Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-02-21

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place in the hand of county boards of
fioers and their assistants instead OF
making il necessary to come to the
legislature for every change OF salary
Senate + Noble introduced a bill tc
appropriate s35, 600 for the building OF
a workshop for the blind in Milwau-
kee. the building to be erected under
the supervision of the state board of
control
Madison. Feb. IA Resolved. by
the assembly. the senate concurring
that there should be an immediate
revision of the tariff" This was the
essence of a memorial TO congress in
PRODUCED in the assembly by Mr..
Ledvina of Manitowom. Assemblyman
Migrants joint resolution to memorial
lie congress in favor of permanent
river improvements on the upper
Mississippi was adopted unanimously
Senator Rummel, social democrat
Iof Milwaukee introduced bill to
provide for the election of an attor.
ney for the poor called in the bill a
public defender" to be elected with
| other county officers and hold Of
fee for two years. 1t is made the
duty of this officer, who must be an
admitted attorney, to appear in and
prosecute all cases brought for the re.
covery of wages where the amount is
SIS or less. also actions for damages
FOR those too poor to hire legal assist.
ance, also to defend and give legal
advice to the poor and appear in
court whenever the judge deems ii
necessary. A bill by Senator Lock.
ney proposes to amend the inheri.
lance tax law to provide that the
| wife or widow of a brother or the
husband of sister shall pay an in.
heritance tax of liz per cent.
Several bills came from the com.
mittee on forestry to give the commits.
sioners of forests first chance to
acquire tax title lands. to provide in
struction in forestry at the state uni
versity; to exempt from taxation for
20 years lands planted with forest
, trees These tracks shall not be
greater than 40 acres Eer proprie1nr
and must be planted with at least
1900 trees per acre. Senator Barker
introduced a bill requiring the publ
cation of names of candidates for
nominations and prescribing the COM
pensation to newspapers for such
publication as 81 per square" mean
ing one inch OF one column in the
type used by the paper for news
items; also provide that no property
owner shall be required by common
council to build standard sidewalk
on improved street unless a petition
signed by majority of the property
holders on the improved portion of
the street or the portion proposed to
be improved, be presented. A bill by
i Senator owen came in to reduce the
legal rate of interest to be charged in
executions from 10 to per cent.
!, Madison, Feb. 1S.--Both houses OF
the legislature adjourned until Mon
day night A bill by Senator Hust-
ing proposes to grant power to all
common councils. and village boards
to regulate and fix rates for public
! services, including street cars, trans.
mission companies, gas. electric, heat
| light and power companies, and all
] companies empowered to exercise the
10Th ,x<t a.
Hudnall proposes in a bill to change
the form of the law supplement of
, newspapers, from the newspaper form
| to pamphlet form. Senator Hudnall
introduced bill TO regulate the issu-
! ance of stocks and bonds by public
service corporations, which is under
istration Is to favor.
Tariff revision seems to be an alb
sorbing question before the assembly
these days. Following closely upon
the introduction of a resolution by
Assemblyman Ledvina asking for i'm
mediate revision of the tariff, two
more resolutions appeared in the
chamber yesterday. one by Mr.. Led
VIVA and one by r. II. Miller. urging
the president Of the United States
to call special session of congress
to take up the task Of revision. Both
OF the resolutions were noted as a
special order Of business for Mon.
day. Assemblyman Bancroft of Rich
land county introduced a joint reso-
luton which no doubt will stir up
some Of the educators OF the state
when II comes up for hearing.
Classical Or semi-classical education
as requisite to entrance in the uni
Versity Is the objective of Mr.. Ban
croft at this time He approves all
that sort of thing.