The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-18
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.

toxicatlng liquors. bill was introduced to
authorize the female citizens of the State to
decide by ballot whether they desire to exer-
else the right of elective franchise. All mat
tiers relating to female suffrage were made the
special order for next Wednesday evening. with
instructions to the select committee on
female suffrage to make their report bv next
relation to lands granted to the State by acts OF
Congress approved June 3, 1856, and MAY 5,
1854 resuming said lands and granting them
the Sparta and Lake Superior Railway Com
pany Another bill is to provide for the pur-
chase of Governors house. 1t provides for
the purchase of the property on Fourth and
Lake, known as the Williams property.
AssEMBLY.-A resolution was offered that
the Committee on Assessment and Collection
of Taxes be authorized and directed to thor
oughly investigate and examine the question
and report by bill or otherwise as early as prac-
tlcable whether railroad and telegraph eOmpa-
MES are paying their just proportion Of taxes
to the State. Bills were introduced To APP
propriate various sums to County AgrcUlUu-
raj Societies in this State; to appropriate
81, 600 to the State Board of immigration in adj
ditiOn to the sum otherwise appropriated ; to
amend the act establishing Board Of Imml>
grafton; to amend the Milwaukee charter rela-
tive to public schools to establish Bureau of
Statistics to amend section 1,729, Revised
Statutes: to provide for State arsenal and
arDlorv in the city of Milwaukee at a cost not
exceeding $50, 600 to authorize the city of Mil
waukee to extend the Seventh Ward Park.
THURSDAY, Feb. 1O.-SENATE. There was a
large grlst of petitions against the traffic in
liquor. Illuminating oil also received atten-
ton. Bills were introduced in large numbers.
One in regard to the taxation of railroads crea-
ted considerable excitement and others taxing
telegraph and express companies. Bills were
introduced; To punish the Comptroller or
members Of public works Of the city Of Mil
waukee for malfeasance III Office to authorize
q change of the grade of streets III Milwaukee
to repeal registry laws of Milwaukee, re-
lating to Licenses in Milwaukee: relating Opubic
schools In the same city In relation to sewer
age in Milwaukee changing the time of hold
ing court in the Fifth Judicial circuit In
relation to town insurance companies
relating to the Historical Society; to admit
university students to be members of military
guards relating to salaries of city officers in
Milwaukee relating to assessment and collec-
ton of taxes relating to special powers OF
County Boards relating to compensation of
Sher1ffs to regulate license fees of railroad
companies to regulate the license Iees of tele-
grarh companies relating to the charitable, re-
amend the Illuminating Oil law; to.prOvide for
the payment Of attorneys ana interpreters
fees relating to the election Of Judges to ALL
thorze Sheriffs to employ prisoners at hard
labor; relating to the Industrial School for
Boys to divide the Third judicial circuit and
create Thirteenth judicial circuit; relating
to insane parents relating to County Treas
urers to empower and legalze the surveys
of civil engineers relating to drains
to authorize railroad companies to charge eX-
ira fares when collected on the cars relating
to peddlers. The resolution relating to the I'M
prOvement of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers
was postponed till next Wednesday the joint
resolution Of the Assembly, extending sympa-
thy to the laboring classes i'll ireland, was
unanimously concurred in. Bills passed Relat
ing to the Eau Claire Wesleyan Seminary to
amend the act relating to the incorporation of
the Mayville Union School District relating to
police regulations in unincOrporated villages
AssEsIBLY.-In the Assembly, this morning, it
was a field day for the introduction of fresh
business seyenty-fve bills and a great many
petitions and memorials were offered. A resO-
luton was introduced placing Worcester's die
tlonary on the same footing with Websters in
the public institutions of learning in the State
A resolution ordering an investigation into the
matter OF railway taxation was adopted. Bills
were read calling for an appropriation of
money for various agricultural and me-
chancal associations in the State.
Seventy-fve thousand dollars is asked for
the better development of the mining interests
of the State. The Wisconsin Wool Growers
Association also seek an appropriation. bill
was read asking an amendment of the statutes
relating to the crime of placing obstruction3
on railroad-tracks also that County Treasurers
shall hold Office only one term, and to provide
for attachments on growing crops. Among the
more important bills were For the prOtec-
ton of wall-eyed pike and black bass in Wis
consn relating to the election of State officers;
relating to costs in certain actions to prohibit
any trustee or director of any Institution
holding funds thereof to act as Treasurer
to limit the time to commence action in pro-
ceedings to provide for a State tax in the year
1881: to submit to the people the biennial ses-
sion amendment to the State constitution to
amend the Revised Statutes relating to the will
full and malicious placing of distinctions on
railway tracks, and the punishment therefor o
Congressional apportionment bill.
FRIDAY, Feb. 11.-SENATE.-The Governor
sent in a communication stating that he had
issued twenty-eight pardons during the last
year. Bills were passed providing against the
adulteration of food and appTopriating 81, 900
to the State Agricultural Society.
AssEMBLY.-The joint resolution requiring
the Wisconsin delegation TO support the
Reagan bill was amended to read some meas
ure of the kind, and adopted. A joint
resolution expressing sympathy for Ire
land was also adopted. There was quite
a lively fight over resolution that special
committee report on Tuesday next on the ques-
ton of shortage on the part of the manage
ment of the State Hospital for the Insane.
The report was ordered. The resolution lock-
ing toward the placing of Worcesters diction-
airy on the same official basis as Webster's came
up and was lost.
MONDAY Feb. 14.-SENATE.-In the Senate,
the biennial-session resolutions were laid over
till tomorrow. A resolution for printing 1000
copies of the census report for the use Of the
Legislature was adopted.
ASSEMBLY. A resolution giving members OF
the Legislature copies of the geological report
was adopted, and both houses adjourned, after
being in session only few minutes.
TUESDAY, Feb. 15.-SENATE.-There were
prolonged sessions Of both houses Of the Leg
isIature to-day, but nothing Of great impor-
lance was performed In the Senate a bill
passed apprOpriating $4,000 as a contingent
fund for the Governor. There was some fight
on the bill relating to corporations and amend
atoE-y of section 1,775 of the Revised Statutes.
when it came up for third reading. The bill is
intended to facilitate the consolidation of log
ging and lumber companies. Finally the bill
was referred.
AssEMBLY.-Joint Assembly resolutions Nos.
and 16, referring, respectively, to biennial
sessions and biennial elections, came up. On
motion the consideration thereof was made
the special order for Thursday evening next.
Bills passed: Relating TO fees of witnesses
and amendatory of section 4,064, chapter
176. Revised Statutes amending sections
1856, $3.50 and 3761, chapter 100,
Revised Statutes, entitled "Of APP
peals from Judgments in Justices Courts p re-
pealing chapter 1885, laws of 1880, and to 1e-
store section $50, chapter SO, Revised Statutes,
entitled "0f County Government p amending
section 4, 633 chapter 1873, Revised Statutes,
entitled "Of Crimes and the Punishment
Thereof !" amending section 751, Revised Stat
utes, in relation to judgments. A number of
bills we're killed.
WAS there ever a better example of
the witty and concise form of expression
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