Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-04-06

dennlte pOStpOnement Nos. 333S, to
abolish the land Office and put the
work of the office in the department
of the secretary of state; 149s, limiting
the days for service on county boards
The claims committee reported favor
ably on 423a, permitting county boards
to establish training schools for teach
ers in counties in which no normal
school exists
Madison, March 30.-Both houses
had very important sessions this fore
noon and in each branch big meas
ure was considered-in the senate a
sweeping anti-pass bill and in the as
! sembly the 1-cent a pound beet sugar
| bounty proposition. Favorable action
was taken on the latter while the for
mer went over till evening In the
| lower house the True marriage license
measure was passed and now ascends
to the senate, and the assembly put
itself on record as opposed to the duty
on hides. Indications are that the
session cannot come to final adjourn
ment before the 21st or even later.
In the senate the conference COM
mittee reported a substitute to the
senate antf-pass bill, the chief distinc-
ton being that the substitute goes a
step farther by including political can
| didateS and political committeeman in
its sweeping ban. The railroad COM
missioner and his deputy are excepted
| from the provisions of the act By the
senate the following bills were passed:
Nos. 1873 (Hatton), appropriating s7O,-
! 600 to the normal schools, and 270
| (Roehr) requiring lobbyists to register
with chief clerk of the senate. Among
| the assembly bills concurred in was
the Holland measure providing for the
collection of relief for the support OF
| poor who afterward became possessed
| Of property, while the following bills
were killed: Nos. 100 (McGillivray)
requiring stamp of state board of
health on patent medicines; 33s with
ee), making every village separate
road district; 21s (Lamoreux), regu-
| lating use of sleeping car berths; 227
| (Reynolds) prohibiting advertise
ments on bridges, and 237s (Eaton),
regulating carrying of live stock by
railroads.
At the morning session of the assem-
bly, Mr.. Vandercook introduced bill
| appropriating $4,000 for a new execu-
tive residence. Despite much opposi-
ton on constitutional grounds, the bill
granting a bounty of 1 cent a pound
for all beet sugar made in the state,
the grower to get portion Of the
bounty, was passed the vote being 81
to 20. The constitutional objection is
that public money cannot be voted to
private purposes. Other assembly
bills passed were: Nos. 40S (Hunt),
permitting probate notices to be print
ed in German papers if English type
is used; 81 DRESSER, changing the
weight of road engines from 5 to Z
tons; II (True), requiring marriage
licenses as a prerequisite to marriage;
316 (DengeD, requiring that first Of
tenders under Is years of age shall not
be sentenced to associate with noto
r1ous offenders; 164 (True), requiring
county clerks to furnish town treas
urers,' as we'll as assessors, etc., such |
blanks and books as are needful for |
performing their tax duties; 304 |
(Slade), appropriating $500 to R. S. |
Houston of Kenosha whose cattle were
killed by the state veterinarian. No. |
ITO (Devos), regulating the use of en-
cry wheels, and No. 154 (Jones), for
bidding the use of street car transfer
tickets by any except those to whom
originally issued were killed.
In the evening at the suggestion Of
Senator Lamoreux in the upper house
the anti-pass bill and the conference
report were laid over to await the &C.
ton of the assembly. A joint reso-
luton on the death Of ex-senator John
T. Kingston. ST., at Necedah, intro
duced by Senator McGiIlivray, was
adopted by a rising vote.
Senator Knudsen introduced a bill
providing for the Incorporation with
Camp Douglas Of 40 acres of contigu-
Gus state land.
At night in the assembly Judge Or
ton gave the report of the conference
committee on the anti-pass joint reso-
luton providing for an amendment to
the constitution prohibiting the giving
or receiving Of railroad passes and ex-
press and telegraph franks. The con-
ferees reported a substitute, which is
almost verbatim the bill now before
the senate, containing an ofice-forfeit-
ure clause, reaching to political candi-
dates and making the giving of privi-
leges by corporations bribery On mo-
ton Of Mr.. Hall the report was laid
over until tomorrow. Messrs, Orion,
Rus and Sturdevant were the assem- ;
bly, members of the conference COM
mittee and Senators Whitehead, Roehr
and Lamoreux, the senate members
On motion of Mr.. McGrath, the Bryant .
bill, No. ASIA, was taken
from the table and killed 7