Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-18

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| vote killing the wide-sleigh bill was recon
| sidered and it was sent to Il committee
again. Senate bills We're passed as follows:
clear cie: Of SLOW and ice: No. 3i3. approprI.
I ating money TO Wisconsin Veterans home:
No 379, providing for auditing accounts. Of
| regents; No 1876, regulating the propelling
| Of traction engines at night; No. 241. remov-
| ing Instructions from Yahara river; No. 266,
panies; No. 1913 concerning repairs to high
ways and bridges: No 3S6. creating the
| town of Holway i'll Taylor county; No. 800,
! for wagon bridge across the Black river;
| No. SO. relating to appointment of agents
| to receive fugitives from Justice: No. Cos.
concerning laying out of temporary high
ways; No. 706, for bridge across the Wis
consin river. Senate bills were killed as
| follows: No. 1, abolishing state board of SUI
pervision; No: 80, making appropriation to
State university: No. 1856 abolishing board
| of control; No. 1915, appropriating money for
state institutions: No. 220, relating to APP
portionment of swamp land money; No. 23}.
preventing combinations by insurance COM
panies; No. 234, concerning, clerical work
| in county courts; No. COS, relating to Mani
towoc probate court: No. 269, relating to
! Calumet county clerk; No. 80. concerning
| school for dependent children; No. 430, max
| ing appropriation to State Agricultural So
ciety., The Assembly bill to prohibit asses
killed. Assembly bills were killed as fol-
| lows: No. COS amending the general char
ter act; No. G54 relating to the division of
school districts; No. 81. exempting wide
| gauge sleighs from taxation; No. GIL re at
| ing to personal safety in factories.
rhe governor caught the spirit of push that
| pervaded the Legislature and signe. the bill
| recognizing the state board OF control as
| soon it reached the executive mansion.
| The messenger took back to the Senate the
ows emue of wa rf for
| the term of one year; Clarence Snyder OF
Ashland, for the term of two years; James
three years: Richard Guenther of Oshkosh,
| for the term of four years: Hans +. Warner
| of e lSworth. for the term on Of five years.
The bill appropriatng S1sO,O00 for State
Historical society library was passed by
| the Senate by vote of 10 to 6. The Bash
| ford bill to prohibit corrupt practices in
elections was advanced to third reading. as
was the deep waterway channel commits
| sion.
the Assembly Bill bill providing for the appoint
| ment of a bank examiner was favorably re-
ported. The Assembly bill for county work,
houses was also favoraby reported. sub
| stitute bill was reported assessing vessels
| as follows: Steel steamers under ten years
| cd SO per ton: over ten years So per ton;
ton; under ten years 81 per ton; under 'fif-
years, s. per ton; Steel barges. tow 6arges
and sailing craft under ten years S12 p per
barges, etc. under five years 81 per ton;
Under HFtn fifteen nas years 50 per ton; + oyer
under FIVE years $75 per ton; over five years
| $50 per ton; wood tugs, under five years $40
per ton; under ten years. $50 per ton; over
ten years $40 per ton. The street car vesti-
| bule bill. as amended in the Assembly so
| that all cars must be vestibuled by Novem-
| Der. 1896. was concurred in by the Senate.
! the original Senate bill was more just, as 1t
| gave another years time, but they were
coe On the b Was ace
| cepted and adopted. Senate bills were passed
| as follows: No. 10. amending highway laws;
| bill providing clerks for county courts; No.
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| children; No. GAO. for il dam across the Wis
consin river in Lincoln county. The much
veXed question of eXempting wide-gauge
| sleishs from taxation was settled today by
| the Senate concurring in the Assembly bill.
The measure has come up every session for
| eight years and it is thought that the lum
Der companies will he the principal bene-
| ticiaries Bill No. 49, a, relating to bonds
of county treaSurers; was killed; No. 80
ment. and No. 3s7 A, regulating the office
| of the sheriff of Milwaukee as to increase
the salary of the bookkeeper to $500 ana
! have two more deputies, making seventeen,
we're ordered to third reading. On motion
| OF Senator Mills, No 81 S. the bill to pro-
| vide for Il deep waterways commission, was
| passed under suspension of the rules. The
substitute steamboat bill. reported this
morning. passed; The Assembly bill prohib-
within two miles Of the National home was
! G2l A. the fire escape bil was again placed
No. iii s, the ward boundary bill. was was
passed as amended in the Assembly. The
Senate adjourned to 2:30 Monday afternoon.
The Assembly.
Madison. Wis. APRIL 9.--In the Assembly
this morning there was perfect deluge Of
petitions favorirG the passage of Mr.; Halls
railroad bills. Nos. 146 and 14S A.. The petit
tions were the result Of the sharp little.
get at the sentiment Of the voters of the
state on the railroad question. and they con-
| tanned altogether upwards of $1,000 sigma
Nhn n or n
powers Of the Milwaukee county board of
Sc bit ns2 the with nnbe Of
deputy sheriffs in milwaukee, county and
the. bin giving the district attorney three
concurred in: No. rs, fixing a standard Of
weights and measures; No. 200, appointing
guardians for minors; No. 24$, authorizing
No 1858 amending the bridge laws; No. 392.
relating to the dispensing of charity and
George Mahoney's chattel mortgage bill and
the Bill authorizing the board of regents to
connection with the Milwaukee, normal
school When the Mills vestibule bill came
u" Mr. a1y oo order to a na the e
might be printed which motion was OPP
posed by Messrs. stillman. Hall Dodge and
Notbohm The Assembly refused to lay the
bill over and it was ordered to Il third read
ing after Mr., Sti man's resolution cutting
the time down to two years had 1>een
adopted. The joint resolution asking the
President to promote Col. Townsend to the
rank of brigadiergeneral was ordered to
third reading. D. o; Mahoney's bill No.
56I A. requiring county superintendents to
pass an examination. was the special order
for II o'clock, ut which hour it was taken
up. Mr. Burke offered an amendment max
ing first-grade county certificate. how
ever obtained. sufficient without an eNamina-
ton. Mr. Mahoney opposed the amendment;
lie said it changed the bill entirely and
destroyed one of the wisest provisions Of
the bill, which was designed to counteract
favoritism and overcome Irregularities. Mr..
Burke said that he had offered the amend
ment to make it fairer. 1t might some
times work q hardship to require the cam
didates of the office to appear before the
board of examination. for which reason he.
proposed to make the possession of GER
titicate sufficient. Herman Wolf opposed
the bin because it set standard of re-
uuirement which was too high. He thought
that people who could pass the examination
would not want the place. f. f: Clark IA
vored the original bill. holding that the re-
nat