River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-01-24
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
summary OF the business Iran.actei
Daily In Both the senate nnd
Assembly.


Madison, Wis Jan. 16.-The senate met
Yesterday. but transacted no business.
Madison. Wis. Jan. IA memorial
from ne Winnehago county board was
presented TO the senate yesterday asking
the passage of law prohibiting the play
ing OF football in any schools or colleges
over which the state has authority II
was referred to the committee on educa-
ton Senator Stout introduced a bill
amending the marriage law OF the state.
Inc blu provides that the probate Judge
m each county shall appoint three reputa-
PIE praeticing physicians. residents of the
| county and one, where possible, woman
whose duty II shall be TO consider and
pass upon all applications for license to
marry now made to the county clerk and
no license to marry shall be granted unless
the applicants shall receive from this
ooafo a certificate setting forth that such
applicant are free from dipsomania. true
insanity hereditary insanity or insanity
resulting from vice or the use of drugs
hereditary tuberculosis or consumption.
Madison, Wis. Jan. 1S.-In the senate
Yesterday bills were introduced To regl-
| .ate the practice of osteopathy: to pre-
hlDit attorneys from signing nominating
papers, petitions or calls for any candf-
iate for the office of the supreme. cir
cunt or other court of record in the state:
permitting cities of 20 900 or more Dopu-
laton to establish free employment bu-
reauS; providing for a state inspector
Tor DAY schools for the deaf and dumb
Madison, Wis, Jan. 19-In the senate
blilS nave been introduced defining LA
oiIltes OF employees of telegraph and mes
sehger companies; relating to the pro-
lecuon OF fish and game; relating to re-
assessments; giving rank of colonel to
military instructors in colleges and the
| state university; providing that all
| moneys hereafter received by the state
from the United States in repayment for
moneys expended for the government by
the state during the Spanish war shall
go into a fund TO be used for the benefit
Oh the Wisconsin national guard.
Assembly.
Madison, wis. Jan. ia bin prohib-
lting the sale of cigarettes or cigarette
paper to any person in Wisconsin was
introduced in the assembly last evening
by Assemblyman Overlook
Madison, Wis, Jan. 17.-Tn the assembly
yesterday business of a miscellaneous
character was transacted
Madison. Wis, Jan. 1S.-In the assembly
yesterday bills were introduced: For the
erection of soldiers monuments on Shi-
loh battlefield: creating a commission OF
three to confer with the Minnesota legis-
lature for the purpose of securing uni
formity of legislation on vessel taxation:
increasing the bounty on matured wolves
from six to ten dollars a head; to repeal
an act authorizing the publication OF
railroad maps; to extend the time in
which no pheasants can be killed from
1901 to 1905; to increase the annual in
come of the university as follows: For
the college of agriculture. $1,000 col.
iege of engineering. $4,000; school OF
commerce, 81, 900; farmers institutes
1900; total $50. 900. The bill further pro
vides for the appropriation of SITS, 900 for
the construction and equipment of a
central building for the college of agri
culture and SOS 900 for the equipment OF
the new engineering building for mu.
scum for the school Of commerce. The
sum for building and equipment is fixed
at $40, 900.
Madison. Wis. Jan. I9.-Bills have beer
introduced in the assembly providing thai
all county school superintendent mus
have taught school for at least eigh
months and hold teachers and superin
| tendents' certificates before being clig
| BILE to appointment; amending marriag,
| license fee law so that Is cents of thi
| 50-eent fee goes to the county clerk in
stead of the whole fee going to the coup
| ty; providing that midwives and physt
| clans be allowed % cents for each brit
or death certificate filed with the registe,
! of deeds. A resolution was introduced
| that no more bills be accepted in the as
| sembly. except from standing commit.
| tees, after February 2. The resolution
was laid over.