Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-01
Madison Petitions

The assembly was opened by prayer
by Rev. H. A. Miner. Among the
petitions submitted were seven signed
by students, professors and citizens of
Madison urging the passage of assem-
bly, bill No. SOC, prohibiting the grant
ing of licenses to saloons within one
half mile of the university. Another
petition, signed by the teachers and
students of the Northwestern bust
ness college of Madison, urged that the
Hurd anti-cigarette bill be passed.
On motion of Mr.. Clason the vote
by which the Delavan lake sewage
bill was killed Friday was reconsid-
cred. The vote by which No. 345a,
authorizing the appointment Of tax
commission, was killed, was recon-
sidered.
On the ground that it was incom-
plete, Senator Timme's bill requiring
a license for hunting deer was rere-
ferred to the fish and game committee
These senate bills were concurred
in: Nos (McGillivray), requiring
prison-made goods to be labeled 30,
(Roehr), providing a contingent fund
of $4,000 for prevention of contagious
diseases; As McGillivray), to enCour-
age the production of beet sugar; 149
CYcumans), relating to appraisement
of damages done by animals; 100 (Mc-
Mullen), to regulate the drawing CT
Jurors; 166 (McGilIivray), regulating
the sale of vaccine virus, antt-toxine,
etc; 222 (Green), legalizing certain
tax ievies; 241 (Whitehead), relating
to security for costs in certain actions;
290 (McGillivray), preventing trusts,
monopolies and combinations; 355
fGreen), relating to entry of judg-
ment and taxation.
After three amendments to the
Timme fish and game law had oeen
adopted the assembly adjourned IN
til 10 o'clock this morning.
SENATE.
Lieut.. Gov. Baensch called the SEN
ate to order Monday evening. Kew
Charles G. Sterling offered prayer.
Petitions were presented on the medl-
cal pooling and Marquette statue bills
and the insurance code. The governor
returned without his signature
bill No. 151s, to provide Tor
fishways in the dams and streams OF
the state. He cited as objections that
the bill came near to violating that
section of the constitution which limits
to the legislature the power to make
laws; that it does not provide for
hearing to the owners of dams as to the
existence of fish in streams where 10
Gated; that its language is broad and
loose and the penalty provided severe
and unusual On motion of Senator
Austin action upon the bill was de
ferred until today.
For Cambridge Voters.
A joint resolution was passed per
hitting Assemblyman Legried to in
troduce a bill to give villages separated
from towns not having time
to appoint inspectors and otherwise
comply with the law before election
to vote with the towns in which they
are located. The bill is intended to.
give the citizens of Cambridge, which
was recently separated from the town
of Christiana, a chance to vote a. the
coming election.
Passed and Concurred In.
Assemblyman Legried's bill No SO,
making the Office of register of deeds
a salaried one, which was brought up
again on a motion to reconsider was
passed by vote of II to TO- Senator
Phillips explained that the bill as
amended leaves the matter of making
the office such with the county board
of supervisors and IS not obligatory.