The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-03-30
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.



MONDAY, March IA resolution |
asking for an income tax was concurred in
IA bill to appropriate $S,19S to the
Northern hospital for the insane was passed
The assembly bill for the relief of
Horatlo n. Smith, who lost $4,000 of state
funds by the failure of the Corn Exchange
bank, was passed on the ground that Smith
was instructed to deposit the funds with
that bank......The bill against the employ
ment OF children under II years of age in
factories, after having been indefinitely
postponed twice heretofore, was concurred
in: The compulsory education bill was
indefinitely postponed.
Assembly.
MONDAY, March 1l.-Bills passed: To
remedy the evils resulting from the burning
of public records; to transfer the normal
school fund income to the board of school
regents; to extend the time for the construc-
ton of the Chicago, Portage and Superior
railroad. The assembly spent considera-
bic time in committee of the whole on the
Nc Fetridge claim.
TUESDAY, March 12.-The resolution
to adjourn sine die on March 20, and meet
in extra session May IS, to consider the re-
vision of the statutes, was concurred in
The special order of the morning was the
Indiana Ford dam bill. After listening to
speech from Reed the whole matter was
quashed by vote of Is to Senate bills
passed: To incorporate the city of Jeffer-
son; providing Tor the punishment of per-
sons using railroads as highways; requiring
insurance companies to pay a license of
two per cent. on gross cash receipts, and ex-
empting their personal property from taxa
ton; relating to the removal of civil cases
from the circuit court OF Chippewa county
to Taylor county in certain cases; creating
| an insurance departing Assembly bills
concurred in: For the relief of Warden
Smith for loss incurred by the failure of
the Exchange Bank of Waupun; relative to
a state road from Marquette, Oconto coun-
ty, to Big Suamica, Brown county; Law
ing out state road from MarshGeld, Wood
county, to Marathon county; amending the
charters of Fort Howard and Manitowoc;
laying out a state road from Ahnapee, Ke-
waunee county, to Nasawoupee, Door coun-
ty; relating to swamp and overlooked lands
in Kewaunee county Bills killed: Abol-
ishing the time sentence to the state prison;
prohibiting the killing of deer between
August l and December Is; the memorial to
congress for the equalization of soldiers
bounties.
Assembly.
TUESDAY, March 12-The senate reso-
luton accepting the Edgewood property
was concurred in. Bill passed. To change
the boundaries between Neenah and Me-
nasha to amend the charter of Fond du
Lac; amending the charter of Racine. A
joint resolution was adopted referring all
bills on the assessment and collection of
taxes to Joint committee. -. The bill fixing
the salary of the assistant attorney general
at $4,000 was discussed very fully, and then
ordered to a third reading. The Calkins
claim came up again as a special order, and
was again defeated by vote of AS to 46
A bill wass passed Incorporating the city of
Two Rivers.
WEDNESDAY, March 13.-Assembly
bills were concurred in to amend the char
tiers of Racine and Fond du Lac; also as
sembly amendments to the senate bills re-
relating to remedy for evils resulting
from the burning of public records - Bills
concurred in: To appropriate drainage
fund for certain towns in DOre county; es-
tablishing a state road in Juneau and Mon
roe counties; also in Wood and Marathon
counties; for the protection of game in st.
/ Crolx county......Th senate refused to con-
cur in the assembly joint resolution for a
joint committee on assessment ievies and the
resolution asking the assembly to return the
compulsory education bill was rejected
......Senate bills were passed for the repre-
| sentation OF Wisconsin in the Stockho lm
international prison congress; for mail
route in st. Croix and Pierce counties
Bills killed: Authorizing the loan of trust
, funds to Stevens Point and the town of
Newton, Columbia county; for the erection
of an asylum for chronic insane After
considerable debate the school book bill
was ordered to a third reading In the
evening the bills approprating money to
various charitable institutions in the state
were tabled. The bill< to add Ozaukee
county to the Milwaukee judicial circuit
was indefinitely postponed.
! Assembly.
"WEDNESDAY, March 13.-Senate bills
passed: To lay out and establish state
road in the counties of Jackson, Wood and
Clark memorial to congress asking re-
ductlon OF the tax on wool; relating to the
! license fund received by the city of Chip
pewa Falls; memorial to congress for an in
come tax; to fix the salary of the assistant
attorney general at $4,000; to legalize GER
/ tain acts OF the common council of Chip
| pewa Falls. -. Assembly bills passed: To
/ provide for the Improvement of Bruney
river for leg driving purposes; relating to
the reduction in the price of swamp and
overlooked lands in Manitowoc county: to
ton in certain cases upon the
county court of Jackson county.
The bill to appropriate $S7,372 TO the
Madison hospital for the insane was passed
IS to Pol In the afternoon the substitute
for the Carter bill for the assessment and
collection OF taxes was discussed, amended
variously ard passed Senate bills con-
CURED in: To settle the question of
license for the sale of Intoxicating liquors
ri
of twenty-five free holders to submit the
matter to a separate vote on license or no
license; requiring hotel keepers to provide
means of FIRE escape; to exempt from tax
alton lands OF the North Wisconsin railroad
company; requiring insurance companies in
unlncorporated villages to pay two per cent.
| of premiums to the village fire department.
The Indian Ford dam repeal bill was tabled
lin the evening bill was passed under
suspended rules incorporating the village of
Lancaster the county seat of Grant county.
IA bill for the preservation of fish in
Lake Winnebago, Buttes des Merits and
| other smaller lakes was passed.
Senate.
THURsDAY Y, March 1.-THE committee
on finance, banks and banking reported the
annual budget providing for a lew of S4O5,.
600 for current expenses for the fiscal year.
The rules were suspended and bill author
lZing the levyo that amount in addition to
the amounts already authorized, was passed.
:.....Bills eoneurred in: To protect fish in
Fox river and tributaries; TO extend the
time for the construction of the North Wis
consin railroad; to codify the liquor laws
to extend the time for the completion of
the Chicago, Portage and Superior railroad;
for the preservation of fish in Crawford
county; to authorize the city of Wausau to
fund its Indebtedness; to authorize the COM
missioners of school university lands to loan