The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-03-13
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
senate,

launG to equalization of assessments: TO au-
tLoIlZe mutual nalI insurance companies of
other states 10 do business III this state: to
amend the charter Of the city OF Chiffon
DUES indefinitely postponed: Requiring secre-
talles OF town insurance companies to make and
record annual reports; for the more effectuaI
prevention of cruelty to children; to increase
The tax OF railroad companies. Adjourned
MADISON, March 1.-The committee on char
liable and penal institutions introduced bill
providing Tor the transfer of insane persons
from JallS and poor houses TO the insane asv-
lums. Bills passed: Providing for the dimi-
mutton OF time from the time of sentence of
conVIcts III state prison, and for transportion To
any place IN the state when discharged: appro-
pnatlng $50, 600 for rebuilding the asylum for
deaf and dumb at Delayan; prov iding for re-
glStry Of electors III towns containing villages
with population of 5000 instead of 1000 as
nov when separate general elections are not re-
qulred 10 be held III such villages; requiring all
applicants for admission to the bar to be exam
med and receive q certificate from the faculty of
the law department OF the state university ..
Assembly bills cOncurrel in: Providing that
town insurance companies shall insure farm
buildings 100 feet apart instead Of 200 feet as
now; TO incorporate the city of Patteyllle:
amending the charter OF Evansville seminary
authorizing a loan OF the trust funds TO Brown
county 10 redeem railroad bonds. Memorials
10 congress concurred IN: Asking fer an IN
crease of mail service in Door, Waukesha and
Washington counties; for an appropriation to
reopen the channel Of Wolf river III northern
Wisconsin; for a law regulating the sale of
patent rights; for national law 10 protect fish
ing interests i'll fresh water lakes; Habens
memorial for 3 modification of existing pension
laws. Adjourned.
MADISON. March kelly withdrew his bill
providing for the erection of a deaf aud
dumb asylum III Brown county Bills
passad: Appropriating $4,000 to meet the
current expenses of the institution for the
education Of the deaf and dumb; appromi-
atiug TO the Northern Wisconsin Agricultural
society the sum Of Il. 900: To grant sixty days
additional time to the North Wisconsin Railroad
company for the completion OF a portion of It's
railway, and 10 confer upon the company the
optional right of grading another forty miles Of
road during the year ending with March next:
to allow boom companies TO organize without
special charters: apprOprlaung $500 to the
Wisconsin State Horticultural society; 10 reor-
game and properly equip the state militia and
provide for a greater efficiency Of the Wisconsin
National Guard Assembly bills cCucured in:
70 exempt members of Watertown fire depart
ment from military and jury services. and from
payment of poll tax; relating TO inspection dis
! t1ICts and the examination of teachers; author
iZing collection of tax levied by city of Sheboy-
gan and omitted in the tax ron Of 1879 Ad-
journed.
MADISON, March 3.-Assemblv bills concurred
III: Ioamend the charter of Ahnapee; adding
registers Of deeds to list Of leIsons before
whom executions of cOuyevanCes may be ac-
knOWledged III relation to advertisements put be-
fore the public by ire insurance companies. and
holding agents liable for false or erroneous
statements contained III such advertisements;
amending the law in relation to embeZZlement
relating to justices of the peGce... The bill to
give the Northern Wisconsin Railway company
additional time for the completion Of it, road
and comforting certain optional rights passed
Adjourned.
MADISON, March 4.-Bils passed: Prescrib
ing the procedure for committing persons to the
insane hospitals; apprOprlatlng $4,000 to the
Wisconsin Industrial school for Girls; annually
apprOpnatlng to the State Agricultural society
the SUM OF -. 600: appr0pliating II 900 to the
Central Wisconsin Agricultural society; requir-
ing Ice men to fence in open places from which
they have removed ice; to amend the charter of
the city OF Portage; relating TO attachments
Assembly bills COnCuTcd III: TO amend the
charter of GAINESVILLE; authorizing the villages
Of De Pere and West De Pere to purchase and
hold real estate; to annex certain territory In
the town Of Jefferson to certain school districts
III the same town; authorizing the appointment
of clerk for the executive department
at an annual salary of @1.29U. The
I'LL to divide Clark and Marathon counties
and erect the county Of Webster was indefinitely
postponed. o. In the evening the biennial res0-
luton was taken up and debated at length 4
motion to indefinitely postpone the resolution
put and lO,t-ayca 8, noes II. The senate
resolution was then laid aside and Trovs resOlu-
ton taken up and amended so that legislators
shall receive no pcrqulSteS outside Of tLeir sal
arles-aves 81, noes 2. Bennett moved to strike
out the provision that in case of extra sessions
called by the governor no business shall be trans
acted other than that for which the session IS
called. Lost. Bennett moved to increase the
salary from 500 TO $780, which was lost
Iroys resolution was then cOuculTCd IL by the
following vote:
Ayes-Bennett, Blackstone Carter, Chapman.
Deriug. Habeu, HouEhtOn, Hyde. Kelly, Meet
ridge, McCircw, Morgan, Paul, QuarleS, Rich
ard>on Ryland, Sacket. Smith, sutherland,
Thomas, Van Setback. Van Stcenwick, Weaver.
WoOdman-24.
Noes Anderson Burrows, Fltield Griffin,
Grmmer, Kellogg, Price, Rankin, Scott.
MADISON. March 5.-Quarles' biu to protect
game birds within the state passed. 1t
provides that it shall be unlawful to take. catch
Kill. waatonly modest or have in possession with
IL this state any quail, partridge, pheasant OF
Tutfled grouse, prairie hen or prairie chicken.
eharl-t2lled grouse OF grouse Of any variety. for
the period OF two YEARS from the 2l-t of August
next Assembly Hills cOncuTred in: To set
off the town Of Lawrence and West De pere
and erect the town Of AsiIwaubcnon: to re-
move clouds from title to real estate by reason
of tax deeds enormously issued; providing that
any part Of any town or tOws not less than one
square mile III area having a population Of five
luHtNtt, anu INIll- ia tNO duJcLIiIS tOttIItIt1,
may become incorporated as village. Nd
journed.
Assembly.
MADISON, February 23.-The Till to racate
the charter of the Milwaukee and Waukesha
planhroad company from the limits Of MIwau-
kec to the Soldiers home was indefinitely post
pOutd The vote by which Pau- bill in rcla-
ton t. commitment TO the Industrial School for
Girls 1T Milwaukee,, was concurrcd III, was re-
considered on motion OF bentley, and laid over
until Wednesday next y. Senate bills concured
IN: Authorizing judgments Of the Supreme
Court 10 be doCbcted in the Circuit Court; re-
qulrug clerks to give three days, instead OF
two IN lOCkcting costs: to repeal the provision
of the revised statutes that upon the demand
Of a trial 10y jury III comfy courts, for the pay
Ileut Of jury fee of s., and to the sheriff, OF
one Of his deputies a fee Of 81: 10 legahZe the
action of the board ii supervisors of Lincoln
county; to provide that sTuts may be brought
against the Milwaukee Mechanics Mutual In
surance company IL any court OF record
Adjourned.
MADISON, March 1.-The joint resolution tc
amend the constitution providing that no hquoi
except native vines and beer shall be manufac-
tured or sold IN the state after January, 1890
wa lost for want OF q constitutional majority
ayes Il, nays 30. Bills passed: Allowing tow
insurance companies 10 attach not exceeding IF
teen towns to the district in which they do bust
ness; 10 set of Lawrence and West Depere anC
create the town of Ashwaubenon: AUTHORIZING
improvement of hewaunee Earbor. Bills in,
definitely postponed: To prohibit over insur
Gnce Of property in this state by companies anC
agents: relating 10 laying out temporary high
ways; 10 amend the act Incorporating the CITY o.
Oconto; to exempt tIemeu from payment Of pol
TAX and jury services: 70 collect statistics O
marriages and births; to make the Mihill- fcnc.
q legal fence. 80. Adjourned.