Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-02

boats did not fall within the purview
of the act The same bill has been
killed repeatedly by past legislatures.
Such a law would take about $4,000
year out of the boiler owners of Wis
consin. In discussing the bill forbid
ding the marriage of whites with
negroes or mulattoes Mr.. Cady dis
closed for the first time the origin of
the demand. 1T comes" said he,
from the colored women of the state,
and, particularly the colored women of
Milwaukee, who want such a law for
their own matrimonial protection" In
the cream city, he went on, there are
"a mixed families and in these AZ
black men have white wives. This
means that AZ colored women are de-
prived of the privilege of marriage.
There are annually, he said, 80 such
marriages in Massachusetts and in
nearly every case the bride is white.
These marriages result generally from
the association of the two races as
! servants.-sharp, designing negro men
winning weak and ignorant girls. A
/ law like this would protect such girls,
continued Mr.. Cady, who farther said
that the penalty for these mesalliances
fell with special force upon innocent
children who become social outcasts.
d. Evans and Mr. Barker opposed the
bill and it was rejected, 81 to SO. The
Dudgeon bill forbidding the sale of
i1toxicants within a mile of the Dor
ders of prohibition town or village
was amended to make the distance
one-Quarter of mile The Ray bill,
permitting state repositories to give
as security to the commonwealth GER
tain bonds rather than personal Sc.
curlty, was amended to specify munich
pal. county, state government or
surety company bonds, and was then
advanced to engrossment. Among the
house bills passed were the following:
Absolutely forbidding the importation,
manufacture or sale of cigarettes or
cigarette papers; providing for the
collection of statistics relating to the
sale of alcoholic liquors; forbidding
the carrying of liquor into election
booths, and increasing the compen-
sation of jurors to SO a day Bills
killed were: Martins, forbidding
convict labor and to provide
department in hospitals for the
insane for treatment of dipsomaniacs.
inebriates, etc.
Madison, March 27.-In the senate
thn tnh 10 Is
children's homes societies for their
work out of the state treasury was
killed. The following assembly bills
were concurred in: Requiring in
terurban railroads to provide toilet
rooms on cars, to authorize a bounty
for killing rattlesnakes, and regulat-
ing storage and use of dangerous
acids.
1t casts the state a very pretty
figure to stamp out suallpox-some-
thing over $4,000 in the past two
years, and yet Superior and Douglas
county alone expended $4,000 at
the same time to rid their territory
of the pest. These facts came out in
the assembly during a debate which
ended in the passage of bill making
the usual appropriation of $4,000
emergency fund.
Monuments at Vicksburg to mark
the positions of the various Wiscon-
sin regiments and batteries par
ticipating in the famous siege and
capture, beginning May 10, 1868, and
ending July 4, are proposed in bin
introduced in the assembly by the
military committee. 1t makes an ap-
preparation of 100000, and authorizes
the government to appoint, before
July Is, a commission composed of
not more than one number from each
regiment and battery involved in the
historic event. These gentlemen may
have their expenses paid, but get no
salary.
A bill was reported favoratly re-
quiring the state university authori-
ties to make examinations free of
charge of all samples of water or ice,
and all cultures of supposed or sus-
pected cases of infectious disease
which may be sent by the state
board of health or by any board of
health of any municipality. Senator
Randolph's hill requiring railway
companies to bulletin in depOts late
trains was concurred in, the health
committee reported adversely the
bill requiring monthly analysis of
water in places having waterworks.