Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-04-25

lative session which opened 1O1 days
ago came to Il formal end today
though all actual work ceased Thurs
day night. The fruit of the session
will appear in the session laws which
must be published in book form within
60 days. The volume will not be
larger than usual for the legislature
was more disposed to kill bills than
to pass them. The closing scenes
were characterized by the presenting
of gifts to presiding officers and the
extension of thanks all around. The
actual work of the legislative session
| Is about over. The session will be 101
days long; the governor vetoed no bills
and the aggregate appropriations eX-
coed 81 100000, but of this sum nearly
100000 is required to operate the
various charitable, reformatory and
penal institutions for the ensuing two
years. PROFESSIONALLY the most i'm
portant bills passed were those which
| liquidatc obligations of about $215,-
600 which eX-TreaSurerS McFetridge,
BaetZ and Kuehn owe the state as in
by them on deposits of public funds.
Other noteworthy measures which be-
came laws are those reorganizing the
state board of control; authorizing the
erection of an historical society build
ing; firing Labor Commissioner DObbs
out of office; providing for a reappor-
tiOnment of the state; csta bliShing
the office of bank examiner; creating Il
board of arbitration on the voluntary
order; establishing Il board of immi-
grafton; permitting drunkardS to be
sent to Kccly or other cures at public
expense: requiring street cars to be
vstibulea within two years; giving
the state superintendent $500 n year
If the constitution shall be amended
so as to permit it; reorganiZing the
fish and game laws; providing for Il
fire warden scheme in the interest of
forest protection and forbidding fraud
in the tillcd-chceSe business.
Noteworthy among other measures
that secured Legislative approval were
the subjoined: Forbidding bogus but
ter to be offered for sale as dairy but
ter; appropl'ating $4,000 for monu-
ments on Chcamauga iield giving the
state iiremcn Il $1,000 bonus for their
annual blowout; creating Il police
court in Milwaukee; permitting trust
companies to become county dcposi-
tories; requiring town trcaSurers to
withhold from the school fund income
10 cents per pupil FOR library purposes;
, establishing municipal courts in Osh-
kosh and for Oneida and Wood coun-
ties; approprating $1,000 annually to
the state dairymen's association; ap-
propriating $1,000 for the purchase of
Gen. j. Bailey's war relics; compelling
manufacturers of fertilizers to mark
packages showing ingredients, weight,
maker, etc; requiring the state to pay
back school districts 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; increas-
! ing peddlers' licenses; requiring a
| United States flag to be placed IN
| every school room or on the buildings;
permitting mayors to appoint Justices
! and constablcS 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 diseasc-infected clothing destroyed
| by health officer; recurring the annual
letting of contracts for doing city
printing; appropriating $500 annual
w to the state horticultural society:
empowering cities to pay mayors sal
aries: forhidding state officers or en-
! ployes who ride on free passes to
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 or
water plants: forbidding the black
listing of employees; largely increasing
the state university's revenues; requir-
ing a guard to so in advance of road
engines at night; giving parents or
relatives 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 thestate treasury instead Of In
any bank: for revision of the school
code: for the licensing of street rail-
way companies; authorizing the es-
adjustment Of joint county work
houses: providing a contingent fund OF
S25, 900 to combat contagious diseases;
for the puhlica ton of bulletin show
Ing the resources OF northern Wiscon-
sin: looking to the establishment of an
Interstate park at the dells OF the st.
Croix; permitting the state to aid In
supporting manual training depart
mcnts In high schools; limiting the
pay OF county board committees 10 the
regular per diem and mileage: provid-
ing that county suprrintendentS must