The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-06-22

ing, shall have been tested for tuber.
culosis; provided, however, that all
further regulations as to the testing OF
| cows for tuberculosis and the sale of
milk or cream from cows suspected of
being tubercular, shall be reserved to
the state, but the health officer or the
health commissioner Of any city or viii
lage shall, when he suspects that any
COW or cows whose milk is being sold
in such city or village, is tubercular,
report the same to the state live stock
sanitary board, who shall cause said
COWS or cows to be treated for tuber-
culosis."
The senate ordered engrossed the
Albers bill reducing the annual taxes
of the Northwestern Mutual Life In
surance company of Milwaukee about
$4,000 a year. The bill provides that
the company shall pay tax of per
cent on its gross income except from
rents and real estate and premiums on
annuity policies. Under the present
law, the company pays 8 per cent on
its income from all sources.
The Frederick fee splitting bill by
physicians was engrossed and then
rules suspended and passed by the as
sembly
Education Board Bill Passed.
The administration bill creating a
state board of education to manage
the state university, state normal
schools, Stout institute and state
mining school, passed the assembly
by vote of SO to 80.
The bill provides for a board of
fifteen members, with the state SUI
perintendent of public instruction as
member ex officio. The governor
is to appoint the members, and not
more than seven of them are to be
of the same political party. Three
members are to be women, one mem
Der is to be nominated to the COVER
nor by the faculty of the state uni
versity and one by the presidents of
the state normal schools. One mem
Der is to be a practical agriculturist
and one laborer.
The assembly refused to recon
slider the vote by which it ordered to
third reading the Glenn bill author
izing the board of trustees of the
teachers retirement fund to raise the
salary of it's secretary from $1,000
to $500. 1t refused to revive the
Bosshard bill providing for state
game farm in Villas county. 1t killed
the Schroeder resolution for a con-
stitutional amendment increasing the
length OF terms of county officers
from two to four years.
Many Senate Bills.
The senate passed the following
senate bills: by Senator Albats, re-
lating to fees of insurance compa-
MES; by Senator Fairchild, relating
to assessment of taxes; by Senator
Martin, relating to additional salaries
to city employees. The senate con-
Cured in the following assembly
bills: by Helm, relating to the state
Indebtedness and making an appro-
priation; by Ballard, providing for
compensation for accidental injury
or death of employees, eliminating the
farmers from the operation of the
Jenson prohibiting the operation of
automobiles by intoxicated persons.
Woman Suffrage Wins.
The senate refused to reconsider
the vote by which the Glenn woman
suffrage bill had been ordered en-
crossed. The vote was Is to 16.
The Budlong bill, which exempted
from taxation homesteads of veterans
of the civil war and the Mexican war,
was refused third reading. The He'd
ding textbook bill, which provides
for submission of copies of books
and giving of a bond as to prices,
was advanced to third reading.
Absent Voting Passes.
The assembly, after long debate,
ordered to third reading the Boss
hard bill, appropriating $4,000 to At
torneys John A. Aylward and M B.
Olbrich of Madison, for services and
expenses in the prosecution of actions
brought by Commissioner of Insur-
ance Ekern against former Gov. Nc
Govern to retain his Office.
The assembly ordered to third
reading the Stevens bill authorizing
the granting of liquor licenses to new
hotels.
The assembly killed the Fairchi1d
bill, authorizing directors of build
ing and loan associations to fix the
compensation of officers of such or
CARNATIONS.
The Pieper bill, providing for vot-
ing by mail, was passed by the as
sembly. The Bray bill, providing for
examination by legislature of any
state officer or employee, and the
Fairchild bill, authorizing insurance
companies to give prizes to agents,
were nonconcurred in by the assem-
bly,.
The assembly committee on agri-
culture recommended for passage the
Grell bill permitting cheese to be
made from skinned milk, which is
to be branded and sold as skinned
milk cheese.
The assembly committee on state
affairs recommended for indefinite
postponement bill providing for de-
taching the northern part of Eau
Claire county and attaching it to
Chippewa county.
Senior Nearly browns.