Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-02-21

Madison, Feb. 12.-In the senate
Senator HI cutter introduced a bill to
establish and maintain county train
ing schools for teachers in the COM
mon schools. BY 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 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 Keenes 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 a speedy
dissection with the scalpel of his
sarcasm. He cut with a recklessness
which the desperation of the case
seemed to warrant, demanding to
know what business it was of the
state board of health to seek to pre-.
scribe, for 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 It
was the railways business to fix
rates. Then the bill required bodies
to be wrapped in indicated cotton,
like an Egyptian mummy's, and the
embalming demanded was so elabor-
an old pair of horses and a hearse
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
TEN. 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
may be a rural district in a town,
each under a path master. The new
plan is to have three commissioners
in each town, elected by the iowa
board, to be paid $3.50 a man while
actuany at work. Roads shall be
worked between May 20 and June 20
and Oct. / and Nov. !. Other changes
require 16-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-
pealing 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 800 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