River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-04-30
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
Daily Summary of the Work Done in
the Senate and Assembly in
Session at Madison

| Madison, Wis, April Elm the senate
| bills have been passed appropriating s., eco
a year for county schools of agriculture:
appropriating $Z5,5O0 for repairs and i'm
proyementS at the state institutions; limit
| ing the weight of traction engines and their
| load to y tons; appropriating $15,00O for a
soldiers monument at Shiloh; establish
ing state board of veterinary examiners;
authorizing commissioners of fisheries to
remit damage for trespass in BSy field. As
sembly bills concurred in: Appropriating
$4,000 for the normal school fund income :;
giving school boards in cities of the third
class authority to erect school buildings;
giving the Eau Claire & Northeastern rail-
road the right of way across the grounds
of the Home for the Feeble Minded in Chip
pewa county.
Madison. Wis, April Elm the senate
the committee on assessment and collection
of taxes introduced a bill 10 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 a6utera-
tons 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 peddler's 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 filing of the findings in the
case was passed.
Madison, Wis. April 4-ln the senate
bills have been passed to regulate and Ii
cense the practice of barbering; appro-
priating 500 for the inspection of apiaries
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.
In the Assembly.
Madison, Wis, April N.-The assembly
has passed bills appropriating 1895, 600 for
the maintenance of the state charitable,
penal and reformatory institutions for the
ensuing two years; allowing the city of
Milwaukee to apply the surplus of its rev.
enue from its water works system to the
construction of a municipal lighting plant;
giving the city Of Milwaukee an extension
of time until May /, 1906 for improving the
grant of land along the shore of Lake Mich
igan for public park and boulevard pur-
poses; allowing veterans who served in
Wisconsin regiments and who have since
lost their residence in the state to be ad
mitted to the veterans home at Waupaca;
approprating $500 to John H. Kemper for
expenses incurred in contesting the seat in
the assembly to which Assemblyman Ra-
kow was later elected; appropriating 81, 900
annually to the Wisconsin Agricultural
Experimental association for testing new
varieties of seeds and plants and conduct
ing other experiments.
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 mortgages and mort
gagged property was introduced by the COM
1nittee on assessment and collection of
taxes in the assembly yesterday. In sub
stance it provides that the value o prop
erty affected by a 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
nent district in which the real estate is
| situated bill to increase the salary of
the attorney general from $1,000 to 5000
and to make a new adjustment of the OF
flee was also passed.
Madison Wis, April 4.-The assembly
| has passed a bill relating to the pension
| fund for members of the Milwaukee police
| department, and also bill returning to
the Wisconsin board of medical examiners
1852 paid by it into the state treasury.
Madison, Wis, April 25.-Gov. Lafollette
sent a 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
| thew may be taxed according to law.