The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-02-07
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
Senate

senate.
MADISON, January 26.-Prce offered a joint
resolution protesting against any action of con-
gress on the financial question Sutherland
presented bill for the appointment Of phonO-
graphic reporter for the Fond du Lac County
Court. &c. The resolution requiring the railroad
commissioner to lay before the senate the rail-
road laws Of other states was passed. .Ad-
iOuTned.
MADISON January 27.-Kellogg presented q
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 a preferred creditor . Bills intro
duced: For the protection of fish and game:
for permission to loan portion of the trust
fund to the city of Berlin; for the protection of
brook trout; fixing the time when wild deer NAV
be killed III the counties of Ashland Bayfield,
and Douglas. The bill to loan a portion Of
the trust fund to Vernon county was passed
Adjourned.
MADISON, January 2S.--Bills introduced. Ap-
propriating $4,000 annually for the support of
the Wisconsin chronological institute for deaf
mutes at Milwaukee and to inaugIuate the artic-
ulate method OF instructions prohibiting the
sale of kerosene oil tn. cannot stand test of
40 degrees Fahrenheit; apprOpriating $4,000
for the deaf and dumb asylum and $4,000 for
the asylum for the blind . Sutherland offered
q resolution that the legislature and railroad
commissioners examine into the facts of the res
buttons adopted by the Dairymen's association
at Elki.orn on the 18th, in effect that the rail-
ROADS discriminate against the interests Of the
danymen. Richardson presented a 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 III relation to
0ant lou rod
IN. A memorial asking for daily stage line
between Sussex and Pewaukee, Waukesha coun-
ty, was passed .Ad journed.
MADISON, January 30.-Bills passed: Empow-
erlng 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 pedders 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. D.. The joint resolution requesting sena-
tors and members of congress from Wisconsin
to support certain bill in relation to the imme-
date transportion of dutlable goods was
adopted. Adjourned.
Assembly.
MADISON, January 26-Lowth resented a
petition for constitutional amendments prohibit
ing the sale of alcoholic liquor. Bills intro
duced: Authorizing villages organized under
the general laws of the state to support their
own poor; to change the rate of interest on
judgments from 10 to 7 per cent; providing
that any insurance company doing business in
the state shall at any time cancel policy upon
the request of the holder and return the amount
of,prenium paid in advances for the formation
of the Beloit city school district to loan por-
ton of the trust fund to the city of Chippewa
Falls. Adjourned.
MADISON, January 27-Mcmorials, petitions,
ETC., presented: Against the medical bill; for
biennial sessions; for the construction of a har-
Dor of refuge at Milwaukee, -. Bills introduced:
70 regulate the rate Of interest: relating to taxes
levied by village boards to amend the act in
cooperating the city of Fort Howard; also that
incorporating the city of BoscObel e. Bills in
definitely post oned: TO authorize notaries
public to solclnuize the marriage contract; pro-
vidlng bounty for scalps of wolves and Wild
cats. Adjourned.
MADISON, January 28.-Numcrous petitions
for and against the passage of the medi-
cal bill were presented, and for reenact-
ment of the wolf bounty law; also for III
veStlgatiOn 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 Deiavan deaf and dumb asylum and give
estimates Of the probable cost Of reconstruc-
ton. Bills introduced and refeTed: 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 q board of COM
mlssloneIs to select site for a deaf and dumb
asylum, the cost not to be more than So, 600;
providing that county 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 ga large number of re-
monstrances against the medical bill was re
celved. $50. Bills introduced: To appropriate
S523.45 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 per cent, to the city of Berlin,
was concmred III, under suspension of the rules.
49,. 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 lncurable 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 a city hall; to organize the county of
Rice for judicial purposes. Bills passed: To
loan 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.