Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-06-14
SATURDAY.
IN the Assembly.
TUESDAY


On the 4th the Assembly advanced the
ROethe resolution to amend the constitution
to limit the sessions of til" Legislature to
100 days exclusive of Sundays and holidays.
Among the bills sent to engTOSsment were:
Prohibiting practicfng as all attorney with
out Il license; appropriating $4,000 to
make additions and engagements at the
normal schools at Oshkosh, River Falls and
Superior; requiring that every regular rail
road ticket shall bear price and tenure;
exempting certain Wide-tre wagons from
taxation. The Hebron bill, authorizing
cities of the first class to purchase and CON
denim land for right-Of-way and to lease the
same to railroads and issue terminal certif-
Gates therefore ordered to third read
ing without debate. The Barker bill TO
compel people to support poor relatives was
concurred in, but the bill by the same au-
thor providing a penalty for the sale or
manufacture of adulterated or misbranded
drugs was DOn-cOncurred in. Gov. Davidson
sent a veto message to the Assembly, with
holding his approval from the bill permit
ting the village of Gillette to extend its
sewerage to Christy brook.
WEDNESDAY.
On the 9Th the public utilities bill, which
is regarded by students of economy as the
most important single piece of legislation
ever presented for enactment in any state
in the Union in the history of the nation
was advanced on the calendar in the As
sembly. The committee on claims reported
for indefinite postponement the bill for an
investigation of the Soldiers home at Wau-
naca Some seventy-five bills were report
ed out of committees. of which forty-fve
came from the committee on judiciary. The
Assembly sustained the governors veto of
lett to acquire lands outside of the village
limits for sewerage purposes
THURSDAY.
On the 9th in the great food of bills re-
ported in by the committees in the Assem-
bly, were a number of important measures
The contrIbutory negligence bill, with the
Senate amendment holding railroads liable
for injuries to employees. was favOrabiy rec
IL
employment Of children under II playing
musical instruments in public for profit and
the Baker bill. requiring that starways
of public buildings be at least IS inches
wide for every 100 seating capacity. etc.
Concurrence was recommended for the bill
to abolish the board of control as at pres
ent constituted and providing for continu-
Gus body to DO appointed for one, two,
three, four and five years, etc. The public
utilities regulation bill came back from the
committee on claims with a report for pas,
sage; also the bill to pay the members Of
the legislative committees that investigated
the university and insurance questions.
Among measures reported for indefinite
postponement were the joint resolution ac-
cepting the offer by the city of Oshkosh
for site for the capitol; joint resolution
for boulevard connecting the capitol park
and the university grounds. requiring stone
from Wisconsin quarries be used in new
capitol. Then followed a long debate of
the Ainsworth bill providing for county
uniformity of text books and the appoint
ment of a county book commissioner The
bill was nnally sent to engroSsment by
vote of A. TO 50. BY vote of 30 and %
the Assembly passed the bill prohibiting sa-
looms within three quarters of mile of the
main hall at the University Of Wisconsin
and within so feet of either side of State
street. There was no debate.
FRIDAY
On the 18th the great public utilities bill
passed through the Assembly by purely
party vote, the Republicans voting for il
and few Democrats and all the Socialists
opposing it, The committee on claims sub
mitted an amendment limiting the appro-
priation for carrying out the provisions of
the act to $4,000 a year or $1,000 a week.
This was adopted. The Assembly commit
tee education reported for concurrence
bill No. 249S. authorizing any city to es