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

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taxing church property.
Among other important bills klnaa
were the following; Requiring co,
porations to pay wages weekly. com
polling railways 10 run fuller comnta
ments of train men and employ mora
section patrolmen; requiring an w;fas
In villages and cities to be placed m.
der ground; making 1t compulsory a,
circuit Judges to delay decisions no
more than 80 days; giving liens On
charcoal for labor thereon; making TIA
office of labor commissioner elective
providing that registers In probate
shall also be county clerks: giving
town insurance companies the session
laws since 1873; requiring the use az
non-combustible gun-wadding DURING
the dry season; withdrawing all state
lands from the market for Uhe present,
increasing the salary of supreme cour
judges from 5000 to $500; reducing
those salaries to 1900; making the Of.
flee of supreme court reporter elective.
limiting the tenure of office of county
treasurers no one term; requiring dis.
trict schools to be open eight months
a year instead of six; providing that
railway companies shall place gates at
all crossings in cities and villages
permitting public officers to have
guaranty companies us their sureties.
permitting town insurance companies
to print special matter on their pol.
icies; eliminating the $1,000 maximum
damage limit for loss OF life; permit.
ting town boards and mayors to I'D.
polnt justices of the peace when va.
cancies occur; for the licensing of sta.
tionary engineers; making incurable
insanity cause for divorce: regulating
the sale of virus; establishing med.
zeal council and examining boards
compelling railway companies to use
a device that will keep trains up
right after derailment; creating the
counties of Rusk, Rivers.
Garfield Upham, and 2adisson,
and changing the boundaries
Of Washbuin, sawyer Burnett, Chip.
pewa, Clark, Taylor, Grant and Ciaw-
ford; making the offices of county
clerk and register of deeds salaried,
giving the chairman of county boards
the veto power; exempting mortgages
on real estate from taxation; permit
| ting citizens not lawyers to
! appear for parties in
| probate matters; establishing
! boards of Cancellation and to keep
controversies away from lawyers and
out of courts; forbiddlng the coloring
of vinegar; creating an agricultural
experiment station in northern Wis
consin requiring wild animals to be
Gagged on the public streets; forbidding
towns, cities or villages to make
water, gas or electric contracts for
more than one year; creating an his
torical commission: inhibiting public
exhibitions of hypnotism; appropriate
ing $4,000 for the purchase of cram
berry vines for fire sufferers; chang.
ing the rate of interest on tax Ger
titicates: comforting police powers on
humane society officers; raising the
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to four years; giving circuit judge:
authority TO appoint bailiffs; forbid
ding insurance agents from acting
rs assessors; making 6 the minimum
school age; requiring public schoo
teachers to be past IS years old; for
bidding the existence of the A. p. A.
establishing an official interpreter II
Milwaukee: making a river a Lawful
! fence: establishing the 18th judicia
!, circuit out of the 18th and 10Th cir
cults; regulating the flow of waite
4 over dams in the Wisconsin river
Z licensing palace and sleeping-car com
|. panieS; requiring county judges o
administer small estates without ex
: pense; giving court commissioner
| circuit court powers in chambers
/ providing for the semi-annual COLES
ton of taxes; preventing discrimina
: ton by telephone companies: amend
/ ing the law which gives state aid i
agricultural societies even though the
allow liquor selling during fairs; TO
the publication Of the town laws; mas
= 1IlS ueItllttd AlilS Oli lliiNd . g 1880
! meanor; allowing the killing of min
= at any time; providing for a state ge'
/, logical survey: doing away with stat
census; providing for licensing plumt
elS; permitting the state to aid J
: building bridges; for the regulatlo
Of express rates; reducing the wae
:. exemption from $50 10 $50; making
hours days labor on public work.
/, providing for bee inspector: requl
ing secret societies bearing arms
report membership. equipment etc
making sheliffs eligible 70 re-ele
ton; providing for tax commission
forbidding the sale Of liquor to We
> Grams Of the soldiers homes with
two miles OF those homes; forbiddil
the erection of another normal schoo
:, limiting public franchises to p year
for a revision Of the tax laws; 70
. bidding the corrupt use of money
: elections; and empowering towns
aid In the construction of telephoi