Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-08-26

tuberculosis Sanitariums to Get
S225,00O From State.
FINAL ADJOURNMENT DELAYED
Speaker Whfttet Says Many More
Bills Must Be Considered Before
This Session of Legislature
Can Quit.

Madison-Because of the delay
in sending bills to the governor,
Speaker Whittet can see little chance
Of final adjournment of the legislature
as was originally planned. In his
statement he said that many Of the
more important bills Of this session
were still to be considered. The ex-
ecutive Office has caught up with all
Of the work that is before it and is
waiting the receipt of bills from the
state printer.
The session of the legislature will
go down as the longest the state has
ever known. Had it been possible
to adjourn today, it would have been
in session 230 days. Other sessions
and their duration follow:
Session 1907, 1879; 1909, 1876; 1911,
1856; 1913, 203.
The governor signed the Richards
bill, appropriating $225,000 as state
aid for county sanatoriums main
tanned for the care and treatment of
persons suffering from tuberculosis.
The pearl button manufacturing in
dustry along the Mississippi river and
other big streams in Wisconsin will
be protected. The legislature passed
bill which was signed by the gov
ernor, prohibiting the taking Of mus
sells by dredges under penalty of a
fine or Imprisonment.
Assemblyman Hambrecht's bill for
increasing the nonresident tuition fee
at the University of Wisconsin from
800 to 1924, plus the incidental fee
of $24. has been signed by Governor
Philip. The law will not go into eff
feet until the fall of 1916, inasmuch
as the present rates have been an
nounced in the catalogues which
months ago were distributed through
out the country.
After having been defeated at sew
eral previous sessions of the }egisla-
ture, bill prohibiting trespassing on
railroad tracks has become a Law. The
measure is safeguarded, however, by
providing that it shall be imperative
as applied to railroad employees in
case of a strife or lockout. 1t shall
not apply to farmers who cross rail
road tracks from one adjoining farm
to another.
Among the appropriation bills which
have just been signed by the gov
ernor are:
For the operation and maintenance
of the Stout manual training school,
$4,000
For the department of engineering,
$4,000.
For the state board of law examin-
ers, $1,000.
For state aid to highways, $785, 900
annually and $4,000 annually for the
maintenance of the state highway com
mission.
To the superintendent of public
property, $4,000 annually.
For the erection Of a monument
over the unmarked grave of the late
Gov William R. Taylor, $500
The governor has also signed the
bill distributing the appropriation of
$225, 200 for new buildings on the state
fair grounds at Milwaukee over a
period of five years. OF the sum,
$4,000 becomes available immediate
ly. Official approval has been given
to the bill authorizing the state to
spend money to pay for cattle con-
demned as suffering from bovine tn
berculosis. Approval has also been
given to the bill reducing the speed
of automobiles when passing one an
other in opposite directions on high
ways; to the measure providing for
the election of one member to the
council in commission cities to the
board of education, and to bill pro-
viding special state aid for high
schools giving work in commercial
courses.
Practically all constitutional amend
ment proposals were defeated in the
legislature this year, with the excep-
ton of the one which makes a sheriff
eligible to follow himself This res
olution, however, must still go through
another legislature before it can be
voted upon by the people. AS adopted
the amendment provided that the
sheriff may serve as many times as
he can get reelected.
Several attempts were made to
agree on a resolution to amend the
constitution increasing legislative sal
aries. Many members favored an in
crease of from $500 to $1,000. Others
favored an amendment to give the
| legislature authority to fix salaries
All suggestions were voted down and
the Legislators will continue to work
for SSnn . rnar