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

person applying for teachers certifl-
cate pay 81; establishing a home for
| the feeble-minded; and raising the age
of consent from - to IA years.
Bills Killed:
| Perhaps the most important propo-
stions tabooed We're those granting
women suffrage; forbidding public Of
| tiecers to use railway passes: making
company stores unlawful; fixing rail
way rates; permitting local option by
counties; authorizing supreme court
| judges to retire after reaching the age
! of 20 on half pay; establishing a nor
NAL school at La Crosse; creating
board of railway commissioners and
taxing church property.
Among other important bills killed
were the following: Requiring cor
| porations to pay wages weekly; COM
| polling railways to run fuller compile
ments of train men and employ more
section patrolmen; requiring all wires
in villages and cities to be placed I'M
der ground; making it compulsory on
circuit judges to delay decisions no
charcoal for Ia Dor thereon; making the
office of labor commissioner elective;
providing that registers in probate
shall also be county clerks; giving
town insurance companies the session
laws since 1875; requiring the use of
non-combustible gun-wadding during
the dry season; withdrawing all state
lands from the market for the pres
ent; increasing the salary of supreme
court judges from $1,000 to $500; re-
ducing those salaries to 81 500; making
the office of supreme court reporter
elective; limiting the tenure of office Of
county treasurers to one term: requir-
ing district schools to be open eight
months year instead of six; provid-
ing that railway companies shall place
gates at all crossings in cities and viii
have guaranty companies as their
sureties; permitting town insurance
companies to print special matter on
their policies; eliminating the $1,000
maximum damage limit for loss of
life; permitting town boards and may
ors to appoint justices of the peace
when vacancies occur; for the licens-
ing of stationary engineers; making
incurable insanity cause for divorce;
regulating the sale of virus; establish
ing a medical council and examining
boards; compelling railway companies
to use device that will keep trains
upright after delailment; creating the
counties of Rusk, Rivers, Garfield,
Upham, and Radisson, and changing
the boundaries of Washburn, Sawyer,
Burnett. Chippewa, Clark, Taylor,
Grant and Crawford; making the Off
ces of county clerk and register Of
deeds salaried; giving the chairman of
county boards the veto power; eX
empting mortgages on real estate from
taxation permitting citizens not law
yers to appear for parties in probate
matters; establishing boards Of con-
citation and to keep controversies
away from lawyers and out of courts;
forbidding the coloring of vinegar;
creating an agricultural experiment
station in northern Wisconsin,; requir-
ing 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 historical commits
sion; inhibiting public exhibitions of
hypnotiSm; appropriating $1,000 for
the purchase of cranberry vines for
sufferers; changing the rate of interest
on tax certificates; comforting police
powers on humane society officers;
raising the penalty for horse stealing
from two to four years; giving circuit
judges authority to appoint bailiffs,
forbidding insurance agents from act
ing as assessors; making the mini
mum school age; requiring public
school teachers to be past Is years old:
forbiddng the existence of the A. +.
A.; establishing an official interpreter
in Milwaukee,: making a river law
full fence; establishing the 18th judicial
circuit out of the 18th and 18th cir
cults; regulating the flow of water
over dams in the Wisconsin river; IL
censing palace and sleeping car COM
panies; requiring county judges to adj
minister small estates without ex-
penSe; giving court commissioners cir
cult court powers in chambers; pro-
viding for the semi-annual collection
of taxes; preventing discrimination by
telephone companies; amending the
law which gives state aid to agricul-
tural societies even though they allow
i liquor selling during fairs; for the pub
LEGATION of the town laws; making
deadbeat ting on railways misdemean-
or; allowing the killing of mink at any
time: providing for a state geological
survey: doing away with state census;
providing for licensing plumbers; per-
hitting the state to aid in building
bridges; for the regulation of express
rates. reducing the wage exemption
from 500 to $50: making s hours
days labor on public works; providing
for bee inspector; requiring secret
societies bearing arms to report mem
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