Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-02-14
WISCONSIN SOLONS.

Senator Green introduced bill in the
Senate Monday night aimed at the Chi
cago ice companies which cut ice on the
meandered lakes of this State and ship
it out of the State. The bill imposes q
tax of 10 cents a ton on all ice shipped
out of the State and requires the corpo-
rations or persons who cut ice to secure
license from the Secretary Of State and
to . the amount of $4,000 to
secure rhft5- Payment Of the tax before
they can begin cutting. Mr.. Whitson in
PRODUCED bill in tho Assembly provid-
ing penalty from five to twenty years
in the State prisons for kidnapping any
person under 10 years
bill was introduced in the Assem-
bly, on Tuesday providing for the estab-
llshment Of State employment bureaus
in cities Of 10000 population or over that
would furnish a ROOM A superintendent
at $1,000 year and a clerk are FUR
nlshed. The bill is in line with the rec
concentrations Of Labor Commissioners
Erickson. Another bill requires all per-
sons to be vaccinated who have not been
within five years. An exception is made
in the case of persons who can show GER
tificates from physicians that vaccination
is dangerous. Manufacturing concerns,
public institutions, etc, must cause all
employees and inmates to be vaccinated on
their admission; employees of State and
county institutions must be vaccinated
as a condition of employment. Munich
palities are to pay for the vaccination OF
the poor. The State affairs committee
reported favorably the bill reducing the
debt wage exemption from $50 to $40
month and the homestead exemption
from $4,000 to $1,000.
The lower house of the Legislature on
Wednesday passed the anti-free pass
amendment to the constitution on vote
of 80 to Is. This amendment, after it
has passed this Legislature, will be sub
mitted to the people at the next general
election.
A bill which will be strongly opposed
by the brewing. interests was introduced
in the Assembly on Thursday by Mr.
Dodge. It extends the local option law
to wards, giving them the same right
as is now possessed by cities, towns and
villages, to decide whether liquor shall
be sold within their limits.
Among bills introduced in the Legisla-
ture on Friday was one provides for
home for inebriates, to be under the SUI
pervison of the Board Of Control. The
cost shall not exceed $4,000, and only
those shall be eligible who have been
practically ruined by intoxicants and
drugs Another bill forbids the sale of
intoxicating liquors within one mile of
the Capitol or university or within 900
feet of church or schoolhouse. A bill
was introduced by Mr.. Frost which pro-
vides for the taxation of mortgages by
making borrowers and lenders bear the
burden according to their holdings. 1t is
a copy of the present Massachusetts law.
Other bills were: Making elections of
county boards biennial instead of annual.
and placing impostors, gamblers, and all
persons who can give no satisfactory ac-
count of themselves in the category OF
Migrants The Assembly concurred in
the Senate memorial to Congress against
hazing at West Point. Governor La
Toilette announced the appointment of
DR.. E. D. Roberts of GAINESVILLE as State
Veterinarian to succeed HI. Z. Clute of
Marinette.