River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-04-02
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
Daily Summary of the Work Done in
the senate and Assembly in
Session at Madison.

Madison. Wis. March "a bin has been
nassed in the senate giving members of the
legislative committee appointed to visit the
state charitable and penalinstitutions $50
each for expenses incurred.
Madison, Wis, March 26.-In the senate
Yesterday a committee was appointed to re-
ceiye President Roosevelt when he visits
Madison on April3. Resolutions relating to
the election of United States senators by
direct vote were laid over till April Z, as was
also the resolution relating to trusts and
unlawful industrial combinations. A bill
to refund the inheritance tax, collected UNI
der an unconstitutional law, the amount
being $685. was passed.
Madison. Wis March PA bill has been
introduced in the senate by the committee
on education to create pension fund for
the retirement of public school teachers in
Milwaukee The committee on pubic
health reported back the Dill to license bar
bers and recommended that it go to the
Judiciary committee, which was ordered.
The assembly primary election bill was
nassed. which provides for primary cleo
lion nominations of county officers and for
an extension of the system to all officers
after being approved by the people in
referendum.
Madison. Wis, March 2S.-The senate has
passed bills as follows: extending terms
of regents until their successors are APP
noin+ed. nroviding for exemption from tax
a ton the part of bank capital invested
in a building; creating pension fund for
police and firemen in Milwaukee; proVid-
ing for the distribution OF license fees or
street railway and electric companies OPP
Grating in different towns; appropriating
$4,000 for the governors contingent fund;
relating 70 tn e terms of supervisors in cities
and providing for annual elections, except
where otherwise provided in the charters;
providing that no decree OF divorce snail be
entered until one year after 1t has been
granted: authorizing the reporter of the
Milwaukee district court to charge hVe
cents a folio for transcripts of testimony
in cases where boys are sent to the indus
trial school
In the Assembly.
Madison Wis March Pin the assem-
bly, a bill has been passed providing that
supervisors shall be elected annually IN
cities operating under separate charters
unless otherwise provided. This does not
affect cities in which supervisors are now
elected for two wears. The committee on
state affairs decided by a vote of five to
two to recommend the Williams anti-negro
marriage bill for passage. The action
came after long and spirited hearing on the
bill The measure if ADOPTED Will prohibit
marriages between whites and negroes
within the state.
Madison Wis. March 26--Bills have been
rassed in the assembly providing that dis
trict attorneys shall receive the amount OF
their expenses actually and necessarily in
Cured in travelling within and without their
counties in the discharge of their office; ap-
propriating s., 900 as contingent tund Tor
the governor; providing for the reglstra-
tion of motor vehicles of all kinds, making
owners liable for damage caused by the
careless or unskillful handling of them, and
empowering any city, town or village 10
enact special ordinances governing the run
ming of automobiles.
Madison, Wis, March 21.-The assembly
has passed the following senate bills: Pro-
yiding that an insurance of 80 per cent OF
the value of the buildings shall be carried,
and the state insurance commissioner is
directed to look after the matter from year
TO wear; providing that a diploma granted
by the board of regents OF normal Schools
to any persons who complete the training
course for teachers of manual training and
domestic science shall legally qualify the
holder to teach the subjects mentioned one
wear in any school in the state, and that
the state superintendent may counterSlgn
the diploma of any such person VINO mas
successfully taught the subjects one year,
and this countersigning shall make the OIL
ploma good until annulled by him; appro-
priating $3.50 to each of the three members
of the legislative committee appointed to
visit the state charitable and penal institu-
lions to reimburse them for their expenses;
extending the terms Of university regents
until the appointment and qualifications
of their successors; prohibiting the sale of
unclean and unsanitary milk or its use in
the manufacture of food products, and
recurring creameries, cheese factories and
milk dealers establishments to be kept in
clean and sanitary condition. The anti
cigarette bill was passed. 1t prohibits the
manufacture or sale of cigarettes or cigar
cite paper and takes effect July next.
Madison, Wis, March 2S-In the assem-
bly, yesterday the senate bill requiring rail
way companies to post bulletin board at
all stations having a telegraph office, on
which at least 20 minutes before the sched-
ule time for arrival of a train shall be posted
the fact whether it is on time and If late,
how much, was concurred in. Bills have
been passed making it unlawful to take
beer or other intoxicating liquors into a
voting booth during the progress of an
election; authorizing the commissioner of
labor statistics and the inspectors en-
ployed in his department to inspect tene-
ment houses for the purpose of ascertaining
their sanitary condition.