The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-03-23
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
Senate.

MADISON, March 11-Several amend
ments were made to the apportionment
bill, and upon melton the rules were sus-
pended and the bill passed by a vote of 20 to
II; also bill to determine the length of
time tax certificate shall run, when issued
to counties and municipal cOrpOrations......
A conference committee was appointed on
the bill for the publication of legal notices.
consisting OF Senator'S Down, Tate, and
Hudd 49,. The Assembly bill to amend an
act to incorporate the city of Madison con-
CURED in......Senate bills passed: To further
provide against the injury to property and
life on railways; on issuing warrants on the
requisitiOn of governors; memorial to Con-
gress for completion of improvement of
Fox and Wisconsin rivers; to establish the
salaries of state officers; to provide for safe
keeping of public moneys, and the invest
ment of surplus funds; tO authorize the
governor to purchase the library and cabinet
Of the late DR. Laphan.; bill relating to
courts of Milwaukee....A communication
was received from the trustees of the Insane
Hospital; stating that by the appropriation
bill which passed both Houses, the months
of January and February 1876 are left
entirely unprovided for
Assembly.
MADISON, March lion motion of
Mr.. Lees, the resolutions in regard to Gov
TayIOr's contingent expenses were laid aside
till afternoon. The Assembly bill relative
to the sale Of Intoxicating liquors, passed.
......Senate bills making appropriations to
Milwaukee charitable institutions, passed
a conference committee was appointed on
the court criers bill. THE bill for levving
a state tax of 1888, S29 was concurred III.
Senate.
MADISON, March 13.-Several bills
were conCurred in......A resolution to aI-
thorize Portage to raise funds by tax for
Fourth of July celebration, passed unan-
mOuSly ...... Resolution of thanks to the
Chief Clerk and assistants adopted; also to
wait on the Governor and ascertain if he
had any further communication to make to
the Senate or Assembly.
Assembly.
MADISON, March 13.-Resolutions
being protest against a bill now before
Congress to bridge the Detroit river and
thereby obstructing navigation, were unan-
imOusly adopted. The vote by which the
Assembly refused to purchase DIR. Laphams
cabinet was recOnsidered and the bill con
CURED in.....A memorial to Congress for
the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin
rivers, was concurred in Thanks were
rendered to the Speaker, Sergeant-at-arms
and assistants, Chief Clerk and assistants,
Postmaster and assistant, and the reporters.
THE afternoon session was made season
OF - presentations
Senate.
MADISON, March lin the Senate
votes of thanks were adopted to the pre-
siding and other officers Senate adjourn
ed sine die, at 1920 A. NJ
Assembly.
MADISON, March 14-NO business
was transacted in the Assembly, and after a
graceful closing speech by Speaker Fitield
the Assembly adjourned. Thus the Legis-
lature adjourned after sixty-three DAYS
session.
General.
Three hundred bills have been intro
duced in the Senate, and All in the Assem-
bly,: Of these III bills Ais have passed both
Houses, and all buttwo of those passed have
received the signature of the Governor.
These two were the bill to change the WaII-
kesha County Agricultural Society into a
Joint stock corporation, and the bill to
tax the First and Seventh wards of Milwau-
kee for a hay and wood market in the
Seventh ward