Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-04-11
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
Daily Summary of the Work Done in
the Senate and Assembly in
Session al Madison.

Madison Wis, April 1.-The senate re.
oeived message from Gov. La Toilette
Withholding his approval of No 1873, a bill
TO allow county boards to appropriate not
70 exceed $4,000 for soldiers and sailors
monument without submitting the ques-
ton to vote of the people.
Madison Wis, April Fin the senate
yesterday the primary election bill was
amended to make it apply to the election
OF city and county officers and to compel
the submission of the measure to the peo
pie for approval at the election of 1904
Madison, Wis. April 3.-The senate con-
CURED in the assembly so-called gypsy
Dill, which prohibits camping on the pub
lie highways without permission from
abutting property owners and also in the
Dill permitting the taking of game bros
for purposes Of propagation
Madison, Wis, April A bill for COM
pulsory attendance at school has been
passed by the senate. 1t provides for nine
months year fer children under IA years
of age, and that those under is shall be
kept in school if they are not at work. A
senate bill for dam across the Chippewa
river near Eau Claire has been adopted
by both houses, with an amendment pro-
viding for fishways. Assembly bills provid-
ing for the care Of children born Of moth
FRS committed to the home for the feeble
minded, and to reimburse the normal school
fund for money lost by mortgage on the
Eau Claire armory has been concurred in.
The committee on corporations introduced
bill regulating the issue of bonds. and
providing that the common council of any
city can issue them without going to the
formality Of holding an election to ascer-
tain the opinion Of the people Adjourned
to April 13
In the Assembly.
Madison, Wis. April 1.-The assembly
with o1t baS he
bill fixing the rate of taxation for the COM
mon school fund income at siX-tenths of
mill
Madison Wis. April 2.--In the assembly
the joint committee on fish and game rec
commended the passage of a law forbidding
the marketing Of all kinds of game all the
year This is the result of the agitation
in favor of a law to permit spring shooting
of ducks.
Madison, Wis, April 3.-The assembly has
passed bill appropriating S'0 600 con-
tingent fund to prevent the introduction
and spread of Asiatic cholera, bubonic
plague, smallpox and other Dangerous and
contagious diseases; also g. bill requiring
state repositories to give United States,
state, municipal or surety company bonds
in the sum of so per cent N ore than the
amount of state moneys they are author
lied to receive.
Madison, Wis. April 4-The assembly
state affairs committee has decided that
$4,000 is sufficient for the Wisconsin ex-
hibit at the st. Louis worlds fair. This
joint committee on claims agreed to report
the following amounts for the maintenance
of the charitable and penal institutions for
the next two years; State hospital for the
insane, $4,000; Northern hospital $3.50 coo:
home for feeble minded, $4,000; school
for deaf, $4,000; school for blind 81 O00;
industrial school for boys, $4,000; state
prison. S1Oo,000; school for dependent chill
dren. $1,000; reformatory, $4,000; total
$685. 900. This is $500 below the estimates
of the board Of control Bills have beer
introduced increasing the limit of dam
ages for death by wrongful act from s., 200
to $1,000; providing for taking one-half
the hunting license fees and one-third the
penalties collected for violations of the
law, and using the money to pay bounties
for killing wolves; bill creating a depart
ment of state forestry. 1t provides that
all the state lands known as swamp lands
shall be appraised before August 1, and
sold at public auction between October
Is and November 10 of this year. Lands
left unsold, in addition to certain lands
to be reserved in Iron and Villas counties
are to be known as the state forest reserve
and the chief clerk of the state land office
is to be superintendent of forests Ad-
journed 10 April 49,