The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-21

| CAAO A1ACCublf0 uOuludLlODS OF w. w.
Reed, OF Jefferson, and Andrew E. Elmore. of
Green Bay, to be members of the State Board
or CHARITIES and Reform, and Henry P. Strong.
OF Belolt, to be member of the State Board
of Health.
AssEMBLy.-Bills were introduced: To de-
clare the true intent and meaning of the act of
1859 relating to normal schools; relating to the
geological survey of thu State; fixing the time
of holding court in the Fifth Judicial Circuit /;
in relation to the publication of legal notices !:
for an additional Deputy Clerk of the Circuit
Court OF milwaukee county; to amend the char
ter or MllWaukee to revise the law relating to
hawkers and peddlers; in relation to the pub
hcation of probate notices to authorize the
Secretary OF State to audit the accounts of
Nelson MCNEIL; to amend the statutes relat-
| ing to liens OF mechanics to amend the law
relating to the crime of bribery at elections to
amend the laws relating to the charter of the
Milwaukee and Brook6eld Macadamlzed Turn
| pike Company for the relief of certain hold.
| ers OF Street Commissioners certificates re-
lating to the reductions of the price of swamp
and overfoWed lands in Pensaukee to repeal
| the charter of the city of Darlington. and re-
storing it's village charter: to protect deposit
| Ors in banks; to amend the laws relating to
booms, etc., on the Menominee river; amend
ing the act incorporating the Menominee
River Manufacturing Company for the con-
structlon OF a dam in Barron county to amend
the statutes relating to liens of mechanics and
others; for laying out and establishing State
road from Centralia to Knowlton relating TO
transcribing the Legislative Journals; to pro-
vide for the printing of the Revised Statutes
of Wisconsin; amending the charter of Mil
waukee; providing for State park in Wiscon-
! sin for the repeal of the law relating to
hunting deer with hounds; to amend
the statutes relating to executions, etc.;
to declare the true intent and meaning
of the law of 1877 relating to foreclosure
of mortgages; relating to the filing of instru-
ments as to title of real estate amending the
laws relating to the prisons and common jails
| to amend the charter of the Wisconsin I'M
| provement Company; amending the law relat-
| ing to loan insurance companies repeating the
| laws relating to the high school of Milwaukee;
to lay out a State road from Necedah to Tomah
| amending the law relating to interpretations
| appropriating money to pay postage of en-
ployes. amending the charter of Sheboygan;
| repeal an act codifying the laws relating to
| highw, and bridges relating to the propa-
cation fish for the relief of Thos. Brigers
and app. oriating to him 1868; to amend the
law relating to comforting of certain lands upon
the North Wisconsin Railway Company ETC.;
in relation to lands in the custody of the law;
in relation to the inspection of Intoxicating
beverages. "A bill passed for additional copies
of the Legislative Manual. AT the evening
session large number of petitions and remon-
strances were presented. Forty or fifty bills
were introduced. A batch of nonsensical bills
were introduced.
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 13.-SENATE.-The report
of the Committee on Charitable and Penal In
stitutions advising the non-acceptance of Gov.
Washburn's tender of the Edgewood property
for an industrial school for girls, because no
need exists for such an institution. was called
up, the question being on indefinite postpone
ment of all farther consideration of the sub
ject Senator Welsh moved to refer the SUBJ
| ject to the Committee on Finance, Banks, and
Insurance. which was carried. Bills were
| passed: Appropriating $798.50 to Dodge
| county for the support of insane persons not
| properly chargeable to said county authoriz-
| ing the School Land Commissioner to loan a
portion of the trust funds to Weed county
to provide for the removal of civil actions in
certain cases; appropriating $4,000 for the
| industrial School for Boys at Waukesha; to
provide for the construction of fishways in the
outlet of Green lake; authorizing the county of
Brown to exchange bonds with certain bond
holders; authorizing the appointment of an
additional County Commissioner for Chippewa
county; curtailing the tax exemption of the
property of Lake Geneva Seminary: for the
preservation of fish in the waters of Lacrosse
county; authorizing the clerk Of the joint COM
mittee on statute revision to be paid SIS per
day. =. Senator Hudds joint resolution as
| amended, requesting our Senators in Congress
to vote for the repeal of the Resumption act,
came up as special order for IL o'clock. The
| amended resolution is as follows:
ReSOIved, By the Senate, the assembly concurrirg
That in the opinion of the Legislature of this State
it is the desire of the people of Wisconsin that so
much OF the act Of Congress, commonly known
| the Resumption act, authorizes, or may be con-
strued to authorize the cancellation or retirement
from circulation of any portion of the existing vol
ume of United States treasury notes or greenbacks,
be repealed.
Discussion on the resolution was continued
at an evening session, after which the resolu.
ton was laid on the table by vote of 16 to
15 After two calls of the house and much
| flibustering Torrey's resolution for the re-
monetlzat1on of silver, and putting off re-
sumption to some future day, was adopted bv
% to 2, and at midnight the Senate adjourned.
ASSEMBLY. were passed Amending
and consolidating the charter of the city of
Beaver Dam; relating to poor; amendatory of
the city charter of Watertown: to authorize the
county of Oconto to issue bonds to provide for
the construction of a county jail; to authorize
| the loan of trust funds to the town of Prince
| ton respecting trusts of credit by will; repeal
ing the law Of 1874 providing for the erection
of monument to the memory Of the late Gov.
|
Beloit to provide security against
loss by fire; relating to appeals from
courts; relating to towns and town officers;
amending the law regulating the salary of
County Judge of Milwaukee; relating to the
organization of corporations authorizing the
State of Maryland to convey to the United
States the interest of Wisconsin in the national
cemetery at Antietam to legalize the action of
the Board of Supervisors of Pierce county to
provide for the punishment of the common
Law, otfense of champerty to refund the Min
on Grand Marias bay, in Minnesota. The
bill prohibiting the employment of children
under IA years of age in factories was ordered
to third reading A petition was presented
favoring the passage of law prohibiting relig-
ious instruction in colleges and schools of this
State. The resolutions indorsing the South
ern policy of President Hayes were discussed
at length and laid upon the table. Further
consideration of the joint resolution for the
reconciliation of silver was postponed until to-
morrow, Thursday, at II o'clock. :. "A joint
resolution for the printing of the Governors
message in the German and French languages.
and bill for an amendment to the Patent