Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-06
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.

Madison, March 2S-In the upper
house the following senate bills were
passed: to appropriate 100000 to the
state board Of worlds fair managers:
providing for a revision of the school
code of the state and other purposes
and appropriating $500 for the pu1-
pose of defraying the expenses of the
work; making members of county board
Ineligible to appointment as trustees
of county insane asylums and repeal
ing the Dane county drainage act.
The following assembly bills We're
concured in: Prohibiting justices
from purchasing claims of litigants
and abOlishing days Of grace.
A senate bill was killed, for the ap-
pointment of & commission of three to
f! investigate and report upon the rela-
ton of employer and employee
In the assembly the senate bills con
CURED in repeating the Dodge legacy
law; authorizing the governor to ap.
point three commissioners to meet
commissioners from other states who
shall desire a system Of uniform laws
and empowering turn pike companies
to purchase property.
Nj. Mcclellan introduced z bin
slightly amending the act creating the
county Of Iron and it was passed under
suspension of the rules
The memorial to congress in favor
of the election Of United States sena-
tors by direct vote OF the people, sent
over from the senate for concurrence
was approved by the house, ayes Ga
noes 10.
Assembly bills were passed: To pro
vide for 4 constitution amendment to
authorize more than one Judge in a
circuit; to authorize the governor to ill
vacancies in the legislature by appoint
ment instead of special elections; to
provide a uniform system of certiti-
cation of teachers and to give the grad
yates Of leading educational institu-
tons the right to teach without the
necessity of taking examination by q
county or city superintendent; appro-
prlatng $1,000 to Louis Kirst, who lost
an arm in a centrifugal machine at the
deaf institute in Delevan; for the bet
ter regulation of bOoms and dams; the
laying out of a state road from Hay
ward to Superior, and to secure the
better preservation of game. This is
the general bill covering the whole sub
ject, SynOpseS of which have heretofore
been published
Assembly bills We're killed: Permit
ting the various communities to tax
pedlers and f0rbidding railways to
charge more than three cents a mile.
a proposed constitutional amend
ment was killed which provided that
counties shall not be divided unless by
a majority vote of the electors in the
county.
Madison, March 2S.-In the upper
house the senate bill was passed to
consolidate and revise the statutes of
the state relating to general elections,
the conduct. canvass and return Of The
same, and to secure the secrecy and
purity of the ballot, and for other
purposes.
Senate bills We're killed: To pro
vide for calling special school district
meetings at the discretion of the board;
to repeal chapter 400 Of the laws Of
1891. entitled IAN act requiring reports
and the payment Of annual license
fees by corporations, companies and
persons operating or controlling dams.
booms, sideways or other structures"
etc
The bill repeating the law eXempting
private insane asylums from taxation.
reported by committee for indefinite
postponement, came up as the special
order. the question being on its indeti-
mite postponement. After debate the
bill was killed.
ia the assembly. at the morning ses-
sion, a senate bill was passed, To pro-
feet associations and trade unions III
their labels and trademarks.
The following bills were killed: Re-
lating to shade trees: to extend the law
of vendors lien: to regulate the use of
wide-tired wagons: relating to the
and price of swamps and
overlooked lands in Waushara county:
TO appropriate $500 to J. f. Lounsbuly
Madison. March So In the senate to
day the anti-Pinkerton bill WAS recalled
and will receive further considerable
Assembly bills were conculTed in: To
secure the better preservation of game