Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-03-19

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The assembly bill to appropriate
$4,000 for the home for the feeble
minded was concurred in and the
senate bills to prevent the sale of UNI
sanitary milk and relating to qualifca-
tons, duty and $4,000 salary of the
state superintendent were passed.
Assemblyman Cady has raised an
obstacle to his own bill providing for
the election of county school superin-
tendents in the spring and making
their term four years that will be
fatal to it in its present form. The
measure provides that the superin-
tendents shall be chosen at the same
time as supreme and circuit judges,
but the constitution declares that
these judges must be elected at a
time when no state or county officer
is being chosen. OF course a school
superintendent is a county officer,
hence his election concurrently with
judges is out of the question. Mr..
Cady himself raised the point and on
the judiciary committee.
Spite fences are to be frowned up
on, rightfully enough. The house
judiciary committe favorably reported
the house bill making it a mis-
demeanor to indulge in such ex-
hibitions of pique. The state affairs
committee reported favorably on the
state bill permitting county boards to
provide for soldiers monuments with
applying the referendum. Senator
O'Neil's bill creating a municipal
court for Sawyer county was con.
cured in, though there were many
written protests filed in opposition.
Madison March 1.-TWO important
educational bills were advanced to
third reading and engrossment at the
morning session of the senate, being
the Stout compulsory education bill
and the Hatten bill increasing the
number of county training schools for
teachers from six to ten. The Stout
bill will, If it is finally passed, be the
first effective compulsory school at
tendance law to be placed on the Wis
consin statute books. 1t makes com
pulsory the attendance at school of
all children between the ages Of 7
and IA years of age for months in
each year, and also of all children
between ID and 16 unless they be en-
gagged in some useful employment
The assembly passed the Lenroot
for a referendum on quasi
public franchises if duly petitioned
for, killed the so-called barber bill,
the bill to enable the state
treasurer to obtain bonds from surety
passed the Devils lake
park proposition, hung up an amend
ment to the Merton bill passed in the
also postponed action for a week on
the mill school tax bill. This measure
and the barber bill occasioned some
debate. The barber bill was a special
order for II o'clock and as soon as
that hour arrived two amendments
were offered, one by Mr.. Morgan re-
ducing the apprentice period from
Two years to one, and another by Mr..
c, H. Smith bringing Turkish bath
establishments under the perview of
the act and requiring the state inspec-
tors to see that the rubbing brushes
and other paraphernalia should be
kept in an anti-septic state and also
to see that hotel combs, brushes and
wash5owls should be maintained in
such condition as not to produce in
fiction. Both were rejected. MI
Cowling made an argument in behalf
Of the bill, saying that in past legisla-
lures some fun had been had at the
expense of such bills, but that really
there was a serious side. The ten
denCy of the state is to protect the
public from unsanitary conditions and
from dangers. 1t does this with ref
erence to dentists and doctors. Why
not with reference to BARRIERS? The
bill has been objected to because it
creates a board, but there is no eA-
pense attached to this board. 1t con
sists of three members who must have
five years experience as BARRIERS and
each member gets SO day while at
work and three cents per mile for
travelling expenses. The bill express
~ provides that these charges shall
come out of the fund obtained by the
from BARRIERS who must