Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-05-31


vanccd the bill authorizing the creation of
a county park commission for Milwaukee
county. The idea of the measure is to pre-
pare for more comprehensive park and
boulevard system for Milwaukee county
than can be provided for entirely inside the
city limits of milwaukee,.
Elver's sterilization bill ocCaSiOncd an
other fight Upon the call of the ayes ana
noes the bill was passed by vote of So
ayes and "A noes ii,
WEDNESDAY. !
On the 22nd the Assembly refused to in
terfere in the opera bouffe warfare between
John f. Dietz, the Outlaw of Cameron
Dam on the banks of the raging Thorn
apple river and the authorities of Sawyer
county. ASsCmblyman Frank ], Weber. So,
cialist, introduced resolution providing
for an investigation by the Legislature.
The resolution was killed by vote of %
to 49, The Bancroft bill to prevent non
resident university students voting at Madi-
son was sent to cngroSsmCnt. The Substi-
tute to the Domlchowski BILL prohibiting
the use of tobacco by children under 16,
was passed. The CahoOn bill, for state
board of veterinary examiners and rCgulat-
ing the practice of veterinarian medicine
and surgery was sent to cngrOSsment Mr..
Cerahan made an earnest appeal for his bill
to repeal the law requiring farmers to give
assessors statistics on their farm products.
BY overwhelming vote the amendment was
adopted and the bill sent to cngrosSmcnt.
An amendment, to pay a bounty of 80 cents
on rattleSnakCS, was added to the Baker
wild animal bounty bill
THURSDAY. V
On the 23d the Assembly got into tan
gle i'll the discussion of a bill providing for
Il new form of ballot. The measure prOvid-
ed for Obiterating the circle at the top of
the party columns on the official ballot, this
compelling each voter to designate his
choice for each office instead OF allowing
him to vote for the entire party ticket by
one mark The House went into Il COM
mttec on the whole and discussed the mea-
sure, but arose without having reached n
definite recommendation. Four new bills
came in, one authorizing drainage districts
to purchase machinery; one providing for
new gun carriages for the cannon in &c
capitol park, to cost not above $500; one
providing for the election of delegates to
national party conventions, and pro-
viding for delinquent children i'll counties
containing cities of the first. second or
third class. new bill was introduced by
the committee on fish and game relating to
the number of game birds to be killed. and
amending the present law by making the
number of wild geese and brant ten instead
of fifteen; partridge from twenty five to fiji
teen; adds mud hens, rail and rice hens to
list of wild ducks protected; adds Mon
golian. Chinese or English ph2asants ana
swans to birds not allowed to be killed and
makes possession Of any projected game
birds by any person not In possession of n
hunting license unlawful. Section reduces
the mixed bag from fifty to thirt~. The
members OF the life insurance Investigation
and university investigation committees was
advanced without dissent.
FRIDAY
On the oath the Assembly passed n child
labor bill. The bill reduces the number of
hours which children can be employed from
ten to nine, prohibits night work in many
occupations, adds long list of dangerous
and injurious occupations from which chill
drpn ar" excluded, and adds an educational
test to determine who shall be allowed to
be employed. Two new bills came into the
Assembly this morning from the committee
on cities. one provides that the cleaning
as well as sprinking Of streets may be
done at expense of the city or lots fronting
thereon. The other provides a salary Of
$500 year for aldermen in cities of the
first class after April 1903. Fifty bills
were reported in by committees. All bur
two of the twenty bills introduced last
week for docks and piers in Sturgeon bay
were adversely reported.
SATURDAY,
On the 18th the Assembly ten new hills
were introduced. One bill, evidently aimed
at Minnesota fishermen. requires n license
fee of SO for presidents catching front
in Barron, Buffalo. Burnett ChiDpcwa.
Dunn, Pepin, Polk and Rusk counties A
somewhat drastic bill aimed at nursery
stock frauds came in from the committee
on agriculture. 1t requires nursorymcn to
label the goods delivered, stating year ard
place grown, percentage Of purity. etc.
penalty of so to 500 is provided for viola
tiOns. The director Of the agricultural OK
pertinent station is directed to obtain in
open market samples of grass, clover, al
falfa, garden and agricultural seeds. fest
them and publish in bulletins the results of
such tests. from whom seeds obtained and
other information of interest.