Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-06-21
In the Assembly.
MONDAY

On the 10th there were not more than
thirty-fivc members present at the Assem-
bly, session. petition from the Illinois
Legislature accompanied by joint resolu-
ton was received asking for convention
of states to secure an amendment to the
federal constitution so as to permit a popu-
lar election of United States senators.
Among number of insurance bills recon-
mendpd for passage was No. 31SS by Sena-
ator ROehr requiring foreign stock life in
surance companies to determine and report
! the respective rights of policyholders and
stockholders in an unaSs gned surplus be-
fore being licensed to do business in the
state. Bill No. 34OS, by Senator Roehr,
was also recommended for passage. This
measure requires life insurance companies
to report to the commissioner of insurance
all contributions made for political pur-
poses. The committee recommended bill
No. 914A, providing for the election OF dele
gates to national conventions by an cleo
ton in the spring.
TUESDAY.
After Fl lively debate the bill providing for
the establishment of a binder Irvine plant
at the state prison at Waupun was ad-
vanced on the calendar and has Il good
chance of becoming a law. The bill was re-
ported for indefinite postpOnement in April
by the committee on charitable and penal
institutions, but was saved by Mr.. Cerna-
han al that time and referred to the com
mittee on claims. There were numerous
hearings before that committee and the bill
was reported in without recommendation.
The bill was advanced by a vote of 60 to
20. On n call of the ayes and noes, the
lager Dill NO. 2o4A TO increase the appfO-
priatiOn of the state horticultural society
from $4,000 to $1,000 was advanced. Bill No.
3O5A to appropriate 1900 to the Wisconsin
Firemen's association was engrossed as was
the bill of granting additional employees to
the dairy and food commission. The AS
sembly, by a decisive vote of "a to %, re-
pudiated the Georgi school board bill pro
viding for the election of sixteen members
from school districts and five at large and
advanced to enIgrossment the MODIFICATION
of the Poss bill, as recommended by the
committee on education.
WEDNESDAY
On the 18th, after a lively fight in the
Assembly. the ROehr bill reducing the num-
Der of aldermen in the Milwaukee common
council from two from each ward to one
from each ward and twelve elected at large
was concurred in and now goes TO the gov
ernor for his approval. The Assembly re-
solved itself into what had every semblance
of a political convention in the discussion
of the bill to remove the circle from the
top of the party columns on the official
ballot. In committee of the who'll by a
vote 70 10 to IS the Assembly adopted a
resolution expressing its judgment that the
be retained. The Assembly without dis
cussion killed bill No. 9S1A, providiIg. that
| disclose in any court or judicial proceeding
any information he may have acquired
while assisting a grand jury. The Assem-
bly, committee on transportation decided to
curing telephone companies to make phys
zeal connections and prohibiting duplica-
ton OF exchanges.
THURSDAY.
On the 18th a third bill in three days
vitality affecting Milwaukee was advanced
in the Assembly. 1t reduces the county
board of fifty members to sixteen members,
one from each Assembly district in the
county, and doubles the salary of the su-
pervisors. The Assembly passed the Kay
bill to appropriate $4,000 for Improvements
at the normal schools of Oshkosh, Superior
and River Falls. OF this amount $4,000 is
for Superior, $4,000 for River Falls and
$40, 900 for Oshkosh. The vote was ayes 40,
noes f. Bill No. 2j6A, by Mr.. Norcross TO
appropriate $500 annually for two years to
the Wisconsin Tobacco Growers and Deal
ers' association, was advanced. The Jack
son bill No. 4o4A, to appropriate $4,000 for
a university extension was ordered en-
crossed. Mr.. Bancroft saved the Harrass
bill No. 436A, to pension members of the
state militia, when wounded in the line Of
action or disabled in any form. The As
sembly committee on transportation last
night recommended that the Thompson and
Weber resolutions for government owner
ship Of railroads be indefinitely postponed
| The Assembly committee on claims recon-
mended for passage a bill creating a state
board of immigration and appropriating
$1,000 annually to pay its expenses. 1t is
understood that E. T. Wheelock, secretary
of the Wisconsin Immigration and Develop
ment association, will be appointed as COM
missioner of immigration. The Assembly
claims committee recommended for passage
q bill appropriating S67, 800 to the Wiscon-
sin state board of agriculture for improve
ments on the state fair grounds in Miiwau.