Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-16

mans associations authorizing the
Kickapoo Valley and Northern ra;lroa5
company to construct bridge across tba
Wisconsin and Kickapoo rivers. The hill
apporuonlng the state into congressional
districts was passed by a strict party vote.
A bull was concurrsd In, providing for re-
tired list of the Wisconsin national guard.
Senator Main offered an amendment to
the assembly bill prohibiting the sale of
morphine or tobacco in any form to mi
nors, striking out the section relating to
morphine as that was already covered by
general statute forbidding the sale of NOR.
phlne to any person except on physicians
prescription. and it was adopted and the
bill ordered to third reading. The bill
! amending the license law in relation to
pharmacists came up upon its third read
ing. Senator Joiner opposed the bill as a
"a llcal change not IN the. interests of the
temperance element of the state. Senator
Woodnorth, who is druggist,
SAID the OBJECT of the amendment
was to raise the pharmacy above
the saloon. The bill was killed.
At tae evening session of the senate the
Legislative reapportionment bill was re-
ported back. By vote of 20 to 2 the as
sem6!y bill was killed which proposed to
reduce the compensation Of weekly papers
Tor publishing the laws from 800 to $50.
-Assem6ty.--A proposition to hold night
| sessions regularly was voted down. The
following house bills were passed: Con-
ferrlng additional jurisdiction on the
county court of Portage county; providing
Tor tlshways IN dams in Rock river: to in
corporate the city of Durand; making
ocrlbner rule the standard for scaling
logs In wisconsin,; appropriating $1,000
Tor new building at the state fish hatchery;
Tor hshways In dams in La Crosse river:
providing for liens upon logs, so as to bet
ter protect furnishers of supplies to log
glng camps; for preservation of trout in
rivers and streams III Polk county; relat-
ing to sale OF lots by trustees of cemetery
associations; providing for the pubica-
ton OF statements of banks in towns and
villages; amending the charter of Chip
peWa Falls; fixing terms of court In
brown county, and amending the general
laws governing Improvements in villages.
The following senate bills were concurred
In: Authorizing the state treasurer to
credit S9,44S to the Chicago. st. Paul,
Minneapolis & Omaha railway for excess
OF taxes heretofore paid incorporating
the Oshkosh and Mississippi Railway com-
pany; making appropriations of about half
a milion dollars to the penal and other state
institutions; providing for the appoint
ment of agents of the state public school
who shall look into the condition of all chill
dren for whom application for admission
has been made; to credit to Jackson county
amounts due for the sale of swamp lands
within its limits making trustees of
county asylum for chronic insane ex--
otticlo trustees of the poor house; author
lzlng an inquiry into the religious be-
lief of dependent children by
judges and others authorized to
commit such children and to take such be-
lief into consideration in making the COM
mitment; to improve branch of Pine
river, in Forest county; providing for
contingent fund for the governor, and Civ
ing to James Reynolds authority to drain
Muskego lake. The Maxon and Dixie CO.
employe bills were indefinitely postponed
without discussion. The assembly at its
evening session, Senator Mains bill pun
ishing habitual criminals by life imprison-
ment was killed. The bill was also killed
which sought to prevent fraud in the
manufacture of baking powder.