Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-11
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.

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confirmed in the senate as was also
Halford Erickson's as commissioner of
labor statistics Among the bills in
| troduced were the following: to in
crease the salary of the justices of the
supreme court to $1,000 each and OF
circuit judges to $4,000 each; to pre-
vent and punish the dissertation of the
flag of the United States; providing
than any person may change their
names by filing proper declarations
with the register of deeds in the
county where they reside; extending
to telephone companies the right of
eminent domain in acquiring rights of
way and providing for the separate as
sessment of land and the improve
ments on it.
| Among important bills introduced
| in the assembly was one adopting the
Torrens land title system, which
practically means that, after a title
has once been made perfect and duly
registered, it may be transferred with
the land by simple endorsement, thus
obviating the necessity of costly
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sale. Another measure cOntemplates
the state going into the publication Of
school books and their sale at cost.
| Still another permits counties to es-
tablish agricultural schools and yet
| others raise railway taxes some $780,
| 900 year. Other important bills
were: making it lawful for any person
| carrying firearms to enter upon the
! premises Of any other person, when
such premises are occupied by owner
or tenant or are partially or wholly
under cultivation without having
| first obtained permission from the
owner or occupant; making the alter
ing or forging of railroad tickets or
passes misdemeanor punishable by
| Imprisonment of from one to seven
years; authorizing the governor to ap-
point a live stock commission; for
bidding any but lawyers to be county
judges: to authorizing the regents TO
establish at the university a depart
ment Of physical culture; forbidding
the killing of dear in Sank, Richland.
Columbia, Adams and Marquette coup-
ties till Nov. /, 1906; empowering
coroners to decide whether inquests
are necessary and permitting justices
of the peace to act in the absence of
cOrOners and authorizing the dairy and
food commissioner to appoint two ad.
ditional inspectors, one to be
chemist, at $1,000 year and expenses
each; the committee on privileges
and elections reported in favor of
permitting A. G.. Cook, democrat, to
retain his seat, for which G. E. Van
dercook is contestant. The matter
will be settled Wednesday. The
house members of the approtionment
committee were announced by the
speaker as follows: 1st congressional
district, Messrs. Orion and Owen; End.
Benson and Stevens; Sd, Holland and
Smalley; 4th, Keene Eline; 5th, Spratt
and Shellenberg; 9Th, Middleton and
Sarau; 7th, Gilman and Ray; 9Th,
Overlook and Hodgins; 9th, Sturde-
rant and McGill; 10th, Thomas and
Anderson.
Madison, Jan. 31-The report of the
legislative visiting committee was
presented to both houses. 1t suggests
that a building be erected near one Of
the state hospitals for the criminal
and vicious insane, as it is claimed
that the presence of this class Of
patients among the others is de-
trimental to the welfare of all the in
mates. Among other important rec
concentrations are appropriations for
buildings at the school for feeble
minded at Chippewa Falls and the
veterans home at Waupaca; ap-
preparations for extensive repairs and
improvements at the Waupun prison.
at the insane hospital at Oshkosh and
at the state school for dependent
children at Sparta Senator Devos
introduced bill giving street railways
the right of eminent domain. Other
bills were: providing special state aid
for graded schools; to compel railway
empty, from other companies, or de-
liver them at any freight house or de-
pot, and make track connections with
other companies; providing an ap-
preparation to reimburse purchasers of
orders issued by county judges for
care of Kelley cure patients, under
the law declared invalid by the
supreme court; and amending the
medical law so as to require osteo-
paths and Christian Scientists to pass
a medical examination before being
allowed to treat diseases.
In the assembly considerable
number of important measures was
introduced, among them bills for the
better protection of game, to reduce
railway passenger rates to cents a
mile, to publish and sell text books at
cost. to enable people to change their
names easily, to limit expenditures
on account of superintendent of state
institutions, to make special ap-
preparations for those institutions, to
prohibit free lunches in saloons. To for.
bid general merchants from selling in
toxicants, permitting the establish
| mQnt of county ind11cfrio1 schools -