Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-04-03
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.

resolution fixing April IA as the GATE
for final adjournment. 1t was lalo
over until next Tuesday. The resoIu-
ton. 1895, relative to the organization
or the normal school board, ellmlnat-
ing the membership of the governor
ex-Oficio, and providing that out one
regent shall be appointed from one
congressional district, was adopted
after being amended to except districts
having Two normal schools. The as
snmblv later concurred in this amend
nent. Senate bills passed were:
Nos. ITO, regulating the operation OF
emery wheels; 334, providing for four
additional factory inspectors, SIX N
all. salary $1,000 per year and travel
ing expenses; $40, appropriatlng $500
to prevent spread of San Jose scale.
Assembly bills concurred in were:
Nos. 102, appropriating $629.11 to the
Beloit school district, to repay costs in
defending vaccination cases; 1872,
amendment to medical bills requiring
old as we'll as new physicians to be
registered; 288, apprOpriating $4,000
for the Barron county fire sufferers;
387 appropriating $4,000 for monu-
ment for Ex-Governor Nelson Dewey at
Lancaster, and 80, increasing the pen
atty for mayhem, making the maxi
mum fifteen years instead of five.
Three bills were indefinitely post
Doned Nos q, amending the co-em-
Dloye law; 800, providing for the ap-
Dointment of a city charter commits
sion; 1872, relating to the operation Of
slaughter and packing houses.
Among the bills ordered to third read
ing were the Dresser =, approprlat-
ing $500 to an interstate park on the
St. Croix river; the Harris bill, tax
ing export ice sent out by non-res1-
dents 10 cents a ton, and the bill ap-
propriating $4,000 to the Veterans
home.
The very unusual episode occurred
in the assembly of one of the members
opening the exercises with prayer
Mr.. George Olson of Jackson county,
in the absence of a resident clergyman,
invoked the divine blessing. The
linn bill forbidding the trading-stamp
plan of drawing trade by merchants
was reported by the judiciary commit
tee with a substitute which proposes
to license trading-stamp companies at
5000 annually for every county IN
which they do business and to license
each firm using the stamps at $lOO
q year, all money to go into the state
treasury. An adverse report was re-
ceived on bill 385a, reducing the toll
for grinding. grain. Mr.. Rusk again
spoke, as he had spoken several times
before, in opposition to the Frost bill
amending the law SO that the state
shall not hereafter be preferred cred
itor in cases of bank failures. The
bill was, however, passed by large
majority.
Assembly bills we're passed: Nos.
120 (Wheeler), appropriating $4,000 a
year for two years for a continuance
of the natural history survey; 165
(Holland), providing that where a per-
son once cared for at county expense
is found to have had means at that
time the county may bring suit for re-
covery for such care; 359 (Hoehle),
Imposing a $40 annual license upon
each intelligence Office and bond of
$1,000, and 386 (Morgan), permitting
local libraries to send out in the sur
rounding country free circulating Ii
0raries.
Mr.. Hall presented several amend
ments to the senate's anti-pass bill
No. Is. They were drawn in the at
torney generals Office and are calcu-
lated to make the law more effective
in minor particulars. The amend
ments were adopted without dissent
and the bill then passed, the only neg
alive vote being by Mr.. Ives. When
Senator McGillivray's joint resolution
for a constitutional amendment per-
uniting the state to aid in rOad-bulld-
ing came up for third reading, Mr..
Orion submitted a substitute providing
in effect that the state may apprOpri-
ate money for the purpose and raise
it by a tax, but cannot go into debt.
The amendment was adopted and the
resolution ordered to a third reading.
Mr.. Orion opposed the three Roehr
bills, 73s, 74s and 75s, relating specie
fcally to the Milwaukee and Douglas
county superior courts, but generally
to all superior and circuit courts in the
state. These measures all provide in
effect that judges cannot draw salaries
if they have held up opinions for 80
days. Mr.. Orion deemed them in
sulting, offensive and unconstitutional,
asserting also that no state had such
q law exceDt California; and it was
gotten into the constitution there by
the pernicious influence of Dennis
Kearney. The bills he regarded as
unconstitutional because they con-
templated an interference with the
drawing of salaries which the consti-
tuition granted to judges. Mr.. Rusk
upheld the bills and their constitu-
tionality, declaring that no Judge was
really entitled to pay if he denied JUS
tice to litigants for longer periods than
months. His own circuit judge ia