Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-03-13


pubkeation Of delinquent tax lists; 10
appropriate money 70 St. Lukes hoa-
pital Of Racine.
At the evening session the special
order being the bill relative to d.
vorce came up for action. The
principal clause of the bill is that
when the husband or wife shall have
been incurably insane for the space Of
eight years Immediately preceding the
commencement Of the action for d.
vorce," divorce may be granted. After
long debate and after several motions
OF dilatory nature were made, the re-
commentator ofthe committee on state
affairs to indefinitely postpone, prevail
ed; ayes 50, noes 80.
THURSDAY, March 7.-Senate. the
senate were presented numerous re-
monstrances against taxing life insur-
ance companies. Assembly bills were
concurred in /: amending the city char
ter of Neenah; under suspension of the
rules; amending the city charter of
kenosha; under suspension; amending
the act incorporating the Nashota
Home, relative to election of trustees;
relative to sheriff. fees; relative to city
printing in Milwaukee,; relative to
county printing in Milwaukee. The
county insane hospital bill came up, as
the special order. 1t was engrossed
and read third time, by the following
vote:
Ayss-senators Albert. andrews, Arnold, Bal
Icy. Barden. Hathaway, Mumbrue, Paul. Reed
Reynolds, Rice, Richardson. Richmond, Schnei
der. swain, treat. Van Schaick, Aclch, Williams,
Wing and Volf-2.
Torrey-l0
A6sentor no, roting Senators Bones and Bur-
rows-2
Bills passed: Relating to publication
and sale Of reports Of the geological sur
vey;-ayes, rs; noes, l; authorizing the
state board of health to make its annu-
al report, and publish 5000 copies
thereof;-ayes, 81; noes, 5. The bill to
codify the laws relating to licenses was
killed; also the bill for capital punish
M nj.
THURSDAY, March 7th.-Aseembh-
The assembly concurred in the follow
ing senate bills: to appropriate $4,000
to the Milwaukee industrial school for
girls; relating to the cemetery grounds
III the village of Elkhorn; to protect the
state capital from fire; to provide for
the removals of civil actions in certain
cases; to authorize the loanlng of n
portion of the trust funds to the county
vi Wood; relating to county officers; to
authorize Brown county to exchange
bonds with certain bondholders; to
authorize the judge Of the 18th judicial
circuit to appoint court commissioner
Tor the county Of Chippewa; to enable
the governor to execute deeds of quit
claim in certain cases; relating to GER
tam railway bonds; to provide for the
purchase of POO copies of Webster's
Dictionary for the use of the common
schools. Assembly bills passed.: to
amend the act incorporating the Me-
nomonie river manufacturing company;
to authorize the town of Two Rivers in
ManitowOc county to hold its elections
IN the city of Two Rivers; to amend
the charter of Stevens Point; to author
lie the governor TO investigate the
claims of the state to swamp lands lyiug
In the state; to reduce the price of
swamp and overhowed lands in La
Crosse county; to authorize the several
towns of Portage county to appropriate
as general funds all license money paid
in said towns; relating to and protecting
furred animals; to protect game
in st. Croix county; to appropriate
to the northern hospital for insane
$SS,OOO for current expenses; tC secure
to children the benefits Of an elemen-
tary education; this last bill is Il mod
crate compulsory education bilD; relat-
ing to steam ferries; to provide for the
erection of a monument to the late
Governor Harvey; relating to sheriffs'
fees in Crawford county; to authorize
the loan of a portion of the trust funds
to Adams county; to loan portion of
the trust funds to the city of Chippewa
Falls; to repeal the law to declare a GER
tain highway in Door ana Kewaunee
counties a state road; relating to game;
to reduce the price of swamp and over
flowed lands in kewaunee county; to
provide for laying out state road from
the city of Centralia in Wood county to
Knowton in Marathon county; relating
to the geological survey; to authorize
the loan of a portion of the trust funds
to the city of Stevens Point, Portage
county; to lay out Il state road from
Ahnapee, kewauree county, to inter-
sect the Green Bay and Sturgeon Bay
state road at Nasawonpee, Door coun-
ty: for the preservation of trout in the
waters of Crawford county; 10 prevent
the adulteration of milk; to lay out a
state road from the village of Necedah.
Juneau county, to the village of Tom
hinah, Monroe comfy; to amend the
charter of the Wisconsin river improve