Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-07-12
ENDS IN COMPROMISE
INSURANCE LEGISLATION FINAL.
LY DISPOSED OF.
TWO MEASURES KILLED
Both Were Distasteful to the Com
panies-AssembIy Holds Three
long Sessions and Accom-
plishes Much Work.

long Sessions and Accom-
pIishes Much Work.
Madison July 1.-THE senate
Tuesday disposed of the legislation
so important to the Northwestern
Life Insurance company, of Milwau-
kee, and of equal import to foreign
life companies transacting business
in Wisconsin. The action taken was
a compromise between the companies
and the legislature, some of the prop
ositions contended for by the insur-
ance investigating committee being
passed, while others were defeated.
The bill relating to the valuation of
policies was killed, as was also the
bill providing for the printing of the
schedule upon each policy. The bills
relating to the distribution of the sur
plus, the limitation Of the premium,
the limitation of salaries and the cleo
ton of directors and trustees, and the
bill more clearly defining certain in
surance terms were passed.
Assembly Works Hard.
The assembly held three long ses-
sions Tuesday and finished up prac-
tically all of the work on it's calendar
for the day A score or more Of the
bills acted on affect the city and coun-
ty of Milwaukee. One of them was
the senate bill legalizing the act of
the common council of the city of Mil
waukee in contracting with the War
rem Brothers company for laying BIZ
thulitic pavement on grand avenue in
that city. After a spirited discussion
the bill was concurred in and will now
go to the governor for approval.
Gov. Davidson sent the assembly a
message informing it that he had
signed the Heilbron bill providing for
two stenographic reporters for the
county court of Milwaukee county at a
salary of $4,000 each, but that he did
so reluctantly, because he believed
that the measure violated the prin-
cipal of home rule.
Milwaukee Bills Passed.
The assembly concurred in senate
bill authorizing the common council
to license and regulate meat markets
in the city of Milwaukee. The bill
raising the salaries of the assessors
in the city of Milwaukee from $3.50 70
$1,000 a year was concurred in with
out discussion, as was also the bill
providing that the two judges of Mil
waukee county shall have equal au-
thority in the appointment and remov-
al of officers of the court.
The assembly concurred in the San
born bill permitting railroad COM
panies to run trains at II miles an
hour in cities and villages, 20 miles
where they maintain electric alarm
devices, and 80 miles where they have
gates or fiagmen.
Will Not Buy Land.
Without discussion the assembly
killed the senate resolution directing
the state capitol commission to inves-
tigate and report on the advisability
of the state purchasing six blocks of
land in the central part of the city Of
Madison to be added to the capitol
park.
The assembly also killed the Jones
bill prohibiting the fraudulent wearing
of any insignia Of the Independent Or
der of Odd Fellows, the committee bill
requiring public accountants to pro-
cure certificates of ability from the
state university, the Page bill prohib-
iting the collection and use of second
hand bottles and jars, the Whitehead
bill granting larger latitude in amend
ing pleadings in courts, the Browne
bill providing that any high school
graduate who completed a course of
study in a county teachers training
school shall receive life certificate to
teach in rural schools, and a commit
tee bill requiring long-liVed mortgages
on real estate to be recorded every 20
years in order to make them valid
House Expresses Sympathy.
Roderick Ainsworth, of Waukesha,
chairman of the special committee ap-
pointed to draft and report suitable
resolutions of sympathy for Assembly
man Duncan McGregor on the death
of the latter's 20-year-old son by
drowning, reported resolutions which
were adopted by rising vote.
The assembly devoted its session
Tuesday evening to consideration of
the Hughes anti-tights bill and the
Elver bill prohibiting livery stables
and breweries from being maintained
in the vicinity of art studios. After
humorous discussion both bills were
killed.
No Sympathy for Artist.
The bill prohibiting the maintenance
of livery stables and breweries in the
vicinity of art studios was introduced
by Assemblyman Elver at the request
of Henry Hess, Madison artist, who
has his workshop on West Gorham
street, with Hausmann's brewery on
one side and Brown Brothers livery
stable on the other. During the dis
cussion of the bill some of the mem
bers of the assembly, who have be-
come calloused and hard-hearted from
the midsummer heat and fatigue of
the long session, secuted the conten-
tion that the proximity of brewery
was disadvanta geous to an art studio
and asserted that, on the contrary, it
ought to prove source of deHghtful