Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-08
IN The LEGISLATURE.
DOINGS OF LAWMAKERS AT THE
STATE CAPITAL.
A Summary Account of the Work Ac-
complished During the Week
by SolonS at Madison.
In the Senate.


Senate on the Goth as follows: Appropriate
ing $4,000 for the construction of Il North
| west Bookstack Wing for the state library.
| Returning to the state historical library
$ll006.99 returned to treasury from appro-
| priations of 1895. 1897 and 1899. building
| commission having expired by limitation
before amount was expended, same TO be
used for painting and decorating state his
! tor.cal library building. Creating town of
| Frog Greek out of town of Minong. Wash
burn county. Creating town of Shanagold-
en- out of town of Jacobs, Ashland county
| Providing bond of register OF deeds Mil
waul<ee county, shall be $4,000 and re-
curing an accounting for all fees. Re
by drainage districts. Requiring interurDan
| railways TO provide Il suitable depot in all
| cities and villages, incorporated or unincor-
pGrated, of $50 inhabitants under penalty
OF not less than $50 more than 500
! providing for reciprocal demurrage by ship
pers and railroad companies. Giving pre-
ferryd stock right to vote where not Stipu-
| lated in articles of Incorporation. Exempt
! ing property, mutual benefit. literary SO
! cletcS, etc. from taxation to amount of
5000. Dong away with advertising mort
| gage foreclosures, requiring personal notice
on the mortgages or taking of notice on
premises i'll case of nonresident six weeks
prior to sale; amending law regarding dis
charge and partition of estates, making
ordrr OF county judge prima facie evidence
adding two members to boards of review
! providing secretary of state may designate
someone to sign treasury warrants; creating
waterway commission, making salary com
| missioner $1,000 annually. Providing for
ban and stay proceedings after sentence in
| criminal actions pending appeal writ of
error TO supreme court. Making tax com
all corporations in Wisconsin. Requrin :
sem--lnonthly pay days, labor to be paid up
to ten days of each pay day under penalty
OF 81 per day. For commission system Of
government for cities. Increasing salary
register probate. Outagamie. county, to
$1,000. The rules prepared for joint action
CGNrnrTpI IN
maily adopted.
! The committee on military affairs report
ca to the Senate Mr.. Birds bill appropriate
ing $4,000 for VickSburg monument
with recommendation for passage and it
was referred to committee on claims The
following bills were introduced: Providing
Tor TAXATION of mortgages and assessment
OF 'fc"ltS. UntaNed mortgages to have no
standing III court; providing that cOnvictS
previously convicted of felony. those not
! having served half the time and life priS-
oncrs, shall be ineligible to parole: for a
| Joint clerk and StenoGTapher for Wisconsin
iTCe employment office and state factory in
! Spertor; bills amending the game laws for
bidding shooting of aquatic fowl one hour
2fjrf sunset or one hour before sunrise;
adding WaU"harH ana Waupaca counties to
| rhCS" in which pickyrel are not protected;
restoring spring shooting of aquatic fowl
for fifteen days iii April. limiting bag to
| fifteen ducks and doubling the minimum
TN" and removing the protection on white
bass; local option measure on lines Of
| Thaygr blll. providing that remouStrancp
| may keep saloons out Of residence districts:
for = second municipal court in Oneida
! county: providing that the act for the as
| ScS@m"HU ard taxation of street railway
companies and light, heat and power COM
pa'.i"s operated in connection with street
railways shall not apply until the road has
! been constructed and operated
Th" most important of the ten bills intro
| Guced III the Senate on February | was Son
ator Fairchild's., measure providing for i
second county judge in milwaukee, county
to relieve Judge Carpenter. The Judges
are to he known aS senior and Junior coun-
~ judges and may act together or separate
] amending the act Of 1903 for the construc-
ton of dam across the Flamhcau river
i'll Iron county. Senator FroCmming would
have Il board OF examiners for III" r"fail
meat markets Of Milwaukee. The Dunn
coupon ballot bill. changed slightly from
! its form of 1906, was introduced by Senator
! Bird. senator lsummrl put in 4 bill Strik
| ing out of the Milwaukee Gas Light com
panys franchise the words and CXclu-
| SIV" ana another providing for muni-
cipal slaughter house Bills wcra intro
dnc"d changing the dock line on Lake Mo
/ roma. Madison, amending The articles Of
til" Willow, River Cemetery associat' on,
amending tn" act for the incorporat on OF
cemetery ASSOCIATIONS: and increasing the
| counties where they are required TO fur
! n>h abstracts of title. y bill changing tn
c"mprnSat on of county judges of Outa
! gallic ana Rock Counties to Il purely salary
basis W"r" passed and mcssagcd TO the As
| scmDly.
In the Assembly,
In the Assembly on the 18th the reSolu-
| ton aGvIJrG Il week before COncurring i'll
/ joint "u"& WdS considered and separate
! TuIrS ad0rlcd instead. -Four Joint rcSoIr-
ti0a@ were introduced as follows: For
coz: itUIiunal amendment empowering the
| Legislature to provide for state insurance;
for :, U"n-unanmouS verdict in civil eases;
! a grHt.:I&lrd Income tax and to ask Congress
fer federal constitution amendment pro-
Z! niht3ng poEgamy iii all the states. Bills
were introduced as follows: Authorizing
| counties or cities TO establish and maintain
/ SCHOOLS for industrial cGucatiOn; appropriate
| ing $1,000 annually for the maintenance of
the Badger State Humane society OF Mil
| waukcc: empowering Judges to suspend sen
tcnccs in cases where youths between the
| ages Of 1G and IS are convicted of crimes
/ punishable by imprisonment for a year or
| guardians; Il district option bill to prohibit
granting saloon licenses whore protests are
! signed by majority of the people i'll the
district or ward authorizing the common
council of milwaukee, By vote of two
thirds Of its members to establish and main
| tain municipal ice plants; to prevent Judge
Neelcn from engaging in private practice OF
law; making it miSdcmeanor punishable
| by fine of from 500 to 500 for q person
! not admitted to the bar to hold himself out
in advertising any other way as a law
! yer: providing an appeal from the district
! TO the municipal court of Milwaukee must
he taken within ten days after sentence has
| been imposed; providing for the taxation of
| trust companies on an al vaIorem basis III
! stead by fee of 5000 annually; providing
! at length for Legislation desired by the Wis
| consin Pharmaceutical society and to pre-
| vent the sale of opium and similar drugs to
| drug fienGS; prohibiting railroads from re
| quiring their employees engaged i'll the work
| of diSpatChing or operating passenger trains
| TO work more than eight hours q day; pro
| yiding that the minimum salaries of teach
| erS in public schools shall not be less than
/ $40 a month; increasing the annual appro-
| prjatiOn for state aid for graded schools
| from $4,000 to $4,000: providing that
| each district maintaining school eight
| months Il year shall receive 500 from the
| state annually: restricting the powers OF
i school boards in cities of the second, third
and fourth classes: increasing the term of
! office of county supCriEt"udrntS o. schools
| from two TO four years; appropriating $15DJ
| year to the Wisconsin Tobacco Growers
| and Dealers association: prohibiting the
/ blOcEdding OF street crossings in cities for
/ more than I'VE minutes ut Il time; providing
| that each town, village or city shall levy
| license fee of 81 apiece on male and 81
! apiece on female dogs, and that til" money
| collected shall form fund for paying any
/ claims for dana CS made hy p""itlc bitten
! or whose livestock other property has
! been Injured by dogs; providing that the
| salary of the county judge of ST. CroiZ
| county shall be $3.50 Il year: providing for
| the licensing OF stationary engineers: Gre
| atinG commissions for the management Of
| water and lighting plants in towns; pre-
| ScriDIng how i legal fence snail be con
| s;ruCtcd. cN"nt1ting veterans o. the span
| iSh-AnericaE ANA Fhli1Iin" wars from poll
! tax. giving clerks of circHit courts addi-
| tiOnal fees.
| In the Assembly on the Both Il memorial
| from the common council of Milwaukee was
| presented asking for Il constitutional con
| vention for revision of state constitution.
| Mr.. Grassie presented joint resolution for
| n constitutional amendment increasing the
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