Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-03-14
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
Daily Summary of the Work Done i'm
the Senate and Assembly in
Session at Madison.

Madison, Wis, March 5.-ThA senate COM
mittee on judiciary has reported in favor
of the passage of the following bills:
Amending the law relating to the district
court of Milwaukee county by providing
for transcripts of cases where boys are
sent to the industrial school; regulating
homes for infant children, lyng-in hospi-
tails and maternity homes, and amending
the law providing for the registration Of
trademarks. The committee on state af-
fairs reported in favor of a bill authorizing
the insurance of all public buildings which
the state owns
Madison, Wis, March 6.-The senate has
passed the following bills: Providing for
bulletining trains; validating contracts Of
municipal corporations before they had
complied with the law; amending laws so
as to provide for refundment of municipal
debts; relating to issue of bonds by espe-
c1ally incorporated cities; providing stand
ard measures for the Babcock milk test;
amending the mortgage law SO as to facili-
tate discharge when they are paid Great
ing two new towns in Forest county; Great
ing municipal court in Sawyer county;
!egalizing the issue of bonds not issued
by vote of the people; granting the United
States jurisdiction over the post office site
in Marathon county.
A national conference to consider the race
problem to be held at Atlanta, Ga, July
next, is proposed in joint resolution in
troduced in the senate by Senator Hatton.
which authorizes and requests Gov. La
Toilette to invite the governors of other
states to appoint ten delegates to such con-
ference and to appoint the same number
of delegates from this state.
Madison, Wis, March Z. : The senate
committee on agriculture has reported ia
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veterinary examiners. providing for an in
spection of imported branded or western
horses, also bill to prevent the sale of
impure milk.
Madison, Wis, March 9-The senate has
concurred in the passage of the follow
ing assembly bills: Repeating the law tax
ing ice cut for export; providing for in
spection of branded or range horses be-
fore they can be brought to the state; al
lowing corporations to mortgage their
franchises; relating to process issued by
justices of the peace
Madison, Wis, March 1O.-In the SEN
ate bills have been passed relating to serv-
Ice of summons on tenants holding over;
increasing the jurisdiction of justices to
S30G IL civil cases in Milwaukee; providing
for the state doing its own insurance on
public buildings, by the establishment of
a state insurance fund; regulating homes
i
similar institutions; repeating the law tax
ing ice cut for export; governing the i'm
portation of branded or range horses.
Madison, Wis, March IA bill has
been introduced in the senate to create
a Juvenile court for Milwaukee county,
and providing that the municipal judge
shall preside over the new court. The
bill also provides for relieving the circuit
courts Of trying cases of i]legitimate par
entage, and imposes that duty on the
municipal court. The salary of the judge
is to be raised to 5000 a year for these
added duties, the increase from the pres
ent salary being 1,40O.
In the Assembly,.
Madison, Wis, March 5.-The assembly
has passed the bill authorizing counties,
towns, cities, villages and school districts
to refund their indebtedness for other than
special street, sewer or harbor improve
mentS providing they keep within their
five cent limitation. The bill requiring in
terurban railroad companies to provide
toilet rooms in their cars, on lines whose
terminal points are Is miles apart, was
ordered to engrOSSment and third reading.
The two bills requiring district attorneys
to represent their counties in civil actions
before the supreme court, and auth orizing
county boards to pay the expenses of such
officers when travelling within the country
were referred to the committee on judiciary
The judiciary committee made statement
of the business before it, showing that 247
bills and resolutions had been referred to it.
The committee has considered 50 Of these
bills and resolutions, of which IS had been
recommended for passage and 81 for in
definite postponement 1t still has 14S bills
and resolutions to consider.
Madison Wis, March 6.-The assembly
has passed the following bills: Providing
that the state veterinarian shall be grad
uate of a recognized veterinary college of
the United States, Europe or Canada, and
requiring him to have an office in the CAPT.
toll building and devote all of his time to
his duties; providing for the slaughter of
domestic animals afflicted with dangerous
diseases; relating to the abstract of tax
sales in Shawano county; providing that
life insurance companies issuing policies
under the provisions of which holders are
entitled to share in the profits or surplus
of the company, shall furnish each policy
holder an annual statement; making it
unlawful for town trustees town school
board or other officers to change the num-
Der of any school district or subdistrict; :
allowing the electors of any town, organ
lied as free high school district, to levy
a tax on real and personal property for
the purpose of purchasing site and erect
ing school building.
Madison Wis March I'm the assembly
the bill providing for the taxation of rail
road companies on the ad valorem basis
was passed by unanimous vote, without
a word of debate.
Madison, Wis, March 9.-Bills have been
passed in the assembly making an ap-
projriation Of $4,000 for furnishing and
equipping the new buildings for the feeble
minded at Chippewa Falls; requiring in
terurban railroads to provide toilet rooms
in their cars where the terminal points
of the road are Is miles or more apart
providing that the use of Camp Randall
shall be given free to the Wisconsin High
School Athletic association for it's an
nual meets; authorizing counties and
towns to Pay a bounty for rattlesnakes;
giving the school boards of cities and vii
lagos instead of the common council or
board of trustees of those corporations au-
thority to establish day schools for the
deaf and dumb.
Madison, Wis, March 1O.-The assem-
bly, by unanimous vote has passed the
railroad ad valorem taxation bill. Bills
have also been passed allowing married
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