River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-26
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
Daily Summary of the Work Done In
the senate and Assembly in
Session at Madison.

Madison. Wis. Feb. 16.-In the senate
bills have been introduced to prohibit in
surfing the lives of children under ten years
| of age: for the establishment of a board of
veterinary examiners and to repeal all con-
| ficting acts: to prohibit the giving of pres
| ents as an inducement to the purchase of
| tobacco products; providing that when a
county fair is held on the same date as the
state fair the county managers shall forfeit
| their state aid; making it impossible to hold
| local option elections oftener than once in
| five years.
| Madison. Wis, Feb. 17.-In the senate
| bills have been introduced providing that
| the state fish and game warden and the
superintendent of public property shall be
| chosen at the general election in the year
| 1904 and biennially thereafter and that
| the regular term of office of these officers
when elected for full term shall COM
mence on the first Monday of January next
| succeeding their election; another bill in
| cludes the dairy and food commissioner,
| bank examiner and commissioner of labor
| and industrial statistics in the list of cleo
| tive state officers; authorizing town boards
| in counties of 10000 inhabitants to lay wa
ter mains and sewers and make assess
ments therefor.
| Madison, Wis, Feb. 1S.-A bill was intro
duced in the senate yesterday providing
| that railroads shall pension employees over
| the employ of the companies for 25 years or
| more.
Madison Wis Feb. 19.-The senate has
| passed bill to send. copies of all bills in
| troduced and the journals of both houses
| to the normal schools, colleges and public
| libraries of the state. Gov. La Toilette sent
| his first veto message to the legislature, re
fusing to approve the employee bill which
| was passed last week, and provides for q
| additional session employees and is said to
| be merely patronage measure, there be-
| ing a sufficient force to do all the necessary
| business of the session.
| In the Assembly.
Madison, Wis Feb. 16.-In the assembly
| bills have been introduced providing for
| increasing the number of members of the
| supreme court from five to seven; providing
that primary election shall be held in all
| villages at some time not less than ten nor
more than 20 days before the time of the
regular spring election; authorizing the
| governor to establish free employment bu-
reaus in Oshkosh, La Crosse and Racine;
| prohibiting the use of tickets, gifts, cou-
| pons, vouchers, certificates or other mem
| orandum in the sale of cigars, cigarettes
and tobacco; limiting the transportation
| rate of coal to one cent ton per mile with
an allowance of one dollar a car for switch
| ing charges in case the haul is not over 25
| miles providing that the maximum passen-
railroads whose gross annual earnings are
| So, 500 per mile or more; providing for a con-
| tingent fund of $50 900 to be used in fighting
| contagious disease. 1t provides that mem
| bers of the board of control must be regu-
| larly licensed physicians, at least one allo-
| path, and one homeopath; joint resolution
| directing the attorney general to investi-
| gate the sufficiency of the existing laws of
| this state relative to control of trusts The
| judiciary comittee reported for indefinite
| postponement the bill making insanity for
period of three years a ground for di-
vorce.
Madison. Wis. Feb. 17.-BiIls have been
| introduced in the assembly directing the
| state board of con lrol to rent a house or
| shop in Milwaukee and furnish it free to
blind artisans who may desire to pursue
| their trades in an effort to support them
| selves, and an appropriation of $4,000 is
made to carry out the provisions of the
bill; prohibiting treating by candidates
| for office prohibiting political lobbyists
| from attempting personally to influence
votes of members of the legislature the
votes of individual electors for nominees or
| for candidates for a nomination for an
| elective office, the penalty for violation of
the act being a fine of from $500 to s., coo or
Imprisonment from one to three years in
the state prison; providing for the appoint
ment by the governor of a state civil serv-
ice commission to consist of three persons,
no more than two of whom shall belong to
the same political party; senate bill pro-
viding for election of certain state officers
Madison, Wis, Feb. BIN the assembly
bills have been passed providing for the adj
mission Of army nurses who served during
the civil war to the Wisconsin veterans
| home at Waupaca, and also emitting them
| to relief from county funds for the benefit
of INDECENT soldiers; providing for the crea-
| ton of a new town named Anderson in the
county of Burnett. Bills were referred to
| committees giving county judges five dol
lars per day for hearing any matter not
pertaining to the probating of wills and ad-
ministration of estates; allowing common
! councils of cities of the second. third and
fourth classes by ordinance to extend the
terms of some of the aldermen now in Of
fee