River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-03-14
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.


MADISON. Wis, March SIN the Senate Prices
resolution for amendment 10 the constitution pro-
hibting the traffic In tbxicating liquors up and
was discussed at length. Senators Price and Rey-
nods made strong arguments in its favor, and Sena
tors Anderson, Wing and others against. The reso-
tuition was finally killed, 10 to IA. Bills passed. The
local option law for villages and towns for exhihi-
ton of Wisconsin dairy products at the Paris exhibi
ton; providing for seven fish commissioners. Bills
were concurred in appropratiug $500 to II. n.
Smith, State prison commissioner for money lost In
the bursted Corn Exchange bank of Waupun; for
the preservation of trout in st. crox county. Bills
killed: Amending the railroad law so as to prevent
persons using nnfenced as well as fenced railroad
tracks public highways; restoring capital punish
ment and relating to attachments. The bin for the
enlargement of the State capitol was made the special
In the Assembly bills passed relative TO the publi
cation of city charters, the Assembly spending most
of the session in committee of the whole.
EVENING SESSION.
The Senate had an evening session tonight for
consideration of the several bills relative to insane
institutions. The bill for State institution for in
and cure of inebriates in the city of Milwaukee
hundred and ninety thousand dollars TO the Northern
asylum and eighty thousand dollars to the State In
sane asylum for the erection Of wings, and also
for the cure of insane, made the special order
for Tomorrow at ii a. m.
MADISON, Wis, March 6.-rThe Senate was
largely occupied on a bill providing for a
county system for care of the insane. IL was
largely amended laid over and ordered printed.
bill for enlarging the supreme court rooms
was passed to the third reading bv a large
majority. Bills passed in regard to making
out life insurance policies, relating TO the fore
closure of mortgages for locating and changing
county seats, and in relation to the publication
and sale of reports of the geological survey. A
resolution was adopted intsructing all commit
tees to report all bills by the 9th. The bill for
the extension of the capitol was ordered to the
third reading. In the Assembly bill was con-
Cured in providing for sterotyping the reports
OF the supreme court. The bill appropriating
fifteen thousand dollars to the Milwaukee home
for the friendless, was ordered to the third
reading. A large number of bills were indei-
nitely postponed.
NIGHT REPORT
MADISON. Wis, March 6.-The Assembly had
a session tonight ON the Senate bill making
eight years continued insanity grounds for
divorce. After an exhaustive discussion by
Pope and Carter in favor of passage, and Ed
Wall against, the bill was indefinitely post
poned by a vote of 81 to 40. The railroad COM
mittee of the Assembly will to morrow report
a bill repeating the Wisconsin Central exemp-
ton law back to the Assembly, and recon-
mend its neutrality-suspicious.
MADISON, Wis. March THE Republican
members of the Senate and Assembly held a
| caucus tonight, and resolved on the appoint
ment of Legislative and congressional commit
tees to aid the central committee in the organ
ization of the party for the campaign of 1878.
A committee from each congressional district
was appointed.
In the Senate this morning, the bill passed
relating to the publication and sale eff reports
Of the geological survey ayes 2S, nays /. Au-
torizing the State board of health to make its
annual report and publish 5000 copies thereof
ayes 20, nays 5.
A large number of bills were passed i'll the
Assembly. Among others, Senate bills passed
appropriating $4,000 to the Milwaukee In
dustrial school for girls: for protecting the
State capitol against fire. and to supply water
for the use of the school and park; for removal
of civil actions in certain cases; to amend the
revised statutes in relation to county Offices to
authorize the judge of the eleventh judicial
circuit to appoint an additional court commits
sioner; TO authorize the Governor to execute a
quit claim deed in certain cases; relating to
certain classes of railroad bonds therein named;
and to provide for the purchase of two hundred
copies of Webster's dictionary. Assembly bills
passed to reduce the price of swamp and over
flowed lands in La Crosse county; for the pro-
lection of game in st. Croix county; To
amend the law relating to the business
of breeding and raising furred
| animals; to appropriate money to the Northern
hospital for the insane for current expenses; to
secure to citizens the benefits of an elementary
education; authorizing the commissioners of
school and university lands to loan portion OF
the trust funds to Chippewa Falls for school
building purposes; to provide for laying and
establishing and building state road from the
city of Centralia to Knowlton; to prevent the
adutleration of milk III butter and cheese fac
tories, and to amend the charter of the Wiscon-
sin river improvement company.
The Senate this afternoon killed the bills re-
storing capital punishment, providing for
licensing engineers, and the inspection of boil
ers, and amending the liquor law, making it
criminal to sell liquor TO minors.
MADISON, Wis.,, March 9.-In the Senate
the bill was concurred in amending the city
charter of Eau Claire. Under suspension of
the rules bills passed to incorporate the city
of Jefferson.
Under suspension of rules in the Assembly
bills passed to authorize the commissioners
of school lands to extend the time of GER
tain loan; to peal the law authorizing free
bridge across the st. Croix river in Burnett
county: to provide for the preservation of
fish in Coon river; relating to registration of
voters in incorporated cities; to amend the
laws relating to the sale of land for unpaid
taxes.
Both houses adjourned until Monday
evening. 1t looks now that the Legislature
will adjourn sine die Friday or Saturday
next, to be called together on the 2Stb of
May, by which time tho rcvisory commission
will have finished the revision of the stat
utes. AT the extra session the legislature
will not last to exceed a week. Nearly oil
the members and employees have gone home
and the city is extremely quiet.
MADIso \, March 11-Both Houses had ses-
sions tonight The Senate passed bills for
the relief of III. N Smith, warden of the State
prison; appropriating Ssl, $50 to the Northern
insane asylum; prohibiting the employment of
children in factories. and indefinitely postpon-
ed the compulsory educational bill. In the
Assembly the bill was concurred in
to remedy the evils consequent upon destruc-
ton of any public records by fire or otherwise
Bills passed to authorize the construction of a
dam across Greaner's creek in Barron county;
to appropriate money to provide for postage
stamps for employees; to provide for transfer
of the normal school fund income to the treas-
urer of the board of regents of normal schools;
to extend The ti1ae for construction and COM
pletion of the Chicago. Portage Superior
railway; to declare the true intent aud mean
ing of the language used in sec
ton thirty of chapter one hun
bred and ffty.one of the general
relating to Normal schools, and TO amend chap
ter "a of the general laws of 1857, and chapter
ZIG of the general laws of 1866 and of similar
language used in other statutes of the State.
The State central committee through its see
rotary, Frank Leland, endorse the nominations
of Judge David Taylor and Judge Harlow $.
orion as additional judges of the supreme
court.
LAWS OF WISCONSIN.