Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-05-21

Thiessenhusen, Thompson, Timlin,
j Waterman, White, Willot-34. Mr..
Coffland's bill providing for a building
for the violently insane and appropri-
ating 100000 therefore was passed,
/ by vote Of AZ to 26. The tax COM
mittee reported for indefinite post
ponement, the freak bill exempting
, the property Of the brotherhood of
Elks from taxation. The railroad COM
mittee reported without recommends
ton the bill prohibiting the giving or
receiving rebates of freight rates and
forbidding the running of double
header trains.
Madison, May 13.-The senate
Judiciary committee reported a bill
for the establishment of commission
for the purpose of redistricting the
judicial circuits Of the state. The
purpose of the bill is to have the COM
missioners examine the amount OF
work done in the different circuits
and have a redistricting made so as
to have the work more evenly divided
! Then senate passed a bill introduced
by Senator Riordan for the purpose of
permitting counties to increaes the
bounties on wolves. The senate re-
cOnsiderd the vote by which it passed
the bill to license architects and the
bill was defeated II to 16.
| The senate passed the assembly
joint resolution favoring the submits
sion to the people of a constitutional
amendment providing for a tax on
incomes. The vote was 80 to l.
Senator McGillivray was rather
worsted in his daily clash on the coal
committee. 1t was killed, II to Is.
The governors veto of the MilwaU-
kee lakeshore boulevard bill was sus-
tanned. The Coff1and bill to ap-
propriate 100000 for the erection Of
a special hospital for the care of the
criminal and vicious insane was killed
without voice being raised in its
favor. The Stout bill to appropriate
$4,000 annually to the state free
library commission for travelling
libraries was passed. The $4,000
appropriation for improvements at
the veterans home was passed, as
were also the bills to appropriate an
additional $4,000 to the Wisconsin st.
Louis worlds fair commission and
some $4,000 to David Stephens AMI
the Cons olidated Stone Co., for
material used in the construction of
the state historical library. The as
, sembly judiciary committee bill to re.
wise the salaries of the attorney gen
with four other bills by the same COM
mittee.
Senator Bird made another unsuc-
cessful attempt to restrain the SELL
ing Of cigarettes advocating the pas
sage of bill reported favorably by
the committee on state affairs to re-
Quire a license fee OF $500 for each
vendor of cigarettes. He spoke IN
favor of the bill and Senators Green
and Merton opposed it. Senator
O'Neil, who had dissented from the
report Of the committee, said he had
changed his mind and favored the
high license. The vote on advancing
the bill was 10 to 20 against it, as
follows:
To regulate the sale of cigarettes
by a $500 license-Messrs Bird,
Burns, Hatten, Johnson, Miller,
Mosher, Munson, o neil, Wylie, Stout
10.
Opposed-Messrs. Beach Eaton.
Gaveney, Green, Hudnall, Kreutzer,
Martin, McDonough, Merton, Morse,
North Randolph, Ruekema, Jordan,
Roehr, Rogers, Sarau, Whitehead,
Willy, Wipperman, Wolff-21
The assembly by a vote of So to 81
passed the bill establishing new
maximum freight rates with an
amendment proposed by Mr.. Brad
ford, to eliminate the objections
urged by the railroads against the
measure and incorporated into the bill
every essential provision of the rate
commission bill which was killed, ex-
cept the power of the state to reduce
freight rates. The vote by which the
bill was passed was:
Ayes-Messrs. Ainsworth. Andrew,
Bartlett, Beedle, Braddock, Bradford,
Britain, Cady, Chandler Cof1and, Cos
grove, Cowling, Crowley, Dahle Dins-
dale, Donald, Doolittle, Douglas, Dud-
geOn, Ekern, D. Evans, Jr., E. W.
Evans, Finnegan, Frear, Fridd, Gill
man, Irvine Henry Johnson, Karel,
Kimball, Kinney, Koch, La Du, Le-
Roy, Loebs, Lord, Morris, Peterson,
Potter, Rank, Ray, Root, Rupp, Small
ley, Stevens, farrell, Terens, Thore-
son, Verbeck, Wallrich, Whitson,
Williams, Mr.. Speaker-55.