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SOME QUEER LAWS.
MEASURES sEeoRE VARIOUS
STATE LEGISLATURES.
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erai State Legis.nt,ires-Thc Whip"
ping Post Popular for Wife Heaters
Tipping Made a Punishable oHense.
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Football players. wife heaters, de-
vorcees, bachelors, college hazers. race
followers, corn shredders, users OF rail-
way passes and tippers of hotel and res
taurant servants are made the objects
of attack this year by legislators OF va
rious States. Statesmen af New Eng
land, the woolly West and Dixie arc
wing with each other In the originality
Of their proposals.
Senator Lightner of South Dakota de-
sires TO put football on par Eith pugi-
lism as outlawry, and would make viola
tons of the law misdemeanors, punish
able by fines varying in amount from
$40 to 500 in the discretion of the court.
Coaches and professors are made parti-
ceps criminis with the player One sec
ton of the bill reads as follows:
ANY player in any football game in
South Dakota, whether playing for prac-
tice or in match game, who shall in
jure another player, either Intentionally
or by accident, shall instantly be sus-
pended .rop. playing that game, and
shall not again play football for the pc
riod of ten days from the date of in
fiicting such injury upon another player,
provisions of this section shall be deem
ed guilty of misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof shall be fined in
sum not exceeding 800 nor less than $40
and the costs of the proceedings
In the Nebraska Legislature Repre-
sentative Cunningham of Hamilton
county offered bill which proposes to
make the playing Of football felony
on the second offense. and punishable by
n fine ranging from $50 20 800 for the
first offense or Imprisonment in the eoun-
ty Jail from 80 to 90 days. The bill in
cludes the actual players and those who
aid or abet them in the game, by which
is meant the umpire and referee and
linesmen. Ii is made mandatory on sher-
ifs, eonstables and other officers Of the
peace to file complaints against persons
participating in the game.
The Wife Beaters.
President Rooseyelt's announcement
on the question of wife beating is bear
ing fruit here and there. Representative
Wing of Michigan offers a bill making it
obligatory on the sheritfs of the counties
to WELD the cat-o'-nine-tails on the bare
backs of wife heaters when they shall
have been convicted of second offense
Two days later conservative. ethical
cultured Boston made bid for fame
when Senator L. II. Calender of that
city introduced bill in the upper House
making wife heaters amenable to the
lash. In addition TO the clause permit
ting the use of the lash the bill reads
that ANY male person who beats, bruises
or initiates his wife or other female.
unless by accident or in self-defense.
shall be fined So" There is considera-
BILE sentiment among the members in
favor of the proposed law.
College hazers, through the Kingdom
Gould aud other fragrant cases, brought
themselves into disfayor of lawmakers,
and punitive measures enacted by the
Legislatures of the States are declared
to be the only means of putting a stop
to practices which endanger or cause loss
of life or make men eripples or unsightly
creatures the rest of their days.
Representative Wing of Michigan has
cent in a bill providing for a fine in
harmless hazing cases and making the
punishment equal To that for mayhem
when bodily injury results to the person
hazed.