The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-03-21
" thus far. Judge David Taylor and
Judge Harlow S. Orion have been nom.
mated under this arrangement.
Lenfalntine Proceea1a,na.


TUESDAY, March 12-sENATE.- The amend
ments to the Assembly resolution relative to
the revision of the statutes by providing for an
extra session were adopted. They provide for
an adjournment sine die on March 90, and the
calling of an extra session not sooner than Nav
%. The bill authorizing A. W. Pope to build
and maintain dam across Rock river at Kosh-
konong came up as the special order, and it
was indefinitely postponed. :. Senate bills
passed Incorporating the city of Jefferson /:
providing for the punishment of persons using
fenced or unfenced railroads as public high
ways, providing that kerosene oil used
in cars be of the highest test Obtain-
able on the market relative to the incorporation
of bodies polite; enabling corporations founded
under chapter 331, laws Of 1876, to increase
their capital stock; prescribing the license and
charges that insurance companies doing bust
ness in this State shall pay, and exempting
their personal property from taxation; relating
TO removal of civil cases from the Circuit Court
of Chippewa county to Taylor county, in GER
tain cases; creating department of insurance.
Assembly bills concurred in: Amending the
city charter of Eau Claire; authorizing the
town of Two Rivers, ManitoWoc county, to hold
its elections in the city of Two Rivers; for
the reliof of Horatio N. Smith, Warden
OF the State prison, through loss in
of the Commercial Exchange Bank Of Waupun;
to reduce the price Of swamp and overfiowed
lands in La Crosse county; relative to the pre-
servation of game IN Eau Claire Chippewa,
Dunn, Trempealeau, Buffalo, and Pepin coun-
ties; amending the city charter Of Manitowoc;
authorizing E. s. Miner and T. g. Blakefeld to
build and maintain pier in Green Bay; au-
thorizing the town of Plymouth, Sheboygan
county. to hold it's elections in the city of Ply
mouth; to repeal the law relative to dam on
the Little Wolf river, Wanpaca county; relative
to State road from Marinette, Oconto county,
to Big Suamico, Brown county; relative to a
certain highway in Door and KeWaunee coun-
ties, and repeating the law making it a State
road; laying out d State road from Marshfeld,
Wood county, to Hutchinson's SWITCH in Mara
thon county; codifying the laws of the State
relative to common schools; amend
ing the city charter of Fort Howard );
laying out State road from Ahnapee, Kewau-
nee county, to NasaWoupee, Door county rel
alive to reduction Of the price of swamp and
0verfloWed lands in KeWaunee county /; amend
ing the acts creating the Menomonee river
boom relating to the business of breeding and
rearing furred animals relative to Sheriff's
fees in Crawford county Senate bills killed
Abolishing time sentences to the State prison !;
to provide for the equitable assessment of
property for taxation. :. Assembly bills killed !:
Relative to the preservation of game by MAX
ing it lawful to kill deer only between Aug. 1
and Dec. Is memorial to Congress for equal
ization of soldiers bounties The School
Book bill was made the special order for to-
morrow morning at IL o'clock.
ASSEMBLY. "A resolution providing for the
acceptance Of the Edgewood property, the pro-
posed gift of ex-Gov. Washburn, came up for
consideration and was concurred in. Assem-
bly, bills were passed: To change the boundary
lines between the cities of Neenah and Me-
nasha; to amend the charter Of Racine. . The
bill for the final settlement of the Calkins
claim came up for consideration, and was made
the special order for this evening :. "A bill was
before the Assembly providing for q change of
the manner of assessment of property, so that
a more uniform system should exist. After
considerable discussion joint resolution was
adopted referring this and other bills on the
same subject to a select committee of five, two
from the Senate and three from the Assembly.
Under this resolution the Speaker appointed
Messrs. Garter, Kelly and Pierce as such COM
mittee on the part of the Assembly A bill
pending for an increase of salary of the Assist
ant Attorney General to 50, 900 was under discus
sion this forenoon, and was discussed at
length. An amendment was adopted requiring
the Attorney General and assistant to devote
their whole time to the duties of the Office,
and that no outside counsel should be en-
ployed except in extraordinary cases and on the
certificate of the Governor, Secretary of State
and State Treasurer that such service is neces-
sary. The amendment fixing the salary at
1900 was rejected, and the bill fixing it at
1000 was ordered to third reading : In
the evening the bill to settle the claim of E.
A. Calkius was lost by tie vote-46 to 46. :.
The bill Incorporating the city of Two Rivers
was postponed, and the bill for collection of
statistics of the principal farm products was
concuTedin
WEDNESDAY March 13.-SENATE.- fol-
lowing Assembly bills were concurred in
Amending the city charter of Fond du Lac,
with amendments amending the city charter
of Racine amendments to the Senate bill to
remedy the evils consequent upon loss of public
records by fire or otherwise the Assembly
amendments to the Senate bill relating to fees
of Justices of the Peace to appropriate the
drainage fund in town %, In Door county, for
highway purposes: establishing State road
from Centralia, Wood county, to KnoWlton,
Marathon county establishing q State road
from Necedah, Juneau county, to Tomah, Mon
roe county; for the protection of game IN st.
Croix county. Senate bills passed Providing
for representation of Wisconsin in the forth
coming International Prison Congress ut Stock
holm, without expense to the State memorial
to Congress providing for weekly mail route
from the village OF Wilson, st. Croix county,
to Rock Elm Center, in Pierce county appro-
priating $18,500 to the Institution for the
Blind for current expenses. Senate bills
killed Providing for the erection of build
ings for the proper care of chronic insane pro-
viding for more effectually obtaining reports
from banks, bankers, and banking associations
in the State. Assembly bills indefinitely post
poned: Providing for postage stamps for en-
ployes amending the city charter of Milwaukee
relative to taxes authorizing the Commits
sioners of School and University Lands to loan
a portion Of the trust funds to the city of Ste
vens Point authorizing towns to place all Ii
cense moneys in the general fund Refused
a third reading Authorizing the Commits
sioner of School and University Lands to loan
a portion Of the trust funds to the town of
Newport, Columbia county The bill for
cheapening the cost of school books came UP
as special order, the question being on the
adoption of the committees substitute, recon-
mending the appointment Of 3 commission Of
| five to consider the matter during the summer
and to report next winter the bill was ordered
to q third reading =. AT the evening
session a bill appropriating to st. Rosa's
Orphan Asylum, st. Joseph Orphan Asylum, st.
Hmihanus' Orphan asylum, the Home for the