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


raise in freight rates and that it would
retard the building of new roads and
improvements on the present.
A joint resolution by Mr.. Wander
cook to have all bills in the hands of
committees reported by April l was
carried. The bill appropriating $4,000
to the Eau Claire home for fallen
women went back to the claims COM
mittee on motion of Mr. Burlington.
Madison, March 23.-In the senate
Senator LamoreuX introduced a joint
resolution fixing April II as the date
for final adjournment 1t was LAID
over until next Tuesday. The resolu-
ton, 1898, relative to the organization
or the normal school board, eliminat-
ing the membership Of the governor
eX-officio, and providing that but one
regent shall be appointed from one
congressional district, was adopted
after being amended to except districts
having two normal schools. The as
sembly later concurred in this amend
ment. Senate bills passed were:
Nos. 10, regulating the operation o.
emery wheels; 1874, providing for four
additional factory inspectors, six in
all, salary $1,000 per year and travel
ing expenses; $40, appropriating $500
to prevent spread of San Jose scale.
Assembly bills concurred in were:
Nos. 102, appropriating $62911 to the
Beloit school district, to repay costs in
defending vaccination cases; 1872,
amendment to medical bills requiring
old as well as new physicians to be
registered; 28S, appropriating $4,000
for the Barron county fire sufferers;
3S7, appropriating $4,000 for a monu-
ment for Ex-Governor Nelson Dewey at
Lancaster, and SO, increasing the pen
atty for mayhem, making the maxi
mum fifteen years instead of five.
Three bills were Indefinitely post
poned Nos. p, amending the co-em-
ploye law; $40, providing for the ap-
pointment of city charter commits
sion; 1872, relating to the operation IF
slaughter and packing houses.
Among the bills ordered to third read
ing were the Dresser bill, appropriate
ing $500 to an interstate park on the
st. Croix river; the Harris bill, tax
ing export ice sent out by non-resi-
dents 10 cents 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 substitute which proposes
to license tradingstamp companies at
5000 annually for every county in
which they do business anu to license
each firm using the stamps at $100
a year, all money to go into the state
treasury. An adverse report was re-
ceived on bill 3S5a, 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 a preferred cred
itor in cases of bank failures. The
bill was, however, passed by a large
majority.
Assembly bills were passed: Nos.
120 (Wheeler), appropriating $4,000
year for two years for a continuance
of the natural history survey; los
(Hollanu), providing that where 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),
a $40 annual license upon
each intelligence Office and bond Of
81 900, and 386 (Morgan), permitting
local libraries to send out in the sur
rounding country free circulating Ii
braries.
Mr.. Hall presented several amend
ments to the senate's anti-pass bill
No. 16. 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 |
hitting the state to aid in road-build- |
ing came up for thru reading, Mr.. |
Orion submitted substitute providing |
N effect that the state may appropri- |
ate money for the purpose and raise
t by a tax, but cannot go into debt. |
The amendment was adopted and the .
resolution ordered to third reading. |
Mr.. Orion opposed the three Roehr
pills, 73s, 74s and 75s, relating specie
cally to the Milwaukee and Douglas
county superior courts, but generally
o all superior and circuit courts in the
state. These measures all provide in
Effect that judges cannot draw salaries
f they have held up opinions for 80
lays Mr.. orion deemed them in
GIting, offensive and unconstitutional,
asserting also that no state had such
low ovaont California and If was