Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-03-11
Wisconsin legislature.


militia; ayes 90, nays 8; to appropriate
to the deaf and dumb institute $4,000
for current expenses; unanimous vote; !;
to appropriate to the Northwestern
Agricultural and Mechanical Associa-
ton the sum of 1000. Unanimous vote.
To appropriate the sum of $500 to the
Horticultural society; unanimous vote.
TUESDAY, March 2 -Assena5Ly.-Senate
bills concurred in: To appropriate to
the industrial school for boys $4,000
TO pay current expenses. To amend
articles of association Of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad company.
To amend section 1922. revised stat
utes, concerning costs and fees allowed
to parties in circuit courts. The assem-
bly, bill to regulate the grading and
weighing of wheat, and appointing a
board OF trade in the state, was indei-
nitely postponed. The governor return
ed the bill appropriating a certain sum
of money to Geo. B. Mcmillan, for ex-
ira services rendered in the late war. His
eXcellency had not signed the bill, but it
had become law upon limitation of
time. In the matter of appropriating
money in this form constitutional Ques-
tlOn seemed to present itself; and he
thought it not inappropriate in this con-
nection to recommend the enactment in
Wisconsin, fo laws similar 10 those
states, authorizing the governor and
either house Of the legislature TO call up
on the supreme court for advice and
authoritative opinions in all cases in
vOlving the consideration OF Constitu-
uOnal or other grave and important
legal questions. The bill relating 10 of
lenses against property; passed {this is
the anti-treating bill.) Bill No. 279,
A, to amend section 1856, chapter 66, re-
vised statutes, relating to the sale of
intoxicating drinks, was tabled.
WEDNESDAY, March 3.-Senate.-A
resolution was adopted authorizing the
printing, of 1000 copies of Mrs. Marion
V. Dudley'S address on the woman suf-
frage resolution. The bill to grant 60
days additional time to the North Wis
consin railway company for the COM
pletion of a portion of The railway, and
to confer on the aforesaid company the
optional right therein mentioned was
passed. The bill to provide for the in
spectlon of Illuminating oils manufac.
tured from petroleum or coal oils, aGd
to regulate the sale thereof, and to re-
peal section 1859, revised statutes, came
up in the order for its engrossment and
third reading and was advocated by Sen.
Bennett. Sen. Rankin opposed the
amendment of the committee, making
the secretary of the stale board of health
an inspector of oils, and advocated the
appointment, by the governor, of sep
arate officer for that duty. The further
consideration of the bill was finally laid
over till tomorrow. Adjourned.
large number of local bills were passed;
also the following: Amending sections
1851 and 3775, r. S in relation to fees of
jurors in justice courts-increasing the
same; compelling the owners, proprietors
and occupants of dams in the counties of
Iowa and La Fayette 10 construct and
maintain fishways; preventing persons
who do not properly keep up partition
fences, from recovering for damages
wrought by animals of owners of adjoin-
ing lands; appropriating $4,000 to the
state board of immigration, for general
expenses; ayes SO, noes 90. The bill to
restore capital punishment was indefi-
nitely postponed by vote of SO to 43.
The joint resOl ution providing for an
amendment to the constitution prohibit
ing the manufacture and sale of intoxi-
eating liquors, except for use in the arts
and medicine after 1890, with an amend
ment exempting native wines and beer,
was adopted by vote of SO to A.
THURSDAY, March 4.-Senate.-
joint resolution prohibiting the sale Or
manufacture Of intoxicating liquor was
referred to Sen. Price. Bills passed: To
prescribe the procedure for committing
persons to the insane hospitals; to APP
propriate the sum Of s 900 to the Cen
trail Wisconsin Agricultural and Mechan-
ical Association; a bill for the division
Of the counties of Clark and Marathon
and for the erection of the county of
Webster was indefinitely postponed. No.
202 S., to amend section 10 of chapter
81 Of the private and local laws of 1864,
entitled an act to incorporate the Black
River improvement company, approved
February %. 1865, came up for engross-
ment and third reading, and occupied the
attention of the senate until p. m. 1t
was finally ordered to a third reading by
vote of II to Is. An evening session
was held, the special order being the
biennial sessions resolution. After de-
bate lasting until nearly midnight, the
assembly resolution was adopted by ayes
"a, noes 8.
THURSDAY, March 4.-Assem5iy.-Th
bill to amend the charter of Menasha
was ordered to a third reading after
long debate. The bill to regulate
the pratice of dentistry was kill
ed. The bill to appropriate $1,000
to the. northern Agricultural and me-
chanical association was passed. Several
appropriation bills were passed viz: To
provide for rebuilding the institute for
the deaf and dumb at Delavan, to sustain
the educational work in said institution;
to the historical society; to the horticIl-
tural society 5000. The interest bills
being the special order, were debated at
great length. The bill fixing the legal
rate at six, and contract rate at eight per
cent. was finally ordere to third read
ing by ayes II, noes IS.
FRIDAY, March 5.-Senate-The Assem-
bly, resolution asking the appointment of
committee of three from the assembly
and two from the senate, to take into
consideration and report by bill or other
wise some measures by which the admin
istratiye and Legislative expenses of the
state may be reduced, was killed. The
assembly bill authorizing and allowing
horses, mules. cattle and sheep to run at
large upon uninclosed lands in the
county of Vernon was concur.ed in. a
bill was introduced by the committee on
charitable and penal Institutions, to pro-
vide for the more systematic and efficient
management of the Wisconsin hospital
for the insane. The bill to increase the
tax on life insurance companies was in
definitely postponed. The bill relating
to the Black river improvement COM
pany, after being amended, passed.
FRIDAY, March 5.-1ssem5ly-A reso-