Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-05-17
IN THE LEGISLATURE.
DO1NGS OF LAWMAKERS AT THE
STATE CAPITOL.
Summary Account of the Work Ac-
complished During the Week by
SolonS at Madison.
In the Senate.


On the Tth in the Senate. an amendment
to the bill authorizing cities to provide for
the removal OF ashes. etc. was adopted,
adding villages 10 the bill. which was re-
called from the Assembly Senator Noble =
bill relating 10 execution and by the COM
mittee on towns and villages to detaCh a
certain portion of the town of Vaughan In
iron county and create therefrom the town
of Merce were killed. The Assembly bill
relating TO the suspension Of sentence OF
minors was non-conCurred in and the bill
providing for the licensing of stationary
engineers, recommended for non-cOnCur-
renee, was referred to the committee Oh
Judiciary.
WEDNESDAY.
On the Sth. III the Senate. 4 number of
petitions for the purchase of Devils lake
were read, the session converting ut 9:3O
and the calendar being the longest for
years. scventy-siN bills, with only eight for
Indefinite noStponemrnt. appearing on It,.
new bill which is intended % permit the
kilbourn Dam company to compete with
electric light companies in Madison and
other cities, the bill repeating the statute
forbidding company in one place to fur
nlSh electric light or power in another The
Barker high license BILL together with the
Roehr bill permitting vote upon the size
OF the license and the Frocmming bill leay-
ing the amount of license in cities of the
hrst-class to be determined by the council,
was re-referred to the committee ON state
affairs After some wrangling the bill
doubling the penalties in case of second
violation of the game laws was refused ad-
vancemcnt by a vote of II to 3 after being
amended and was then indefinitely post
poned. The Senate put uuietuS upon the
bill repeating the act forbiddiEg the spring
shooting of ducks and aquatic fowl by re
fusing to reconsider the vote by which the
bill was indefinitely postponed.
THURSDAY.
On the 9th in the Senate aftec senator
Noble had made It long speech in favor OF
his bill permitting Wisconsin cities TO adopt
the commission system of government so
successful i'll Galveston and the south, the
bill was laid over for one week at the re
quest of Senator Bird. A lively debate was
precipitated on the bill appropriating about
$4,000 In payment of the claims of mem
bers of the insurance and university inyesti-
CATION committees 1t was laid over on
Senator Birds request, and Senator San
born'S bill relating to manSlaughter and
Senator Whitehead'S bill making fraud up
on persons furnishing gas, electricity, or
water an offense were indefinitely post
poned.
FRIDAY
On the 10th a petition from the Mutual
Life Insurance company of New York, ask
ing the state to refund certain license fees
was read in the Senate. They amount to
$4,000. Senator IIuSting'S substitute
amendment to the Morris bill relating to
powers of drainage commissions was adopt
ed and the bill passed. The substitute pro-
vides that the power of drainage commits
sioners to change the course of a river shall
not be applicable to rivers navgable for
any other purpose than the driving of logs