Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-08

were: Nos. 1855 Stout, designating
June Z, 1898, a public holiday; 373s,
appropriating $1,000 to secure vaults in
the capitol; and 126a (Agen), provid-
ing for sub-state fair at Chippewa
Falls. Nr. 30Gs (ThayeD, to prevent
the introduction Of the San Jose scale
and other insects was killed. Fifteen
| insu> anCe bills were introduced, II b.
Senator Roehr, to take the place of the
F'ricke insurance code, which was kill
| ed. Senator Welton introduced a joint
resolution requesting President Nc
| kinley to rescind ex-President Cleve-
| lands order consolidating the Mil
waukee pension office with the one at
Chicago. The Timme fish and game
bill is now waiting for the governors
| signature, the senate having concurred
! in the troublesome assembly amend
ment providing for a closed season
from October Is to Dec. l for white
fish and trout in Lakes Michigan and
Superior.
| In the assembly. Mr.. Barnum present.
ed a resolution requiring the members
| to return their railway passes, the
the chief clerk being ordered to enter
IN the journal every day the names Of
those who deliver their passes. Amid
laughter, the speaker ordered that the
resolution lie over. Assembly bills
passed were: Nos 353 (Peterson), re-
pealing the law giving compensation to
delegates from county agricultural
societies to the state fair; and 37S
| CTrue), organizing state board Of
agriculture of twelve members VINO act
without pay and are appointed by the
governor. The Austin bill relating to
hotels was opposed byMr. Barnurn, who
thought that hash sellers were no
more entitled to have the criminal law
invoked to aid them in collecting their
bills than were calico dealers. But it
was concurred in. Several house bills
requiring beer to be made pure were
Filled. Senate bills were concurred in:
Nos. III CWhitman, permitting county
boards to name special committees but
limiting their pay at regular board per
diem rates; 1S1 (Soliday), requiring the
attorney general tC defend militiamen
/ in all trials due TO their acts while on
duty; 285 mills, authorizing bridge
companies to condemn lands; 294 (Mc-
GilliVray), repeating the law which
gives one-half the fines to the inform
ers in cases of conviction under the
oleomargarine law; Sc (Timme), requir-
ing resident deer hunters in the north
ern also in Sank and Brown, counties
to pay a 81 license and non-residents
$50; 1872 (Austin) making the penalty
for beating hotels a fine not exceeding
500 or my Imprisonment not exceeding
months, the complainant to give Sc
curity for costs; and 1873 (Mailer), pro-
viding for the publication of the report
of the board of health in four parts dur
ing the biennial period.
Madison, April Gov. Scoield sent
! to the senate the most important veto
message he has written. 1t stated his
reasons for Withholding his signature
from the McGillivray antitrust BILL a
measure from which great things were
/
only prohibited the formation of trusts
in Wisconsin but authorized and made
it the business of the attorney general
to proceed against foreign combinations
doing business in any way in this state.
| Gov. ScOfeld vetoed it on the ground
| that its provisions relating to outside
combinations were unconstitutional
because of interfering with interstate
commerce and that it's operation would
be pernicious. He also held that it's
| provisions were harsh and unreason-
| able
In the assembly bill was introduced
annulling all toll-road charters. The
| Webster bill, 506a, relating to
saloons with one-half mile of the uni
versity was, on motion of Mr.. Treat,
laid over till Thursday.