Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-02-11

the president to give his entire time
and receive 5000 year; his associates
! TO receive $1,000. A clerk TO receive
! $1,000. The board will remain in con,
! tinuous session during the session OF
/ the legislature to give opinions, ETC.,
and keep in touch with the bench and
bar and other sources of opinion.
Madison Feb. An the senate Sen
ator MCMullen presented pro est
against a bounty being given on beet
sugar Bills were introduced: BY Sen
ator Welton, authorizing cities to ac-
quire property outside the corporate
limits for park purposes; by Senator
| McGiliiyray; to prevent the giving OF
bonuses for location of state insttu-
tlons; by Senator Whitman 10 provide
for a definite and limited am unit OF
liability upon bonds of sureties; by Sen
ator Austin, providing a penalty not
exceeding 500 fine or three months
Imprisonment for hotel dead beats;
by Senator Mills, providing for the in
sIection of steam boilers; also to in
crease the income from normal schools :
by Senator bennett, prohibiting prison
manufactured goods from being placed
| in competition with other manufac-
| tured articles The manufacture of
any articles which are to be sold in
competition with the products of pri-
vate factories.
The assembly concurred in the senate
resolution for an immediate revision
of the banking code. A house bill was
lassed, making the general terms of
the circuit court in each county in the
sixteenth judicial circuit special terms
for all other counties in the circuit.
important bills were introduced: BY
| Mr. Church, authorizing resident
sell goods within 10 miles of home;
by Mr.. White, appointing a steam
boiler inspector and providing for in
spection; by Mr. Frink, providing THAI
railroads shall furnish free transporT-
ton to state officers, members of leIiS-
lature, judges of courts Of record, sAer-
ifs, district attorneys mayors, CHIEFS
of police, etc, of cities of over 5,00S
people; by Mr., Davidson, taxing tele
graph companies on their first wire SO
per mile, second So; all wires after that
81.
Madison, Feb. Sin the senate @ bill
was passed., to provide for the APP
pOintment by the COVE Of two COM
petent persons 10 revise the laws re-
lating TO the incorporation of villages
to report TO the legislature on or be-
fore March /, 1897, The compensation
being $500 for both. Many unimpor-
tant or local bills were introduced.
In the assembly Mr.. Minch
presented memorial from the Dane
county board asking that bill be
passed fixing the salary of the county
judge of Dane county at $4,000 and
eliminating all fees. He also offered
bill to that effect. Other bills were
By Mr.. Barnum, restoring the statute
Of 1891 exemptlng libraries from taxa
ton; by Mr. Arson, declaring void all
assessments seeking to give preferences
except for the wages OF laborers;
by Mr.. White, permitting women to
serve on school boards in cities OF the
I'd and Sd classes existing under special
charters; also subjecting all buildings
or institutions wherein persons are de-
tanned with or without their consent
to visitation by the state board of con-
troll by Mr.. Church, increasing the
maximum number Of companies in the
Wisconsin national guard from 40 to AZ;
by Mr. Risum, repeating chap. $50,
1881, giving bounties on wolves and
foxes; by Mr.. Clason requiring cities
and villages to pay the expenses OF inn
prisonment of persons convicted of
violating city or village ordinances;
also, by request, requiring dealers in
liquors who do business both by whole
sale and retail to take out two licenses;
also for the appointment of a board of
Z medical examiners by the governor,
4 allopaths, 2 homeopaths, and l eclec
tic physicians from which "all persons
hereafter commencing the practice of
medicine" shall obtain license
by Mr.. Rosenkranz, requiring
brewers to make pure beer; requiring
nor uldl SCIbOlS W lulI Oul LtRiCllelS
capable of giving instruction in ply
cical education and that physical edu
cation shall be part of the curriculum
of all common schools; by Mr.
Froehlich, by request, assess
ing mortgages, bonds and contracts
in the assessment district where the
real estate on which they are liens is
located and deducting the amount of
! such liens from the taxable value of
the real estate; by Mr.. Mcdonald, re-
curing undertakers to make returns
of deaths instead of physicians !;
by Mr.. UT, providing that the
/ county judge OF Grant county hold
| special terms between the times or
holding the regular terms. Mr.
Rosenkrans bill providing that
/ jurors shall be summoned by registered
mail notices instead of by sheriIts
caused debate, Mr., Wheeler of James
willie contending that the present
method was The surest and best, and
/ that good iuries were more impOrtan+