Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-18

D. passed as the company would go
elsewhere for ice The usual bill to
piece out the salary of the state
superintendent of education by assign
ing him extra duties was passed, 20
to IS. He will get $4,000 extra a year
for compiling laws, ETC., in relation to
manual training in schools.
Madison, April 12.-The Polk
county farmers who applied TO he
legislature for relief for damage done
by disastrous hail storm last August
have withdrawn their petition. A
resolution by Senator Mills Vas
adopted by the senate allowing he
withdrawal The senate refused
unanimously to pass over the COVER
nor's veto two bills, 1925, relating to
statutes as evidence, and 1865, pro-
viding fee for county judges in
sales Of real estate of minors and
incompetents. The assembly bill pro-
viding for the admission of infants to
by the committee on education with
amendments providing that = woman
shall take charge of children under 8
years old, that reports shall be made
to the board of control every 60 DAYS.
and that the compensation of special
agents shall not exceed 81 per day. A
joint resolution providing that he
o of i'm Of
and reformatory shall be employed in
diversified industries was passed.
One assembly bill was concurred in.
authorizing the licensing of ill
posters by cities.
In the assembly the Cady bill
making unlawful marriages between
blacks and whites was killed, So to SO.
after a long debate There were Two
bills affecting osteopathy on the
calendar; las, which has passed the
senate, establishes a special osteo-
path board. No. 191a., about which
a debate ragged, is general
measure pertaining to the state
board; the osteopaths have
forced the regulars to put III
paragraph providing that the state
"shall'' Cat first 'may'O issue permits
to practice. The regulars are willing
to concede this to osteopaths in
preference to their having a special
board of examiners. After a pro-
| longed debate the matter went over
till April II, but a test vote on a GER
tain amendment indicated that the
house was against the osteopath's
ambition by So to 33.
Madison, April Ex-Governor La
Toilette sent two vetoes to the assem-
bly,, both of which were sustained.
The first was bill co permit towns to
issue bonds for the purpose of erect
ing wagon toll bridges over navigable
rivers. 1t related to Richland county.
The governor in his veto said: "The
whole subject of voting for and issu-
ing bonds by towns or other political
subdivisions of the state is of too
much Importance to be legislated upon
in so loose and indefinite a manner.
| 1t the laws now on the statute books
| are either too stringent or too lax.
they can easily be amended by definite
and certain language. They ought
not to be changed or modified by so
general and indefinite an act as is pro-
posed by this bill" The second was
an act authorizing a school board III
Waukesha county to borrow money
| Of this the governor said: "The
present laws would seem simply to
| cover all necessity for borrowing
| money on the part of school districts"
Mr.. Fesenfeld's bill to regulate the
teaching Of dancing was laid on the
table which is equivalent to being in
definitely postponed. Among the bills
! killed were the following: Stevens,
appropriation for John H. Hughes and
| Geo. F. Peabody and relating to licens-
ing of scientists for the collection of
| eggs, birds, as we'll as Ainsworths, re-
| curing no license from disabled ped
| dlers.