Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-02-04
WISCONSIN sOLONS


Tn the Senate Monday mgh. eonator
bounty bill was introduced ny ,,,ota
McGilliyray. Its purpose 10 - :s;o,, ia
the beet sugar industry, anu pe ant ner
made for bounty or one-naiA rrower
pound. one-half to go to the 49, The
and the other to the manul ann Anothpr
ANIMAL expenditure is SIo'ooo. .;aos .
bill from the same source - &c GOOD
ST. bounty of 500 per mile OF soou
nood 70 zach town making as many as i've
niles of such roads a year. GOV. H ~,
fald nsnd his veto on the very mrs, Dn'
+bot came TO nina bill permitting uiie
tars If local insurance companies
amand their articles of reorganlza,.:ion'
HE objection was that it gave 10 u
+ors . mower that belonged to stochloi0
ers. -. oonstitu-
To testify to the anger of his constl, ,
onts at the Chicago platform, ASSUME
mon Jesse e. Clason of Dodge Coun,y'
tho only gold Democrat in the Assehio'!'
io;ned with the Republicans Iuesoay ~
The formal vote for John q. Spooner, III
Tinted States Senator to succeed w liiiani
= Villas. Six of the nine silver Deino-
crafts present voted for w. q. Sllverthoiil
of Wausau. who was the nominee OF tia'
narty for Governor at the last eiection.
All the Republican members IN Dotn
houses voted for COL Spooner. II nav
been generally supposed that Assembly
man Clason would vote for Gen. EdWaiu
s. Bragg. The only important Dill OF tue
day was by Senator Mills for pure pri-
maries.
Col. John G. Spooner of Madison was
formally elected to the United States sen
ate to succeed w. f. Villas by the Legis-
lature in Joint assembly at noon Wednes-
day. Among the important bills intro
duced were two for beet sugar bounty,
one for the creation of board OF rallroad
commissioners to abolish the State Boaro
of immigration and to make registrars
of deeds and clerks of courts salarleu
officers. Senator J. II. Stout, millionaire
lumberman from Menominee, and }. "A.
Van Cleye have been appointed university
regents. succeeding J. w. Bashford OF
Hudson and d. l.. Plummer of Wausau.
Assemblyman Hall fired the first gun or
his coming campaign against the rail-
roads. One of the bills is a copy of the
Iowa law and it's provisions apply to all
railway, express car, sleeping car ana
freight line companies and to all common
carriers engaged in the transportation or
passengers or property within the state.
The other bill provides for an elective
railway commission of three members,
with power to make reasonable maximum
rates for the transportation of frelgAts
and passengers, to prevent dlscrlmlna-
tons between persons and places, and
generally to compel the granting to all
citizens of the State just and equal treat
ment by railway companies.
Legislative proceedings were tame
of He
introduced. One proposes a per cent
tax on the gross revenues of express COM
panies; another makes the retraction by
publishers Of a libelous article mitigat-
ing circumstance in the assessment of
damages, and limits the judgment to ac-
tual damages suffered. A branch State
fair for Chippewa Fails, the sale at pub
lie auction of all lumber on State lands,
prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to min
ors, requiring railways to carry bicycles
as baggage, and providing for an inyesti-
CATION of affairs at the university were
among the other schemes projected into
the body of lawmakers.
Strong efforts have been made without
success to head off the introduction of
butchers bill which virtually puts tariff
upon meat shipped into Wisconsin, and
WHICH VIII give the great CnlcaSO packers
good deal of uneasiness, since they all
have large shipping depots in the State.
The bill purports to be measure to pro-
tect the people against the sale of poor
meat, but to all intents and purposes it is
tariff measure. 1t is similar to that
which was introduced in the Minnesota
Legislature two years ago and killed at
great expense to the packers. 1t provides
for the inspection of all meat shipped into
the State for which inspection the pack
ers must pay tax to the State. The
scheme will have the effect of giving the
Wisconsin packers great advantage over
the outside packers, and if the packers
representatives now on the ground do not
succeed in stopping the introduction Of
the bill it is safe to say that powerful
lobby Will come to Madison, as was the
case at st. Paul two years ago. A peti-
ton 100 yards long was presented Friday
by Assemblyman w. T. Lewis of Racine
1t was signed by $4,000 citizens and pray
ed Tor an anti-cigarette law. 1t had been
circulated by Christian Endeavorers. The
page who carried it to the clerks deslr
had his arms full A special legislative
committee reported in favor of hospital
for the criminal insane, but made no rec
concentrations regarding the abolition of
convict labor.
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