River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-02-22
Wisconsin Legislature.

lions we're OHered, IN favor OF doing eyerv-
thing that can be done TO secure the repeal az
the law demonetizing silver relating fo the
revision OF the statutes, and call on Supreme
Court for report on that subject Bills were
passed, relating to horse RAILWAYS in Ia
Crosse; appropriating money to purchase
stationery; relating to divorce; to prevent
the killing OF wild pigeons while on their
breeding grounds.
In the Assembly, on the 18th, bills
were passed TO incorporate the city OF OAR
lingt0n; amending he charter of the Milwau-
kee chamber Of commerce relating 10 fences
fence viewers, the pounding and impounding
OF cattle amending the laws authorizing the
establishment OF and aiding in the mainten-
ance OF Tree high schools; amending laws re-
lating to the taking OF fish in the public
waters for artificial propagation; relating to
fees OF jurors, and TO amend chapter $50, gem
eral laws of 1874; relating to witness fees in
courts OF record; amending laws relating to
fire departments Some time was spent in
committee OF the whole, Mr. Phineas Baldwin
in the chair. Several bills were ordered to a
third reading.
On the 18th, in the Senate, bills were
passed TO appropriate to the Deaf and Dumb
and Blind Asylums, the Industrial School
fer boys, the Northern Hospital for the In
sane, the sums therein named for current ex-
penses, &c; to appropriate current sums for
pensions to soldiers orphans; to amend the
act relating to the employment of skill
ed w0rkmen in the State Prison
in relation to the Madison Mutual Insur-
ance Company. The bill to make county
and city treasurers ineligible to a second term
was indefinitely postponed. Bills were or
dered engrossed and read a third time, to
amend the act relating to Union School Dis
triet, in Green county TO determined questions
relating to the licensing OF the sale Ofliquors
Assembly bills were read first and second
time, to amend the charter OF Milwaukee
Chamber of Commerce relating to high
relating to fees OF Jurors relating to
fire departments; to fences to the charter OF
to regulate time OF courts in
Portage county to amend the charter of the
city OF Wausau.
In the Assembly on the 18th a vc"olu.
ton was agreed to to adjourn sine die on the
28th inst. The resolution directing the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul railroad to fur
nish certain statistics relatir,Jto the bond
holders was passed. The special order, the
Joint resolution to amend section l article 8,
OF The constitution, so as to read as follows
"the rule of taxation shall be uniform, and
taxes shall be levied upon all property except
only public property and places set apart tor
the burial OF the dead, was taken up and
caused lengthy discussion. Several amend
ments were voted down. An amendment adj
ding after the last word, property of church.
es and charitable institutions" was adopted
by a vote of AZ to 46. The Assembly then re-
fused to order the joint resolution as amend
to third reading by vote of 81 to SO.
In the Senate, on the 18th, bills were
passed, revising the charter of the city of
Ripon to regulate terms OF holding court in
Portage county relating to taxes in aid of
railroads in Rosendale memorial to Congress
for the extension of a mail route from Berlin
to Hamburg; relating to the comfort OF Oneida
Indians asking for right of way tor railroad
purposes; and Tor appropriation to aid in a
survey of St. Croix river.
In the Assembly, on the 14th, Mr..
Innis, member from Fond du Lac, who has
been unable to take his seat appeared, took
the oath OF office, and entered upon the dis
charge of his duties. Bills were passed to
a ferry across Lake Pepin to confer
civil jurisdiction on the county court OF Fond
du Lac county /. to prevent fraud by colOring
grain in relation to offenses against chastity,
morality and decency. Most of the session
was occupied in considering the report of the
committee OF the whole, and a large number
of bills were ordered to a third reading.
Quite number of bills were indefinitely post
poned, among them, in relation to evidence
in criminal prosecutions relating to evidence
and to permit husbands and wives to testify
in cases in which either is a party; re ating
to actions against counties and cities on de-
tective tax certificates relating to the incor-
to secure further advances and for other pur-
poses relating to form of summons in actions
for forcible entry and unlawful detainer; to
county treasureTs to pay over funds
to the town treasurer, of costs and fees pre-
scribing and limiting the rate OF interest re-
lating to the preservation of game ; in relation
to toll for grinding grain.
The Senate on the 18th passed the
bills; relating to the navigation of
ha in for in
lands for the Northern Hospital for the Insane,
amending the statutes relating to witness fees;
and relating to assaults to do great bodily
harm. Indefinitely postponed; bills to secure
funds for an Inebriate Asylum for the state;
officers of agricultural societies to
charge fees in certain cases, and relating to
farm mortgages.
In the Assembly on the 18th, the
bill for the formation OF and protection of
county Agricultural societies was lost. A
lengthy debate occurred upon the Cen
trail Wisconsin railroad exemption bill and,
and it was lost by one vote.
In the Senate, on the 10th, bills
were passed to provide for the alteration OF
portions ef State roads in Jackson and La
Crosse counties Assembly bills were con-
Cured in: amending act to incorporate the
Chamber OF Commerce of Milwaukee; to
amend the act incorporating the city OF Pres
colt to amend the act to authorize tie taking
of fish from the public waters for the purposes
OF propagation relating to the duties OF Fish
10 amend the act for the
of duck and other wild fowls.
Bills were indefinitely postponed relating to
change OF venue in justices courts; relating
TO municipal aid for railroads. relating to
swamp lands in kewaunee county. The
amendments OF the Assembly in the bill to
exempt lands of the Wisconsin Central rail-
road company were cOncurred in.
In the assembly on the 10Th, several
petitions and circumstances for and against
bills before the Legislature were laid on the
table. The bill to extend the time ofexempt-
ion from taxation of the lands of the WiscOn-
sin Central Railway Company came up ON its
A motion to postpone until Tues
day next was lost. After several dilatOry mo-
lions, the bill was passed. Bills were con-
enrred in to extend the benefits OF the public
schools of Wisconsin; to authorize Racine to
appropriate certain money; to prevent certain
officers and teachers from acting as agents in
The sale of school bDoksj relating to the reg
sterins of names of persons who have or may
hereafter declare their intensions to become
citizens of the United States, and amending
The chapter 90, laws of 1866.
In the Senate, on the 18th, bills were
passed, relating to towns and town officers, and
amendatory OF sec. ST, CHI. 10, of the revised
statutes providing for the competency OF
married women as witnesses; to appropriate
to the Northern Hospital for the Insane GER
tain sum TOR the purchase of an engine and
boiler authorizing the State Treasurer to re-
tain certain moneys belonging to Taylor coun.
ty, and to pay the same over TO Lincoln coun-
ty. Bills were cOncurred in authorizing the
of school and university lands
to loan portion of the trust funds to the
counsv of Racine to provide for an abstract
Of tax titles in the county OF Waushara.
In the Assembly, on the 18th, bills
were passed relating to town treasurers and
defining their duties relating to prisons and
common jails amending section is, chap. 14l,
r. s., of actions for the recovery OF real pro
perry relating to foreclosure sales; relating
to public printing. A motion to indefinitely
the bill creating the county OF
Wells, was lost, and the bill ordered to
third reading.
Both houses Of the Legislature had
a brief session on The 10Th. In the Senate
bills were passed authorizing loan by the
or,rn;ssioTers Of the trust fund to Clark