The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-29
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.

at Port Washington, was passed. Bills
were presented for purchasing 700 copies of
WeDster's dictionary for the use of the State:
10 amend the act of 1878 incorporating the
city OF. Waupun: to authorize the building of
d Gam across Spirit river, in Lincoln county.
resolutions were offered and adopted author
lzlng the Chairmen of the Committee on En-
rolled Bills and Judiciary to employ clerks:
changing the name of the Committee on Ipsur
ance and Banks t7--G-
ASsEMBLY.-A memorial to Conoress for
lighthouses at each end of the Sturgeon Raw
snip canal passed. A resolution was adopted
cutting. Off new business Feb. g. Petitions
We're offered for local option in Dog-Tax
Ia" lor an appropriation for the enlarge
ment of the Oshkosh Insane Hospital.
Bills were introduced: To amend the Revised
Statutes in the matter of suits at law main
tanned by married men and women: to limit the
number OF terms to be held by County Treas
urers; requiring school districts to build fences
and plant shade trees on school-house sites;
relative to writs of habeas.corpus. ASSEMBLY
committees were appointed
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 21.-SENATE.-A resolu-
ton was adopted referring the various portions
of the Governors message to appropriate COM
mittees. memorial was introduced in rela
ton to the care of the insane Several peti
tons were introduced asking for the repeal of
the Dog law. Bills were introduced: In relation
to security for costs of criminal cases: to
amend the charter of the Eau Claire
Lumber Company; in relation to
the non-registration of voters: in
relation to the sale of lands by executors and
administrators; relating to evidence to author
lze the building of dam across Mud brook:
to protect surgeons, physicians, dentists and
patients from the morbid condition produced
by an@stheucs; to appropriate $4,000 for the
use of Fish Commissioners: in relation to
county courts. The joint resolutions in rela-
ton to the State of Maine were amended and
concurred ln The resolutions in relation to
the soldiers reunion in Milwaukee were con-
CURED in
AssEMBLY.-Joint resolutions were offered
that Maine is only following in the footsteps of
Louisiana. joint resolution was adopted ask
ing Congress that the Quartermaster Genera
of the United States army be authorized to
furnish tents and camp eauipage for $4,000
veterans at the forthcoming soldiers reunion
at milwaukee. Bills were introduced: To es-
tabllsh free library; repeating the Tramp law
of 1879; authorizing notaries puGlic to solemn
lie the marriage contract; regulating the
practce of surgery and medicine in Wis
consln; providing for individual liability
of bank stockholders; relative to assessment
and collection of taxes in certain cases: au-
thorz1ng Supervisors Of towns to appoint
overseers Of highways; authorizing county
boards to exempt their counties from the pro
visions of the Dog-tax law; to improve the
system of gathering statistics relative to of
lenses against property. The Senate memorial
to Congress for adequate improvements in the
Port Washington harbor was concurred in.
THURSDAY, Jan. 22.-SENATE.-A memorial
to Congress was introduced in regard TO the
immediate transportation Of dutiable goods.
Bills were introduced: Appropriating $500 to
the State Dairymen's Association; extending
the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace to cases
IN which $500 are involved, instead of 500, as
now. A joint resolution was adopted restrict
ing the introduction Of new business Up to
Feb. 5.
ASSEMBLY. Joint resolutions to amend the
State constitution were offered, as follows: By
Mr.. Raesor, providing for uniform taxation
of all property, except public property and
cemeteries; by Mr. Eaton, relative to suffrage:
providing that the term of citizenship in the
State be reduced from one year to six months;
also, providing that Indians may be-
come voters upon one years residence
after the remuneration of their tribal re-
lations; also foreigners, after one years
residence in the State following the original
declaration of intention By Mr.. Troy, pro-
viding for biennial sessions Bills were intro
duced: Relating to the records of survey: to
bar claims against the estates of deceased per-
sons, and numerous amendments to the Revised
Statutes in the matter of Justice Court prac-
tce. The resolution congratulating the Repub-
licans IN Maine came up as amended by the
Senate and were passed.
FRIDAY, Jan. 23-SENATE.-A resolution
was introduced requesting the Railroad Com
missioner to furnish the Legislature with sta
tstics in regard to railroads bill was intro
duced to amend the act of 1879 in regard to Sc
cret beneficiary and benevolent insurance
companies Memorials to Congress for an
appropriation to construct a lighthouse at
the entrance of Sturgeon Bay canal, and to COM
plete the breakwater and harbor of refuge in
Sturgeon bay, were concurred in. A joint res
olution to authorize the Superintendent of Pub
lie Property to furnish copies of the Revised
Statutes and session laws to newspaper report.
ers was adopted.
ASSEMBLY Bills were introduced: Fixing
both the legal and contract rate of interest at
per cent; repeating all laws authorizing
counties to aid in railroad building; making
the legal rate Of interest per cent. and the
contract rate s per cent. adding free high
schools and free public libraries to the list
of institutions to which the blue book shall
be sent; amending the Lein law; to provide
when husband and wife may testify for or
against each other; regulating street rail
ways in villages and towns; limiting the num-
ber of terms of all county officers to two or
four years, and making them ineligible for the
four succeeding years; providing fo1 the pub
lication of County Board proceedings Sundry
local bills were passed under a suspension
of the rules. Both houses adjourned until
Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock.
MONDAY, Jan. 26.-SENATE-Mr. Price in
troduced a joint resolution that in the opinion
of this Legislature Congress ought not to dis
turb the existing prosperous condition of trade
and commerce by any legislation on financial
questions. A resolution passed asking the
Railroad Commissioner to furnish condensed
statement of the present Railroad laws in every
State in the Union.
AssEMBLY.-Bills were introduced: To au-
thorze villages to support their own poor; re-
ducing the interest Oh judgments from 10 to
7 per cent. relating to appeals from Justice
courts; to provide for proof of heirship, and
limit the hen of creditors estates of deceased
persons; to legalize the assignment Of tax GER
tificates by counties to towns.