Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-02-04
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
Senate.

MADISON January 27.-Kellogg presented
petition from Simeon Mills, late treasurer for
the Wisconsin hospital for the insane, asking a
quit claim of $4,000 which he had drawn from
the defunct Madison bank, claiming that the
state was 81 preferred creditor. Bills intro
duced: For the protection of fish and game;
for permission to loan a portion of the trust
fund to the city of Berlin; for the protection of
brook trout; fixing the time when wild deer may
be killed in the counties of Ashland, Bayfield,
and Douglas. The bill to loan a portion of
the trust fund to Vernon county was passed.
80. Adjourned.
MADISON, January 29.-Bills introduced. APP
propriating 200 annually for the support of
the Wisconsin Psychological institute for deaf
mutes at Milwaukee and to inaugurate the artic-
ulate method of instruction; prohibiting the
sale OF kerosene oil that cannot stand test of
12O degrees Fahrenheit; appropriating $4,000
for the deaf and dumb asylum and $4,000 for
the asylum for the blind. :. Sutherland offered
resolution that the legislature and railroad
commissioner examine into the facts of the res
olutions adopted by the Dairymen's association
at Elkhorn on the 18th, in effect that the rail-
roads discriminate against the interests of the
dairymen. Richardson presented memorial
fIom ITO citizens of Mineral Point asking for
the taxation of church property. Adjourned.
MADISON, January ga bill was introduced
to regulate the size of meshes of fish nets used
and for the better enforcement of the fish and
game laws of the state. The bill In relation to
the assessment laws of Wausau was concurred
in. "A memorial asking for daily stage line
between Sussex and Pewaukee, Waukesha cour-
! ty, was passed. .Adj ourned.
| MADISON, January 30.-Bills passed: Empow-
ering commissioners Of the United States courts
! to administer oaths and take and certify the &C
! acknowledgement of deeds and other instruments
in writing; relating to the Milwaukee and Brook
! field MacadamiZed Turnpike company. Bills
introduced: To exempt peddlers Of sewing ma
| chimes and musical instruments from the law
| which requires peddlers to pay license; to pro-
vide for the disposal of the property of corpora
! tons whose charters shall have expired or been
annulled; to promote good order and suppress
/ crime. -. The Joint resolution requesting sena-
| tors and members of congress from Wisconsin
| to support certain bill in relation to the imme-
date transportion of dutiable goods was
| adopted. .Adj ourned.
! Assembly.
MADISON, January 27.-Memorias, petitions,
ETC., presented: Against the medical bill; for
! biennial sessions for the construction of har-
Dor of refuge at Milwaukee. Bills introduced:
To regulate the rate of interest; relating to taxes
! levied by village boards; to amend the act in
! incorporating the city of BoscObel. Bills in
definitely postponed: To authorize notaries
! public to solemnize the marriage contract pro-
| viding bounty for scalps of wolves, and wild
! cats ADJOURNED.
MADISON, January 28.-Numerous petitions
for and against the passage of the medi-
| cal kiu were presented, and for reenact-
ment of the wolf bounty law; also for in
vestigation into the charges of discrimination
| by Wisconsin railroads. "A resolution was in
troduced that the state board of charities fur
nish the legislature with the present condition
of the Delavan deaf and dumb asylum and give
estimates of the probable cost of reconstruc-
ton. -. Bills introduced and referred: To
amend the charter of the city of Stevens Point
to obhge insurance corporations to take risks on
| farm buildings but one hundred feet apart; pro-
| viding for the appointment of board Of COM
missioners to select site for deaf and dumb
| asylum the cost not to be more than $75, 000
providing that comfy judge must be practic-
| ing attorney; to allow for encumbrances on as
sessing property; to make county treasurers in
eligible for reelection. :. Adjourned.
MADISON, January pa large number of re-
! monstrances against the medical bill was re-
ceived. Bills introduced: To appropriate
1928. As to the county of Kewaunee; to amend
the statutes relating to salaries of county off
GERS; to change the name of the county of New
to Langlade. ;. The bill to loan portion of the
trust fund, not exceeding $4,000 on five
years time at 7per cent, to the city of Berlin,
was concurTed in, under suspension of the rules.
-. The bill to amend the charter of the city of
Fond du Lac was passed; also the bill to loan a
portion of the trust fund to Wausau, Marathon
county. Adjourned.
MADISON, january 30.-Remonstrances and
petitions presented: Against the enactment OF
the death penalty; against the passage of the
medical bill; asking for an amendment to the
constitution prohibiting the sale of intoxicants.
-. The resolution instructing the committee
on charitable and penal institutions to devise
some means for the 1ncurable insane was
adopted. Bills introduced Relating to the
empounding of animals running at large in
cities; to authorize Beaver Dam to issue bonds
to build city hall; to organize the county of
loan a portion of the trust funds to the town of
Kewaunee; to lay out state road from Wolf
River in Shawano county, to Wausau, in Mara
thon county; to provide for the better collection
of agricultural statistics. Adjourned.