River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-03-12
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
Daily Summary of the Work Done in
the Senate and Assembly in
session at Madison,

Jurors shall be drawn by jury commission
ers the same as petit jurors The emily
bill giving the privilege OF the Waupaca
home TO army nurses was concurred in.
Madison Wis. March Ain the senate
the following bills have been passed: Allow
ing county boards to appropriate up to
$4,000 for soldiers monuments, without
submitting the question TO the people; re-
lating to school boards IN frst class cities,
and giving them authority to select sites
for school houses; providing that the state
tax commissioners shall be board of as
sessment to levy taxes on sleeping car and
express companies ;/relatlng to delivery of
dockets bv justices; granting the United
States jurisdiction over post office sites in
Green Bay and Fond du Lac; relating to
estates of infants; providing that justices
Of the peace in Milwaukee snail have juris-
diction of cases not exceeding $5UV, was
ordered engrossed.
Madison. Wis. March 5.-The 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
sert to the industrial school; regulating
homes for infant children, lying-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-
cially incorporated cities; providing stand
ard measures for the Babcock milk test;
amending the mortgage law SO as to taclll~
tate discharge when they are paid; Great
ing two new towns in Forest county; Great
ing a municipal court in Sawyer county;
legalizing the issue Of bonds not issued
by a vote of the people; granting the United
States jurisdiction over the post office site
in Marathon county.
Anational conference to consider the race
problem to be held at Atlanta, Ga, July
4 next is proposed in a joint resolution in
troduceG 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
vorably bills providing for state board of
veterinary examiners, providing for an in
spection of imported branded or western
horses. also a bill to prevent the sale Of
impure milk.
In the assembly the bill providing for
the taxation of railroad companies on the
ad yalorem basis was passed by unanimous
vote without word OF DEBATE
In the Assembly.
Madison. Wis, March Fin the assembly
Saturday the bill taxing railroads on the
ad yaIorem system was reported by the
committee on assessment and collection OF
taxes and unanimously recommended for
passage. with some verbal amendments by
the committee On motion the bill was
ordered placed on the calendar for next
TUESDAY morning. bill was introduced
by the committee on assessment ana col
lection of taxes providing for the appoint
ment of an expert engineer, expert accoun-
tant and assistants to assist in finding the
value of railroad property for taxation on
the ad valorem basis
Madison. Wis, March 3.-The assembly
passed the following bills: Providing that
at least three weeks notice shall be given
for special town meetings; authorizing
George W. Volk to erect and maintain a
dam across Oconto river in Oconto county;
authorizing the Amigo Island club to erect
and maintain a dam across Pelican river
in Oneida county; requiring life and acct
dent insurance companies operating in this
state to have a guaranty capital paid in
money of 100000 and invested in approved
securities; providing for submitting to the
people of the state the proposed amendment
to the constitution increasing the member
ship of the supreme court from five to
seven authorizing cities of the third class
to borrow money for the purchase of school
house sites and the erection of schools
thereon.
Madison Wis, March Am the assembly
a petition has been presented signed by the
Builders and Traders association of Osh-
xosh. asking that the law giving building
and loan associations exclusive priority in
the matter of liens be repealed. The Mosher
bill, authorizing counties, towns cities, viii
lagos or school districts to refund their
Indebtedness for other than special street,
sewer or harbor improvements, provided
they keep within the five per cent. limita-
ton. has been ordered to third reading.
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 10 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
ofhCerS when travelling within the country
were referred to the committee on judiciary.
The judiciary committee made a statement
hof the business before it, showing that PAT
bills and resolutions had been referred to it.
The committee has considered SO of these
bills and resolutions of which So 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 a 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 a free high school district, to levy
a tax on real and personal property for
the purpose of purchasing site and erect
ing a schoo. building.
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