Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-25
WISCONSIN SOLONS.

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consin July 1. Gov, La Toilette signed
Thursday the most stringent law against
the paper pipes that has been enacted
by any State. The penalties range from
a fine of So 10 a fine of $500 and six
months Imprisonment, and as an aid in
the enforcement of the law half the
money collected in fines goes to inform
ants. The Senate concurred in the As
sembly bills prohibiting the sale of giant
firecraekers, recognizing consumption as
an infectious disease and providing for
quarantine, creating board of forestry
and fire wardens and cutting exemptions
of wages from $50 to $50 except for nee
essities. All now go to the Governor.
The Assembly tax committee voted TO re
port favorably the bill to tax each bach
elor SO year. Nearly every bachelor
in the Legislature argued against the
measure.
THE Assembly acted favorably Friday
N orning on a bill TO prohibit spring
shooting. Mr. Brockhausen, Social Dem
ocrat. in minority report of the commit
tee on manufactures, made a strong plea
for old-age pensions. In the Senate a
bill was introduced and recommended by
the committee on education TO purchase
a replica in bronze of the columbian
shield designed by Alloys Locher, to be
placed in the rotunda of the capitol. The
Senate adjourned without finishing its
calendar in order to give the judiciary
committee opportunity to consider the
Eaton case The Assembly ordered to
engrossment the bill doing away with the
five-day delay after obtaining a marriage
license providing the parents of the bride
are to be present at the ceremony. The
bill to prohibit the presence of young
girls at saloon dances was finally passed.
The Cleary bachelor bill was favorably
reported. with an amendment making the
tax on bachelors $40. After some pleas
antries the bill was made special order
for 80 o'clock the next Wednesday
evening. The bill limiting exemptions
from garnishment, including a reduction
of wage exemption from $50 to $50,
passed the Senate. 4 slight amendment
will have TO be concurred in by the As
sembly before it goes to the Governor.
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The Assembly took favorable action
Monday evening on the Stout anti-graft
bill, which prohibits any employee from
accepting a gift from any person with
whom he does business on behalf of his
employer. The anti-gypsy bill, providing
that no one shall camp on the public
highways for more than twenty
hours if objected to by the adjoining
property owners or the town or county
officials, was finally passed and goes to
no hic 81 Tho hill
to redistrict the justice and constable
districts of Milwaukee, which was killed
the previous week, was resurrected and
re-referred to the judiciary committee.
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The Assembly Tuesday, without de-
bate, passed the railroad rate bill and adj
vanced the civil service bill and the Thay-
er local option bill to a third reading.
The assembly also concurred in the Sen
ate amendments to the Turner anti-gianr
frecracker BILL which now goes to the
Governor. The Brockhausen resolution
favoring an old age pension fund was
killed without debate. Without a word
of debate the railroad rate bill was pass
ed by vote of 70 to u, those voting
against it being Baker, Brooks, Ever
eIL, Hansen, rank JUuuSOu, MlHeT, nut
cross, Page, Rack, Ramsey, Reynolds,
and Szeymarek. The Assembly also con-
Cured in the Senate bill prohibiting
spring shooting. A bill was introduced
in the Senate by the Committee on Agri-
culture, providing that cattle brought into
the State must be accompanied by GER
tiicate of inspection and must have been
subject to the tuberculine test within six
months. The penalty provided for the
railroad company shipping the cattle was
of not less than $50 nor more than $500
a car, with the same penalty for a ship
per. The Committee on Federal Rela-
lions introduced bill increasing the IL
cense fee for telephone companies to
per cent of the gross receipts of the COM
panies doing more than 100000 business
annually, instead of per cent as at
present.
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Legislative bachelors won out after
the "horse play" session of this years
Legislature Wednesday night by killing
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