Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-04-13

NINAAS -OI Specific appropriations Tor
the state university and the normal
schools was concurred in without de-
bate. The following bills were also
passed or concuTred in: Nos. SIS. fix
ing the salaries of the warden and dep
uty warden OF the state prison at $4,000
anu $1,000 respectively; 241s, provid-
ing that college graduates may be
granted unlimited teachers certificates
after one years experience; and 35Os,
providing penalties for forging mem
bershiD cards of railway employees or
CARNATIONS.
Among the bills passed or concurred
in were: Nos. 144a CNid0leton). Civ
ing threshers liens upon grain
threshed and corn hulled; 26s CMc-
Gillivray), giving each chaplain OF the
legislature SIS; SIS (Roehr), permit
ting the organization Of bicycle insur-
ance companies; els (Devos). appro-
priating 500 to George H. Ashford Of
Milwaukee. commissary sergeant of
the Sd Wisconsin regiment, who was
injured by the premature discharge of
cannon which he was firing at Camp
Douglas in August, 1891; HOS (Devosl
regulating the use OF emery wheels;
Ills CMartin), making an annual ap-
preparation Of $4,000 to teachers in
stitutes instead OF $4,000 as now. Mr..
Dodge's was the only negative vote:
246s (Mills), requiring wage time
checks to be payable at some desig-
mated bank or office in the county in
which the work is performed; 26Ss
tRoehr), forbidding fire insurance
policies to be written unless the risk
is approved in writing by a resident
agent; 1925, appropriating annually
$500 to the state library commission
IN excess of what it now gets; 334s,
authorizing the appointment Of 4 ad-
dltlOnal factory inspectors Cor in
alb at $1,000 salary and expenses each.
The bill, 33S, introduced by the SEN
ate committee on taxation, making
special appropriations to university
purposes was ordered to a third read
ing without opposition. It's appropria-
lions are: for additions to the dairy
herd, to enlarge the dairy building
and for a change in heating plant,
$4,000; for an engineering building,
100000; for a water tower fer the
supply of the capitol, $4,000. A very
important amendment was proposed
by Mr.. Hall and ADOPTED. It makes
further appropriation of $4,000 for
an electric light plant to furnish power
| no 1,njy nv
historical building and the capitol.
| Senator Lamoreux's bill, No. 2G2,
permitting towns, cities and villages
to vote aid to telephone lines was
bitterly assailed by Mr.. Hall as open
ing the door to wrong and fraud
Sharpers, he said, would. if this au-
thority was granted, often beguile
farming communities into giving DO
muses. for lines that were not at all
necessary. Any way, telephones were
luXuries for which the individual user
should pay. They were in no degree
akin to the railway-and even grants
to the latter were no longer tolerated
Mr.. Wheeler said phones were in fact
| necessaries and on the same basis as
railroads. The bill did nothing but
permit the people to exercise their OWL
prerogatives regarding the voting Of
aid Mr. Sturdevant declared his en-
perience in aiding in the construction
of a telephone line in Clark county
was most disastrous. Mr.. Keere
could not conceive of a case where {
telephone company deserved aid. The
business was at best sort of a monop
oily. Mr.. Vandercook objected vigor.
ously to certain insinuations that the
people of north Wisconsin did no
know enough to protect themselves
even if the measure should pass. A
this stage Mr.. NJ. w. Ryan made {
motion to adjourn, which prevailed
thus leaving the bill Enacted upon.