River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-05-14
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
Daily Summary of the Work Done I'm
the senate and Assembly in
Session at Madison.

Madison. Wis, May 6.-Bns have been
passed in the senate appropriating $4,000
to the Milwaukee industrial school for
girls; butter makers, $500; Poultry associa-
ton, $200; preservation of battle flags, So
500; contingent expenses $500; A. Abraham
for medal for Harry w. Newton $50; Wal
ter Schmidt, $1,000: board of agriculture,
$40, 200; j. L. Jones and others for expenses
connected with the Portage levee case,
$1,0I419; stationery for two years, $4,000
relating to insurance corporations: provid-
ing county training schools for teachers;
authorizing cities, towns and villages to
issue bonds; providing that the state treas
urer shall hold university funds and only
pay them out on warrants of the secretary
Madison, Wis. May THE committee on
education of the senate introduced a new
bill yesterday providing for better protec-
ton of children andprohibiting the employ
n1ent of them in occupations dangerous to
health and morals. The bill is aimed
against the employment of children under
IA years on the stage. The bill also provides
that no female under q years of age shall
be employed as a messenger by any tele-
graph or telephone company, firm or cor
poration nor shall any such female be al
lowed to sell, pedde or hawk newspapers
on the streets.
Madison Wis, May S.--The senate has
passed four bills allowing the building of
on assessment and collection has intro
duced a bill to provide that owners of bank
stock cannot deduct their debts from their
holdings in listing property for assessment
Bills have been passed providing for print
ing and binding reports of the state His
torical society; appropriating $500 to secure
correct standard weights and measures / or
the state, providing that owners of abut-
ting property in Milwaukee shall be paid
damages for track elevation; increasing the
annual appropriation for the State Horti-
cultural society from 1920 to $4,000; appro-
priating $1,000 to Emily ID. Smith, whose
husband was killed by fall while painting
the assembly chamber; providing Tor
commission to consider the feasibility of es-
tabishing a state park at Devil's Lake; al
lowing mutual fire insurance companies TO
incorporate as stock companies.
Madison, Wis. May 9.-In the senate yes
terday the bill prohibiting the sale, impor-
tation, etc, of cigarettes was reported for
passage.
In the Assembly,
Madison, Wis, May 6-In the house bills
nave been passed changing the time for
the election of county superintendent of
schools from fall to spring; providing for
standard weights and measures; appropri-
ating $500 annually TO the Interstate Fair
association at La Crosse; appropriating 81
200 annually to the first battery field artil-
of Milwaukee to acquire additional land for
house of correction purposes.
Madison, Wis, May THE assembly, by
a vote of rs to /, has passed the joint reso-
luton for constitutional amendment pro-
Viding for a graduated income tax, and has
ordered to engrossment the bill providing
for reports al stated periods by coal mine
owners of coal shipments within the state
Madison, Wis, May Sin the assembly
bills have been passed changing the days
of registration in the city of Milwaukee
from Tuesday and Wednesday to Monday
and Tuesday, and the hour for opening the
booths from nine a. m. to six a. M repeal
ing the law requiring candidates for pubic
office to file expense accounts; providing an
additional clerk for the bureau of labor and
industrial statistics at a salary OF $l,OoO;
regulating the practice of medicine; appro-
priating 81 CTS to the widow of Justice {. V.
Bardeen for unsolicited salary and funeral
expenses; providing for the state inspection
of bakeries increasing the salary of the
state veterinarian from 5000 to S2,25O; APP
propriating $4,000 for soldiers monument
at the national park al Vicksburg. bill
has been introduced amending the law so as
to provide that the person receiving plu-
rality instead of majority of the votes
cast at q political caucus shall be consld-
cred elected a delegate to convention, or
candidate for any office for which the pri-
mary is held.
Madison, Wis, May 9.--The new mortgage
bill taxing interest in real estate, but eX
empting mortgages of corporations which
pay a tax on capital stock or license on
gross earnings, was ordered to engroSSment
in the assembly yesterday; also the bill CIV
ing the attorney general, railroad commits
sioner and bank examiner power to exam
inc the books of the railroad companies.
The report of the special legislative COM
mittee to investigate the need of more room
for the state offices was submitted in the
form of a bill which provides for the APP
pointment Of a commission of six mer-
chants to consider the matter of a new cap
itol building and the erection of one in the
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