Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-07

from the trust fund. The vote on the
last bill was Ii to II, on strict party
lines. a substitute was adopted which
provides that Labor Commissioner
Dohs' term of office shall e zpire upon
the passage and publication of the
bill and that the governor shall ap-
point a successor whose term of office
shall expire in February, 1897.
In the assembly a senate bill a
concurTed in permitting trustees to
contract with individuals for the care
of cemeteries. Assembly bills were
killed: For the licensing of engineers
and the inspection of steam boilers:
making incurable insanity cause suf-
making incurable insanity cause sui
ficient for divorce: authorizing the
supervisors of Lowville. Columbia
tain state road therein. An assembly
Henderson, creating a municipal court
for Richland county.
Washington, Feb. 2S.-The senate
passed the sundry civil appropriation
bill. including one item a~pr0priating
over S5,000,00 for sugar bounties, and
a provision for 4 commission to rep
resent the United States at the inter
national monetary conference. An
amendment for $1,000 for an invest
tigatiOn of the coal and gold re-
sources of Alaska was adopted. Mr..
Carey offered a substitute. which was
adopted in place of the previous ap-
preparation for public buildings at
Cheyenne, Wyoming; Boise City. Ida
20; TX Helena, Montana. The sub
stitute appropriates $4,000 for three
sites and limits the cost Of each build
ing to $150,O00. This leaves out the
cities of Olympia, Washn., Bismarck.
\. D., and Pierre, S. D.
The sundry civil appropriation bill
was then passed and the legislative
appropriation bill was taken up. An
appropriation for the supervising arch
itects office, carrying out the provis-
IONS of the public building bills, was
liz CdSeu LIOln S-CO,CJO 10 S-Dt,ttO.
The general deficiency appropriation
bill was reported to the senate with
committee amendments. 1t carries an
appropriation of $S,694,957, an Increase
of $500 900 over the house %appropria-
tions of which 81, 100000 is to pay the
claims of the Southern Pacific railroad.
allowed by the court claims.
Washington, March LIN the senate
the Bering sea differences between
the United States and Great Britain
provoked animated debate. Mr.. Cock
rell offered an amendment to the pend
ing deficiency bill which appropriated
$4,000 for the expenses of another
commission of arbitration to adjust
the claims of Canadian Sealers seized
by tie United States. The amendment
was lii the line with suggestions i'll the
letter received from Secretary Gresh-
ann. Mr.. Sherman opposed this sec
ond arbitration, saying that it was
d~iShonorable and unWiSe that the
United States had not paid these
claims through the compromise Of
$425,0 600 heretofore urged by the pres
ident. The contest was so effective
that Mr.. CockreIi Withdrew his prOpo-
sition. The deficiency bid was kept
steadily before the senate throughout
the day and passed after a struggle OF
three hours.
The senate went into executive SEES
sion and confirmed the nomination of
W. l.. Wilson, of West Virginia, TO
be postmaster general. The nOmina-
ton of A. D. Tinsley, to be postmaster
at Sioux Falls, S. D., was rejected.
In the house bills passed We're: \
substitute for Mr.. Dingley's bin au-
thOrizing the president to arrange for
4 joint commission to consist Of three
representatives Of this government,
claims through the compromise CT
investigate the condition of fur seals
and the regulations necessary to their
presentations: the senate anti-lottery
bid, and the bill to pay West Virginia
it's share of the direct tax refunded by
the act of 81. An attempt to pass the
senate bill to impose penalties upon
corporations and railroad companies
for violations OF the Interstate COM
merce law exposed an alleged scheme
to secure action on the pooling bill in
the senate, it being claimed that the
senate would attack the pooling bill
q rider. SO effective was the al
legged exposure that although the bill
itself has been given nothing but COM
mendatiOn Oh the floor, it was de
feated. Mr.. Hatch attempted to pass
the bin to publish dairy tests made at
the Columbian exposition, but it be-
ing claimed that the publication was
in the interest of a particular breed
of cattle, it too, was defeated.
REMARKABLE MEDICAL CASE.
Now NOY.ly Mon Dn1irarp1 Of n N;nfo-