Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-03-16
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.

! assembly bill providing for punish
ment for the willful, mischieyous and
Wanton driving away of the animals of
another, was put TO death.
! In the assembly the agricultural So
ciety liquor bill created Il long and spir-
tied debate. This bill provides that
there shall be paid annually within ten
days after the first day of February
out of the state treasury to each or
gained agricultural society, forty per
cent. of the total amount of premiums
paid bu such society during the preced-
ing year, provided, that DO association
complying with the conditions of this
act shall receive less than 5000; and,
act shall receive less than 5000; and,
provided, that percentage shall not be
paid on more than $4,000 in premiums
to one association; and, provided furth-
er, that in computing the amount on
which such percentage is to be paid
as aforesaid, there shall not be included
more than $500 of premiums paid fo1
trials or exhibitions of speed in all
classes in any one year. There is but
one cOnditiOn-the association must not
permit gambling upon its grounds. The
present law also forbids liquor selling,
or if it is sold the state can grant no
aid A long debate ensued. There
was party division in the debate,
Messrs. Ringle, dem, and Mills and
Deleglise, reps, advocating the passage
of the bill, and Messrs. Smith, dem,
and Burdick, Tucker, Mahoney, Coch-
I'll, Tho
opposite view. The vote, too, was
somewhat nOn-partiSan, though all
democrats except Messrs. Danielson,
Edmonds, Evans, Gaynor, Hunt, Jami-
son, Jennings, Quiggs, Smith and
Wheelihan, voted for the measure,
while the republicans voting the other
way We're MesSrs. Deleglise, JeSke,
Lambersm, McDonough, NIilbraith,
Mills, Nelson. Perkins, Pierce and Suel-
flow. In other words Ten democrats
voted against passage, and ten republi-
cans voted for passage. The bill was
passed 81 TO A.
Assembly bills We're passed as follows:
To appOrtion the school money col
lected by towns and received from the
state on the third Monday in March
or soon thereafter.
Authorizing the state to loan $4,000
to the Evergreen City Guard Annoy
company, of Sheboygan.
Permitting persons holding a single
license to sell liquor to be drank either
on or off the saloon premises. Under
the present law a license must be taken
out to cover each kind of sale. The
vote on the bill was 81 to 10.
Assembly bills We're killed as follows:
Reducing the legal rate Of interest to
6 per cent.
Empowering J. A. Crowell to dam
Pine river. Florence county.
Making hotel keepers liable for deaths
due to escaping gas.
Making an employer liable for dam
ages sustained by an employee without
contributory negligence on the part of
the latter. and also making negligent
employees liable to their employers for
accidents due to such employees.
Permitting as high as $4,000 to be
awarded as damages for accidental
!. deaths.
Making labor day legal holiday.
Applying all money collected from the
eX-state treasurers to the common
school fund.
Giving inn-keepers q lien upon the
personal earnings of any bOarder for
the amount which may be due on
board.
Madison. March 9-The bill permit
ting gaslight companies to deal in gas
stoves and ranges aroused some discus
sion in the senate Mr.. KruSZka OBJ
jected to it on the ground that it would
create a monopoly Mr.. Phalen said the
only opponents Of the bill were a few
parties who were now selling these
stoves, and this constituted one Of the
strongest reasons for the law. Mr..
Bechtner moved to refer the bill to
: the committee on commerce and manu-
features, and this was carried by a
Assembly bills were ncn-concurred
in: To provide for making the refusal
of a public school teacher to make re-
quired reports to the county superin-
tendent grounds for anDulment of his
certificate.
Senate bills were killed: Providing
that all parties selling liquor under
government tax or special stamp tax
shall be held subject to local license
+ tax; to limit the number of terms OF
county treaSrlrers; to extend the lien
laws Of the state to the threshers of
grain.
The bill appropriating $537.4O to Geo.
II. Kroncke for salary and mileage was
, passed by the assembly. Other as
sembly bills passed were: To prohibit
the marriage of first cousins; to permit
the removal of bodies of dead from
Sylvan cemetery, Fond du Lac county;
relating to penalties for selling without
license: to authorize James Spaulding
: to erect dam.
| The following bills were indefinitely
postponed: To appropriate money to
, the Wisconsin Firemen's association:
fixing the salaries of county judges;
+ to appropriate money to VIM. Schilling-
law: to exempt property Of medical
> societies from taxation: to authorize
the supreme court to determine cleo
, tons by manadamus.
al The court of errors and appeals at
Trenton. ON the Sth, four suits brought
, by the city of Newark against the Mer-
chants Insurance company. of Newark,
to recover tax due on several millions
+ of horse railroad bonds. resulted in q
victory for the city of Newark. 1t will
D compel the payment of taxes amount