Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-22
use OF railroad passes and telephone.

use OF railroad passes and telephone.
telegraph and express franks by mem
Ders OF the legislature. Senator Den
nett made spirited and successful
| hgnt Tor bill No. 369s, appropriating
$4,000 for the improvement of the gov
ernor's home, which was passed under
suspension Of the rules, notwithstand-
ing an adverse committee report There
! was a redhot debate on bill No. 454a,
TO prohibit sectauanism in the public
! schools 1t had been favorably recon-
mended ana was UP for advancement
to third heading. Senators Lamoreux
and Austin vigorously opposed the bill,
and Senators Baxter and Roehr just as
! vigorously supported it. Finally it was
killed. The Joint committee on claims
pursuant to joint resolution No. SO,
made partial report, and promised a
Lull detailed report today. The report
is as follows: Bills referred 10 COM
alittee, Ill; reported for indefnate
postponement, Al; reported for passage,
81; amount of appropriations asked by
senate bills, $1,948, $500; amount of
appropriations asked by assembly bills,
$4O6,67779; total, $2,355, 513.09 deduc-
lions made by committee, S546, 1868 81 ;
amCCnt of appropriation Of bills report
ed for passage, $1SO9, 1883. This is
$S0,62S.40 less than the appropriations
made in 1895.
The WeltoI bill applying civil ser
vice rules to the police and fire depart
merits Of cities came from the COM
mittee on cities amended in such way
IS to have it go into effect Immediate
~ on its passage and publication in
stead of May l, as originally provided.
Mr.. Cashin offered an amendment ex-
empting the cities of Madison, Wausau
and Stevens Point, and Mr.. Barnum
spoke in favor of its adoption, de-
cl8ring that his city, Wausau, wanted
no such law. Mr.. Buckstaff and Mr..
Ray spoke against the amendment,
while Mr.. Tucker said that, if it was a
good measure, it should take effect at
once. The amendment was lost, 80 to
10. The bill was ordered to a third
reading. Then Mr.Tucker made a
motion to suspend the rules and put
the bill en- its concurrence. This pre-
vailed, SO to II, the negative being
Messrs. Barnum, Bechtel, BulIard,
Cashin, Edwards, F'rink, Froehlich,
Gavin, LANCE, Maert2, Plummer, Pola-
check, Sweeting, Thomas and Wiper
man. Mr.. Barnum again attacked the
bill, denouncing civil service reform
with vehemence, as an undemoCratic
institution-as tending toward mon
@rchy. The bill was concurred in, 40
to Is, and went back to the senate for
action on the amendments. The
cities accepted by this bill are: Madison,
La Crosse, Oshkosh, Superior, Racine,
Sheboygan, Eau Claire, Green Bay,
Marinette, Appleton, Fond du Lac
GAINESVILLE, Ashland, and Wausau. 1t
affects all the cities of the state having
a population OF over 10000, except Mil
waukee.
nU0se the F'lett bIH denominating oicy-
cles baggage was killed. Assembly
bills were passed: Nos. 376 CIrue),.
for the publication of the town laws;
$50 (Wheeler), appropriating $4,000 for
each of the next two years for geo.
logical and natural history survey;
o3Y (Pratt, apprOpriating to state su
perintendent, J. =. Emery, $3.50 as
pay for collecting historical data, dur
ing the ensuing two years; GA (Wip-
perman), making life imprisonment
| the penalty for train wrecking where
death results, and 648 (HoyO, taxing
! toll roads 3 per cent. on their gross
earnings. The committee on priv
iieges and elections tavorably reported
the Mills caucus bill, but Will an
amendment making it Apply ~ geu-
eral elections and permitting councils
/ of cities TO exercise their own vOlitiOn
/ in acting under the law. The special
committee to classify the capitol en-
! ployes reported by bill. Ii it becomes
a law it will make an annual reduction
! of SIT ,0c@ II SalarilS and OF 81, 800 IN
special council fees. Senator Baxter's
oil, No. 237, relating to the Waupaca
home, created debate. 1t came from
tho upper house carrying $4,000
appropriation That sum had been
fixed by the claims committee, The
house military affairs committee raised
the limit to $4,000 and the as
sambly affirmed that action.
Madison, April 16.-The Welton bill
putting police and IRE departments
under civil service regulations, came up
in the senate on motion by Senator
Burke to reconsider the assembly
amendment which. contemplates put
ting the measure in effect a. ones,
The motion was rejected The gOvern0r'
at once signed the. bill. Joint resoln-
ton No 75s, to submit to the people
the proposition for a convention, was
passed. The Hall anti-pass resolution
was non-concurred in without debate
by a vote of Is to I3~ Three other
joint resolutions were non-concurred in:
No. ga (Mer1Iman), to, amend the con-
sJitution relative to citizenship, strik-
ing out the words declared his inten-
TONS" No. 10a, (MOsherl, proposing a
constitutional amendment enabling the
state to aid in road improvement; No.
la (MerriID, to discontinue the taking
of the census every FIVE years. The
ibiIl to authorize the. city of Milwaukee
rfO nrpct -ha WAS