Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-05-23
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE,
Daily Summary of the Work Done
i'm the Senate and Assembly in
Session Mt 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
budget for future legislatures, and says
there should be undue haste that will
render it impossible fully and carefully to
consider each bill from this on. The gov
ernor again makes a thrust at the public
service corporations in his message, saying
that with the exception of them, the tax
payers of the state already are heavily and
to 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 Dill,
providing for a license fee of 500, was
killed
Madison, Wis, May 15.-Bills have been
passed in the senate apppropriating s149
to New Richmond; giving $3.50 annually
to the GAINESVILLE fair; appropriating
1897. 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
lOr cnuQren IN 1dctOrleS, appTOpTldllHS
$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 it unlawful to
hunt ducks with the aid of sneak boat or
boat propelled by steam 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 q as messengers
by telegraph or telephone companies or
the employment of children under Is years
for stage purposes was passed.
Madison, Wis, May 19.-The senate has
passed bill providing for paying bounties
for wolves out of portion of the hunting
license fund. Other bills have been passed
regulating the employment of children;
relating to traction engines on highways;
increasing the salary Of the state veterina-
rian $3.50 year; providing that the Mil
waukee supervisors can sell the y old house
of correction and buy a new site in the
country; providing that any county OF
5000 inhabitants can build home for de-
pendent children if it is minded provid-
ing that no state lands shall be sold except
to actual settlers
In the Assembly.
| Madison, Wis. May 13.-In 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
engroSSmenA
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 passed unanimously. The
| bill prohibiting political lobbyists from at
| tempting to influence votes of members Of
| the legislature was passed. 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 a vote Of
| SO to 81.
| Madison, Wis. May 15.-The assembly
| has passed a bill providing for tax levy of
| 100000 for the erection of hospital for the
| criminal and vicious insane at the Northern
| hospital near Oshkosh. Bills have been
| concurred in appropriating $4,000 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 proVid-
| ing for the establishment of a home for
blind artisans in Milwaukee; providing for
| the erection or a soldiers monument the
| National cemetery at Andersonville, Ga;
empowering the attorney general, bank ex-
| aminer and railroad commissionerto 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 16-The assembly
has concurred in bills creating 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 a graduated in
come tax, and appropriating 1917 800 to the |
state university, and appropriating $35 600 |
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 |
passed
Madison Wis, May BIN the assembly |
bills have been passed relating to criminal |
conspiracies in restraint of trade, which |
is intended to take the place of the drug |
combine bill which was killed by the SEN |
ate; authorizing the electric companies OF |
Marinette and Menominee, Mich, to con-
solidate; approprating $4,000 to the Wis !
consin free library commission.