River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-03-07
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.

| Waupaca county; relating TO swamp and
overlooked lands in Monroe county;to author
| lie the State of Maryland to convey to the
United States the interest of Wisconsin In
the Antietam Cemetery; to provide for con-
| struction of viaduct in the First Avenue
! of the city of Milwaukee; To amend section
l, chapter 81, private andlocal laws of 1861, re-
| lating to salary OF the Clerk of Circuit and
| County Court of Milwaukee.
Assena51y.-The following bills were
passed; relating to town treasurers; to- encour-
age the keeping of stations within the State;
| to authorize and direct the commissioners of
| school and university lands to convey lands to
| the Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan Ship
| Company; TO authorize loan of portion OF
| trust funds to New London. The assem-
| bly, voted to Indefinitely postpone the follow ing
| bills relating TO the transfer of proceedings
| from county courts to circuit courts tovaeate
and discontinue portion of the State road
| running from Portage City to La Goose, in
| Monroe county, relating to holding terms of
| the circuit court in the Thirteenth Judicial
| Circuit; to permit the assignment oftax certif
| icates to towns in certain cases; to repeal
chapter "A of the general laws of 1866, entitled
1 an act to abolish distress for rents; to appro-
pirate 81 900 in aid of the Central Wisconsin
| Agricultural and Mechanical Association.
| SATURDAY, Feb. 23-Senate.- bin
was passed to provide for the collection of
| statistics in relation to the principal farm
products of the State. The following Assem-
| bly, bills were concurred in: To amend the
charter of the city of Neenah. To provide for
| the more efficient government of the State
| Hospital for the Insane; to amend the charter
| of the city of La Crosse; Fixing terms of the
| circuit court in the Eleventh judicial circuit.
Assembly.--Bills passed: Authorizing
| town of Waupaca to hold elections in village
/ of Waupaca; Relating to the circuit court of
| Racine county; memorial to Congress for an
! appropriation for a harbor at Kewaunee;
/ joint resolution relating to national finances;
! relating to holding terms of court in the
! Fourth judicial circuit; for the punishment of
| any person using male animals for the pur-
| pose of procreation in sight of any dwelling
/ house or public street or roadway.
| TUESDAY, Feb. &C.,. Sendte.--AmOng
| the bills passed were, memorial to Congress
fayoring an income tax; appropriating $3.50 to
| Senator Barden, for services as President pro
tenn. relating to release of dover in certain
cases; amending section Is, of chapter 65, re-
! vised statutes entitled, "offenses against prop
erty'; relative to the collection Of personal
| taxes in Milwaukee,; legalizing the official
acts of Charles Naffz, a notary public of Sank
county; legalizing proceedings OF Fountain
! City Mutual Farmers fire insurance company
concerning the municipal court of Chippewa
! Falls; under suspension of rules; repeating
chapter 80, private laws OF 1869, relating to
| business between towns of La Prairie and
Harmony, Rock county, under suspension
Assembly-Among the bills passed
were the following: Relating to patents for
land granted by the United States to the State
| of Wisconsin. To legalize certain acts of the
Rocky Mound Grange Company To amend
the act Incorporating the city of Menasha. To
| authorize and empower cemetery associations
| to erect buildings; to legalize the official
acts OF the board of Trustees of the Fremont
Cemetery Association in Wacpaca county To
amend law relating to the incorporation of
! the city of Fort Howard To authorize Aaron
/ Decker to keep and maintain a ferry across
| the Mississippi river To repeal law relating
| to the town of La Prairie, III the country of
| Rock, doing work in the town of Harmony, in
| said county. To amend law to consolidate
and amend an act to incorporate the city of
| Kenonsha, and the several acts amendatOry
thereto.
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 27.-Seaate.- Bills
passed: Fixing time of court terms in fourth
| judicial circuit; relating to assessment of
property for taxation relative to trial of Grim
inal cases; amending an act creating municipal
court of Chippewa county; appropriating $40
to Dennis Phelan for extra pay as soldier;
amending laws relative to registration Of vital
/ statistics; relating TO certain classes of rail-
road lands, and amending chapter $50 of pri-
vate laws of 1869; relative to representation
of cities and incorporated villages in county
boards of supervisors to remedy the evils con
| sequent upon the destruction of any public
records by fire or otherwise.
4Ssemby.-Among the bills passed
were the following: In relation to the Catfish
river; 10 autnOrinc N. ~ Ixidu ana sUcI atva
Chandler to keep and maintain ferry across
! the Mississippi river; to authorize certain ex-
changes between the State Historical Society
and the State University; to continue por
ton of the territorial road between Token
! Creek and Fort Winnebago; relating to the
| opening of streets and alleys in the City Of La
| Crosse; to repeal cha pier 257 laws OF 1877, re-
lating to dam on Little Wolf; to amend sec
ton 43 chapter 155, laws of 1863, relating to
bcodifying school laws; for the preservation OF
! brook trout in Monroe county; to authorize
| the county of Bennett to borrow money; to
repeal section of chapter 101 laws of 1871,
relating to codifying school laws relating to
the preservation of fish in Columbia county
FRIDAY, March 1.-.Sendte. Senator
| Price made a report favoring the passage of
| the joint resolution for the amendment to the
constitution prohibiting the sale of intoxica-
! ting liquors in the State. The committee on
banks, banking and insurance reported in favor
of the acceptance by the State of Governor
! Washbeurns gift of "Edgwoodn for reform
school for girls. The bill passed appropria-
ting fifteen thousand dollars for the erection
of building for an industrial school for girls
in Milwaukee.
Assem5ly-In the assembly bills passed
providing for the payment of labor in lawful
money of the United States and joint resol-
ution for biennial sessions.
MADISON, Wis, March 2.-The business .
the Senate shows well for an early adjourn
ment. There have been thirty-two bills and
two memorials to Congress sent to the Gov
ernor, forty indefinitely postponed, one re
fused engrossment and forty-six in and in the
hands of committees, the balance in hands of
clerks being. enrolled and engrossed. The
amendments to- the bill to cheaper school
books provides for the appointment of five
commissioners to take in consideration the
various propositions of uniformity of text
books, and the cost of the same, and provides
for a report TO the next Legislature the pro-
ceedings of the commission and the propriety
of the enactment of law on the subject.
The joint resolution for an amendment to the
constitution prohibiting the sale of Intoxicating
liquors, was killed by the constitutional num-
Der not voting. The vote stood, ayes ID; hayes
Z. motion was made to reconsider the vote,
and the bill laid aside till Tuesday.
The resolution for an amendment to the con-
stitution making the school sge six to twenty
one years, was adopted.
Bills passed. legalizing the acts of the COM
mon council of Chippewa Falls; appropriating
SOS, 900 for the State insane asylum; relating to
booms on the Wisconsin river; to prevente the
making and publication of deceptive state
ments in relation to the business of fire insur-
ance companies, and concurred in the bill re-
lative to the improvement of Embarrass river.
In the assembly the bin was concurved in to
prevent the making and publication of de-
ceptive statements of insurance companies.
MADISON, March 4.-Both houses held even
ing sessions tonight. In the Senate the bill
restoring capital punishment was laid over till
tomorrow. Bills passed exempting lands of
the North Wisconsin railroad from taxation;
for purchase of the cabinet of the late Moses
Strong. State geologist; for fire escapes in
hotels; and making appropriation of marked
logs larceny. In the Assembly. bills were
concurred in amending the charter of Law
renee University, and for compensation to the
president pro tern. Bills passed regulating
slaughter houses. and for preservation of fish
in st. Croix and Pierce counties.
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