Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-02-07

ment OF physical culture; forbidding
the killing of dear in Sank, Richland,
Columbia, Adams and Marquette coun-
ties till Nov. l., 1906; empowering
coroners to decide whether inquests
are necessary and permitting justices
of tn. peace to act in the absence OF
coroners and authorizing the dairy and
food commissioner to appoint two adj
ditional inspectors, one to be
chemist, at $500 d year and expenses
each; the committee on privileges
and elections reported in favor of
permitting A. c. Cook, democrat, to
retain his seat, for which g. f. Van.
dercook is contestant. The matter
will be settled Wednesday. The
house members of the approtionment
committee were announced by the
| speaker as follows: 1st congressional
district Messrs orion and owen; End,
! Benson and Stevens; Sd, Holland and
Smalley; 4th, Keene Eline; 9TH, Spratt
and Shelenberg; 9Th, Middleton and
Overlook and Hodgins; 9th. Sturde-
want and McGill; 10th, Thomas and
Anderson.
/ Madison, Jan. 31.-The report of the
/ legislative visiting committee was
! presented to both houses. 1t suggests
that a building be erected near one of
the state hospitals for the criminal
and vicious insane, AS it is claimed
that the presence of this class Of
patients among the others is de-
trimental to the welfare of all the in
mates. Among other important rec
concentrations are appropriations for
buildings az the school for feeble
minded at Chippewa Falls and the
veterans home at Waupaca; APP
preparations for extensive repairs and
improvements at the Waupun prison,
at the insane hospital at Oshkosh and
at the state school for dependent
children at Sparta Senator Devos
introduced bill giving street railways
the right of emire domain. Other
bills We're: providing special state aid
for graded schools; TO compel railway
companies to receive cars, loaded or
empty, from other companies. or de-
liver them at any freight house or de-
pot, and make track connections with
other companies; providing an APP
preparation to reimburse purchasers of
orders issued by county judges for
care of Kelley cure patients, under
the law declared invalid by the
supreme court; and amending the
medical law so as to require osteo-
paths and Christian Scientists to pass
a medical examination before being
allowed to treat diseases.
In the assembly considerable
number of important measures was
introduced, among them bills for the
better protection of game, to reduce
railway passenger rates to cents a
mile, to publish and sell text books at
cost, to enable people to change their
names easily, to limit expenditures
on account OF superintendents of state
institutions, to make special APP
preparations for those Institutions, TO
prohibit free lunches in saloons, to for
bid general merchants from selling in
toXicants, permitting the establish
ment of county industrial schools, to
require BARRIERS to take out licenses.
Mr. Thomas offered a bill for the
protection of notwithstanding birds.
If ii becomes a law it will give the
wild birds the protection they should
have. This is the measure so much
desired by upward of hundred
Audubon societies in the state and by
many farmers and others who have
given much attention 10 the talue of
wild birds in their relation to agri-
culture. 1t does not seek to protect
the game birds. Birds may also be
kept alive for the purpose of study.
There is nothing in the bill to prevent
the keeping of canaries and other
pets, nor of mounted specimens, but
the traffic in live or dead native birds
is very properly prohibited. The
other birds excluded from protection
are the common crow, the English
sparrow and two species of hawks
These are the only birds found in
this state which the investigations of
the United States department of agri-
culture have shown TO be harmful.
Another bill by Mr.. Thomas forbids
persons to hunt on enclosed lands
without the permission of the owners.
Mr.. Roe presented a bill authorizing
county boards to proceed to lay out
/, ,..l.,, II.
than IL free-holders of the county
(Now 800 and of each town interest
ed Now 12).