bank Of Asbury Park, \. D.,
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