The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-03-07
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
Senate.

| 1oEoi'a1, FeDruary Z0.-lne JOINT
resolution relating to the consideration OF
the statutes came up as a special order. A
, Substitute was made special order for next
Thursday providing for adjournment after
all business is transacted to meet again
April 10, when the revision should be taken
up as the special and only business of the
session.. The cbamperty bill and several
minor bills relating TO courts and constabu.
larry were Killed. A memorial to con gress
tor an income tax, bills allowing deeds of
dover, amending stringently the laws re-
lating to burglary, were passed.
Assembly.
TUESDAY, February 26.-Bills were
passed: Relating fo the time of holding
court in +i.e fourth circuit; to revise the
charter OF Chippewa Falls .S Senate bills
relatingt 10 the purchase of ground outside of
villages to be used for cemeteries; relating
| to elections in Waupaca; relating to the cir
cult court of Racine county, were concurred
ln.-....A joint resolution rels ing to imme-
diate reconciliation of silver vas adopted
..... The resolution for biennial sessions
came up as special order, and after discus
sion was ordered engrosssed by a vote of
% to 26......A bill relating to the practice of
medicine IN the state, a memorial to con-
gress TO grant the right of suffrage to women,
resolutions asking the Wisconsin members
of congress TO urge the repeal of the
| resumption act, the joint resolution provid-
| ing for a verdict by less than full iuries were
indefinitely postponed. diourned.
Senate.
WEDNESDAY, February 27.-The
assembly bill fixing court terms of the
fourth circuit was concurred in. Bills
passed: Allowing certain holders of bonds
of the Milwaukee & st. Paul railway COM
pany to vote in the meeting OF, stock heldSrD,
amending the charters of Berlin, La Crosse
and Chippewa Falls; retativ. to repie~enta-
ton of cities nnd incorporated villages IN
county boards of supervisors.
Assembly.
WEDNESDAY, February 27.-Senate
bills concurred in: To discontinue the To-
ken Creek and Fort Winnebago territorial
road; to lay out a state road in Jackson,
Wood and Clark counties. ..... Bills passed:
For the preservation of game; to amend
the charter of Manitowoc; providing for a
state road from Lincoln to Green Bay; to
repeal the laws of 1876 for the conveyance
of lands to the Sheboygan Bay canal COM
pany. The joint committee on claims re-
ported in favor of allowing Calkins' claim
of $3,2S1 considered due him by ex
Attorney General Sloan, Senators Welch
and Treat dissenting The joint resolu-
tom amending the constitution SO as to tax
all property except public property, ceme-
teries aud church properly not exceeding
$40, 900 in value, was taken up and effectu-
ally disposed of by tabling a motion to re-
consider the vote by which it had previously
been tabled.
THURSDAY, February 2S.-Bills were
passed: Authorizing the organization of
the Manufacturers and Millers' insurance
company; to sell the 10000 copies of
Supreme Court reports at $500 per copy; to
purchase four hundred copies of Websters
dictionary After considerable debate on
Hudd's resolution for adjournment, it was
amended to provide that after finishing
the general calendar the legislature should
adjourn to meet April 9th for the special
business of adopting the session laws.
Assembly.
THURSDAY, February 28.-Bills con-
cured in: To pay Dodge county about
800 for money paid to the state for insane
not chargeable to the county; making fall
warehouse receipts not bearing the words
&c not negotiable" to be negotiable the same
as bills of exchange and promissory notes;
appropriating SIS, 800 to the Janesville Blind
institute The assembly bill repeating the
charter of Manitowoc and Two Rivers
plankroad company was passed was also
that creditne Warden Smith with So 361 the
amount lost in the failure of the Corn Ex-
change bank.
Senate.
FRIDAY, March 1.-The resolution
relative to adjournment passed yesterday,
was brought up for reconsideration and
made a special order for tomorrow. Wing
! introduced resolution limiting business to
be reported by either house after March 9th
| to reports of committees on enrolled bills,
privileged questions, and the revision, and
that the Legislature adjourn March 14th to
meet again April 9th. Laid over under the
| rules ... The committee on banks and bank
| ing, to whom was referred the subject OF
accepting ex-Gov. Washburn's gift of Edge
wood farm, reported in favor of acceptance.
THE substitute appropriating $4,000 for
the Milwaukee Industrial school was passed.
| ...The Joint resolution on the subject of
an extra session for the eonsiderat on of the
revision came up, and after debate was car
| ried ..... The bill for the erection of the
| county of Flambeau out of territory from
the counties of Taylor and Chippewa was
killed.
Assembly.
FRIDAY, March 1.-The day opened
with a perfect deluge Of remonstrances
against the bills to tax the business of insur-
ance companies......The railroad commit ttee
recommended for passage the bill extending
the time for the completion Of the Chicago,
! anu CupcIlbE tIItt years.
| The resolution providing for biennial
sessions was adopted-ayes 65, noes 24......
Calkins' claim was tabled by a vote of 45 to
44After a spirited debate the bill to pro-
vide for the payment of wages in lawful
money was passed-ayes 65, noes %.
Senate.
SATURDAY, March 2.-The joint reso-
luton amending the constitution to make
the school age of children from to 81 in
stead of to 20 years, was adopted ..... Rice s
amendment to the constitution to prohibit
liquor traffic was lost by vote of 13 to 7.....
The committee on education reported sub
stitute school book bill, and recommended
its passage. The bill provides for a COM
missioner to report at the next legislature
...... The bill to regulate district, ward,
graded and high schools was indefinitely
postponed.
Assembly.
SATURDAY, March 2.-The committee
reported for indefinite postponement the
bill to establish an asylum COR inebriates
w The bill in relation to district ward,
graded and high schools was indefinitely
postponed Pope moved the reconsider
alton of the vote by which Calkins' claim
was tabled, and he soon followed it with q
motion to postpone its consideration until
Tuesday morning, which was carried. The
bull to repeal the law e1emptlng the lands OF
the Wisconsin Central railway from taxation
was taken from the committee on assessment
and collection of taxes and referred to the
! railway committee..T The substitute of the
senate to the resolution to ad journ until
April 9th was referred to the committee on
revision.
Senate.
MONDAY, March 4.-Petitions and re-
monstrances presented: Against change
in the law taxing life insurance companies
; against any bill exempting railroad lands
from taxation against change of the lawl
relating to the interest on money loaned
for extending the time for the completion
of the North Wisconsin railroad -. Bill