Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-22
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.


deputies One of the bills is designed to
create furore in the capital city for if
senator Stondall has his way there will be
no saloons within q radius of half mile of
the university. Others were: Providing for
an appropriation of $1,000 for 4 barn for the
executive residence; Eau Claire Della dam;
no licenses for saloons be granted for less
than 5000 in cities of 5000 people or less.
and for $1,000 in cities larger than 5000; TO
RAISE the salary of the attorney general
from $1,000 to 5000 and to raise other sal
aries III that department, also TO provide
for the hiring of assistants; that the gov
ern0r may remove district attorneys tempo
farIIy for reasonable cause: abolish the tax
alton of credits and repeal the mortgage
daXatlon law; to appropriate an additional
100000 for the new Milwaukee normal
school: to appropriate $4,000 for inStruc-
ton OF the blind in preparing them to be-
come SeiI-Supporting artisans, in connection
with the workshop for the blind now eStab-
lshed III Milwaukee; to appropriate 100000
for the building of an asylum for the VIC
lent and criminal insane ut the northern
hospital at Winnehago; removes the limita-
ton of $500 as salary for superintendents
of institutions under the state board of con-
troll and places the limit ut $1,000 a year;
carries an annual appropriation of $35, 900
for three years for the acquisition of land
for state park in Sank county, in the vi
cinity of Devils lake; to allow the state
railroad commission to employ as much
clerical help and expert assistance as
deemed necessary, and to exempt such ex-
pertS from the operation OF the civil service
INV, 10 clOIne the common cOuncllS OF cites
with the power to regulate service and
rates of public service corporations: pro-
yides for the establishment of q Legislative
reference library i'll the Milwaukee public
library.
In the Senate on the 18th favorable re
ports were made by the committee on re-
vision the following bills: Amending
the milwaukee, civil service bill forbiddin%
removals without written charges and
granting hearings before the commission if
demanded within fifteen days after dis
charge; repeating statute eXCmpting from
local taxation the property of trust, annuity
and guaranty companies; amending primary
laws to provide for placing names pri-
mary election ballot on payment into cOun-
ty treasury of ! per cent. Of salary of office
sought: giving county boards power TO fix
number and salary of assistants. deputies,
clerks, steho$fapnerS to county ofhcers; pro
NIdlnS for distribution supreme court re
ports to municipal court. Milwaukee; re
pcalng the exemption of real estate owned
by telephone companies when used i'll teIp-
phone business from local taxation: amend
ing law governing EneTif'S fees: providing
standard form for life insurance policies;
providing in counties of 100000 population
that the provision for one supervisor from
town or ward shall be repealed, and tho
county board shall consist of member
from each Assembly district, elected for
two years; for the construction of state
highway from the southern boundary Of
the state TO Milwaukee, Senator Noble in
troGuccd Il bill apprOpriating $50 900 for
workshop for the blind in Milwaukee,. ana
Senator SanbOrn d bill amending the gen.
roration unless organized for the purpose,
shall own, buy, sell or deal in the stocks
and bonds OF other corporations. A joint
resolution came from the Assembly rcqulr.
Ing the chief clerk of the senate or the
Assembly to notify parties desiring to be
heard of committee hearings upon bills.
The resolution asking Congress to pass the
La Toilette bill for shorter hours for rail
road employees was adopted by viva vocr
vote. Senator Hagcmeister and Wright
alone voted in the negative.
tanning to elections were put in by Senator
Barker. providing for registry of voters in
every ward in cities, villages and towns of
5000 population, and of registry at option
Of council in cities and villages of over
2000 and less than 5000; repeating section
regarding the notice of constitutional
amendments to be voted upon; providing
that notices of election must include full
text of any constitutional amendment or
question to be submitted to the electors for
q popular vote; specifying type in which
names of candidates shall b" printed in
notices of election and making newspaper
compensation therefore 81 a square or rl1u-
ming inch for first insertion and - cents for
each subsequent insertion Senator Barker
also introduced an Important bill affecting
all cities under the general charter law
providing that no property owner can b.
compelled to lay n standard sidewalk in
front of his property on condemnation by
board of public works until Il petition in
writing shall be signed by a majority of sill
property owners and the owners of q ma
jority of all the frontage fronting or abut-
shall have been presented to the council
and approved by that body. Senator Noble
introduced Il bill correcting the statute gov
ernlng redemption of property by striking
out 10 per cent. as the interest charge and
making 1t = per cent. a bill introduced by
Senator uuSting provides that all cities Of
the fourth class with 4 population OF 5000
or over may by vote of council order poles
removed from the streets and telephone.
telegraph and electric light wires placed
underground in certain districts. Senator
Whitehead introduced Il resolution prOpOS-
ing an amendment to the constitution of
the state, which, if it pass 5, will reyolu-
tioniZe the entire system Of courts in the
state. The BraZeau resolution, calling upon
the railroad rate commission to report
what progress it had made in deciding the
2-cent fare case was withdTaWn GOV. Da-
wilson submitted his report on the num-
! Der of pardons and paroles of c0nvictS.
Senator Whitehead introduced Il Joint reSO-
luton to amend the constitution to create
county courts in each county and cut out
the circuit and superior courts. Senator
Browne introduced measures providing for
the sanitary inspection of public schools
Senator Fairchid introduced Il bill similar
to one introduced by Mr.. Bancroft in the
Assembly: supposed to be the bill along the
lines of the Thaycr bill which the brewing
interests are willing to concede as a reason
! able measure. Senator L0ckney introduced
measures authorizing increases i'll salaries
of assessors, and one prohibiting advertise
mentS of cures for venereaI and sexual dis
eases. Senator Wilcox introduced bill to
repeal the retaltatOry insurance taxation
law. Senator FrOCmming introduced two
measures relating to prison and convict
labor Senator Stout submitted anot e. ,
cent fare bill
On the 18th petitions werc received in the
Senate from Iowa county for the passage
of residence district option bill. from She
! b0ygan for the passage Of the Browne bill
restoring spring shooting of aquatic fowl
and for an inquiry into telephone rates in
the city of Sheh0y@an; from Port Washing
ton for the purchase by the state of Devils
lake for Il state park. y Joint resolut on
from the Assembly ordering the SUperln-
tcndent of public property to supply type
writer ribbons to the clerks StenOgrapherS
was Killed. Only one bill was reported by
the committee on revision. 4 bill! permit
ting the owners of 4 dam in Lincoln county
TO charge a reasonable sum. not to exceed
- cents per thousand feet on logs stored
in the dam.
N The Assembly.
Two point resolutions were introduced in
the Assembly Saturday affecting the opera
tons of the lumber trust. One provides for
an investigation into the methods OF the
said trust by the Legislature. and the other
is to memOrialiZe Congress to engage IN Il
/ like undertaking and bring TO light nat
evils, if any, are existing in that industry.
Assemblyman Scott proposes to exempt
ChautauQua grounds from taxation AS
semblyman lie Roys transportation bill
was introduced. Speaker Ekern's elaborate
bill providing for the taxation OF pubic
utilities was introduced Assembly man
| Theodore Thomas introduced bill relating
/ to stocks and bonds of railroads and putting
the regulation of the same under the au-
thority of the railway commission. Other
new bills We're: For the purchase OF the
| and where the first capitol building OF the
state first stood at Belmont and the pfesef-
yation OF ii as state park; PROMPTS any