Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-25

making a total of 1,076. The most
important bills presented in the senate
were: Making the deer season 10 DAYS
longer; to prevent the mutilation of
horses by docking their tails; pre-
venting the insurance of children I'M
der 10 years of age by industrial in
sl1rance companies; prohibiting the
use by or sale to minors of springer
airguns; submitting to the people an
amendment to the constitution to per-
nit state aid to good roads; giving the
governor power to remove police Off
ceis and public officers who have VIC
lated the law in any town, city or vii
lage; providing that all franchises
heretofore granted to any company for
the exclusive right to manufacture or
sell gas of any kind in any city shall
terminate within five years; fixing the
license fee for selling liquor in vii
lagos incorporated and unincorporated
of 500 inhabitants or more at $100
and in all other towns 5000; in all
cities over $4,000 $500; in all cities
over 10000 and under $4,000, $3.50;
spector and for preventing the en-
ployment of children under 16 in any
beer garden, bowling alley or place of
amusement; providing for the appoint
ment of a woman on the state board
of control Senator Stout introduced
a bill abolishing tuition at the univer-
sity for all students who have resided
in Wisconsin one year prior to their
entrance. Of the more important of
The house bills these may be men
toned: Forbidding the erection of
barns near residences; for licensing
architects; providing for the instruc-
ton in agriculture in district schools;
fOrbidding the dissertation of the flag;
requiring railways to issue 1000 mile
transferable mileage books at 2 cts. per
mile; for the establishment of a state
hospital for people in the early stages
of tubercular troubles; forbidding the
deposit of fish on the ice of inland
waters; creating the 10Th judicial cir
cult out of the 4th, 10th and 18th cir
cults for the annual presentation to
and stamping of all notes by asses
sors; to encourage the naming of
farms; increasing the railway taxes
about $1,500,000 a year; requiring
water companies to let manufacturers
have water free for fire protection;
for the pensiOning of police and fire
men in cities of the I'd, Sd and 4th
classes; to prevent the sale of liquors
within one mile Of the Milwaukee
soldiers home; abolfshing resident
hunting licenses except on deer; for
bidding double-header trains; making
the administration of narcotics felony
if done in the commission of felony;
prohibiting the use of party designa'
lions on judicial nomination papers or
on judicial ballots; appropriating to
New Richmond the $4,000 which the
state loaned it after the cyclone ap-
propriating $2,250 too. e Wander
cook to defray the expenses Of his
election contest; forbidding the inter
marriage of whites and blacks; max
ing the Imprisonment for kidnapping
5 to 20 years, to prevent adultera-
ton of meat products; to empower
county boards to fix the salary of
sheriffs; removing the limitation by
which Webster's dictionary is made
the standard; permitting pool selling
on race tracks for limited periods; ex-
empting beet sugar factories from tax
alton; granting councils the right to
license bill posters; requiring the
labelling of prison made goods; and
restoring capital punishment.