The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-03-14
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
Senate.

Ayss-Andrews Bailey, Bones, Campbell. Hatha-
ray Loper, Price, Reynolds, Scott, Swain, Torrey,
Ndg-Abert, Anderson, Arnold, Barden, Grim
mer, Mumbrue Paul, Reed Rice, Richardson, Rich
mond, Ssckett schneider, Wing ia.
Senate bills passed: The local option
liquor law for villages and towns; providing
for an exhibition of Wisconsin dairy pro-
duets at Paris; laying out state road from
the W olf river, Shawano county to Wausau,
Marathon cor S=<..... A Assembly bills con-
CURED in: For the preservation of brook
trout In Monroe county; for the relief of
Haratie n. Smith, warden of the state
prison, for moneys lost to the amount of
$4,000 in the Corn Exchange bank, Wau-
pun; for the preservation OF trout in st
Croix county. In the evening, in commit
tee of the whole, the bill for the establish
ment of state institution for the insane
was indefinitely postponed.
Assembly.
TUESDAY, March 5.-The assembly
began with the usual deluge of insurance
| remonstrances Assembly bill in relation
to the publication of the city charters
passed.......The senate bill to incorporate
the city of Ahnapee was concurred in....
The registry law also came with amendments
to do away with the law in villages or cities
OF less than 5000 inhabitants; an amend
ment making the limit 10000 was lost, and
the original bill went to a third reading.
Senate.
WEDNESDAY, March 6.-The vote by
which the bill providing for capital punish.
ment for murder in the first degree was re-
lected was reconsidered by a vote of Is
yeas to II nays, and the bill was ordered
placed on the general file...... The joint reso-
luton relative to adjournment came up as a
special order and was referred to the Judi
CARY committee, as was also the joint reso.
luton denouncing the bankrupt act The
bill for a county system for caring for the
insane came up as a special order and was
amended by striking cut the words and
inebriates," and the words estate board of
charities and reform" wherever they occur,
and ma king the governor sole referee after
which the bill was laid over until tomorrow
and ordered printed......A bill was passed
relating to making out insurance policies
and furnishing duplicate copies to policy
holders. Adjourned.
Assembly.
WEDNESDAY, March Ga substitute
for the Indian Ford Dam repeal bill, intro
duced by the committee on interpretations
was ordered printed and referred to the
Judiciary committee......The senate bill to
revise and consolidate the charter of Green
Bay was concurred in; also Joint resolu-
ton recommending the passage of law for
an income tax The bill to settle the claim
OF +. A. Calkins was discussed at length
and finally ordered engrossed by vote of
81 to 44......Bills indefinitely postponed: To
provide for the construction of fishwavs in
dams on the Baraboo river and its tributaries;
| to repeal the act to organize the state board
OF charities and reform relating to the
preservation of game; to exempt Clark
| county from the laws of 1876 relating to the
publication OF delinquent tax lists. Ad-
/ journed.
! THURSDAY, March 1.-The bill for the
creation of the office of insurance commits
sioner came up and was amended by making
the salary of the clerk 81 800, and referred.
THE county insane bill came up as
special order and was ordered engrossed by
vote of 2l TO TO-. Prices bill to make
liquor dealers responsible for selling to
minors, and bills for capital punishment
and steam boiler inspection, were killed
Assembly bills were concurred in: Amend
ing the charters OF Neenah and Menasha:
| amending the act incorporating the Nasho.
tab home.
Assembly.
THURSDAY, March THE railroad
committee reported adversely on the bill to
repeal the Wisconsin Central exemption
ct......Senate bills concurred in To appro-
pirate $4,000 to build an industrial school
for girls in Milwaukee whenever that city
shall donate grounds, to be owned in fee
simple by the state; to authorize the ap-
polntment of Photographic reporter for
the circuit court of Calumet county: to au-
thorize the governor to execute deeds of
quit claim and release cases to the United
States for lands enormously conveyed to the
state. Assembly bills passed: TO reduce
the price CT swamp and overf1owed lands
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towns in Portage county to use
as the general fund all money re-
ceived for licenses; io appropriate to the
Northern hospital for the insane $S1, ,98O 500.
Senn's bill to secure to children the benefit
Of an elementary education, came up for
passage and elected earnest debate. 1t was
finally passed by vote or 81 to 40. Bills
were also passed to preserve game to reduce
the price OF swamp lands in various counties;
to prevent adulteration of milk in butter
and cheese factories. Memorials to congress
were passed relating to the proposed reduc-
ton of the tariff on wool; for increase of
mail service in Vernon, Kewaunee and Door
counties; for equalization of soldiers
bounties for establishment of a mail route
in Crawford and Vernon counties. The
bill relating to the rate of interest was in
deinately postponed djourned.
Senate.
FRIDAY, March 8.-After a warm de-
bate the joint resolution to accept the Edge
wood property from ex-Gov. Washburn
for the use of some kind of a charitable
institution, was adopted......Th bill provid-
ing for the reduction of the rate of interest
to six per cent was killed by being laid on
the table.....The bill to appropriate $500 to
build bridge at Packwaukee, over Buffalo
lake, raised lively discussion but finally
passed......The joint resolution for biennial
sessions came up recommended for indef-
mite postponement by the judiciary Gem.
mittee. Amendments fixing salaries of mem.
bers at $500, and striking out all per diem,
were carried, and the resolution was then
lost-16 to 16.....The bill to reduce the legal
rate OF interest to six per cent. when no rate
is named, eight per cent. on contracts, with
no limitation to the rate on marine risks,
was killed ..... Assembly bills for the loan of
school trust funds to the town of Princeton,
Green Lake county, and amending the char
ter of Menasha, were concurred in.
Assembly.
FRIDAY, March 8.-The committee on
revision reported back substitute for the
adjournment resolution which passed the
senate, the substitute recommending that
the legislature adjourn without day, the
committee on revision to remain in Madison,
ernor to call an extra session not earlier
than May 2Sth, to consider and act upon the
report. Adopted......A memorial to con-
gress passed, asking for the improvement of
the condition of the Indians on the Brown
county reservation ...... The bill establishing
a bureau of labor and statistics was indef-
nitely postponed. The bill appropriating
$500 to build the bridge across Buffalo lake
was passed. bills passed
Amending charters of Aanasha and Fan
Claire; fixing the time for terms of court in
the eighth circuit; amending the laws of
1874 relating 10 excise and sale of inte1icat-
ing liquors.
Senate.
SATURDAY, March 9.-The special or
der was the insurance committed substitute
for Sackett's bill taxing the personal prop
erty of life insurance companies. Sackett
offered another substitute taxing them one
half of one per cent, for state companies.
Defeated. The committees substitute was