Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-06-14
IN The LEGISLATURE.
D0INGS OF LAWMAKERS AT THE
STATE CAPITOL.
A Summary Account of the Work Ac.
compished During the Week by
Sol0ns at Madison.
In The Senate.
TTFSDAN

ON the 4th the Senate refused to concur
IN IN these bills: Bancroft, relating to the
| piock system for use 10y common carriers
engaged In interstate commerce; committee
reiatlng TO the appointment of court com
~ committee, relating to the filing
OF chattel mortgages. The Senate killed the
| Durley bill authorizing common councils
/ 10 Incense stationary engineers The Senate
cohcuFred In the Roycraft joint resolution
relatlng to a national income tax. A mo-
ton to reconsider the vote by which the
river sterilization bill was refused Il third
reading was voted down The Senate then
teen bills.
WEDNESDAY.
On the 9th Senator Sanborn made an clio
quent but Intellectual plea for the joint reSo-
luton providing for q constitutional con
Nehtlon. When the roll was called on the
question OF ELECTROMAGNETIC, the motion
prevailed by Il vote of 10 ayes to Is noes.
Inc sheridan drive bill was reported for
INDEFINITE poStponcment III the Senate. The
committee on claims reported for passage
/ the hllI aDpropriating S14.50O for the Wis
conSln industrial school 70" girls Mt Mil
Waukce. Senator Roehr'S bill To provide
puDRc school teachers retirement fund III
milwaukee, was ordered engroSsed, after
the adoption of the substitute amendment
limiting the fund to gifts and requests, and
me voluntary contributions by teachers
themselves while permitting the school
board to add sum not exceeding l per
cent Of the total school levy to the fund.
THURSDAY.
On the 9th the appointment of DR.. David
Roberts as state veterinarian was taken up
i'll the Senate upon the report of the com
mittcc on agriculture and was confirmed.
The Senate refused concurrence in the AS
Semhly amendment TO the Whitehead bill
relating to terms of court i'll the Seventh,
Eleventh, Twelfth. Fifteenth and Eight
zenith Judicial circuits and the Assembly
Will have to ask for Il conference The con
currence in the fire marshal bill was recon
sidcred and long amendment WAS adopted
correcting the numbering and lettering of
the section and the bill was rcconcurred in.
The Assembly joint resolution authorizing
the state board of control to investigate the
methods of home finding societies was re
1crred to the committee on judiciary on mo-
ton Of Senator Fairchild. ON the uniform
divorce law bill the roll call resulted in i
tie vote, II to II. in the Cngrossmcnt of
4 the bill and the lieutenant governor voted
aye. debate among the lawyers took
place over the SHnborn bill relating to gar
niShment. Senators Page and Marsh at
tackled the bill and on Il call of the roll it
was refused engrossment-ayes l. noes Is.
Another debate CnSued over the bill relat
ing to charges to iurics and after strong
speech by Senator Owen it was refused en-
gr0Ssment-aycS .. noes 22-SenatOrS Bra
Seau, Browne. Norris. Sanborn and White
head voting for engrOsSment When the
Assembly bill relating to the closed season
for aquatic fowl came up for third reading
Mr.. HuSting again submitted the spring
shooting amendment, which had been voted
down repeatedly. The roll cali showed IA
for and Il against the amendment and the
lieutenant governor voted with those in the
negative.
FRIDAY.
On the 18th the Senate COncurred in the
EstabrCok bill providing for q county park
commission in counties of 10000 and
passed the amending act providing for an
additional county judge i'll counties of at
least 100000 III regard to appointments, etc.
The Senate took the first step looking
toward adjournment by adopting Senator
Wright'S joint resolution shutting off the
Introduction of new bills from committees
or otherwise after June 10 Five new bills
were introduced. A bill from the judiciary
committee provides that any child male or
female, under the age of IS who shall be
convicted of Il criminal Offense may be sen
fenced to the industrial schools until the
age of p. in the discretion of the judge,
rather than to state prison. An amendment
proposed by Senator Bird changed the reso-
luton from a statement that the state
should own its water powers to n statement
that it should control them. The amend
meat was adopted but the resolution failed
of passage on division by vote of 8 to 0.
Under suspension of the rules the Senate
passed the bills it had ordered to engroSS-
ment. among them the owen bill for the
creation of n state waterways commission
to consist of one commissioner at $1,000
year, to he appointed by the governor for
term of three years.
SATURDAY,
Ten senators were present at the session
of the Senate and Senator Brazeau was
chosen to preside in the absence of the
lieutenant governor. Two new bills were
introduced, one requiring railroad com
panieS to furnish adequate telephone con-
nCctiOn with its offices. buildings and
grounds which will compel companies to
put in both telephones where there are two
Senator Bird introduced joint resolution
relating to the waterpowcrS Of the state.
The Senate refused to rccCde from its posi-
ton on the bill to regulate the partition
and distribution of estates. and appointed
Senators SanbOrn. owen and IIudnall as
members of Il conference committee.