The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-02-14
House.
MONDAY, February 1.-THE speaker
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
Senate.

TUESDAX, February 5.-Pettions in
troduced: For the exemption of mortgaged
property to the extent of the mortgage; for
the passage of constitut onal amendment
prohibiting liquor traffic; for the abolition
of the office of railroad commissioners.
Remonstrances were offered against the abo
lition of religious instruction in schools. ......
Bills introduced: Providing for the exhi-
bition OF Wisconsin's dairy products at
the Paris exposition, and appointing three
commissioners to superintend the same ;
for more equitable assessment of prop
ertv; relative to fencing rail
roads; authorizing the appointment
of a commissioner to represent Wis
consin in the industrial prison congress at
Stockholm, Sweden, next August.......A me-
mortal to congress was passed for the estab-
lishment of tri-weekly mail route from
Whitehall, Trempealeau county, to Eau
Claire, Eau Claire county,. An assembly
bill was cOncurred in to authorize towns
and village supervisors to license hawters
and peddlers within and near their r, spec
tive towns and villages.
Assembly.
TUESDAY, February 5.-Petitions, me-
MORALS, etc, presented: Protesting against
the removal of the bible from public schools,
university and normal schools; against the
erection of the county of Forest for the
passage of a memorial to congress asking for
a law to allow silver to pass current for the
payment of all debts III the state of WiscOn
sin from the common council OF Milwaukee,
asking an appropriation of $4,000 for the
Milwaukee industrial schools for girls.
Resolutions were introduced denouncing the
bankrupt act, and memorialiZing congress
by Joint resolution to abolish the act.....
The resolution relating to swamp lands In
Crawford county was sent back to commit
tee of the whole The senate resolution
fixing the time for the introduction
of new business to cease was amended
to Tuesday, February 18th, and was so con-
Cured in . Bills introduced: Relating to
highways in the town Of La Prairie. Rock
county; for the purchase and maintenance
of fire apparatus in incorporated villages ::
to define certain offenses of breaking toll
dams and to prescribe punishment therefor;
to incorporate the city OF Merriam; to
authorize the city of Watertown to levy tax
to compromise its railroad Indebtedness; to
provide for laying out state road from
Lincoln to interSect certain state roads in
Brown county The assembly then went
into committee of the whole on the general
file. In considering the bill to fix the per
diem of county supervisors at $4.00, Mil
waukee county was by amendment exempt
ed from the provisions of the bill l....Ad-
/ journed.
Senate.
WEDNESDAY, February 6.-After the
prayer chief clerk Turner rendered his
resignation and Chas. +. BrOss, of Madison
was unanimously elected to fill the vacancy.
... Bills introduced: 70 re-organize the
judicial circuits; to regulate the inspection
of grain and to establish the grade thereof
to enable corporations and associations to
increase their capital stock; to lay out and
Z bob Heb fafn tla Nf
( Jackson, Wood and Clark; to discontinue a
territorial road in Columbia county,.
| The assembly amendment to the SEN
ate resolution was eoncurred in, to
make the date for cutting off new
business Tuesday, February 12th......
Bills passed: To amend the charters of
/ Green Bay and Racine in relation to vii
lage cemeteries. THE special order, the
( joint resolution for the repeal of the re-
sumption act, came up and lively debate
+ ensued. Rankin moved to amend by add
/ ing "and that so much of the said resump,
! ton act of congress as fixed the date for
such resumption at January /, 1879, should
be Immediately and Internationally re
pealed." Lost by a vote of ID to 10. After
half hours debate the resolution was made
the special order for Wednesday, the 18th
/ inst st.....Adj journed.
Assembly.
. WEDNESDAY, February 6.-Bills in.
troduced: Establishing board of medical
examiners to examine all parties practicing
medicine in the state; repeating the act ex
empting the Wisconsin Central railway
from exemption; authorizing the convey
ance of certain school and university lands
to the Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan
ship canal; extending the time three years
from July, to the Chicago, Portage an1 Su
perior railway for completing the road for
bidding the expectation of all game birds from
the state by railway or express companies
or otherwise; relating to wages of employees
of railway companies; relating TO the public
/ schools of Watertown relating to the trans
fer of proceedings from county TO circuit
court......A bill authorizing Newport town
ship TO borrow money to pay the balance
due the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Pau
railroad for bridge over the Wisconsin
liver at Kilbourn was passed Aftel
clearing the general file in con- alittee of tn,
whole the assembly adjourned.
/ Senate.
THURSDAY, February Petition
introduced: For an amendment of assess
ment laws for the reduction of the lega
rate Of interest; fer constitutional amend