River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-05-21
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
Daily Summary of the Work Done
in the Senate and Assembly in
Session at Madison.

/ Madison, Wis, May 13.-Gov La Fol-
| lette has sent another message to the leg
! islature in which he urges the closest scru-
/ tiny of appropriation bills during the re-
mainder of the session, recommends a
budget for future legislatures, and says
there should be no undue haste that will
| render il impossible fully and carefully to
consider each bill from TINS on The gov
ernor again makes thrust at the public
service corporations in his message, saying
| thats with the exception Oh them, the tax
| payers Of the state already are heavily and
1 to a certain extent unjustly burdened. On
/ motion of Senator Whitehead the message,
after being read in the senate, was re-
ferred to the committee on state affairs.
Madison wis, May 14.-In the senate
| yesterday the bill requiring owners OF
mines to make reports was killed. The
child labor bill was UNANIMOUSLY passed,
as was also the bill to prohibit an increase
in freight rates. The new cigarette BILL
providing for a license fee of $500, was
killed.
Madison. Wis, May 15.-Bills have been
! passed in the senate appproprlating $l49
/ to New Richmond; giving $3.50 annually
! to the GAINESVILLE fair appropriating
S397.65 to the coal investigating committee
| for expenses; appropriating $4,000 annual
| ly to the free library commission, giving the
superintendent of public property two ex-
ira employees; regulating the hours of labor
| for children in factories; appropriatlng
| $1,000 for improvements at the Waupaca
Veterans home; authorizing the licensing
| of peddlers; appropriating $4,000 extra for
the ST. Louis fair; fixing salaries of county
| supervisors of assessments; allowing the
| employment of assistants to district attor-
| neys at SIS per day; making 1t unlawful to
hunt ducks with the aid OF a sneak boat or
BOAT propelled by steam or other artificial
power; limiting the number OF decoys each
| hunter may use to %.
| Madison Wis, May 1.-THE senate yes
terday refused to concur in the assem-
bly, bill prohibiting the increase of freight
rates of railroads. The bill prohibiting the
employment of girls under y as messengers
by telegraph or telephone companies or
the employment of children under Is years
for stage purposes was passed.
In the Assembly.
Madison, wis, May BIN the assembly
| the governors message referring to ap-
| preparation bills was referred to the COM
mittee on claims by the speaker. The bill
prohibiting railway companies from in
creasing freight rates from the schedule in
| effect June Is last, has been advanced to
| engrossment.
! Madison Wis May 14.-In the assembly
yesterday the new cO-employe bill making
railroads liable for damages for injuries
to employees caused by negligence of other
| employees was passed unanimously. The
bill prohibiting political lobbyists from at
tempting to influence votes Of members of
| the legislature was passed, as was also
| the bill relative to trusts and combinations.
The bill recommended by Governor La
Toilette prohibiting railway companies
from increasing freight rates, such action
| being anticipated in view of the increase
| in railway taxes, was passed by vote of
| IS to 81.
Madison. Wis, May 15.-The assembly
has passed bill providing for tax levy of
100000 for the erection of a hospital for the
criminal and vicious insane at the Northern
hospital near Oshkosh. Bills have been
concurred in appropriattng 5000 to the
State Horticultural society; appropriating
$500 to the State Poultry association and
$500 to the Wisconsin Butter Makers as
ISOLATION. Bills have been passed proviG-
ing for the establishment of home for
olind artisans in Milwaukee; providing for
the erection of a soldiers monument in the
National cemetery st AnderSonville, Ga. !;
empowering the attorney general, bank ex-
aminer and railroad commissioner to invest
igate the books of the railroad companies
to ascertain if they are making correct re-
ports to the state treasurer of their gross
earnings; creating a state civil service COM
mission and authorizing it to place what
positions it deems best under civil service
regulations; prohibiting the sale of game,
and providing for an open season for duck
hunting during the last Is days of April;
to prohibit lobbying in the legislature.
Madison, Wis, May 1.-THE assembly
has concurred in bills creating a state board
of forestry. giving owners of property a
right Of action for damages to their prop
erty by the elevation of railroad tracks |;
authorizing the levying of graduated in
come tax, and appropriating $317 800 to the
state university, and approprating $S5 900
for an addition to the Platteville normal
school The bill appropriating $4,000 for re-
pairing and constructing levees along the
Wisconsin and Fox rivers at Portage was
naSSed