Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-03-11
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
Senate

" ~ 30 equalization of assessments; to au.
~ s-r,2e mutual hail insurance companies Of
NV states to do business in this state; to
Uni the charter of the city of Chiffon.
o. Indefinitely postponed Requiring secre-
-. q town insurance companies TO make and
- annual reports; for the more effectual
vsntion Of cruelty to children; TO increase
f. fax Of railrord companies. Adjourned.
MADISON, March 1.-The committee on char
.fc and penal institutions introduced bill
oriing for the transfer of insane persons
I'm isils and poor houses to the insane asy-
I'M. . Bills passed: Providing for the dimi-
DTon of time from the time Of sentence of
,0ycts in state prison, and for transportation
any place in the state when discharged: APP
,ropriating 100000 for rebuilding the asylum
or deaf and dumb at Delavan; providing for a
,g1stry of electors in towns containing villages
9TH population of 5000 instead of 1,500 as
now when separate general elections are not re-
c,ired to be held in such villages; requiring all
sprhcants for admission to the bar to be exam
ned and receive certificate from the faculty
# the law department of the state university.
Assembly bills concurred in: Providing
that town insurance companies shall insure
farm buildings 100 feet apart instead of 200
feet as now: to incorporate the city of Platte
vile; amending the charter of Evansville semi
nary: authorizing loan of the trust funds to
| Brown county to redeem railroad bonds -.
] Memorials TO congress copcurred in: Asking
| for an increase of mail service in Door, Wait
kesha and Washington countless for an appro-
pration to reopen the channel of Wolf river in
northern Wisconsin; for a law regulating the
sale of patent rights; for national law to pro-
tectfshing interests in fresh water lakes; Haben's
memorial for modification of existing pension
laws Adjourned.
MADISON March Kelly withdrew his bill
providing for the erection of deaf and
dumb asylum In Brown county -. Bills
passed: Appropriating 1926 to meet the
current expenses Of the institution for the
cducation of the deaf and dumb; appropri-
atng to the Northern Wisconsin Agricultural
society the sum of ~, 600; 70 grant sixty days
additional time to the North Wisconsin Railroad
company for the compl ton of portion OF its
railway, and to confer upon the company the
optional right of grading another forty miles OF
road during the year ending with March next;
10 allow boom companies to organize without
special charters; appropriating $500 to the
Wisconsin state Horticultu al society; to reor-
sanize and properly equip thu state militia and
provide for greater efficiency of the Wisconsin
National Guard Assembly bills concurred i'll:
To exempt members of Watertown fire depart
ment from military and jury service, and from
payment of poll tax relating to inspection dis
Iicts and the examination of teachers author
ling collection of tax levied by city of Sheboy-
gan and omitted in the tax roll of 1879. .. Ad-
journed.
IN To amend the charter of Ahnapee; adding
registers of deeds to list of persons before
whom executions Of conveyances may be ac-
hnowledged; in relation to advertisements put
before the public by fire insurance companies.
and holding agents liable for false or erroneous
statcments contained in such advertisements;
amending the law in relation to embezzement;
relating to justices of the peace. The bill to
give the Northern Wisconsin Railway company
additional time for the completion of its road
and comforting certain optional rights. Passed.
Adjourned.
MADISON, March 4.-Bills passed. Prcscrib-
ng the procedure for committing persons to the
insane hospital; appropriating $4,000 to the
Wisconsin Industrial School for Girls: annually
appropriating to the State Agricultural society
the sum of $4,000; appropriatng II, 900 to the
Central Wisconsin Agricultural society; requir-
ing ice men 10 fence in open places from which
they have removed ice; to amend the charter of
the city of Portage; relating to attachments
Assembly bills concurrcd in: 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 10 certain school districts
in the same town. authorizing the appointment
OF clerk for the executive department at
all annual salary of $1,000. The bill
and erect the county of Webster was indefinitely
postponed. In the evening the biennial reso-
hutton was taken up and debated at length. :.
motion TO indefinitely postpone the resolution
was put and lost-ayes 8, noes "a. The senate
resolution was then laid aside and Iroy's resou-
hon taken up and amended so that legislators
shf receive no perquisites outside of their sal
ares-aye5 81, noes q Bennett moved to strike
out the provision that in case of extra sessions
called by the governor no business shall be
transacted other than that for which the session
called Lost. Bennett moved TO increase the
ala1rV IL. u. ~
Iroys resolution was then concurred in by the
following vote:
Ayes-Bonnett, Blackstone, Carter, Chapman
Dering. Haben, Houghton. Hyde, Kelly, Meet
ndge, McGrew, Morgan, Paul. Quarles, Rich
ardson. Ryand, Sacket, Smith, Sutherland,
Thomas, Van Setback, Van Steenwick, Weaver,
Noodman-2f.
Noes-Anderson, Burrows. Fifeld, Griffin,
Grinmer, Kellogg, Price, Rankin, Scott.
MADISON, March 5.-Quarles' bill to protect
game birds within the state was passed. II
provides that il shall be unlawful to take, catch,
XII, destroy, modest or have in possession with
In this state any quail, partridge, pheasant or
raftfed grouse, prairie hen or prairie chicken,
sharI'-taled grouse or grouse of any variety,
Tor the period Of two years from the 21st of
August next. Assembly bills concurred in:
10 set off the town Of Lawrence and West De
fere and erect the town of Ashwaubenon; 10 re-
move clouds from title to real estate by reason
OIL tax deed enormously issued; providing that
any part Of any town or towns not less than one
square mile IN area, having population Of five
hundred, and lying in two adjoining counties,
may become Incorporated as village .Ad-
jmrned.
Assembly.
MADISON, February 48.-The bill to vacate
The charter of the Milwaukee and Waukesha
flaukroad company from the limits Of AIilwau-
kee to the Soldiers Home was Indefinitely post
Poned The vote by which Senator Paul bill
N relation 10 commitment TO the Industrial
school for Girls az MilUaukne Was cOneurrpd