The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-03-21
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.


TUESDAY, March 12-The resolution
to adjourn sine die on March 20, and meet
in extra session May 2S, to consider the re-
vision of the statutes, was. concurred in .
The special order of the morning was the
Indiana Ford dam bill. After listening to
speech from Reed the whole matter was
quashed by vote of 16 to 6......Senate bills
passed: To incorporate the city of Jefier-
son; providing Tor the punishment of per-
sons using railroads as highways; requiring
insurance companies to pay a license of
two per cent on gross cash receipts, and ex-
empting their personal property from taxa
ton; relating to the removal of civil cases
from the circuit court of Chippewa county
to Taylor county in certain cases; creating
an insurance departme ent..... Assembly bills
concurred in: For the relief of Warden
Smith for loss incurred by the failure of
the Exchange Bank of Waupun; relative to
a state road from Marquette, Oconto coun-
ty, to Big Suamica, Brown county; lay
ing out a state road from Marshfeld Wood
county, to Marathon county; amending the
charters of Fort Howard and Manitowoc; ;
laying out a state road from Ahnapee, Ke-
waunee county, to Nasawoupee, Door ceun-
ty; relating to swamp and overfowed lands
in Kewaunee county,. Bills killed: Abol-
ishlng the time sentence to the state prison;
prohi biting the killing of deer between
August and December is; the memorial to
congress for the equalization of soldiers
bounties.
Assembly.
TUESDAY, March 12.-The senate reso-
luton accepting the Edgewood property
was concurred in... Bill passed: To change
the boundaries between Neenah and Me-
nasha; to amend the charter of Fond du
Lac; amending the charter of Racine "A
: int MI o6n tpd rofQ rrncr oil
bills on the assessment and collection of
taxes to a joint committee......Th bill fixing
| the salary of the assistant attorney general
at 1000 was discussed very fully, and then
ordered to a third reading. 1.-THE Calkins
claim came up again as special order, and
was again defeated by a vote of As to 46....
bill wass passed Incorporating the city of
Two Rivers.
Senate.
WEDNESDAY, March 13.-Assembly
bills were concurred in to amend the char
ters of Racine and Fond du Lac also as
| sembly amendments to the senate bills re-
relating to a remedy for evils resulting
| from the burning of public records. Bills
concurred in: To appropriate drainage
| fund for certain towns in Dore county; es.
tablishing state road in Juneau and Mon.
roe counties; also onein Wood and Marathon
counties; for the protection Of game in St
| Croix county. The senate refused to con
cur in the assembly joint resolution for a
/, Joint committee on assessment ievies and the
resolution asking the assembly to return the
compulsory education bill was rejected
| ......Senate bills were passed for the repre-.
sentation of Wisconsin in the Stock holm
international prison congress; for mail
route in st. Croix and Pierce counties ..
Bills killed: Authorizing the loan of trust
funds to Stevens Point and the town oil
! Newton, Columbia county; for the erection
of an asylum for chronic insane After
considerable debate the school book bill
was ordered to a third reading. ...... In the
evening the bills appropriating money to
various charitable institutions in the state
county to the Milwaukee judicial circui,
was indefinitely postponed.
Assembly.
WEDNESDAY, March 13.-Senate bill:
passed: To lay out and establish a state
road in the counties of Jackson, Wood ant
Clark; memorial to congress asking a re
ductloD OF the tax on wool; relating to the
license fund received by the city of Chip
pewa Falls; memorial to congress for an in
come tax; to fix the salary of the assistan
attorney general at s. 900; to legalize Ger
tain acts of the common council of Chip
pewa Falls.....Assembly bills passed: Tt
provide for the improvement of Bruney
river for log driving purposes; relating t.
the reduction in the price of swamp ant
overfowed lands in Manitowoc county; tC
confer civil and criminal jurisdic
ton in certain cases upon tn,
county court of Jackson county
THE bill to appropriate ss7,372 to tn,
Madison hospital for the insane was passed
-6S to 26......In the afternoon the substitut,
for the Carter bill for the assessment ant
collection of taxes was discussed, amende,
variously and passed. Senate bills con
CURED in: To settle the question o
license for the sale of intoxicating liquor
by requiring town supervisors on petition
of twenty-five free holders. to submit tn
matter to a separate vote on license or n,
license; requiring hotel keepers to provid
means of Ere escape; to exempt from tax
alton lands of the North Wisconsin railroa.
company; requiring insurance companies il
!. unincorporated villages TO pay two per cent
of premiums to the village fire department..
The Indian Ford dam repeal bill was tabled
...... In the evening bill was passed unde
suspended rules Incorporating the village 0
Lancaster the county seat of Grant county
......A bill for the preservation of fish i