The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1907-07-04

duce the company's taxes to about S515,opD
a year The Assembly committee on taxa
ton recommended bill which would leave
the taxes Of the company at the present
figure. The Assembly 1cpudiated the recon-,
mendation OF the committee on taxation and
killed the Assembly bill An attempt IN
the Assembly to pass bill No. GOA, relat-
ing 20 the establishment of n teachers EN-
ployment bureau, over the governors veto
failed by vote of y to 81: The governor
veto to 9O4A was sustained by a vote OF 63
to 9. This measure legalzes the acts or
cities in assisting. the building of railroads
and public utilities. The Senate ,o amend end
graph operators was concurred in.
The Assembly on the evening OF the 2!th
repealed the mental anguish law Wnicn
made telegraph and telephone companies
liable for delayed messages. BY vote OF
A to % the bill appropriating $1,000 Tor
two years for mining school az Rates
Vile was passed. The Senate DIN III tue
interest of uniform divorce legislation was
killed. as was the measure providing for
the taxation of mortgages by an, annual
registratio of three mills on dollar The
ment to the Fairchild bill appropriating
100000 to the Milwaukee Normal school,
which permitted the selection OF a site out
side Of Milwaukee The Ingram bili. per-
hitting the Northwestern Mutual Life In
surance company to pay taxes on the pres
ent basis, was passed.
FRIDAY.
on the 2sth the Assembly by vote OF
II to 4 sustained the veto OF the governor
10 the Campbell bill relating to the serial
issuance of bonds ana payments. by
unanimous vote the governor was sus-
tanned in his veto 10 bill No. G2iA, relating
to the providing for meeting of the SUI
pervisors of the towns constituting super
inteudent districts. With one blow thirty
two bills, most of them from the Senate,
were killed The Pearson bill No AS, to
compel road taxes TO be paid in money was
killed. The Assembly concurred in the
Senate amendment by vote of 10 TO 10
bill No 710A exempting from taxation the
property of certain religious, moral and cd
ucationai institutions. Ekorn resolution NO,
57A, providing for an amendment to the
constitution for the incorporation of the
civil service law as part OF the constltu-
ton was killed by a large vote. Joint reso-
luton No. PA. by Mr. Stewart. relating to
taxation was indefinitely postponed was
No. 22A. by Mr.. Georgi. The Assembly, by
Il vote of ~ to 40, refused to Kill the Led
yiua resolution to submit laws to the voters
upon petition.
The Assembly on the evening of the 2sth
killed the proposition TO create boarl
Gers to settle alleged unpaid state license
fees with the railroads. The Devils lake
project also went down to defeat An in
come tax bill was recommended by the
committee on taxation. The Haselwood
hill, designed to promote manual train NJ
in small high schools, was unanimously
concurred ln' as was the capitol biii m
$4,000 The same action was taken with
the bill providing for the pens.oning on
half salary justices of the supreme court
after twenty five years service. The
Vickshurg monument bill was also con
Cured in. along with the measure to APP
propriatc $1,000 to the Light Horse Squad
ron Armory association of Milwaukee.
SATURDAY.
After the strenuous session of each
House of the Legislature Friday. which
lasted until after midnight, the members
appeared In sundued mood on the 18th.
and In lackadaisical manner attended to
few measures before adjourning for Il
weeks recess. The sergeant at arms OF
each House have been told to notify mem
berS that they must report mt Madison
again on July To clean up the business
of the session on penalty Of being sent for
under Il call of the House and brought To
the capital under arrest. The Assembly
concurrCd in an attempt to bill No 33IA,
relating to official ballots as general cleo
tons \ report of the committee con
ference to No G6tA, relating to the cree
tiOn of poles and the stringing of wires
over lands without consent of the owner.
was coHcurrcd in. Senate amendment to
No. 726A, prohibiting a district attorney
from being retained by a common carrier,
was adopted An amendment to No. lbs,
by Senator IIasclwood relating to the prac-
tice of medicine was concurred in. The
bill was then killed. Speaker Ekern said
there were bills pending which would re-
quirc a roll call The Assembly adjourned
until July Sth