Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-05-31
IN THE LEGISLATURE.
DOINGS OF LAWMAKERS AT THE
STATE CAPITOL.
A Summary Account of the Work Ac-
complished During the Week by
Sol0nS at Madison.
In the Senate.
TUESDAY.


Or the 21st in the Senate Senator White
head asked and received consent t. with
draw his joint resolution No. PA, to com.
bine all the eighteen circuit courts into four
large circuits OF several Judges each Sen
ator BIRDS state water power resolution
was laid over for week on his request.
EhSroSSmcnI was ordered on Senator HaScl-
woods bill to give the state Superintendent
Of schools more authority in requiring bet
ter standards before giving state aid to
schools. The HaScwosd bill. which was a
demand by the university people for SGD.UON
year for university extension wnrl, was
Killed. The state fire marshal hill WAS
amended SO as to make 1t clear that the
state could be caused no expense Uudrr il
and as so &ncudCd was ordered to third
reading. The GraS$iC bill to establish tru-
ant ungradcd day and parent boarding
schools was advanced
WEDNESDAY,.
On the 22nd two new hills wrrn intro
duc"d i'll the Senate one adding a now SEQ
ton 10 the statutes giving Justices of the
peace in towns in all cases arising under
the ordinances and bylaws of such town all
the powers now given to police Justices in
Incorporated Villages. The other gives
cities of the tirSt class power to license aud
regulate markets. The committee ON state
ataitS fcpor;rd in the Assembly bill pro-
hihltlnG the smoking of cigarettes in public
places Tor ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. The committees
on clalmS reported the bill appropriate, Ing
SW"tno yearly for nine years for Tho con
Structlon of the now capitol for passage.
with an amendment empowering the capitol
committee to dispose Of the old capitol 10y
sections.
THURSDAY.
On the 23d Ivy Il vote of ~ to O the Sen.
ate concurrCd in the Assembly hu, creating
the office of state fire marshal. The GraS-
sic bill changing the age to which children
may be committed to the parental schools
from IL to Is. and permitting cities having
no such schools to make ARRANGEMENTS with
other cities for the care of such children;
also that boards of education may cStah-
fish such schools. was cuucurTcd in. Two
to cngroSSment and third readng. The
frs; was Senator FrCcmmin%S hill in
crcasing the minimum license in MiiWHU-
kec after July |. l!ES, to $500 aud in out
lying towns to 500. an increase of SluO,
with the power to increase the amount in
the city by vote to $500 The other was
the Barker high license bill extending prac-
tically the same provisions to the state ut
large. In districts where the license has
been 500 minimum, it will he raised to
5000 with the privilege of voting it to $500
or $500. and in cities and villages where it
has been 500 the minimum will hc $500
with the privilege of voting it to $500 or
$500.
FRIDAY. y
On the oath the Senate met Mt . O'Clock
to tackle q calendar on which were eighty
eight bills and joint resolutions and worked
with such expedition that at 1890 tn" entire
calendar was 'omplricd nine bills only
having been rc-rcfrrrcd to committee or
laid over There was 4 roar of laughter
when upon Senator Birds plea for the As
SCmhly bill prohibiting the smoking of
cigarettes in public places on the calendar
for n0n-conCurrCncr. Senator ROehr grave
ly addressed the Senate on the evils Of
cigarette smoking, claiming that they I'M
fitted men for military duty. and therefore
moved that the bills he rc-refCrrCd to the
committee on military affairs. 1t was SC
referred.