Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-04-25
AIadlsSn. April 20.

Just 1O1 days long; the governor vetoed
no bills and The aggregate approprla-
tions exceed 81 400, 900 but OF THIS
sum nearly 100000 is required to-
operate the various charitable, reform
atory and penal institutions for the
ensuing two years. Unquestionably
the most important bills passed We're
those which iquidate obligations OF
about $4,000 which ex-State Treas
urer McFetridge, Baetz and Kuehn
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 reorganizing the state board
of control; authorizing the erection OF
an historical society building;
firing Labor COMMISSIONER
Dobbs out of office; providing for
reapportionment of the state; estab-
| fishing the office of bank examiner;
creating board of arbitration on the
! voluntary order; establishing 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 $3,ooU
| a year if the constitution shall be
amended so as to permit of it; reorgan-
/ izing the fish and game laws; providing
for fire warden scheme in the in
! terest of forest protection and forbid
ing fraud in the tilled-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 100000 for
monuments on Chicamauga field: Civ
Ing the state fremen $1,000 bonus
for their annual blowout: creating a
\ police court III Milwaukee;
permitting trust companies to become
county repositories; requiring town
treasurers TO withhold from the school
fund income 10 cents per pupil FOL
library purposes; establishing munic-
ipal courts in Oshkosh and for Oneida
and Wood counties; appropriating
So .oOo annually TO the state dairymen
association; approprlating $1,000 for the
purchase Of Gen. j. Baileys war relics
compelling manufacturers of fertile
erS TO mark packages showing in
: gradients, weight. maker. etc, requir
ing the state to pay back school dis
tgicts all excess over per cent in the
, interest charged them during the pas
! two years on loans Of public funds
making legal might time" the time on,
hour after sunset and one hour before
! sunrise: increasing peddlers' licenses
requiring United States flag to b'
placed in every public school room o.
= on the buildings permitting
j mayors to appoint justices
: ana conStables in cases Of vacancy; re
curing the unclaimed bodies Of dea'
. people To be turned over TO medica
societies on proper demand beins
made. authorizing communities to pa.
y for tlisease-infected clothing destroyed
by health officers; requiring the an
! nual letting Of contracts for doing cit,
n printing; appropriatins $1,000 annu
n ally TO the state horticultural society
empowering cities to pay mayor
i. salaries; forbidding state officers o
A employees who ride on free passes t
!. draw mileage from the state; for tn
!. protection Of union labels; permitting
churches TO organize church insuranc
y companies; empowering cities or vi
lagos to purchase or establish light o
water plants; forbidding the blacklist
4 Ing of employees; largely increasing tn
y state universities revenues; requirin
q a guard to 90 in advance Of road er
: gineS al night; giving parents or rela
} tiyes the right to dictate to whic
/ state school their children shall be SEM
= requiring that money needed to run tn
state institutions shall be kept In tn
4 state treasury instead Of In any bank
K for revision Of the school code; ia
II the licensing of street railway con
i panies; authorizing the establishmer
e of joint county warehouses; providin
d a contingent fund of $4,000 TO comba
4. contagious diseases: for the publiei
Y. ton of bulletin showing the r,
le sources Of northern Wisconsin
ii looking TO the establishment Of an i
& ter-state park a, the dells Of the )
Croix; permitting the state TO aid
supporting manual training depar
ments Ia high schools, limiting the pa
!. of county board committees to II
d regular per diem and milage. PROVE
ing that county superintendent mus
'e hold d state certificate and have Ia
g experience as a teacher; making ever
=. person applying for a teachers CO
tificate pay 81 establishing a home f
the feehle-minde,i: and raising the az
of consent from u to II years
- Bills Killed,
Perhaps tie most important propos
tions tabooed we're those grantiT
women suffrage. forbidding public 3
fieeIS 10 use railway passes; makir
company stores unlawful. fixing ra'
way rates: permitting locol option !