Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-04-25

Madison, April 20.
The actual work of The legislative
session ended today. The session was
just 101 days long; the governor vetoed |
no bills and the aggregate apprOpria-
tons exceed 81, 100000, but Of this
sum nearly 100000 is required to
operate the various charita bic, reform
atory and penal institutions for the
ensuing two years. UnquestiOnably
the most important bills passed were
those which Hquidate Cbligat tons of
about S215,000 which eX-State Treas
urer McFetridge, Baetz and Kuehp
owe the state as interest, simple and
compound, retained by them on de-
posts of public funds. Other note
worthy measures which became laws
are those recognizing the state board
| of control; authorizing the erection of
an historical society building;
| firing Labor Commissioner
Dobbs out of office; providing for a
reapportionment of the state; estab
| fishing the office of bank examiner;
| creat ting a board of arbitration on the
voluntary order; esta blishing a board
! of immigration; permitting drunkards
| to he sent to Kelley or other cures at
| public expense; requiring street cars
| to be yestibuled within two years.
! giving the state superintendent $500
/ ho1 no
amended so as to permit Of it; reorgan-
| izing the fish and game laws; providing
| for Il warden scheme in the in
! tereSt Of forest protection and forbid
! ing fr8ud in the filled-cheese business.
Noteworthy among the other meas
| ures that secured legislative approval
were the subjoined: Forbidding bogus
! butter to be offered for sale as dairy
butter; appropriating $4,000 for
monuments on Chicamauga field; Civ
| ing the state fremen $4,000 bonus
for their annual blow out: creating a
police court in Milwaukee;
permitting trust companies to become
county repositories; requiring town
/ treasurers to withhold from the school
! fund income 10 cents per pupil for
! library purposes; establishing munic-
| ipal courts in Oshkosh and for Oneida
! and Wood counties: apprOpriating
! $1,000 annually to the state dairymen's
association; appropriating $1,000 for the
| purchase of Gen. j. Bailey's war relics;
| compelling manufacturers Of fel-tiliZ-
erS to mark packages showing in
| gradients, weight, maker, etc; requir-
! ing the state to pay back school dis
| tricts all excess over per cent. in the
| interest charged them during the past
! two years on loans of public funds;
making legal might time" the time one
hour after sunset and one hour before
sunrise; increasing peddlers' licenses;
! requiring a United States flag to be
| placed in every public school room or
| on the building; permitting
! mayors to appoint justices
and constables in cases of vacancy; re-
curing the unclaimed bodies of dead
people to be turned over to medical
societies on proper demand being
made: authorizing communities to pay
for disease-infected clothing destroyed
by health officers; requiring the an
nual letting Of contracts for doing city
printing; appropriatin $1,000 annu-
ally to the state horticultural society,"
empowering cities to pay mayors
salaries; forbidding state officers orr
employees who ride on free passes toI
! draw mileage from the state; for the
protection Of union labels; permitting
churches to organize church insurance
! companies: empowering cities or vii
lagos to purchase or establish light orI
water plants: forbidding the blacklist
ing of employees; largely increasing the
state university's revenues; requiring
guard to go i'll advance of road en-
gines 1t night; giving parents or rela
ttveS the right to dictate to which
state school their children shall be sent;
requiring that money needed to run the !
state institutions shall be kept in the |
state treasury instead of in any bank; |
for revision of the school code; for
the licensing Of street railway COM |
panies; authorizing the establishment
Of joint county warehouses;; providing |
a contingent fund OF S25, ZOO to combat
conta gious diseases; for the Dublica- !
ton of bulletin showing the re-
sources of northern Wisconsin,; |
looking to the establishment of an in
ter-st" te park at the dells of the st. |
CrOiX; permitting the state to aid in |
supporting manual training depart !
ments in high schools; limiting the pay
Of county board committees to the |
regular per diem and milage; provid-
ing that county superintendent must /!
hold state certificate and have had
experience as a teacher: making every
person applying for a teachers GER
titicate pay 81; establishing a home for
the feeble-minded: and raising the age
of consent from u to II years.
Bills Killed.
Perhaps the most important PROPOSE
tons tabOoed were those granting
women suffrage; forbidding public of
fcers TO use railway passes; making
company stores unlawful fixing rail-
way rates: permitting local option by
counties: authorizing supreme court
judges TO retire after reaching the age
of 20 on half pay: establishing a nor