Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-05-02
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
Daily Summary of tho Work Done n
the Senate and Assembly in
Session at Madison.


Madison, Wis, April 22--1n the senate
the committee on assessment and collection
of taxes introduced bill to amend the
inheritance tax law, recently passed. One
of the new provisions is that the law shall
not apply to estates of persons who died
before the law was adopted and the other
provides that where an excessive tax has
been collected the state shall not be re-
quired to pay interest on the amount that
may be refunded. The following assembly
bills were concurred in: Defining adultera-
lions of drugs and food and forbidding the
sale of spurious limitations; forbidding
beer or intoxicating liquors being taken
into an election booth until after the votes
are counted and certified; limiting the
copies of the report of the dairy and food
commissioner to 10000; prohibiting acct
dent insurance companies doing business
without a license. The peddlers license bill
was Indefinitely postponed.
Madison Wis, April 23-In the senate
yesterday the so-called trust resolution
was concurred in after being amended so
that legislation, if necessary, may be had
by the next legislature. A bill providing
that no judgment for absolute divorce
shall be entered until the expiration Of one
year from the fling of the findings in the
case was passed.
Madison, Wis, April 24.-ln the senate
bills have been passed to regulate and Ii
cense the practice Of barberng; appro-
priating $500 for the inspection of aplar1es;
providing for an assistant chemist and two
more inspectors for the dairy and food
commissioner; providing for the sanitary
regulation of bakeries; to prevent the dis
inheritance of deformed or feeble minded
children; joint resolution for an inquiry
as to whether any addition regulation Is
required for trusts
Madison Wis, April BIN the senate the
appointments by the governor of Harvey
Clark, of Monroe, to be a member Of the
state board Of control, and L. d. Spencer,
of Wausau, to be continued on the state
board of health, have been confirmed
Bis have been passed authorzng towns
to use the license money received from in
terurban railways to light the streets or
crossings over which they run; appropriate
ing $1,000 to the agricultural experime nt
station for the purpose of testing seeds and
fertilizers; amending the statutes so as to
strike out the words: ''to be drank on the
premises, in any quantity less than one
gallon with reference to the sale of liqour
to minors. Assembly bills concurred in:
Appropriating $4,000 as a contingent fund
In case of an invasion of cholera and
plague; appropriating 1895, O00-for the cur
rent expenses Of state institutions.
In the Assembly.
Madison Wis, April 22.-The assembly
committee on education has adversely re-
ported the bill authorizing school boards to
contract with teachers for periods of three
years or under.
Madison, Wis, April PA new bill pro-
viding for taxation of mortgag es and mort
gagged property was introduced by the COM
mittee on assessment and collection of
taxes in the assembly yesterday. In SUBJ
stance it provides that the value of prop
erty affected by mortgage, less the value
of the mortgage, shall be assessed and
taxed to the owner of the real estate and the
value of the mortgage assessed and taxed
to the owner of the mortgage in the assess
ment district in which the real estate is
situated bill to increase the salary of
the attorney general from So 500 to So 900
and to make a new adjustment of the Of
flee was also passed.
Madison, Wis, April 2-The assembly
has passed a bill relating to the pension
fund for members of the Milwaukee police
department. and also a bill returning to
the Wisconsin board of medical examiners
1862 paid by it into the state treasury.
Madison, Wis, April 25.-Gov. Lafollette
sent message to the assembly yesterday
recommending that power be given to the
bank examiner to examine into the books
and records Of the railroad companies, and
thus ascertain the gross earnings so that
they may be taxed according to law.
Madison, Wis, April 27-The assembly
bills have been passed appropriating SIT, OGC
for improvements at the Wisconsin Veter-
ans home at Waupaca, and $500 to the Wis
consin State Firemen's association; appro-
priating $4,000 for the purchase of live
stock for the university experiment sta
ton; appropriating $500 to the Eastern Wis
consin Firemen's association; appropriate
ing 5000 annually to the Wisconsin goelog-
icaI survey