Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-02-18

capitol. Among the scores of bills
were the following: By Mr.. Togo for
the recall from county clerks OF lists
OF alleged deserters; by Mr.. Wolff.
providing for the publication of the
town laws: by Mr.. Webster, requiring
all beer brewers 10 make a pure bev-
erage; by Mr.. Church, regulating the
sale OF impure ice; also to place all
organizations that drill with firearms
under the control and subject to the
authority Of the state; by Mr.. R:su.
forbidding the wearing OF high hats
IN theaters, and putting penalty Of
from So TO S. on thea,er managers for
each violation permitted by them: by
Mr.. Harvey, providing fer the semi
annual payment Of taxes; by Mr.
! Wheeler, appropriating money to Cyrus
Schenck $4,000 for injuries received
in the capitol disaster of 1888; by Ir
Agen, regulating telephone rentals !
cities Of the I'd and Sd classes; by Mr.
! Froelich, authorizing boards Of trustees
in villages to turn over one-haif of ali
, license moneys to the school fund; by
Mr.. Legried, compelling railway COM
! p2nies to give free transportation to
| shippers OF live stock; by Mr.. Peterson,
! repeating the law giving compensation
to county agricultural society delegates
| tC the state fair; by Mr.. w. A Jones,
| to limit the expenses of candidates in
elections and to secure pure practices
in politics. The special order for II
O'Clock was Mr.. Davidson's bill
| compelling registers of deeds in
May of each year to return
to the various assessors a record
! Of the mortgages for each town, viii
lage and city, the purpose of course
being to get 1T this class of property for
asked that it be rereferred to the tax
| committee. Mr.. Treat said that COM
mittee had been unanimous for pas
sage and he thought would be again,
but he had no objection to having Mr.
Polachecks wishes followed; so the bill
was rereferred.
Madison, Feb. 10.-The introduction
Of bills ceased in the legislature this
evening. The number introduced
during the entire session to date
ard to the corresponding period two
years ago is:
1897 1895
Senate ........357 Senate ....... .409
Assembly .....626 Assembly .696
Total ...~...983 Total ......1, 105
The lesser number of 122 this year
over that of two years ago is, how
ever, more than offset by the dead
heads that were permitted then but
not allowed at this session.
During the day 400 bills were in
troduced in the two houses, among the
By Mr., Munson, to provide for the
appointment of a purchasing agent Tor
the charitable and penal institutions
by Mr.. WeltOn, to authorize a branch
veterans home; also to extend the
corporate limits of the city of Madison,
taking in Wingra Park and University
Heights; by Mr.. Green, toy provide for
the retirement Of judges 81 70 years Of
age and fOrbidding their candidacy for
elections if they will be Of that age ere
the terra expires; also to establish
state examining board OF architecture
and regulating; buildings; by Mr.. MctFiI-
livray, to prevent trusts, monopolies
and Illegal combinations; also. by re
quest, to prevent the combination. Of
fire insurance companies; By Mr.
Thayer; to- prevent the introduction
and spread OF THE SAN Jose scale and
other'iusect8 injurious to trees; 10y Nh
bennett, to create a board of educa-
ton Of. u members for the mora. eff
flcient supervision and management of
the university, normal and p2zbuc
schools; by Mr.. Ginger, to amend the
law providing for the payment OF fees
by owners Of sleeping and drawing
room cars. by Mr.: Devos, exempting
from taxation only religious societies
owning property OF less than S25, coo :;
by Mr.. LanOrGaux, to provide for the
appointment Of commissioners to re
port to the legislature a bill to re-
district tbs state into judicial circuits; ;
by Mr.. Burke, to repeal the law pro-
Viding for the appointment of deep,
channel commissioner.
The flood of bills. in the lower house
was simply awful All sorts Of sub
jects were. covered. Among the bills
were: By MIR. Krauss, to compel street
railways to operate ears by stored cleo
triCity or by conductors under ground :;
by Mr.. Wolff, to prevent fraud in sale
Of seeds; by Mr.. Webster, appropriating
81 800 for the purchase of sugar beet
seed by the experiment station for dis
tr1bution to, farmers by legislators
each soloH to get 100 Il pound pack
ages; the bets to be shipped back to
the experiment. station for determina-
ton whence comes the best; also to.
prevent the granting of liquor licenses.
for the sale Of liquor within one-half
mile Of the university, normal schools
or high schools Of the state; by Mr..
True, appropriatfng $4,000 to- the
trust fund on account of the debt due
on the state fair grounds, thus. reIeas-
ing the State Agricultural society from
that obligation; also for the publiea-
ton Of the town laws; by Mr.. Wheeler.
appropriating $t5,0 900 for a geological
and geodetfc survey; by Mr. Flett, re-
curing the distribution as soon as
printed of all legislative bills to county
clerks; also, requiring that franchises
in cities and villages shall be given to
the. highest bidder; also, permitting
the state board of control to contract