The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1905-05-25

public service corporations to secure the
consent Of the railroad commissioner In the
event that any such corporations desire
TO issue bonds was among those passed. AS
sembyman John SCOTS bill 10 appropriate
5000 for the permanent improvements near
Portage passed with but one vote against
It. The manufactures committee Dill 10 n1
a standard of Illuminating gas also passed
unanimously.
For the third time this season the bill
making an appropriation for state EXHIBIT
at the Lewis and Clark exposition was
killed in the Assembly on the 50 ny .i
vote of "a to ~ the Assembly vOteu down
the proposition for an exhibit The appro-
priation was to have been S22'on Inc
bill amending the law relative to funding
and refunding of city debts was adValccu'
Two important propositions were advanced
the resolution to change the constitution SO
as 20 give the governor ten days IN Whl,h
10 consider bills Instead of three, ana the
Kinney bill. 1904. nppropriating 10000 Tor
a state tuberculosis sauit0rium. Kesoiu.
tion praying Congress for naturalization OF
trusts was killed. Among bills passed was
one regulating practice of optonetry ana
one providing a punishment for usury.
When the bill for the taxation OF moneys
and credits came up, Mr.. Page moved To
kill II which was refused by vote OF 81
TO A. Mr. Crowley then spoke for his
amendment, which proposes 5-mill tax on
mortgages. He favored first of all an IN
come tax Mr. Baker and Mr. DAM spoke
against II and the Crowley amendment was
killed by a vote of III to %. The blii was
then ordered engrossed by vote of 40 TO
36 The Assembly recalled from the com
mittee 121A, giving counties power to NIX
the rate for county printing. The vote, on
recall was 81 to 2s The bill was then
passed The Assembly passed the stevens
bill. 1894, for the sale of timber on pubic
lands when damaged by fire or water also
the lIamm BILL 4S7A. to regulate the prac-
tice OF optometry. The Roehr bill. 1863, To
provide punishment for usury was con
CURED In. Among the bills passed was
76sA. providing for support by husband.
when able, of insane wife committed in the
asylum Several bills relating to elections
We're laid over Two bills were killed:
1I4A making an appropriation to the state
poultry association, and 6l6A, Strehlow. To
prohibit lighting franchises, etc, in cities
of the first and second class and providing
sent to the Assembly yetoes of four bills.
one was No 274A relating to the district
court of Milwaukee and which the COVER
nor said simply provided In two long type
written pages that the court reporter be al
lowed IL vacation of twenty days Il year.
that Il deputy be then appointed for that
time at 50 Il day and he paid fees for
what the clerk now must do without pay.
While the bill itself was one of trinine
Importance. the governor held it would
create n bad precedent in the matter Of
holidays for officials and he did not believe
the state should change salaries fixed by
local bodies Another bill objected to was
540A, which proposed To permit agents or
Unauthorized companies to write insurance
III lUf StUif. MS TUX pN'lh'l N''h' N'ui'
sanction underground insurance The argu-
ment was that the authorized companies
were not numerous or strong enough to
cover all the insurance wanted In the largo
cities The hill the governor held. would
lead to fraud would give an unfair adj
vantage to unauthorized companies, ana
would destroy all induccmcnt to authorized
foreign companies To euter the state. II
would be better. he held. TO do away with
fees from the companies and simply license
agents No. lisa which provided for an
appeal to the circuit judge from the dcci-
sion of town boards In certain eases In the
matter of laying ont highways was oh
iected to by the governor on tn" ground thar
IL took ont of the hands of residents of n
town rights and privileges that belonged to
them and gave them To outsiders In" gov
crnor also objected to COLA, which provided
that Milwaukee county furnish its sheriff
and undersherif with street ear tickets