Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-04-24
Johnson Measure Recommended
for Passage.
WILL BE TAKEN UP FRIDAY
of Proposed Law Is
Given Over ~ State Department
of Agriculture and Various
Town and City Clerks.
By FRED l.. HOLMES.

! semblyman AXel Johnson, Turtle Lake,
has been recommended for passage by
the house state affairs committee and,
on motion of Assemblyman f. N.
GRASS, Sturgeon Bay, will be taken
I'D for consideration on Friday.
The features of the Johnson bill are
summed up thus:
Administration of the law is given
over to the state department of agri-
culture and the various town and city
clerks, assessors and police officers.
All dogs over six months old must
wear license tag at all times and are
subject to slaughter without such tag.
The license period begins July l and
ends June 80 of each year. Applica.
tons for dog licenses must be made on
blank forms for the purpose and must
carry a full description of the animals
The dog owner must pay So for each
license, plus a fee Of Is cents to the
clerk for recording the license.
Whenever dogs become six months
DID, irrespective of the time Of year, a
payment of So for a license must be
made.
Assessors must make inquiry and
prepare a list of dogs owned in his
territory, with the addresses of the
owner prior to July 1 of each year.
The assessor shall receive 20 cents
apiece for such dogs listed, the sum to
be paid solely out Of the license fund.
These lists shall be used by clerks in
making up a card index file as pre-
scribed by the state department of ag-
riculture
Blank licenses, tags and other ma
terial for recording are to be furnished
by the state department of agriculture,
and the cost shall be paid out Of the
dog license funds.
New tags and license numbers will
be furnished to owners of dogs upon
proof that the first one issued has been
lost, but an extra fee will be charged
therefor.
The fact that a dog is without a IL
cense tag attached to the collar is to
be sufficient evidence against it. Per
sons may kill any dog found running
at large without such tag, and no ac-
ton shall be maintained to recover
damages on such dog Or dogs unless
duly licensed and that the tag has been
lost Or removed without the consent
of the owner. Any dog unaccompanied
by it's owner which enters the fields or
premises of another person shall con-
stitute a nuisance and the owner or
tenant of such Enclosure may kill such
animal while therein without liability
or responsibility of any kind. Any dog
found off the premises of it's owner
between sunset and sunrise without
proper control may be killed the same
as any unlicensed dog.
A question that may puzzle the most
legal minds in the assembly is to be
propounded next week by Sam r. Web
ster, representing Dodge county in the
lower house, who is preparing bill to
secure $500 damages from the state
for an auto stolen by escaping convicts
of the state prison at Waupun
The cOnvicts were brought from the
prison to Dodge county to do work on
the highways there and stole away
one night for parts unknown, taking
with them the auto and some wearing
apparel of the cars owner. Efforts to
locate both the prisoners and the cars
were futile and until this day nothing
has been heard from them.
Informal discussion in the legisla-
tive corridors shows division of opin-
ion on the question. Friends of the
bill maintain that the convicts were
charges of the state and that the state
must make redress for their actions.
The opposing faction maintain that
the convicts did not steal the car until
after they had escaped and that the
fact that they were criminally at large
at the tine Of the theft exOnerates the
state from any blame.
r. S. Nolan has introduced a bill in
the assembly to enable the state to
take over and maintain all county tu-
berculosis sanatOria. Nolan proposes
the state board of control be given
management of the institutions. The
governor is to appoint three persons
to appraise all sanatorium property.
They are to receive not more than
SIS a day and travelling expenses. The
governor shall certify all appraisals to
the secretary of state, who shall audit
same and draw warrants on state
treasurers for amounts. Mr.. Nolan be-
lieves state maintenance will be much
more economical than the present sys-
tenn and much more efficient, as pa
tients can be more evenly distributed.
A bill was introduced by Assembly
man John M. Sell, Milwaukee, Social
ist, providing that the beam or ray
from lamps on automobiles shall not
exceed 60 candle power.
The assembly committee on agricul-
ture has just reported for concurrence
the Dennhardt bill appropriating So
600 to the state department of agricul-
ture for inspection and regulation Of
apiaries to prevent spread Of foul
brood,