Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-07-04


Senator Hagemeister's bill empower
ing tie tax commission to supervise
and control the issue of stocks and
bonds Of corporations. The bill
provides that no stocks or bonds
shall be issued without the consent
of the railroad commission. The prim-
airy election question was threshed
out on the floor of the senate. The
Nye bill was on the calendar for third
reading. The bill provides that in
the event that at any primary at
which candidates for the United
States senate are to be nominated if
none of the candidates receive a ma
jority of the votes cast, the two re-
ceiving the greatest number of votes
shall be placed upon the general
election ticket with the candidates for
the other party offices. Senators
Lockney. Martin, Sanborn and Owen
spoke for the measure and Senators
Munson, Brazeau, Page, Wilcox and
busting against it. The bill was
killed.
Basing his veto on the grounds of
public policy, and intimating that the
scheme smacked somewhat too much
of paternalism, Governor Davidson
sent to the assembly a message vot-
ing the bill creating a free teachers
employment agency in connection
with the state bureau of labor statis
tics; and the assembly refused to pass
the bill over the veto. Governor
Davidson also vetoed the bill giving
to cities power to assist in the build
ing of railroads and to vote money
for the purchase of electric light
plants. The assembly also stood by
the executive on this proposition. The
governor pointed out that the statutes
prescribe the procedure which must
be followed in order to permit the
voting of money by the council for
these purposes and calls attention to
validating the statutory provisions
on these matters. Of the Ingram
Sprague bill to tax insurance cor
pOrations per cent on their gross
income, excluding premiums col
lected in other states, was passed. A
resolution by Assemblyman Soper
was adopted in the assembly, pro
viding for an adjournment of the
Legislature from tomorrow noon to
Monday, July 8. After another ear
nest plea on the part of Assemblyman
McGregOr of Platteville the bill ap-
propriating $4,000 for two years for a
PIatteviIle mining school was passed
by a vote of Al to 30. The PROPOSE
ton to change the present law
relating to credit taxation,
embodied in a bill offered by the
committee on taxation, was killed by
the assembly by a decisive vote of
50 to 10. After a short debate,
Assemblyman Bancroft arguing that
the passage of the public utility bill
insured good service on the part
of telegraph companies. the as
sembIy voted to repeal the mental
anguish law" passed a few weeks
ago, by vote of 50 to 81.
passed Senator ROehr's amendment
to an assembly bill raising the salary
of Bank Examiner NJ. G. Bergh from
SO 900 to $4,000. A new bill was in
troduced increasing the salary of the
commissioner of insurance to $4,000,
his deputy to s. 500 and the chief
clerk to $1,4OO. The senate con-
Cured in the assembly bill, exempting
from taxation the property Of Chau-
tauquas and camp meetings.
The assembly killed the referendum
proposition. The assembly killed the
bill to create a bureau of inspection
of public offices and establish a uni
form system of public accounting and
reporting.
The Bird resolution to investigate
the water powers of the state and re-
port to the next Legislature means of
further developing and utilizing such
resources in the interest Of industrial
advancement was concurred in by the
assembly.
The Husting joint resolution for a
constitutional amendment in favor of
Ievying a tax on incomes was con-
Cured in, by a vote Of II to 1, AS
sembIyman Norcross casting the only
negative vote. Another Husting joint
resolution, in favor of the popular
election of United States senator's
went through by vote of 50 to 3,
without discussion.
The assembly cOncurred in Senator
StondalIs resolution providing for
state aid in internal improvement,
which will promote the development
Of waterpowers. by a unanimous
vote.
The senate bill to pension justices
Of the supreme court after twenty
years of service and to put them on
a haIf-salary basis, was concurred in
by a vote of A to %. 1t goes into
effect two years hence. The Vicks-
burg monument bill, carrying 100000
was concurred in. The assembly
passed the bill appropriating $4,000
to the geological and natural history
survey for experimentation in good
roads. but the measure died in the
senate. The proposition to create a
board consisting of the governor, Sec
rotary of state and attorney general,
with power to settle with the rail
roads all claims of the state for IL