Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-02-21
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
Daily Summary of the Work Done in
the Senate and Assembly in
Session at Madison.

| IMAM So,VOO, or DOth; permission to use prem
| Uses for assemblages of anarchists is made
| a misdemeanor Senator Whitehead intro
| duced 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 a
| fine of from 800 to $500 and impris onment
! from 80 to 80 days. Senator Wylie intro
duced bill requiring all corporations and
| stock companies doing business in Wiscon-
| sin to file statements with the attorney gen
| eral after June4 1904; all contracts or agree
| ments in restraint of trade are declared
! void and persons making same are to be
| punished by one year imprisonment or
| fine of 5000. Property of illegal trust COM
| panies is to be forfeited.
Madison, Wis, Feb. 14-In the senate
bills have been introduced to prohibit per-
| sons under Is years of age from working
| over ten hours a day; providing that the
| state superintendent shall receive an an
| nual salary of 5000, instead of $1,000 and
| fees Of various kinds; making the office of
| assessor an elective instead Of an appoin-
| tive one; to create the towns of Hiles and
| Laona in Forest county; to amend the
| laws relating to- the national guard by ad
| ding an assistant surgeon general to tie
governors staff and raising the annual ab-
preparation S., 900 year; to create the town
| Of Beaver in Marinette county, out Of por-
| lions of Crivits and Coleman to bring all
| cities under the general laws and repeal all
| special charters; to prohibit the giving of
| trading stamps an inducement for trade.
| A memorial to congress was offered calling
for constitutional convention to provide
an amendment to the federal constitution
providing for the election Of United States
senators by direct vote.
Madison Wis, Feb. 16-In the senate
bills have been introduced to prohibit in
surfing the lives of children under ten years
CO age; for the establishment of board of
veterinary examiners and to repeal all con-
flfcting acts: to prohibit the giving Of pres
ents as an inducenent to the purchase of
tobacco products; providing that when
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 lin 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 bennially thereafter and that
| the regular term of office of these officers
when elected for a 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. ia bill was intro
| duced in the senate yesterday providing
that railroads shall pension employees over
! 30 years of age, and who shall have been in
the employ of the companies for % years or
| more.
In the Assembly
/ Madison, Wis. Feb 14-Bills have been
| introduced in the assembly prohibiting the
| sale of intoxicating liquors within mile
| of the soldiers home in Milwaukee; appro-
! pr1ating $4,000 to the state board Of agri-
| culture for improvements on the state fair
| grounCs; exemptlng homesteads to the
| value of s., 900 from taxation; appropriating
| 500, 900 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
| tfficates to teachers who have taught 20
years or longer in this state; providing that
all children between the ages of seven and
16 years shall attend school eight months
| year in cities and five months year in
rural districts; making February r. Lin
| coins birthday, legal holiday; providing
for the creation Of a commission to pass on
| the legality Of bills before they are intro
duced in the legislature.
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 a urinary election ch "a no bpJ1 in oil
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-
Rons, 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 ear for switch
Ing charges in case the haul is not over rs
miles providing that the maximum passen-
ger rate shall be two cents per mile on all
| railroads whose gross annual earnings are
| So, 500 per mile or more; providing for a con-
tingent fund of 5000 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 alIo-
| path, and one Homeopathic; joint resolution
| directing the attorney general to investi-
| gate the sufhciency of the existing laws of
| this state relative to control of trusts The
| Judiciary comittee reported for Indefinite
postponement the bill making insanity for
a period of three years a ground for df-
| vorce.
| Madison, Wis, Feb. 17.-Bills have been
| introduced in the assembly directing the
| state board of control 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 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-
yi6pp for election n cert ain ct a ia OffioorS