Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-03-30


Assembly bills killed were: Nos.
800 (Fogo), providing that a person
not heard Of for years shall be pre-
sumed to be dead, and 406 Uogan),
relating to the biennial fixing of sal
aries in counties Of 100000 population.
Madison, March Pain tn. senate
the first thing done was to kill the Nc
| Gillivray resolution providing for the
draining of 1000 acres along the Lem
| Onweir river. The Overlook resolu-
ton providing for transferring the
title Of the property of the State His
| torical society to the state was
adopted. Bills were passed as fol-
| lows:
Nos. 212s (Whitehead), requiring city
! school superintendent to file a GER
tificate showing them qualified to
teach in any public school in the
state; 346s (Mills), creating a superior
court for Douglas county; S2a
! (Dresser) appropriating $500 for an
interstate park on the st. CroiX river;
! 162a (HalD, giving trustees of asylums
| power to bring action in name of
county; 261a (Clough), allowing cities
of 5000 population and under to keep
polls open only between 6 a. m. and
! Z p. m. The anti-pass bill came back
to the senate in the form of the sub
stitute adopted by the assembly
Senator Whitehead moved to lay the
bill over until Tuesday, which was
done.
In the assembly, on motion of Mr..
Soltwedel, bill No. 1O3a, preventing
the sale of liquors within l mile of
| the soldiers home, was taken from
the table by strong affirmative vote.
Mr.. True explained that he was in
favor of such bill years ago, but
| knew more about the situation now
and could see no specially good rea-
| son for the interference proposed
| The home itself sold liquor to its
inmates and was in fact a good deal
of a burlesque so far as real care of
the old soldiers went. Mr.. Thomas
admitted that he felt much like Mr.
| True, though he had voted both two
years and four years ago for like
| bills. Mr.. BaldOck, as an old soldier,
also expressed opposition to the bill.
The vote was then taken on the
| Dodge amendments, the chief of which
was reducing the limit from l mile to
| q of a mile and the amendments
were rejected, SO to 80. The bill was
then killed Senator Harris bill, No.
| SO, removing the exemption by which
the Lake Geneva and Wauwatosa
| private sanitariums have escaped tax
| alton, was unanimously cOncurred in.
The McGillivray joint resolution for a
constitutional amendment permitting
| the state to aid in bodybuilding was
concurred in. Concurrence was voted
in other senate bills as follows: Nos.
| 80 (ROehr), permitting towns to pur-
| chase machinery for road-making; 54
| (Whitehead), requiring seats in stores
and factories for female workers; 81
| (ROehr), fOrbidding the manufacture
of cigars in sleeping rooms, etc.; 70,
"A and rs (Roehr), requiring that cir
cult and superior judges can draw no
salary unless they are up within 80
days of their work; 155 (Harris), re-
quiring the branding of renovated but.
ter; 179 (BaXter), fixing a fine of from
$25 to 500 or imprisonment of from
80 to so days, or both, for violating
the veterinary law; 1873 (Welton), au-
thoriZing cities of the Madison and
Oshkosh class to levy annually a spe-
.cial 1-mill school tax, and 204 Clam
OreuX), permitting person, part of
whose claim is allowed by a town. to
accept it without prejudicing the rest
of his claim. M. w. Ryan's memorial
TO congress asking for repeal of the
duty on hides was assailed by Mr.
Evans as a democratic, free-trade
measure, but it was adopted, after Mr..
Ryan had explained that it was, in
fact, republican tanners and repub-
lican farmers roundabout in the hem
lock belt who wanted free hides
Among the committee reports was an
adverse one on the anti-cigarette bill,
No. 1872, and favorable ones on the
express sleeping car, freight line and
equipment company tax measures.
Both houses adjourned till Monday
evening.