The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-04-09
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
Senate


corporated under the general laws; the chapter emit
tied of rivers and floats; the chapter relating to cleo
tons; the section relating to town elections; the
secuon relating to election of state officers relating
to inspection and measurement of logs, timber and
lumber; relating to and amendatory of the section
entitled "of assessment of taxes" Adjourned.
M OLSON, March 28- Bills passed; The substitute
Oil bill; relative to registration of births, marriages
and deaths; making county treasurers ineligible fol-
reelection concerning transportation of city funds il
milwaukee,; concerning contract letting in Milwau
Waukee; taking property for water pipe lay
ing. Adjourned.
MADISON, March 29.-It was decided to meet an6
unite with the assembly in the Carpenter memoria
exercises. -. The assembly amendments to the uni
verslty appropriation bill were rejected. Bill
passed: Allowing Imprisonment for non-payment OF
poll-tax; relating to liens timber and logs; admit
ng university students to the state militia; making
four institution appropriations; the Neenah city
charter; regarding administration of oaths tax levy
certhcations; changing the management of state in
situations. Bills killed: To encourage the raising
Of sheep and discourage the raising of dogs; extend
ing the time of loans to school districts. Adjourn
ed.
MADISON, March 30.-The governor sent veto of
the New London incorporation act. The vote OF
passage was reconsidered and the bill referred fo1
correction. Bills passed. Yorktown centennial ap-
propriation; for maintaining boom: Improvement
OF Slscourt river; changing boundary lines of the
towns OF Kendall and Elk Grove, Lafayette county
amending the highway act; in relation to settlement
of estates; concerning election of justices and con.
stables; amending the Fort Howard charter; amend
Il
ton of insane charges; amending Milwaukee char
ter; concerning commitment of insane Calumet
county appropriation; Incorporating the city OF
Marshted, concerning tresspaSs in hunting, fishing
and trapping; deaf and dumb institutes in Milwau-
kee and elsewhere The report of the reapporton-
ment committee was adopted. The assembly bill
to submit to the people the constitutional amend
ment providing for biennial sessions and elections
was concurred in Adjourned.
MADISON, March 31.-Bills passed: Amending the
game law appropriating 81 900 to the widow of the
waukee creating the Thirteenth judicial circuit;
providing for printing the Carpenter memorial adj
dresses. Bills killed: Three concerning railroads;
to establish state public school for dependent chill
dren; to tax telegraph companies. Adjourned.
MADISON, April 1.-The assembly amendments to
the joint resolution to provide for amendment OF
the constitution in relation to the registry of electors
were concurred in =. Assembly bills were concurred
in as follows: To compel the owners, proprietors
and occupants of dams in the counties of Iowa and
Lafayette to construct and maintain ishways; to
appropriate to Burnett county $685. for care of an
insane person; to amend revised statutes entitled of
highways and bridges; to authorize the state librarian
to deliver books of which there duplicates in the
state library to the president of the university of
Wisconsin, for the of the law department. to alI-
thor1Ze the commissioners of school and university
lands to loan portion of the trust funds of the state
to the city of Chippewa Falls, county of Chippewa
to appropriate to the Wisconsin Industrial School
for Girls certain Of money; to appropriate
money to the West Wisconsin Agricultural associa-
ton; to appropriate the proceeds of the sale of
swamp lands in Lincoln county TO the extinguish-
ment of its railroad Indebtedness. Assembly bills
were indefinitely postponed follows: To assist
laborers and servants il collecting their earnings:
to punish the mutilation alteration and destruction
of public records: to amend revised statutes relating
to returns of elections to county clerks, and for
compensation for the same; to provide for attach.
ment and levy upon growing crops and for sale
hereunder: to amend revised statues relating to
salary of Milwaukee county judge; in relation to
hshways III Iowa and Lafayette counties. -. The
joint resolution proposing amendment to the con-
stution and providing for biennial general elections
was concurred in. The bill to appoint truant off,
in cities to compel children to attend school was
killed.. Adjourned.
Assembly.
MADISON, March 26.-Bi1ls passed: Dividing le
Third and Fourth, and creating the Thirteen Judi
cal circuit relating to the Superior Boom company;
amending the Madison charter; relating to the sale
lands for delinquent taxes; registration of births
marriages and deaths; repeating section 027 revised
statutes to provide for laying out state road from
Grand Rapids to Stevens Point; for the relief of
Shawano county; to amend section $50, revised
statutes of assessment Of taxes Indefinitely post
poned: The bill making all masters, corporate in
diyidual liable to all servants and employees for in
juries received through the negligence of fellow SER
wants and co-employes; amending section 1913,
chapter 143 revised statutes. entitled of ens au-
thorZing the town of Fanbeau to settle its ndebt-
edness and for that purpose to issue bonds. Adj
journed.
MADISON March 2S.--Very little business was done
in the assembly The liability bill killed. AT
the evening session there was no quorum. :. Adj
lourned.
MADISON, Marco 29.-The resolution for adjourn
ment April LIST was adopted. Bills passed: Relating
to coat Of arms and great sea amending the stat
utes providing for chronic insane the university ap
preparation; making railroad and insurance commits
sioners elective officers; for sale of swamp lands in
l1ncoln county; Tor bridge in Outagamie county;
the Yorktown centennial appropriation; for the relief
of Eddie Kayanaghs mother. :. Four bills amend
ing the liquor law were killed. Adjourned
MADISON, March 30.-Bills were concurred in: Re
lat1ng to evidence from bank books; apprupriating
S63, 80 to the Northern Hospital for the Insane
$50 80 being for current expenses rest for i'm
provements; appropratng $50, s4SO5 to the insttu-
ton for the education of the deaf and dumb S28 900
for current expenses and the rest for repairs Incl
dent to the fire, and certain permanent improve
ments appropriating s918 to the Industrial School
for Boys-S3S 78l for current expenses and the rest
for improvements; approprating So, 1920 IA to the
State Hospital for the Insane-S53 800 II of this sum
being fer current expenses, the rest for improve
ments Senate bills passed. To authorize the main
tanning of boom and dam in Iron river, Bayfield,
county; to authorize the improvement of Siscourt
river, in Bayfield, counts for log-drivlng purposes
Senate bills indefinitely postponed: To repeal
section COZ and amend section 603 revised sta utes
entitled of hospitals for the insane relating to the
collection of charges from countless relating to the
commitment of persons to the hospital for the in
sane and amendatory of chapter 266 of the laws of
1885, to appropriate to the county treasurer of Ca
met county certain sum of money therein named.
Assembly bills indefinitely postponed: To incor-
porate the city of Marshfeld; to authorize the city
of Milwaukee to issue bonds; in relation to trespass
in hunting, fishing and trapping; provide for the
instructed of the deaf and dumb in cities contain
ing over 1000 inhabitants The senate bill TO ap-
propriate money to negotiate for the Perkins archc-
logical collection was defeated. Adjourned.
MADISON, March 31.-A resolution passed in
structing the governor to obtain crayon portrait
of the late Senator Carpenter to be placed in the
capitol; also, joint resolution providing for the
printing of $500 copies of the speeches delivered in
memory of the deceased statesman. The appor-
tionment bill was then taken up and read by sec
tons. Several amendments voted down and
the measure was finally concurred in Adjourned.
MADISON, April bills passed: To simplify the
collection of water rates in Milwaukee, as amended by
senate; to provide assessment of damages to lands
overlooked by improvement of Fox and Wisconsin
rivers amended by senate: to prevent truancy in
cities: to appropriate 900 to the Industrial School
for Girls to provide greater efficiency of the Wiscon-
were concurred in: Approprialng s16S0O to the in
Sdtution for the education of the blind-S15,500 for
current expenses, The rest for permanent improve
ments; to appropriate to Mrs. Ryan, widow of the
late Chief Justice Ryan, the of 81 COO; to pro-
vide for state tax of $4,000 for the year 1881 in
lating to liens upon logs and timber, with amend
ment -. The following among the senate bills
indefinitely postponed: Relating to the preservation
of game and to codfy all game laws; to authorize E
d. Brown TO maintain a dam over the Wisconsin riy-
er in Lincoln county Senate bills indefinitely
postponed follows: TO amend the general laws of
1880, entitled of ens to redisrict the state into con-
gressonal districts; to regulate the license fees of
telegraph companies to redistrict the state into
semby and senate districts; to regulate the license
fees of railroad companies; relating to The payment
of fines collected in Justices courts into the state
treasury; relating to the license fees of Geographic
companies: relating to special powers of county
boards. e. Adjourned.