Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-03-22
IN THE LEGISLATURE.
DoINGS OF LAWMAKERS AT THE
STATE CAPITAL.
A Summary Account of tie Work Ac-
comp1ished During the Week
by Solons at Madison.
In the Senate.


was re-referred to the committee on chart
table and penal institutions in the Senate
on the 18th and Senator Owens bill amend
ing the civil service law by eXempting some
of the clerks in the secretary OF state OF
fee laid over for one week senator
Mobiles bill authorizing the city or Eau
Claire to increase the height of the Dells
dam was amended to further safeguard the
interests of the city of Eau Claire and was
ordered to engrossnent. The bill pronlblt-
ing the state veterinarian from having any
interest, direct or Indirect in the manu-
facture or sale of any proprietary remedies
was passed. Bills creating the towns OF
Couderay and Wegor in Sawyer county also
passed.
the 18th various reports were received from
committees. including recommendations for
indefinite g1estpo1eHrnt OF thf 6l 10 ap
other home for the feeble-minded at Chip
pewa Falls, when came from the committee
on charitable and penal institutions. Inc
same committa2 reported in favor OF me
state board of control as NV constitute
and recreate t that the members OF
that body shall rotate III Office and vacan-
cies shall develop at regular periods. Most
of the afternoon was occupied with near
ing on the various bills itlating to n
abolition ~ contributory EG gligence as
defense in perHs nal injury. Carnage suits
The brotherhood of locomotive engineers ap-
peared in .Gvor of such legislation.
A bill by the committee on education, per
of county schools of agriculture and do
mestic economy and to issue bonds therefor,
was passed in the Senate on the 14th. The
Alaska-YukOn exposition appropriation bill
reported out for passage. The bill to
permit unincorporated villages to perform
certain acts authorized by chapters 40 and
Al of the statutes of 1898, on the part OF
Incorporated villages, was reported
for passage. The report of the joint COM
mittee on the conference on the bill author
izing the employment of actuaries for the
insurance committees. reported an agree
ment upon a substitute amendment, In
creasing the amount appropriated to $1,000.
printing reported for concurrence the As
sembly resolution for an investigation of
the state printing contract with the Madl-
son Democrat company: The bill relating
to additional circuit judges for Milwaukee,,
was Laid over until the afternoon session,
The following bills were passed or con
CURED in: Relating to sanitary conditions
in hotels relating to the distribution and
partition of estates; to create a second mu-
municipal court for Iron county: relating to
the support of inmates of the Wisconsin
Veterans home; relating to the issue of
bonds by counties: relating to the munich
pal court in the city of Beloit, in Rock
county; requiring clerks of the courts to re-
port lists of jurors drawn to the jury COM
miSsioners; relating to pay of jurors; pro
viding for the transportation of the dead;
authorizing the town of Center. Rock cOun-
ty. to take over and hold forever the prop
erty of the Bethel Cemetery association in
said town: relating to struck juries: relat-
ing to oil inspection: relating to the sale Of
intoxicating liquors; to authorize the city
of EIkhOrn to sell land used as cemetery
and remove bodies. buried in said cemetery
and monuments thprefrOm; relating to the
Incorporation of villages.
At the afternoon session of the Senate
on the 14th the bill providing for the ad-
ditiona! circuit court in Milwaukee county
upon motion Of Senator ROehr was laid
over
The first attempt at an early session of
the Senate on the 18th was a failure. No
quorum appearing a recess was taken until
10. the usual hour. The con- mittee on edu-
cation introduced a bill increasing the
number of schools of agriculture and do
mestic economy from four to eight The
Dunn pocket ballot bill was laid over
Bills passed: Relating to the laying out of
a highway to land excluded therefrom;
lating to the care of county roads by towns;
relating to private warehouses and ware
house receipts: relating to hours of labor
public works: relating to the sanitary
of 0"k R and eGnfGetoneF
poned Relating to daily newspapers and
repeating chapter IS Of the laws of 1903;
to authorize and enable cities of the first
class to change the method of official pub
LEGATION of laws, etc.
The Senate on the 10Th passed the AS
sembly measures appropriating to Assem-
byman Frederick Ties and Willis Ludlow
$500 each for the Green county Assembly
seat contest. The bill making an appro,
priatiOn to the members of the last LegiS
Iature who conducted the insurance invest
CATION was sent back to the committee or
claims Before this action was taken Sen
ator IIudnall asked to be voted as dissent
ing from report made by that committC"
in favor of the bill. The. Senate passed
bills to authorize Eau Claire to raise the
lam there and relating TO county aid ~
building bridges; concurred in Assembly
bills to appropriate $500 to persons who
worked on the state census after the appro
priatiOn had run ont: to include beans in
the list of enumerated farm products con
Cured in the RrOckhausen resolution to Ill
vestgate the system of letting contracts
for state printing. and advanced the bin
appropriation $500 to !. L. O'COnnor fO%
services iii connection with the Legislative
investigation of life insurance, to appro
pirate the usual amount $4,000 to the gov
ernorS contingent fund: third to create
contingent fund for the prevention of
Asiatc cholera.
In the Assembly
In the Assembly on the 18th the bill to
appropriate $12S9.39 to J. l.. O'Connor for
services rendered to the insurance investl-
CATION committee was passed 80 to II. Ac
ton on the Palmer memorial to Congress
on the Brownsville affair went over The
Assembly voted to RECALL from the Senate
the joint resolution 42A, proposing con-
stitutional amendment to give the governor
six days for the consideration of bills. The
speaker appointed as members of the con.
ference committee on S31A. for legal serv-
ices for the committees on banks and in
surance. Messrs. Cleary. kuckuk and
features and labor reported to the Assem-
bly, for death 146A, providing for one day
of rest in seven for employees. The com
mittee on claims reported favorably on
three bills, 1904. to refund to a Fond du
Lac dairy company. 800; 210A continuing
present appropriation to Wisconsin National
guard: 203A. making an annual appropria-
ton to the agricultural experiment station.
The committee on elections reported ad-
verseIy three primary election bills all
providing for election of local committees,
the bills being %, 50 and 654. The commit
tee on public, health reported favorably ON
STA, prescribing duties of physicians. and
6O3A. for registration of vital statistics;
but adversely on 116A. for regulation of
BARRIERS Other bills favorably reported
were: 447A for issue of bonds for school
purposes; CHA. for cities to acquire land
for residences: 1914, TO government of city
councils: 166A. prohibiting distractions in
highways: 671A. to leases of lands for pub
lie purposes. Bills advanced were: l9A.
permitting appeal within ten days in dis
trict court of Milwaukee to the municipal
court: 454A, for annual payment of interest
Of principal on bonds: 517A. authorizing
to exceed two miles on payment of party