Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-05-04

the Keene bill raising the age Of con-
sent from IA to Is years; requiring all
physicians to register; requiring judges
Of circuit or superior courts to give
oath before drawing their salary that
all cases argued before them 80 days
previous to the drawing Of the salary
warrant have been decided; approprl-
ating $500 for an interstate park
with Minnesota on the St Croix river;
requiring stores and factories to fur
nish seats for women when not en-
ployed; appropriating $4,000 for mon
ument at Lancaster of Nelson
Dewey, the first governor Of
the state; prohibiting the
manufacture OF cigars in the small
rooms Of tenement houses; increasing
the powers Of park and drive associa-
tions; increasing number of normal
school reg ITS TO ten: apprOpriating
$4,000 TO the state natural history and
geological survey; allowing cities and
villages to form joint high school dis
tricts with the surrounding country;
prohibiting junk and second hand
dealers to buy anything but rags and
waste paper from persons under Is
years Of age; providing for collection
for relief of poor who afterward be-
come possessed Of property; adding
forty acres to the state military re-
serve; appropriating $4,000 for i'm
provement of veterans home at Wau-
paca; for simplifying state book-keep-
in inc fn oil
to memorial day celebrations; requir-
ing voting in legislative caucuses for
elections of United States senator by
roll call; permitting loans from trust
funds to general fund; loaning city Of
Rhinelander 100000 for the reorgani-
zation of the Wisconsin Central rail
road company; requiring legislative
lobbyists to register; for reorganiza-
ton of national guard; forbidding the
running on country roads of steam en-
gines weighing over seven tons; for
supervision of investment associa-
tons; for licensing intelligence offices
at $40; creating a state tax commits
sion; for establishment of two county
training schools for teachers; for bet
| riages; permitting cities to issue bonds
| for telephones; permitting fire and po-
| lice pension funds for Milwaukee; pro-
hibiting all public officials from using
railroad passes or accepting privileges
from corporations; for an exhibit at
the Paris exposition prohibiting
spring Shooting; abolishing the state
land office in two years; appropriating
S151, 900 to the university and 1895, 900
to the charitable and penal institu-
lions; for preservation of fish and
game; increasing life insurance taxes
over quarter million; requiring mar
riage license to wed; permitting inter-
county ,reformatOries: to regulate en-
ployment of minors; taxing tonnage 3
cents a ton; for a forest svstem for
regulating caucuses; for a state board
of immigration; requiring Ito OF
liquor license money to go to kinder
gartens; taxing inheritances, for
an exhibit at the pan-American exposi-
ton in Buffalo, and prohibiting proxies
at political conventions.
Among the measures of Importance
already killed are those absolutely
forbidding the sale Of cigarettes
granting woman suffrage on liquor IL
cense questions; for a bounty of one
cent on sparrows and eggs; for board
of health supervision of waterworks
and sewage plants; for preventing
tight lacing; prohibiting saloons with
in one mile Of soldiers homes; for an
appellate court; limiting speed of
trains in cities, and villages to Is
miles an hour; taking away rights of
wheelmen on country roads: prChib-
iting saloons within $50 feet of church
es or school houses; for protection
against lien robbery: for licensing ell
Sineers and firemen: prohibiting col
lection Of street car fares unless seats
were furnished passengers; various
2-cent railroad fare measures cutting
down toll for grinding grain; to pro-
hibit new trials on reversal in supreme
| court unless costs of trial were paid
providing that when husband and wife
had been separated for a year and
had agreed to division of property d.
vorce should be in accordance; for
licensing plumbers and BARRIERS; for
bounty on beet sugar; for new ex-
| ecutive residence at S75,000 for uni
| form text books; to extend Sheridan
! drive to Milwaukee; for equal distri-
button among counties of state patron
age: for inspection Of gas meters;
taxing railroad companies S350O0O ad-
ditiOnal; taxing daily newspapers; re-
! quiring railroads to carry bicycles
| free; allowing twenty days pool SELL
ing on races: prohibiting trading
stamps; requiring poison to be kept In
| triangular bottles; for taxing logs
| where cut; for Milwaukee belt line
depot site; regulating sale of patent
medicines; for inspection of gas me-
ters; to keep upper berths of sleeping
cars up unless occupied; regulating
public accountants; for railroad COM
missioners and for regulating rail-
roads; for naval battalion; to abolish
office of county superintendent of
schools; taxing church property; ap-
propriating $4,000 to the w. c. T. U.
home for unfortunate women, at Eau
Claire; for investigation Of Torrens
land system and several amendments
to the election laws.