Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-02-19


were: By Mr.. Gilman, requiring rail-
way and street car companies to re-
port annually to the labor commits
sioner all accidents at street inter
sections; by Mr.. Douglas, requiring
third grade school teachers to pass
in the history Of industrial and COM
mercial science in the United States
and authorizing the governor to ap-
point three persons to prepare a suit
able textbook on that theme: by Mr.
Hamm, requiring a license of $500 a
year from persons conducting chattel
loan establishments and limiting their
interest to 10 per cent; by Mr. Aims
worth providing that when sheriffs are
paid by salary the minimum shall be
$1,000 and range up to $4,000 accord
ing to population, and also allowing
some fees. The Kinney house bill
requiring persons getting marriage
licenses from judges to pay a fee of 81
was passed. The rate is 81 where
they are obtained in the regular way.
hcluISOIl, GU. Il--SCOIGS Ol UlllS
were introduced today, Friday being
the last day on which new business
may be received, and the subjects
were about as numerous as the meas
ures. II bill introduced by Senator
Miller becomes a law the state univer.
sity anatomical department will be
the heir of all the cadavers in the
state that are not claimed by relatives
of the decendents. A humane bill is
by Senator Whitehead. Other import
ant measures in the senate were:
To prohibit the use Of trading stamps:
providing for the sanitary regulations
of bakeries and other factories where
food products are manufactured; NAH,
ing it unlawful to employ children IN
der Is years of age in shops, etc; re-
curing the use of voting machines !;
giving the state superintendent a sal
airy Of $4,000; requiring that all tele-
phone companies in places where
there are two or more exchanges shall
interchange messages; giving county
boards the power to take charge of
jails, elect jailoTs and provide for the
care of prisoners; apprOpTiating $20,-
900 for the leyies Of Portage and
vicinity; to prevent the docking of
horses tails. The use or possession
of a locked horse to be taken as prima
facie evidence that the party using or
having in possession the animal VIC
lated the law, the penalty is a fine of
500 to $500 or Jail imprisonment Of
80 to 80 days. A batch of some 20 bills
were introduced by Senators Eaton
and Ruekema, providing for reports of
premiums by life insurance com
pan:es, limiting the expense Of gaining
new insurance business in WiscOn-
sin to per cent. of the face Of the
policies, requiring annual accoUntings
and divisions of the profits of mutual
companies and making it an offense
for companies to combine for the fix
ing of insurance rates, etc. Among
the house bills were the following:
Granting life certificates to teachers
who have taught for 20 years; appro-
priating $4,000 for building purposes
at the Milwaukee fair grounds; ex-
empting beet sugar factories from tax
alton for 10 years; giving street rail
ways the right Of eminent domain;
exempting from taxation homesteaus
10 the value Of $4,000; apprOpriating
$1,000 for the establishment at some
suitable point of a state hospital for
cOnsumptives to be under the state
board Of CONTROL repeating the law re-
curing the filing Of election expenses;
comforting the elective franchise on
woman; foTbidding the drinking of i'll
tCXicants in election booths; limiting
the hours of labor on state, county.
city or town work to hours a day;
aDpropriating $4,000 annually for an
archaeological survey to be expended
by the geological and natural history
survey; allowing compensation to
members of village boards; giving
unhappily married women the right to
transact business apart from their nus
bands; also, giving married women
the right to sue in their own names;
limiting the charges common carriers
may collect for feeding live stock. A
bill inspired by the tragic death of
Chief Foley and other Milwaukee fire
men was introduced by Mr.. Timlin.
1t authorizes the licensing and regula-
ton Of those dealing in nitric, sui
phuric and other dangerous chemicals
and also in fireworks and other ex-
plosives. Assemblyman Timlin is in
favor of allowing pool selling at fairs
and driving association meets and in
truduced bill to that end. The bill
to provide a new banking law was in
troduced. AS drawn it meets the ap-
prevail Of Bank Examiner NJ. c. Bergh,
and is said to have been submitted to
and endorsed by scores of prominent
bankers.
Madison, Feb. 1.-THE capitol
building will have to be enlarged or
new building erected to accommodate
the supreme court The quarters as
signed to the judges are so cramped
that they addressed a statement to the
governor calling attention to the need
OF more room. This was made the
basis Of a special message which the
governor sent to the legislature today.
In the assembly Franklin Johnson,
representing the Devils lake district,
introduced a bill which authorizes the
governor to appoint a commission to
investigate the advisability of estab-
fishing and maintaining a state park
about Devils lake. Mr.. Dudgeon Of
int n