Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-02-21
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.

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Senator Kreutzer introduced a bill to
establish and maintain county train
ing schools -nr teachers in the com
mon schools. b. this provision any
county where there Is not a normal
school may establish and appropriate
money for the maintenance Of one Of
these training schools. Senator
Reynolds introduced a bill to regulate
the sale and analysis of concentrated
food stuffs. A bill was passed sim
plifying the manner of changing
names.
The assembly became gravely
agitated over the transportation Of
corpses and finally decided to bury
the subject. 1t all came about when
Assemblyman Keene's bill, drafted by
| the state board of health, and drawing
much more rigidly the rules relative
| to the carriage on cars of the bodies
of people who have died from con-
tagious diseases came up for a third
reading. Judge orion began speedy
dissection with the scalpel of his
sarcasm. He cut with a recklessnesS
| Which, INC htoDtl alum vi lliN NtoS
seemed to warrant, demanding to
! know what business it was of the
state beard of health to seek to pre-
| scribe, fer instance, that bodies could
be shipped only on first class tickets.
A dead man might want to go second
class, who knows? At any rate 1t
was the railways business to fix
j /, ,f,ay,, 4 nod Too.
to be wrapped in medicated cotton,
| like an Egyptian mummy's, and the
embalming demanded was so elabor
ate that the average undertaken with
an old pair of horses and a hearS2
could not do it. He wanted due care
exercised in the shipment of bodies,
but the present law was quite enough.
Mr. Keene thought Mr.. Orion had
evolved a mole hill into a mountain.
The bill was what the national aSsOCi-
alton of baggage masters demanded
and merely prescribes an up-tO-date
scientific manner for transporting
Corpses. The bill was finally killed,
but Mr.. Keene promises a post NOR
tenn. Mr.. Dahl introduced a bill of
much interest to the various town
ships. 1t purposes to change the
whole system of road control. Each
town is made a road district. This
is a complete change, as now there
| each under II path master. The new
plan is to have three commissioners
| in each town, elected by the town
| board, to be paid $3.50 a man while
actually at work. Roads shall be
worked between May 20 and June 20
and oct I and Nov. /. Other changes
require 1G-foot roadways on side hills
and elsewhere and also that bridges
| be of that width Another important
bill was by Mr. Spratt, abolishing the
| oil inspeCtOrship, and still another re-
| pealng the corrupt practices act
| (Which is in conflict with the primary
election plan). A bill by Mr.. Ross
man prohibits any person or corpora
| ton to have, own or become interest
ed in more than one liquor license in
| the state during the year. Other
bills introduced were; BY Mr.. e. A..
| Williams, making the maximum
| punishment of persons who swear or
are disorderly in street cars 500 fine
or 80 days imprisonment or both;
also, providing a penalty for shooting
of firearms or throwing of missiles
into railways or street cars; Mr..
| Spratt providing that all notes
secured by mortgage upon real estate,
exceeding 25 per cent. of the value
of such real estate, shall be assessed
to the owners of the notes, and the
| sum thus assessed shall be deducted
| from the assessed valuation of the
real estate, and the taxes shall be
paid in the district where the realty
is located; by Mr.. Steiger, providing
that damages to the extent of $500
may be obtained against telegraph
companies for neglect in delivering
messages and allowing mental
anguish" to be considered in the as
scssment of damages.