Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-02-05
SPECIAL
ORDER
Assembly to Take up
Primary Question
at Once
Mr.. Dudgeon Intro
duces Several I'M
portant Measures
Spring Shooting and
Licensing Of Shaw
ers Sought
Madison, Feb, 3

Madison, Feb. s.
| By vote of 40 to 81 the assembly
last evening made the committee pri-
mary bill the special order for 1O:3O
o'clock tomorrow morning. The COM
mlttee on privileges and elections re-
ported the till for passage and Mr..
Frear made the motion relating to
| special order. Ex-Speaker Ray want
! ed more time, until week from today,
that constituents might be heard
from, to which Mr.. F'rear responded
/ that the purpose of the committee was
not to shut off debate, but that the
| bill had already been widely published
in the press and the voters should
know their desires by this time. Mr..
Evans of Sank county also thought the
time too short. Mr.. Rays motion to
amend the time was voted down and
that of Mr.. Frear prevailed.
Important Measures.
Mr.. Dudgeon introduced four bills,
some Of great Importance. One OF
these is aimed for the protection of
suburbs Ordinarily Wingra Park and
University Heights against saloons
when such suburbs may be swallowed
up by cities. 1t provides that when
such anneXatiOns are made the voters
of the additional territory alone shah
decide whether or not they desire sa>
looms. Another is to prevent corrupt
practices in politics by preventing
office-holders from circulating nomina-
ton papers and electioneering at the
polls. 1t is sweeping in it's character
and is aimed to prevent the combina-
ton of office-holders. A third bill pro-
poses an amendment to the law on
church insurance corporations, extend
ing the scope Of the property that may
be insured. The fourth forbids fraud
in weights and measures.
Other important bills introduced
provide for the licensing of BARRIERS,
for spring shooting and for making
towns pay for education of poor chill
dren at free high schools
Detailed Proceedings.
Rev. J. D. Butler offered prayer in
the assembly after Speaker Lenroot
had called to- order. There were nine
absentees. Several petitions came in,
one from man in Ripon relating to
taxation and being accompanied by
his photograph. About 80 bills were
introduced, the others being:
By Mr.. Root, providing for addi-
tional legislative help for the remain
der Of this session.
By Mr.. Cady, relating to special
verdicts.
By Mr.. Moldenhauer, requiring the
registration with the secretary of
state Of all automobiles used in the
state. Speed limit not fixed,
By Mr.. Strong, making life insur-
ance void in case Of suicide !
By Mr.. Dinsdale, two, requiring reg
istration for the pactice of medicine |
and sugery under certain conditions |
and requiring licenses therefor.
By Mr.. Dahl, making the following |
appropriations for running expenses
for the state charitable and penal in
situations to March 1, 1905: Mendoza
hospital for insane, $4,000; North
ern hospital, $193, 900; school for the !
deaf at Delavan, $4,000; for the blind
at GAINESVILLE. $4,000; toys reform
school at Waukesha, $114,000; state
prison at Waupun, S1O5, 900; school l.
for dependent children at Sparta, $751;
600; for feeble minded at Chippewa
Falls, $153,000; reformatory at Green
Bay, $4,000.
By Mr.. Johnston, amending the law
relating to stationery furnished by the
superintendent of public property,
also for the reorganization of GENE
cry companies.
By Mr.. Martin, forbidding the sale (
If convict labor to firms, contractors {
md corporations; also, making the
abandonment of wife or child punish r
tble by two years in state prison. It 7
S now six months in jail '
By Mr.. Peterson, by request, to IA +
ilitate the sale of certain lands in q
Vaupaca county; also, to restrict b
herfff's fees for conveying prisoners n
o the penitentiary to $40, with SO a a
ay for each special assistant OF 6
uard; also, amending the law reIat- 4
ng to free high schools so as to make In
he town pay for the education of a
hid if its parents make affidavit that G
hey are too poor to do so; also, to a
lake open season for shooting aquatic If
owl from April Is to May 1, in add1- n
on to the fall season. 81
By Mr.. Thoreson, for a dam across NJ
1e st. Croix river at ST. Croix: also.
epealing law providing for improve
lent Of ST. Croix river.
By Mr.. Reynolds, for a pier or dock
n Sturgeon bay; also, making appro- G.
riations to provide state officers with O.
Implement to annotations of supreme n
)urt reports. G.
By Mr.. Rankl, authorizing four adj E
itional assistant factory inspectors b
a salary of 81 900 and neoassary | n