The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-05-13

every step toward approval of capitol
plans drawn by Architect Cass Gilbert
and favored by the capitol building
commission. An incident of this cam
paign occurred in the senate Wednes-
day morning, when the committee bill
to allow the commission to pay for
competitive plans was reached.
The legislature of two years ago ap-
propriated $4,000 for preparation OF
plans and 100000 for the beginning OF
the work of improving the building
The capitol fire caused the commits
sion to hold a competition for plans
for an entirely new capitol, and IN
this process, indebtedness OF several
thousand dollars was incurred. items
being $4,000 for prizes for competing
architects. Cass Gilbert won the first
prize of $4,000; Koch & Sons, OF Mil
waukee the second, $1,000, and Ferry
& Glass of Milwaukee, third, Sl,OOO'
The attorney general ruled that the
commission could not draw warrants
for this money, and the law did not
provide for plans for an entirely new
building. A bill therefor was ntro-
duced at the present session by the
Joint committee on capitol and GROUNDS
to give $4,000 to the commission.
Senator McGillivray sought TO amend
the bill by making it explicit that the
commission was not authorized 10
touch the larger appropriation OF
100000 until plans under which mon
ey was proposed to be spent were ap-
proved by the legislature. 1t was ex-
DIained to him that the bill did not re-
fer at all to the larger appropriation,
but merely to a $4,000 appropriation
for plans. The proposition to amend,
after some discussion on the floor, was
laid over.
The senate passed the McGilllvray
measure to provide for the recording
of notices and affidavits with county
clerks. and the Stondall bill to en-
courage attendance upon free hlgn
schools for pupils in districts having
no free high schools.
Open intimations that bribery hao
been employed to secure the recall OF
the Thayer local option bill which was
passed yesterday created considerable
excitement in the assembly. After a
lively discussion, during which the
Rev. Mr.. Thayer, author of the bill,
made the indirect charges OF bribery
the bill was ordered recalled by ma
ioritv of one vote. The Warner Dill,
anplving civil service laws for all de-
nartments of the state, was also pass
ed.
Five assembly bills were concurred
in among them the Johnson bill to de-
fine terms drug" and "f00d as uSeu
in articles of food and relating to adui-
+eration: the Bletcher bill, revising the
statutes relating to the bond and du-
ties of the commissioner OF 1nsur-
ance: the assembly judiciary Dill 70
authorize towns and villages to &C
cent donations for the care OF GENE
teries and the assembly insurance
committee bill authorizing city ana
village mutual fire insurance compa-
MES to accumulate contingent funds.
The Curtiss bill to prevent the man
ufacture and sale of adulterated buck
wheat -four was advanced after Delng
amended en- motion of Senator White
head so as to permit the sale of So
called self-raising buckWheat noul
when the article contains no dellterl-
oue or adulterative ingredients.
The corporations committee bill to
appropriate $4,000 for a Wisconsin ex-
bihit at the Lewis and Clark exposl'
L.. ~ Dort1and was on the calendar
for advancement and was referred to
tho committee on claims. It is ex-
ceedingly doubtful whether the Dill
can be passed. The bill introduced by
the committee on agriculture. requlr-
ing all imported cattle to be subjected
to a tuberculine test, was advanced 10
third reading.
The senate committee on judiciary