Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-02-24
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURES.

5 WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
TUESDAY, Feb. -Senate-Several standin!
| / committees made report. On motion of Senate
! Cr0sby the rules were suspended and the asSembl,
pAI nAlng the terms OF the circuit for LincOll
county was concurred in. Passed: To appro
pirate to the governors contingent fund the sun
OF - ,OOO. After an hours debate on No. sc S.
bill relating to corporations the bill was referrt
TO 10 the committee on commerce and manufactures
Inc calendar having been completed Sen. Var
Schaick moved to adjourn carried.
TUESDAY, Feb. 15.-AsenabIv-Bills passed
Amending section 1858, chapter lSS, revised stat
utes, entitled of crimes and the punishment there
OF; amending the charter of the city of Jefferson
Two bi4s); amending section 3329 chapter I43
revised statutes, relating to hens; amending the
charter of the city of BoscobeI; amending the
charter of the city of Oshkosh; amending section
'ol, revised statutes in relation to judgments; in
relation TO the election and classification of rail
road directors in certain eases (under suspension
of the rules; in relation to chattel mortgages
amending chapter 1874 revised statutes, relating
TO proceedings IN criminal cases in justices courts
10 revive an act of 1870, authorizing Olaf Irving
MS heirs and assigns to keep and maintain ferry
across the st. Crolx river. The following assem-
Oily. bills were Indefinitely postponed: To provide
an equitable mode of taxation upon incumbered
real estate; to amend section 1863 revised stat
utes, relating to town insurance companies;
amending section 1891, chapter SO. revised stat
utes, relating to insurance corporations amend
ing chapter l9l, revised statutes entitled of trials
In criminal eases.
WEDNESDAY Feb. Senate-The Joint reso-
luton providing for biennial sessions of the leg
lslature came up in their order, the following
preamble and amendments were adopted and the
resolutions were referred to the committee on state
afalrs Amend by prefacing said resolutions
with the following preamble, to-wit:
WHEREAS. The leCiSlaturp Of thiS Stata ~
annual session tor the year $780, proposed and
adopted by majority of the members elected to
the two houses, amendments to the constitution of
| the state in the following language
And further amend by adding at the end of
said resolutions the following resolution, to-wit:
hes0tced by the senate, the assembly concur
ring, Ihat the foregoing amendments to the con-
stitution be and the same are hereby agreed to by
the legislature.
Bills passed: After Sen. Woodman had ex-
planned fully the manner of Gsposing of Webster's
| dictionaries by the superintendent of public in
structlon, the bill providing for the purchase of
400 hundred copies passed. The bill appropriating
81 900 to the commissioners of fisheries passed
The woman suffrage amendment was the special
order but upon agreement was postponed till
| March lst.
! WEDNESDAY, Feb. 16-AsselaJly-Senateb bills
concurred in Relating to the Indebtedness of
municipalities, and amending section $50, chapter
Al, Il. >. Relating TO jurors, and amendatOry
] ID.
chapter IL, revised statutes entitled of circuit
courts. Amending section 933 revised statutes.
| relating to town insurance companies Indef-
nitely postponed: Assembly bill to amend the
union school law of the city of Watertown.
! Joint resolution, assembly proposing to tax all
/ property except government property, came up
for consideration, and brought out the friends of
the church, Mr.. Seabold offered an amendment
exempting church property to the amount OF
slO,OOO lost-yeas 36, noes %. Further cOnsid-
GRAFTON was postponed till Feb. a.
| THURSDAY. Feb. II -,Senate-The resolution
requiring select committees to report all bills in
their hands on the 2lst, was amended to the 25th
and adopted. The bill introduced by Sen Bur
| rows to compel women to vote upon the question
of suffrage at the next general election. came up
| on the recommendation of the committee to in
definitely postpone. Sen. Fifeld moved that the
bill go over until March 1st. The motion to
postpone till March lst prevailed. Passed Bills
passed to amend the charter of the city of Osh-
k0sh. To amend the articles of association of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
! Company.
! THURSDAY, Feb. Rouse.-Joint resolution
Is, senate, instructing special committee to re-
port on the alleged shortage at the state hospital
for the insane. Senate bill concurred in: To ap-
prcpriate a sum of money to pay the extra EN-
ployeS of the legislature providing for laying
out a state road through the counties of Pepin
! and Pierce authorizing A. j. Van Epps and 9th
ers to build and maintain piers docks and boat
houses in Kinks lake, in the county of Waupaca
to prevent actions being brought upon county
city, town and school orders until after thirty
days from the time payment is made; to repeal
chapter 231 laws of 1879, authorizing the city Of
Chippewa Falls to issue bonds for funding its
bonded Indebtedness changing the boundaries of
the counties of ShawanO, Oconto and Langlade
and to create and perfect the organization of the
Ounty of Langlade and establish certain towns
therein.
FRIDAY, Feb 1S-Senate-Jont resolution No
10, A., instructing the delegation in congress to
support measures to regulate and control RAILWAYS
was amended and adopted. The following bills
were passed To create the county of LangIede
to amend section 1865, r. S., relating to drains
to authorize j. p. jacobson to maintain dam
on Wood river in Burnett county; relating to the
Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan ship canal.
FRIDAY, Feb. 19-1o,se-T cna1r requested
certain districts to caucus for members TO be ap-
pointed on apportionment committee. The fol-
lowing bills were passed: Amending section 1903
chapter 48 of the revised statutes relating to as
sessment of taxes authorizing q. p. Tripp to
maintain ferry from Alma, Wis, to '.Wabasha
county, Mimi authorizing a loan of state trust
funds to the town of MOsinee, Marathon county:
amending section 1881, chapter 48 revised stat
utes, relating to assessment of taxes. The senate
amendment to the joint resolution, asking our
members in congress to vote for the Reagan bill
was cOncurred in.
! bills were passed A bill relating to compensa-
ton of sheriffs in certain cases a bill to prevent
the spread of contagious, infectious and pestilen-
tial diseases bill to authorize the boards of
trustees of certain Incorporated villages to levy
corporate taxes to provide for the preservation
and security of the records, archives and papers
! of the territory of Michigan remaining in
I the counties of Brown, Crawford, Iowa and Mil
/ Waukee.
! SATURDAY, Feb. 19-House The following
| senate bills were cOncurred in. Amending the
charter of the Eau Claire Wesleyan seminary.
Legazing the acts of the board Of trustees of the
Eau Claire Wesleyan seminary. Amending the
union school law of the city Of Watertown.
| Amending section 1926, chapter 129, revised
ssatutes entitled to costs and fees allowed to
/ parties in circuit courts. The following bills were
passed Legalizing the acts Of the state
road coMmissi oners, relating to laying oRt
! state road from Kewaunee to Brown county.
Amending section 4560. rexised statutes, entitled
of offences against public policy. Amending sec
ton 2345, r. s., giving married women the right
I to sue and maintain action. Authorizing A.
/ d. Andrews. ct al, to maintain canal in Brown
county, and to improve Bear lake, and Horse
/ Shoe lake in the counties of Polk and Barron.
! Thore was an attempt to go into committee of
/ the whole-there was not quorum, and so the
assembly was obliged TO adjourn, until Monday
! evening at 7:30 o'clock.