The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-02-21
Senate.
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.

Senate.
TUESDAY, February 12.-Bills intro
duced: Regulating the time for holding
court in the sixth judicial circuit; for the
care OF the insane by counties having fifty
patients, the state te appropriate $500 per
patient toward buildings and the same per
capita for maintenance as is paid al Osh-
kosh; for the division of Chippewa and Lin
coin counties; TO found a home for chronic
insane; for the exemption of lands of the
Northern railroad; appropriating 81 900 to
St. Rosa'S, st. Joseph and st. fmelianus
orphan aSylums, the Home OF the Friend
less, ST. Nincents Founding Hospital and
orphan asylum; also $3.50 each
to the Cadle Home andS Joseph's hospital,
of Green Bay, and st. Luke's hospital, OF
Racine "A ,esolution 10 instruct the con
gsessiUnal delegation to voSe ;rs the imme'
diate repeal of the resumption act was in
troduced by TORY Adjourned.
Assembly.
TUESDAY, February l2.-Letters, peti-
tions, etc. introduced Several remon-
strances against the removal of the bible
from public schools; for a state road in
Pepin, Pierce and ST. Croix counties; re-
lating to toll on Wisconsin river; for the
reassessment of certain property in Mara
thon county; for law declaring silver a
legal tender in Wisconsin, for relief from
the overflow of land along Lake Kosh-
kong ...... Resolutions introduced: Relat'
ing to the substitution of United
States for the present paper currency; re-
questing our senators and Representatives
to vote for the repeal of the resumption act;
also one requesting them to vote for the
passage of law for an income tax..B Bills
introduced: To fix the terms of court in the
fifth circuit; to punish the crime of bribery
at elections; relating to the reduction of
the price of swamp lands in kewaunee
county; to repeal the act authorizing the In
dian Ford dam in Rock county.
Senate.
WEDNESDAY, February 1S.-Bills
passed: Appropriating $500 to Dodge
county Tor the care of insane persons not
chargeable to that county; for loan from
school land funds to Wood county; appro-
priating $4,000 to the Waukesha industrial
school; exempting certain property OF the
Lake Geneva seminarv.....The committee
on charitable and penal institutions report
ed adversely relating to the acceptance of
Ex-Governor Washburn's tender OF Edge
wood" for an industrial institution for girls,
on the ground that the state did not need
such a school at the expense that would be
required to fit the property for use.
Assembly.
WEDNESDAY, February l3.-Several
resolutions and bills on their second read
ing, together with sundry reports of COM
mittees occupied the larger part of the
morning The bill appropriating 500 for
a monument to Governor Harvey was passed
by a vote of 6S to o.. In the evening the
joint resolutions condemning the present
patent laws and for a commissioner to Paris
N-a EillaI pnnn'S rnSnlutipn anlnrSinn
President Hayes southern policy was killed
by tabling ......Bills were passed: Making
champerty an offence; conveying to the
United States the title Of Wisconsin in the
Antietam cemetery,....A long debate was
had on the bills to prohibit the employ
ment of children in factories, and relating
to the support of widows and minors from
estates. djourned.
Senate.
THURSDAY, February 1.-THE senate
opened with a batch of petitions for the pas
sage of Prices anti-hquor amendment, and
the usual quota of remonstrances against
the anti-bible bill...... Carl Doerhingcr, of
was nominated regent of the
state normal schools, vice Kueppner, re-
signed, and Howard NJ. Kutchin, of Fond
du Lac, as state prison director, vice VIM.
+. Smith, promoted. Confirmed Bills
in: To establish fire protection
in the city of Beloit amending the charter of
Beaver Dam; Burrows memorial to congress
for government postal savings banks.....ln
the evening the second substitute for the
WEIGH bill in relation to publication OF
Supreme Court reports came up as special
order, and after spirited debate it was
passed.
Assembly.
THURSDAY, February 1.-THE as
sembly began this morning with several re-
against removing the bible
from the public schools ..... .Aftera debate on
the dog tax law as itappears III the new re-
vision, the matter was laid over to await the
report of bill on the same subject by the
on judiciary. The bill appro-
priating $50, 600 to the Delavan deaf and
dumb institute passed. d.....Ihe senate bill
providing for the election Of Supreme Court
Judges was concurred in......The resolution
for biennial sessions came up as special
order, but was laid over. Prices resolu-
tion for the immediate remoGetiZation of
the silver dollar, and declaring it the right
of the United States to pay obligations in
coin (meaning both gold and silver passed
by a vote of 81 to 35......In the evening the
assemblywas sccupied with long debate on
the claim of Morgan l.. Martin for S24,000in
1851 due on his contract for improving the
Fox river. Without coming to vote the
assembly adjourned.
Senate.
FRIDAY, February l5.-Price intro
duced numerous petitions for liquor prohi-
pition. THE assembly resolution favoring
the reconciliation of silver was made a
special order for Wednesday morning.
Burrows memorial to congress favoring the
bill for postal savings banks was passed ......
The bill to appropriate $4,000 to the deaf
and dumb institution was indefinitely post
poned. IA warm debate ensued on the bill
fixing the salary of the assistant attorney
general at 81 900; but it was finally ordered
engrossed djourned until Monday even
ing.
Assembly.
FRIDAY, February 15.-After reading
petitions growing out of the bible contro-
versy and liquor prohibition NOV ovement, the
budget of miscellaneous bills of local in
terest came up and was disposed of with
dispatch ...... The senate resolution approx
ing the vote of Wisconsin delegation i'll
congress in voting for the Matthews resolu-
ton was carried by vote of II to Al ...Ad-
journed until Monday.
Senate,
MONDAY, February 1S.-Bills were
passed: Appropriating $4,000 to the deaf
and dumb institute; making the salary OF
the assistant attorney general 5000.
Wings bill for licensing and inspecting
boilers was killed. The joint resolution
for the better protection of fish in Lakes
Michigan and Superior was passed......Ad-
iourned.
Assembly.
MONDAY, February 1S.-The joint
resolution to amend the constitution to tax
property uniformly, except places for the
burial of the dead, was indefinitely post
poned .. Carpenters claim was also Laid
away, without oppositon,....The assembly
then went into committee OF the whole, con-
sidered a large number of bills, and ad-
journed.
CERTAIN pupils in district school at
Port Jervis, \. j., were detected at vari-
Gus times throwing base ball from one
to the other The teacher, therefore, an
nounced that he would confiscate all
balls found in the possession of pupils
thereafter. In few days he saw boy