Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-03-11
Some Bilious Bills.
Milwaukee sentinel.

Most of the bills introduced at
Madison will be killed. Otherwise,
there would be a general resolve to
commit suicide or migrate, because
| life in the state would be intolerable
under the regulations these bills
would establish. There are bills
that would prevent man from
moving q muscle under penalty of
some kind. The regulating tiends
revel biennially in the power to
introduce bills or to get bills intro
dueed by request to make pretty
much everybody but the regulating
fends get off the earth. While
most of the bills will be killed, it
is pretty hard to say what bills will
survive. When a bill to prohibit
the marriage of first cousins is
passed to a third reading by large
majority, we may well fear that
something to make life more
burdensome than it is naturally,
will glide through.
There is one interesting bill intro
tuced by Mr.. Jameson to provide
for our good health. sit shall be
unlawful for any person, corporation
or company using and operating
machinery which requires wiping
and cleaning to use or furnish for
cleaning and wiping said machinery
any old castoff rags" etc, unless
the rags shall have been disinfected
under the advice of the State Board
of Health. Probably it is some
where in the pile of bills before us,
but we have not yet reached the
bill to prohibit sneezip in the
public streets except through car
bolized wool, in order to prevent
the spread of hay fever,
Another interesting bill is Sena-
tor Kruszka's, which provides that
telephone companies shall reduce
their rates one-third. He has no
knowledge of what the earnings of
the telephone company are and
evidently no concern about it. As
matter of fact, our telephone
rates are outrageous because of the
United States patents owned by the
Bell company, which places its
own royalty on the use of the
instrum ents. The telephone COM
pany never exceeds 8 per cent. on
the capital invested.
Another queer bill authorizes the
governor to fill vacancies in the
senate and assembly.
One of the senate bills prohibits
"the giving of tips to hotel walters
and sleeping car porters," and any
person tipping a waiter or porter,
or any waiter or porter accepting a
tip, is liable to fine of $50 or
thirty days in the county Jail.
They have allowed Mr.. Rad e.
macher to introduce a bill, although
he was defeated when he ran for
the as sembly. His bill requires
everybody who has death in his
family to employ only such under
takers as have passed an examina.
tion before a state board established
for the purpose.
Mr.. Leissring wants to impose a
fine of not exceeding $40 on any
man who shaves himself or any
body else on Sunday.
Mr.. Hall has lot more figures
in bill 549 A, which proposes a
railroad commission at $40 day
for each man, to let the water out
Of railroad capital, with the view Of
reducing rate one-half.
ASK to see those extra fine
leather card cases at Hanscom's.
WIDE tires for draft vehicles are
recommended because they serve as
road rollers to some extent. In
. France the tires Of vehicles art
from three to ten inches in width
and the rear axle is made longer
than the front axle, SO that the hind
wheels will not follow ia the track
: Of those in front. If the use oI
wide tires were encouraged by ta2