The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-03-02
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
Assembly.

Assembly.
MONDAY, February 11.-Remon-
strances we're presented from various parts
of the state against removing the bible fro m
the public schools 49,. Petitions were pre-
scented Tor the repeal of last winters laws
exempting the Wisconsin Central lands
from taxation....A joint resolution was
offered by the speaker asking Wisconsin
senators and representatives to secure leg
islatlon Tor the survey of the head waters
OF the st. Croix river......Bills introduced /:
10 instruct the governor to inquire into the
claim of the state swamp lands in Wiscon-
SIN; authorizing notaries to legalize mar
rlages; to appropriate 81 900 to the Home
for the Friendless, Milwaukee; for a CON-
mission to prepare laws relating to town or
ganlzatlons......A Adjourned.
Senate.
TUESDAY, February 12.-Bills intro
duced: Regulating the time for holding
court in the sixth judicial circuit; for the
care of the insane by counties having fifty
patients, the state to appropriate 5000 per
patient toward buildings and the same per
capita for maintenance as is paid at Osh-
kosh; for the division of Chippewa and Lin
coin counties; to found home for chronic
insane; for the exemption of lands of the
Northern railroad: appropriating 81 900 to
st. Rosa's, st. Joseph and ST. Emcli2nus
orphan asylums, the Home of the Friend
less, ST. Vincent's Founding Hospital and
Milwaukee orphan asylum; also $3.50 each
to the Gable Home and st. Joseph's hospital,
of Green Bay, and st. Luke's hospital of
Racine 80. A resolution to instruct the con-
gresslonal delegation to vote for the imme-
date repeal of the resumption act was in
troduced by Torrey Adjourned.
Assembly
TUESDAY, February 12.-Letters, petit
tions, etc. introduced: Several remon-
strances against the removal of the bible
from public schools; for state road in
Pepin, Pierce and st. Croix counties; re-
lating to toll on Wisconsin river; for the
reassessment of certain property in Marathon
county; for a law declaring silver a legal
tender in Wisconsin; for relief from the
overflow of land along Lake Koshkonong
49,. Resolutions introduced: Relating
to the substitution of United
States notes for the present paper currency;
requesting our senators and representatives
to vote for the repeal of the resumption act;
also one requesting them to vote for the
passage of a law for an income tax Bills
introduced: To fix the terms of court in the
fifth circuit; to punish the crime of bribery
at elections; relating to the reduction of
the price of swamp lands in Kewaunee
county; to repeal the act authorizing the In.
dian Ford dam in Rock county.
Senate.
WEDNESDAY, February 13.-Bills
passed: Appropriating $500 to Dodge
county for the care of insane persons not
chargeable to that county; for loan from
school land funds to Wood county; appro-
priating $780, 900 to the Waukesha industrial
school; exempting certain property of the
Lake Geneva seminary. committee
on charitable and penal institutions reported
adversely relating to the acceptance of ex.
Governor Washburn's tender of "Edge.
wood" for an industrial institution for girls
on the ground that the state did not need
such school at the expense that would be
required to tit the property for use.
Assembly.
WEDNESDAY, February 13.-Several
resolutions and bills on their second read
ing, together with sundry reports of COM
mittees occupied the larger part of the
morning. THE bill appropriating 500 for
monument to Governor Harvey was pass
ed by a vote of 6S to 29.....In the evening
the joint resolutions condemning the pres
ent patent laws, and for a commissioner to
Paris, were killed. ..Popes resolution en-
dorsing President Hayes southern policy
was killed by tabling Bills were passed:
Making champerty an offence; conveying to
the United States the title of Wisconsin in
the Antietam cemetery.....A long debate
was had on the bills to prohibit the employ
ment of children in factories, and relating
to the support of widows and minors from
estates. Adjourned.
Senate.
THURSDAY, February 1.-THE senate
opened with batch of petitions for the pas
sage of Prices anti-iquor amendment, and
the usual quota OF remOnstrances against
the anti-bible bill Carl Doerflinger of
Milwaukee, was nominated regent of the
state normal schools, vice Kueppner, re-
signed and Howard NJ Kutchin. of Fond
du Lac, as state prison director, vice VIM. f.
Smith, promoted. Confirmed Bills con-
Cured in: To establish fire protection in the
city of Beloit; amending the charter of
Beaver Dam Burrows memorial to congress
for government postal savings banks $50 In
the evening the second substitute for the
Welch bill in relation to publication of
Supreme Court reports came up as a special
order, and after spirited debate it was
passed.
Assembly.
THURSDAY, February 1.-THE as
sembly began this morning with several re.
monstrances against removing the bible
from the public schools AFTER a debate
on the dog tax law as it appears in the new
revision, the matter was laid over to await
the report of bill on the same subject by
the committee on Judiciary $3.50 The bill APP
propriating $4,000 to the Delavan deaf an d
dumb institute passed.. The senate bill
providing for the election of Supreme Court
iudppS WAS pODcurre6 in The resolution
for biennial sessions came up as a special
order, but was laid Over..... Prices resOlu-
ton for the Immediate reconciliation of the
silver dollar, and declaring it the right of
the United States to pay obligations in coin
(meaning both gold and silver passed by a
vote of 81 to 35......In the evening the as
semblv was occupied with a long debate on
the claim of Morgan l.. Martin for 900
in 1851 due on his contract for improving
the Fox river Without coming to vote
the assembly adjourned.
Senate.
FRIDAY, February, 15.-Price intro
duced numerous petitions for liquor prohi-
bition The assembly resolution favoring
the reconciliation of silver was made q
special order for Wednesday morning..
Burrows memorial to congress favoring the
bill for postal savings banks was passed..
The bill to appropriate $2S,OO0 to the deaf
and dumb institution was indefinitely post
poned A warm debate ensued on the bill
fixing the salary or the assistant attorney
general at 1000, but it was finally ordered
engrossed Adjourned until Monday
evening.
Assembly.
FRIDAY, February 15.-After reading
petitions growing out of the bible contro-
versy and liquor prohibition movement, the
budget of miscellaneous bills of local in.
terest came up and was disposed of with
dispatch 49,. The senate resolution approving
the vote of Wisconsin delegation in con
gress in voting for the Matthews resolution
was carried by vote of AZ to Al AID
iourned until Monday.