Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-02-16

machinery D. CHtlH Aoopi1lil
steel tank - tower, Sl,20o.f
hitter for lake wa "a - sOt; new BATH
rooms and alterations 10 buildings.
$4,000. Industrial school tor boys
rewriting buildings, SS,UUU; front and
farm fences, $1,000; cottage layatories,
1000. Prison-cement noors, S1,oOO;
balconies, stairs and platforms in cell
rooms, $1,000; extension of dining
room, $4,000; library, 5000; boilers and
furnaces, $500. nome for feeble-mind-
eo-new buildings, equipment and SUI
pervision, Sl5o, 0V0; engine sand dyna-
mo, $4,000. State reformatory-to
complete north cell wing and erect
necessary buildings, sl5O,OO0; to erect
building for use as an asylum or hos
pital for criminal, violent and filthy
insane, $4,000.
by Senator Roehr, to allow any per-
son, not less than five residents OF tne
state, who have received at least 90
applications for Insurance on bicycles,
to incorporate a company for mutual
bicycle insurance.
sums of money for current expenses TO
the several charitable, penal and re-
formatory inst buttons as follows:
hospital for the INSANE; Slo5, 900;
northern hospital, sl6o,00O school for
the deaf, SS5,uUU; school Tor the blind,
5000; industrial school Tor boys,
slio,000; prison, $4,000; state public
school, $4,000; home for the feeble
minded, $4,000; state reIormatory,
100000.
Among the bills introduced in the
assembly were: By Mr.. oarau, pro-
viding Tor a salary for register OF
deeds, sheriffs and clerks OF court.
by Mr.. linn, placing the taxation on
street railways back on the old system
which was repealed four years ago.
Instead OF the license fee on gross re-
| ceipts, as at present, the bill provides
for the taxation as on other property.
By Mr.. Vandercook, appropriating
$4,000 to the governors contingent
fund; also $4,000 for the purchase vi
stationery for the state.
BY Mr.. Germer, to increase the Wis
consin cranberry barrel to the size OF
the eastern or Cape Cod barrel, it
holding now about peck less.
By Mr.. Morgan, to provide for the
appointment of a state commissioner
of public roads.
By Mr.. Wells, authorizing the City
bank of Portage to reduce its capital
stock from 100000 to $4,000.
BY Mr.. Thomas, providing bounty
for the killing of wild animals and re-
pealing conflicting laws.
by Mr.. Morse, placing the construc-
ton, maintenance and care of nigh
ways in the hands OF public commits
sioners, state, county and town, and
providing for the right to build bicycle
paths.
by Mr.. Orion, making the appropri
atoms to educational institutions spe-
cific instead of on percentage basis.
The aim OF the bill is to make the
wealthier portions of the state in
fuller measure assist the poorer By
the present system of the l7-40 mill
tax the university receives about $685.
900, by the per cent. on license fees,
$4,000. Mr.. Orton's bill provides an
annual appropriation to the university
of $26S,000. For the normal schools it
also provides an annual appropriation
of $4,000, instead of the present 1860
mill tax. The next provision of the
bill is an annual appropriation of
100000 for the common schools, in
place of the one-mill tax.
Madison, Feb. I'm the upper house
Senator KnudSon. who was a member
of the second Wisconsin volunteers,
introduced a joint resolution which
was adopted by rising vote, tenoering
thanks to the citizens of Charleston,
S. c., for their kindness to the soldiers
of the second anu third Wisconsin
regiments while in camp there. Five
appointments were reported from the
executive office. one by Acting Gov
ernor Jesse Stone, of Gustav Wollaeger
of Milwaukee to succeed Charles Pit
telkow as a member of the board of
normal regents. The other four ap-
pointments, by Gov. Scofie.d, were:
Halford Erickson of Superior to sue
coed himself as labor commissioner.
term ending the first Monday in Feb
ruary, 1901; as members of the state
board of normal regents for the term
ending in 1902, ]. ]. Fruit, of La
Crosse, Thomas Jenkins of Piatteville
and Freeman Lord of River Falls, all
to succeed themselves. Among the
bills we're by Senator Weed, requir-
ing that registers of deeds and clerks
of circuit and county courts be put on
salary instead of receiving fees.
By Senator Whitman, requiring that
the public buildings erected by the
state be built with Wisconsin material.
By Senator Green providing that
domestic insurance companies shall be
taxed the same as other corporations
and that outside" companies pay 5
per cent. on gross earnings in the
state; they now pay 2 per cent.
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