Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-02-06
THE LEGISLATURE

| Sented to the legislature. Some of
those which interest our readers are:
Regulating epidemics of communi-
| cable diseases.
A bill providing for a state consti-
tutional convention.
Providing one days rest at certain
times for city firemen.
Providing an eight-hour day on
state printing contracts.
Penalties parents who send children
to school in filthy condition.
Limiting the power of a partner to
appoint a third person after dissolu-
ton.
Appropriating annually, beginning
July 1, 1917, $4,000 for combating hog
cholera
Requires the employment of sign
language Interpreters in the trial of
deaf mutes.
Raising the minimum salaries of
country school teachers from $40 to
$50 per month.
Cities of the second and third class,
operating the payment of salaries of
city officials semi-monthly.
Raising the appraisement value of
cattle condemned for tuberculosis
from $40 not to exceed $3.50.
Repeating Subsection 7 of Section
1856 of the statutes relating to frater-
nal or mutual benefit societies.
State health officer shall perform
the duties of the state board of health
when the board is not in session.
Forbids persons suffering from GER
tain diseases from engaging in dairy
ing or in the distribution of dairy pro-
ducts.
Penalties with ninety days Jail SEN
tence and $1G0 fine for persons who beg
under pretense of being crippled or
deformed.
That the Norwegian Evangelical Lu-
theran church may unite or consoli-
date with one or more synods of other
religious societies.
Private detectives, private police,
watchmen, investigators, claim agents
are required to secure license from
the secretary of state
A bill is to be presented to place on |
the market 100000 acres of state lands, |
which were withdrawn in 1911, for /,
state forestry purposes.
A bill giving the state industrial |
commission authority to conduct in
vestigations and fix the time during |
which domestics are employed.
No child between the ages of Is
and IS years shall be employed or |
permitted to work at any time as a |
domestic or in any factory, workshop, |
hotel, restaurant or telephone ex-
charge.
To change the term of office of the |
Mayor, treasurer, comptroller, COM
missioner of public works, president of |
the common council, and all ward |
aldermen in Milwaukee to four years
beginning April, 1918.
No person or corporation employing |
persons shall establish any course of |
lectures or instruction relating to such |
employment, unless such schools or |
courses of instruction are approved by |
the state board of industrial educa-
ton.
Repeating the law on the statute |
books recently declared unconstitution- |
al by the United States supreme court, |
providing for the revocation of a Ii
cense of a foreign corporation for re-
novel of suit into the federal court. |
City officials, district attorneys and
persons holding judicial offices are
prohibited from receiving any money
or other thing of value from any cor
pOTdllOu, GlluSI DIS d gill VI tOuipSHSS-
ton for services rendered or supplies |
furnished.
A bill to standardize the size of
loaf of bread and that no bread shall
be sold in the state that does not
weigh a pound to the loaf. That all
shall be properly labeled and that
violators of the law be fined from
S25 to $100.
The new game law bills are ready.
The nonresident law for fishing has
been decreased from s1.00 to $500; for
shooting small game, from $1.00 to
$500, and for big game $500 to
$4,000, and he will be obliged to pur-
chase shipping tags at so cents. The
season is proposed to be changed from
Sept. 7th to the goth. 1t is proposed
to have closed season for birds until
Sept. 1919. The buck law has re
ceived attention. Only one deer can
be killed during a season and that deer
must be buck and must have horns
not less than four inches long.