Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-07-05
In the Assembly.
MONDAY.

On the 24th the Assembly concurred in
slight amendment to bill 2OGA. relating to
the practice of pharmacy. Il refused to
concur in the Senate amendment to bill No
397A. limiting the granting of free passes
or tickets of entrance to local and state
fairs An amendment was cOncurred in to
bill No. 575A, relating to child labor. This
measure keeps children under 16 years out
of places where the occupations named are
hazardous and out of saloons. 1t limits
the number of hours of work each week to
fifty-fve hours. The original bill provided
a nine-hour day or ffty-four hours a week.
The Senate added additional hour, there
All the legislative committees cleaned out
their boxes and reported in to the Legis-
lature all the bills they had under consider
alton. The last report submitted was that
of the Assembly committee on banks and
insurance which turned in seventeen bills
relating to insurance. Only four of these
ments were recommended for each one.
These bills are 6S4A, providing that the
state insurance commissioner shall make
annual valuations of policies of foreign life
insurance companies or accept valuations
made by certain other states or the federal
department of commerce and labor; GOA,
shall he elected and permitting voting by
mail: 6SSA, limiting salaries of officers Of
domestic mutual life insurance companies
to $4,000 a year, and 70IA. requiring life
insurance companies to furnish a gain and
loss exhibit to policyholderS and the state
insurance commissioner. The Assembly
judiciary committee recommended for pas
sage the bill repeating the so-called Men
tai anguish law, making the telegraph liza
BILE for $500 damage for delay TO deliver q
message. The Assembly committee on jul
Assembly bill providing for an additional
county judge for Milwaukee county.
The Assembly passed the bill providing
that the names of the two highest candi-
dates shall he placed on the ballot when no
one person receives a aiority of votes for
United States senatorship candidacy in the
primaries. The Assembly also passed the
bill providing for the establishment of a
mining school at Platteville. The commits
sion system of government for cities was
killed, was the Senate bill to that effect
TUESDAY
On the 18th. in the midst of their DELHI
eratiOnS on most important measures this
morning, the Assembly took occasion to dis
cuss W. D. Conner, the lieutenant governor
and chairman uf the state central commit
tee Il was during the consideration of the
bill introduced by Mr.. Keppel of La Crosse,
who it is said. has Il personal grievance
against the state chairman. and provides
that no candidate for office shall be elected
chairman of political committee: The BIZ
was killed by a vote of 50 to 90 after live
" debate. The Elver resolution No. ga,
to amend the constitution so that in a city
which wanted to build or purchase a public
utility the ) per cent. bond limit may be
raised. was killed. The Burns resolution
No. 1888. 10 90 away with the state census
every five years was passed by vote OF
&C to ). By a vote of 60 to 6 the Assembly
passed the McGregor bill annually appro-
prfatfng $1,000 for the use of the reference
library to the Legislature. At II O'Clock
the two excise bills on the calendar as a
special order were taken up. Bill No. 1888,
was taken up first. This bill with its
amendments provides for increasing the fee
for liqucr licenses in towns from 500 to
500 and in cities from $500 to $500 These
are uinimums, the maximum being $500.
After debate lasting three hours, the
Assembly on the evening of the 18th passed
Of ~ h irSI r1cp vT-hi ch
the insurance companies have been fighting
against Speaker Ekern led the fight for
the measures. The Assembly killed the
Roehr bill providing for the repayment OF
retailiatory taxes TO the Northwestern Mu-
tual Life Insurance company of Milwau,
kee. The bill providing for a pension OF
is now in home for the aged, was also
killed.