The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-02
LEGISLATIVE Record.

Legislative Record.
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 23.-Seraate.- resolution
was presented requesting the Committee Pub
lie Lands, to whom that part of the Governors
message had been referred to ascertain and report
the amount collected as trespass money in 1875;
also, a resolution directing the Committee on Fl
nance to examine the funds and vouchers in the
State treasury, and report without delay Bills
were passed to amend the revised statutes con-
corning arrests; to amend the law protect
ing the lands and timber of the
ST. Croix land grant; to amend the laws in
relation to County Surveyors; to amend the law re-
lating to permanent land marks to all deficits
and irregularities formation OF the Waukesha
County Agricultural Society; to ask members of
Congress to provide f1sh-dams and locks on the Fox
River; in relation to the publication and distrib-
utng of the final report of the geological survey,
and approprating $4,000 therefor; to provide
municipal court for Wausau, and to amend the
charter of the city of La Crosse.
Assenebly.-The Centennial appropriation was
cut down to $40 O0O....A resolution was offered au-
thorizing the exhibition of the Eighth Regiment
war eagle cold Abe" at the Centennial Exposition,
at a cost not TO exceed $780,. The Speaker pre-
sented petition of 600 ladies in favor of a pro-
hibitory liquor law. Bills passed to organize the
Thirteenth Judicial Circuit The bill to limit the
rate of interest to eight per cent. killed...A
bill passed for pontoon bridge across the st. Crox
River in Buffalo County.
THURSDAY, Feb. 24.-Semdte. resolution
for the examination into the condition OF the State
Treasury was adopted . The bills to amend the
charters of Racine and Portage, and to fix the time
for holding terms of the Circuit Court in the Seventh
Thn
appropriation for the Centennial of $4,000 cane
back from the Assembly with two amendments,
one making the approval of the Governor necessary
before any monev be expended, and the other
reducing the appropriation to $4,000 The Senate
non concurred in both of these amendments, and
asked for committee of conference, and Messrs.
r. E. Davis and Barden appointed such COM
mittee.
A nebEv.-BiIls passed to amend the charters OF
the city of Racine and Ripon The Centennial bill
was cut down to $4,000 and passed. Also, bills to
provide for the recording of land of the Wisconsin
Railroad Farm Mortgage Land Company in the
Registers Office of the several counties in which
said lands are situated; for the formation of the
Temple of Honor Mutual Life Insurance Company
to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Chippewa
County to fix the salary of Superintendent of
order, was discussed at considerable length and
finally passed by II to Is. An invitation was
ceived from the Mayor and Common Council of
Atlanta, Ca, asking the Legislature and State Off
GERS to participate in the excursion throughout the
South during next month.
FRIDAY, Feb 25.-Senate. bill in relation
to the taxation of logs and lumber cut in Polk Bar
rom Burnett, and other counties before being car
ried off, was taken up and defeated after sharp
contest. bill to incorporate the city of River
Falls, Pierce County, submitting the same to vote
of the people, was reported and ordered printed.
Bills passed authorizing the city Of La Crosse to
construct o. bridge across the Mississippi River;
to lay out State road from Viroqua to Elroy; to
amend the law fixing the time for holding courts
in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit; relating
to actions on appeals to the Supreme Court.
bill to create the County of Dixon from territory
of Clark and Marathon Counties was refused third
reading. The bill for appropriation of So, 900 to
the Governor for contingent fund was discussed
at some length and was adopted.
Assembly.-A long discussion was had on the bill
repeating the exemption of the West Wisconsin
Railroad. which was indefinitely postponed by
vote of 68 to 49, The remainder OF the session was
spent in committee of the whole.
SATURDAY, T0U. AO-EJ6ftCt6.-- JO1uO 4SoO-
luton was offered for final adjournment March
g. . The Committee on Education reported bill
for the purchase of DR.. Lapham's cabinet and
library for the use of the University at $4,000.
The usual number of bills were introduced mostly
of local nature. resolution inviting the Gov
ernors of Iowa and Minnesota to participate in the
celebration at Portage Of the completion of the
canal uniting the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, after
discussion, was adopted The bill repeating the |
laws of the West Wisconsin Railroad was
made the special order for Tuesday next
Assembly-A large number of bills were consid- /
cred in committee of the whole, and ordered to /
third reading, and the following indefinitely post
ooned Requiring the proper local authorities to
grant licenses to sell liquors to persons applying for
them, so that no municipality could prevent the /
sale !: to punish char1varis and mock serenades
requiring all agricultural agents to pay $50 license
allowing any railroad company whose earnings for
two years have been insufficient to pay expenses to
stop operations and surrender its franchise The