Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-07

years: authorizing the governor to ap-
point a live stock commission; for
bidding any but lawyers to be county
judges; to authorizing the regents 20
establish at the university depart
ment of physical culture: forbidding
the killing of dear in Sank, Richland,
Columbia, Adams and Marquette coun-
ties till Nov. /. 1906: empowering
coroners to decide whether inqueStS
are necessary and permitting justices
of tbs peace to act in the absence OF
coroners and authorizing the dairy and |
food commissioner to appoint two adj |
ditional inspectors, one to be q |
chemist, at $1,000 year and expenses
each; the committee on privileges |
and elections reported in favor of |
permitting A. c. Cook, democrat, to
retain his seat, for which G. E. Van
dercook is a 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; Sth,
Overlook and Hodgins; 9th. Sturde-
want and McGill; 10th, Thomas and
Anderson.
Madison, Jan. 31.-The report of the
| legislative visiting committee was
presented to both houses. 1t suggests
! that 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
companies to receive cars, loaded or
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
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 {
mile, to publish and sell text books al
: cost, to enable people to change theil
names easily, to limit expenditures
on account of superintendent of state
institutions, to make special ap
: preparations for those institutions, t
prohibit free lunches in saloons, to for
: bid general merchants from selling in
5 toXicantS, permitting the establish
> ment of county industrial schools, tt
require BARRIERS to take out licenses
Mr.. Thomas offered a bill for the
protection Of misunderstanding birds
If it becomes a law it will give the
wild birds the protection they should
have. This is the measure so mucl
: desired by upward Of a hundred
Audubon societies in the state and b,
many farmers and others who have
given much attention to the Value o
, wild birds in their relation to agri
: culture. 1t does not seek to protec
: the game birds. Birds may also b.
kept alive for the purpose of study
. There is nothing in the bill to preven
the keeping of canarieS and Other
pets, nor of mounted specimens, bu
!. the traffic in live or dead native birds
is very properly prohibited. The
y other birds excluded from protection
are the common crow, the English
sparrow and two species of hawks
These, are the only birds found in
this state which the Investigations Of
:. the United States department of agri
culture have shown to be harmful
;. Another bill by Mr.. Thomas forbids
persons to hunt on enclosed lands
without the permission Of the owners
Mr.. Roe presented bill authorizing
county boards to proceed to lay out
highways on the petition of not less
than Is free-holders of the county
(Now 800 and of each town interest.
ed (Now 12).
Madison, Feb. In the senate
| nothing of moment was ACCOMPLISHED