Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-06-21
IN THE ASSEMBLY.

IN THE ASSEMBLY
sixty-eight members of the Assembly
were present at the opening of the sessio3g
on the 18th. On motion of Mr.. Kinney IL
was voted to hold a memorial session in +be
! of the late A. R. Hall Mr.. Rrad IdnoE
moved that the rules be suspended and al
| bills ready be put on the calendar for the
evening, which prevailed. By a vote of 10
to the McGillivray bill for a state board
of examiners of architects Various ap-
preparation bills left over were taken up
and the act appropriating $4,000 for the
MinocQua fish hatchery was passed. The
bill to render state aid to fairs definite and
uniform was passed The Hudnall bill, re,
insurance companies Of other state, was
concurred in. Then the Frear bill came
up to appropriate $4,000 to pay r. M. Bash
ford and John Barnes for services in the
| Republican fractional controversy before the
supreme court last year and Senator J. E.
Roehr for defending Insurance Commission
was refused by vote Of 81 to So. The bill
| to provide for the use OF the Dunn pocket
ballot, if approved by the people, was CON
the bill authorizing the secretary of state
to take out patent right for the benefit
of the people of Wisconsin: The bill to
went through. The Coffland bill to ap-
propriate 100000 for the erection at the
northern hospital at Oshkosh of a building
for the criminal insane was down for death.
| but by a vote Of % to 4S the Assembly re-
| fused to kill it. 1t was then sent to third
| reading and Mr.. Cofiand wanted it put on
its passage at once but Mr. Andrew OBJ,
| jected The Assembly refused to suspend
! the rules.
| A late session of the Assembly on the
18th in u vain endeavor to get enough Of
the business Of the session out Of the way
/ in order to secure an early adjournment re
| Vpalod blV
J Monday or Tuesday Of next week before
final adjournment can be taken. Several
| dam bills were also laid over. while an at
| tempt to suspend all rules regarding the
passage Of bills hereafter was lost by a
| vote of Al to "a. Senator Roehrs bill re-
| quiring railroad companies to furnish side
| track accommodation to shippers was adj
vanced to a third reading. The bill having
for its object the advancement of the cram
berry industry, i'll the state, on for con,
| currence in Senate amendment, provoked
considerable debate, but was finally adopt
ed. Senator Wiley's bill providing for
detrimental work in tobacco raising by the
Wisconsin agricultural experiment station
was advanced to q third reading The AS
sembly concurred in the Senate substitute
for the Johnson anti-lobby bill. The Senate
amendments to the bill to compel life inSur-
ance companies to make division of the
surplus to policy-holders was concurred in
without debate. The Senate amendment to
the bill creating the office of public exam
liner was non-concurred in. The bill pro-
Niding for a new capitol as passed by the
Senate was concurred In after slight YER
bal amendment had been made Gov. La
Toilette sent message vetoing the bill
appropriating $500 to the Wisconsin Health
Park association. He said that inasmuch
as there was nothing IN the bill to indi-
cate the manner of the expenditure Of the
money he withheld his approval. Gov La
Toilette signed the railway rate commission
bill. The bill becomes law immediately
upon publication. In signing the bill the
governor attached a memorandum stating
that he regretted that the bill did not con-
issuing of stocks and bonds by public serv-
i've corporations without there being cor
responding property value back of them.
Immediately on The calling of the Assem-
all rules interfering with the immediate
passage Of the bills be suspended, which
motion prevailed. Senate amendments to
number of bills were concurred in, among
them the Bletcher bills for the reorganiza-
ton of the insurance department. The
Cofiand bill appropriating 100000 for the
pital for the. criminally insane was passed
by vote of SO to 22. The Bird bill, to
make an additional appropriation for monu-
ments at Vicksburg was On-concurred in
OH motion of Mr. Andrew, who thought all
plans and specifications should be prepared
before any appropriations were asked. Bills
passed concurred In were: 7S7A, to pro-
vide for a revision and compilation of the
statutes and making an appropriation of
$4,000; 7SSA, to. prescribe. the manner Of
printing the session laws of 1905; 1894 re-
lating to printing for the Legislature; 792A,
to provide an additional employe in the
state banking department; 13S, to require
connections to shippers; 65S, to provide
for tobacco experiments by the Wisconsin
agricultural experiment station; 194S, to
appropriate certain sums Of money to the
several charitable, penal and reformatory
institutions; 1928, relating to the attorney
general, his deputy, his assistants an his
appointees and their salaries; 293S, rela-
tive to dam across the Pine river in
Florence county; 361S, relating to the
porations ABS, to provide for additional
appropriation for erecting monuments at
the National park at Eicksburg; 490S, rela
tive to Il dam across Main creek in Gates
county; 5o5S, relative to a dam across the
Jump river in Gates county; 527S, relative
to a dam across the Big Some river in
Lincoln county: 534S, relative to dams or
the Brule river, etc; 54SS, to provide fish
ways in dams, booms, piers and other OBJ
structions in the streams ana rivers, etc;
549S, limiting the number of game .-rds
to be killed or possessed and regulating the
transportation thereof; 555S, providing for
q time when fish may be caught with GER
bay; 556s, relating. to classification of wa
ters, providing a classification of fish, pro
hibiting certain methods of taking or
catching fish; 557S prohibiting depositing
and providing penalty; 559S, granting to
the United States jurisdiction over certain
lands in Crawford county. The Assembly,
which has made a precarous reputation for
gallantry in the discussion of bills affect
ing women this session, has capped the
climax by passing under suspension Of the
rules bill relating to legislative employees
| The measure cuts down the number of per-
sons to be given jobs and provides that all
appointments shall be made from lists
recommended by the civil service board
But one little provision in the bill is: Only
males shall be employed" The Stout 300
foot bill was sent to the governor, having
nassed the Senate and Assembly.
Early on the evening of the 18th it be.
came evident that the Legislature could not
adjourn before midnight unless the clock
was turned back Accordingly. the ser
reont-at-arms Of the Senate stopped the
Clock back of the lieutenant governors
chair and Speaker Lenroot fixed his own
clock. The bill providing for general
dam act reserving to the state the right to
regulate charges for power generated by
water power developed by dams was killed
by reason of a failure to agree by the con
ference committees of both houses. The
bill providing that the franchises for dams
which are not taken advantage of in two
wears or work On the dam has not been
commenced III that time shall be forfeited
was concurred in and will become law
Gov La Toilette signed the bill to permit
the city of Milwaukee to exchange park
lands for other land. This bill applies to