River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-02-27
WISCONSIN STATE LEGISLATURE.
Special Daily kilograms from the
State Capital.

MADISON, Wis, Feb. 1S.--In the Senate
among the bills passed were, making May 80,
a legal holiday; TO promote good order and re-
press crime defining the liabilities of COM
panies in certain cases; to authorize corpora
tions formed for the improvement of stream
and to drive logs, or to maintain booms or
dams therein; to hold stock in other corpora
tions formed for improvement, or driving or
booming of logs in the same stream, or in any
of its tributaries; to consolidate with or other
wise unite with any such corporation; impos.
ing certain penalties on companies officers for
violating certain laws; limiting the amount of
school tax to be levied in any year to per
cent. of the assessed valuation of taxable prop
erty in a district. Assembly bills were con-
Cured in to improve Soft Maple creek, Chip
pewa county, and to grant to Mark Douglass
and Others certain privileges
In the Assembly bills were concurred in to
provide for settling railway license fees in GER
tain cases. relating to acceptance of grants of
land by the State made by acts of Congress,
approved respectively June 8, 1856. and May 5,
1864; to amend fsection 8, chapter IT'S, Especial
laws of 1875, for divisions of the counties of
Clark Marathon, Lincoln and Chippewa and
erection of the county of Taylor. Bills passed,
to authorize Knapp, Stout 81 Co., to erect and
maintain dam across Yellow river in Barron
county.
The assembly tonight made ex-Gov. G. G.
Washburn life regent of the State university,
and occupied most of the evening in memorial
services to the respect of the late Hon. Geo.
Frost, member from Iowa county.
MADISON, Feb. 19.-There seems to be gem
eral feeling here to-day that the session will
end the LIST of March. Business is being worked
through both houses rapidly, and should the
tax bill come from the committee in a satisfae-
tory shape this contamination is possible but
should there be much objection, it will prob.
ably prolong the session considerably.
In the Senate, to-day, Assembly bills were
concurred in relating to circuit courts of Win
nebago county; authorizing Knapp, Stone y
Co. to erect and maintain dam across Bear
creek Barron county; amending the charter of
the city of Racine; amending the charter of
! the city of Waupun; authorizing the city OF
Milwaukee to purchase and use certain ma
chimes for the constru ntlon of roads; amend
ing the charter of the city of Eau Claire.
| The Wiscon sin Central exemption bill was
| ordered to third reading, 16 to 6, after being
amended by compelling the payment of 81 for
| every forty acres of land.
In the Assembly Senate bills were passed to
provide compensation to complete the tran
scribing of the journals of the Senate and
| assembly bill to amend the laws relating to the
| university; to suppress vagabondage, relating
to charitable, benevolent and fraternai societies
| and associations; to change the name of the
military organization of the State; to amend
| section 1919 revised statutes, relating to
| bridges; to authorize Knapp, Stout u Go. to
| erect and maintain dam across Ten Mile creek,
| Chippewa county; to amend the statutes re-
| lating to the certificates and examination OF
| teachers: to further protect life and limb; In
relation to religious exercises in public schools
| to provide fol re-assessment of benefits In the
construction of drains where original assess
ment is declared void in relation to lost COM
missions of officers the military service; to
amend the charter of Boscobel; memorial to
Congress asking an appropriation to complete
| the breakwater in Sturgeon Bay; joint resolu-
| ton providing for biennial session of the
| legislature, ayes rs, nays 2; to amend the
charter of the city of Waupun.
The Assembly tonight killed the local option
| liquor bill and sent the sundry agricultural
| society appropriations to a third reading.
Judge Cothren, of Mineral Point, was nomi-
mated tonight as candidate for supreme
court Judge by the Democratic Legislative eau
Gus. The Republicans Will call out Judge
Cole, no nomination being made by them.
MADISON, Wis, Feb. 20.-Nothing OF very
general interest was done in either house to-
| day. The biennial sessions resolution was dis
cussed at some length, Senator Burrows making
| some excellent points against the passage of
| the resolutions, and further consideration of
| them was postponed till tomorrow.
| The Senate chamber was crowded tonight to
| listen to impromptu concert gotten up at
! the unanimous request of the Senators. Mrs.
| Townsend of Milwaukee, Prof. and Mrs. Brand
of Madison, Mrs. Page of Baraboo, and ma ~
Others participated, to the great delight of the
| Senators and Assemblymen.
| In the ass emily, tonight, bills passed relat
| ing to public works in the city of Milwaukee
| and providing for the registry of voters in
| Milwaukee. Bills, requiring the Milwaukee
| 4 Cedarburg Plank road company to make FIRE
| ports for the last two years were ordered
| engrossed, and appropriatlng money to pay
| the funeral expenses of members lately de-
| ceased.
| MADISON, Feb. 2l.-In the Senate to-day
| the Assembly biennial resolutions were killed
| a constitutional number not voting for it. The
| Senate's resolution on the same subect was put
| over till tomorrow. 1t will doubtless be killed
The textbook bill and bill exempting lands of
| the Wisconsin Central railroad from taxation
| were passed.
| In the Assembly, Senate bills passed
for the erection of the county of Flambeau by
dividing the counties of Chippewa and Lin
coin; to provide for compensation of certain
additional employees; in relation to the right
| of descendants OF the Chippewas of Lake Supe-
rior becoming legal voters and entitled to vote
| at all State elections; to authorize the pay
| meat of expenses in securing lands To winch
| the State may be entitled; to provide maps of
! Wisconsin for public i'll certain cases; to
| provide for laying out a State road from Grand
| Rapids to Stevens Point
Assembly bills were passed to regulate terms
| of circuit court for the county of Polk; to APP
| propriate to Green Lake S203.10; to repeal Sec
zion Zff Oh tue revised " LC-
demption of mortgages; to amend the charter
of Chiffon; to Incorporate the city of Ocono-
mowoc; to legalize the acts of school district
IN Leeds to provide for levying State tax
for 1879.
Senate bills were indefinitely postponed to
provide for the removal of county treasurers in
certain cases; authorizing the village of Depere
to issue bonds for the purpose of aiding IN
building draw and main bridge across the
canal on Fox river.
In the evening session of the Assembly a
batch of local bills passed. and a resolution by
Mr.. Keogh to have salute of 100 guns fired to-
morrow in honor of George Washingtons birth
day was adopted. The railroad committee re-
ported favorably the Wisconsin Central ex-
| emption, Bradley and Steffen dissenting.
| Among sundry local bills killed was the north
ern hospital appropriation of $4,000. The
| bills relating to grading wheat and relating to
4 lands forfeited to the State were indefinitely
| postponed. In committee of the whole, Il.
| Wall in the chair many bills were considered.
Adjourned until 1880 Monday evening.
MADISON, Wis, Feb 2l.-The last reception
| offs Gov. Smith tonight brilliant success.
| A large crowd was in attendance. After re-
| freshments were served dancing begun, and
was kept up till midnight. Another concert
was had in the Senate chamber this afternoon,
| in which several Senators participated
| MADISON, Wis, Feb. 22.-The city is un.
usually quiet to-day, nearly all the members
and employees having gone home, the legis-
lature having adjourned over until Monday
evening last night in honor of Washington's
birthday. The day has been quietly OBJ
served. One hundred guns were fired at
noon by direction of the legislature.
| The Agricultural society has designated
Madison as the place for holding the next
State fair, the days being fixed in September,
| Sth to the 12th inclusive.
MADIsoH, Feb. 24.-At the evening session of
the Senate, Senator Lopez reported from the
special committee appointed to inquire into
| the number of employees about the capitol that
the salaries were too large; that eight employees
of the twenty-eight were unnecessary; that
| hereafter but one carpenter, one engineer, one
night watch and no day watch. and but six
! ianitors are to stay on the rolls. The memorial
/ to Congress relating to harbor improvements
/ copcurred in and the Assembly compulsory