Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-03-30
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.


Senate.
MADISON, March 21.-The biennial sessions resoln-
ton was made the special order for Wednesday even
ing. The senate refused to recede from its amend
ment to the bill regarding the propagation of fish,
and appointed Thomas. Hunt and Wing commit
tee on conference The anti treating bill came up
on it's concurrence, and after debate and amendment
concnrred in also the bill regulating the
sale of liquor to minors Bills passed: Relating to
Milwaukee tax sales; oenses against real estates in
dictments and nformations; babeas corpus; trial by
jury; timber depredatOns. At the evening sessisu
committee reports heard and action the gov
ernor's house bill reconsidered. Adjourned.
MADISON, March 24.-Blls passed: Prohibiting the
discharge Of firearms in Beloit and providing for
registry of electors allowing the abandonment for
cause OF lands taken for public in Milwaukee, if
done within thirty days; appropriatng S525 for tran
scrplng the senate and assembly journals; for the
correcuon of errors in state assessments to
negouate Tor the purchase of the Perkins, collection
OF antiquities. Assembly bills concurred in: To
appropriate "a 600 for experiments in the production
OF ahoer cane sugar; adjusting the boundaries be-
tween Shawano and Langlade counties: authorizing
the issue OF patents to the Chicago, st. Paul and
Omaha railway. The joint resolution for con-
stltutlonal amendment providing for an income tax
was ordered to third reading The bill providing
for license tax ON female dogs and to provide a
residence for the governor laid over until Fri
day. At the evening session the bill regarding par
cipation in the Yorktown centennial was laid over
The bill relating to town insurance companies in
definitely postponed in the morning, was recon
s1dered and referred to the judiciary committee
The bill to furnish blue book to each newspaper
..Adi ourned.
MADISON, March 23.-Bis passed: Concerning
liens; admissions to insane hospitals construction
OF dams; the assumption of professional titles by
quacks; amended charter of La Crosse; judicial or
gan1zat1on OF Price county; street car tracks in
towns. Bills indefinitely postponed: Relating to
road juries; registry in Milwaukee; highways: ex-
c!se The constitutional amendment granting the
r1ght OF suffrage to women was killed. Adjourned.
MADISON, March N-Bills passed: Amending tbe
Statntp irC for1 aI
sions of the legislature and biennial elections of state
ofhcers; providing for The enlargement of Seventh
ward park Milwaukee,; appropriating 81 800 to allow
the governor and staff to attend the Yorktown GEN.
tepnia and to purchases memorial stone for Wiscon-
Sin to be placed in the historical monument appro-
pr1atng to the Delavan Deaf and Dumb institute.
$50, 1855; Waukesha Industrial School for Bows
$49,881; State Hospital for the insane at Madison
s57, 1920 H Northern Hospital for the Insane at Osh-
kosh, S64, 280.3 Adjourned.
MADISON, March 25.-Bils passed: Yorktown CEN
tennial appropriation; relating to evidence from
books of banks; restrictions railroad rates; board
OF immigration appropriation; Clark county railroad
aid; action on corporation and school orders: Outa-
game county loan; amending the divorce act COL
lection of poll tax; probate of wills; special terms in
Ninth judicial circuit; amending the board of I'M
migration act; collection of statistics; admission of
evidence; concerning quacks. The Mississippi
ferry bill was indefinitely postponed. i. The uni
form taxation and registration amendments to the
constitution were passed Bills killed: Reducing
salaries of legislature employees fixing rates of in
terest; appropriating money to purchase residence
1or the governor Inc Dill to appropriate $35, 900
to build additional building for the State Hstori-
cal society referred back to the committee with
instructions to report estimates, plans, etc. Adj
journed.
MADISON, March 26.-To provide for the humane
care of the chronic insane not otherwise provided
for; to amend the revised statutes in relation to the
assessment and collection of poll taxes in villages in
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
section 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.
Assembly.
MADISON, March 21.-Bills passed: Concerning
the Northwestern Mutual Relief association drain
ing swamp lands; loaning school and university
funds; reducing salaries of legislative employees:
regulating the registry Of voters in Milwaukee.
Adjourned.
MADISON, March 23.-The resolution providing
for committee on bills their third reading to re
wise all bills before passage, adopted. The
senate bill appropriating ST. 800 to the state unver-
sity for increased water supply concurred in.
Bills passed: Relating to highways and bridges;
amending the law in regard to the state board of i'm
migration; relating to additional evidence; establish
ing court in Marquette county. Ordered to third
reading Relating to the transportation of freight by
railroads; making commissioners of railroads and
insurance elective officers. In the evening the bill
for the taxation of encountered property was killed.
and the following bills passed: Reducing the salaries
of legislative employees under the chief clerks and
sergeant-at-arms, passed; appropriating 1000
to the state board of immigration for the year 1881
and the same amount for 1882 appropriatng SIS 900
to the state university for renodeling the main build
ing, and 81, 500 for better water supply for the
state building. Adjourned.
MADISON, March 23.-BiIs passed: Making the
offices of insurance and railroad commissioners
elective; to allow the Wisconsin Farm Mortgage
company to certain timber police; to require
the polls kept open continuously on election day;
providing for the election of constabes in villages;
changing the time for selling delinquent lands
An attempts to reconsider the appropriation of
$500 to the state university failed. The senate
amendment to the anti-tr treating bill was concurred
in and the bill sent to be enrolled. AT the evening
session the bill to tax the property of telegraph COM
panies came UP, but failed to pass 0iua Uoce
vote. Adjourned.
MADISON, March M.-Bills passed: Concerning
powers of county boards; trust fund oans allowing
cities of 900 inhabitants to establish schools
for the education of the deaf and dumb the state to
pay 800 per pupil per year taught in such schools
appropratng $780, 900 for the establishment of state
school for dependent children. Bills defeated:
Making sheris eligible for reelection: 1egalizing
manufacture of water gas; relating to the Superior
Boom company. Adjourned.
MADISON, March 25-Bills passed: For a dam on
Windfall creek piers and booms in st, Louis river
relating to water powers Boscobel high school; adj
mission of insane to hospitals; protection of land
grants; submitting constitutional amendment to
the people; concerning assessment of taxes; relief
of Shawano county; state coat of arms and great
seal. Bills Indefinitely postponed: Relating to for
eign insurance companies; five railroad bills; publ
cation of tax hsts taxation of telegraph companies.
-. Adjourned.
MADISON, March 26.-Bills passed: Dividing the
Third and Fourth, and creating the Thirteen judi
cial circuit relating to the Superior Boom company
amending tie Madison charter; relating to the sale of
lands for delinquent taxes; registration of Births
marriages and deaths repeating section 1027 revised
statutes; to provide for laying out state road from
Grand Rapids to Stevens Point; for the relief of
Shawano county; to amend section 1,050, revised
statutes of assessment of taxes Indefinitely post
poned: The bill making all masters, corporate or in
dividual liable to all servants and employees for in
Jur1es received through the negligence of fellow
wants and co-employes; amending section 1915,
chapter 143, revised statutes. entitled of hens au
thorizing the town of Fambeau to settle its indebt
edness and for that purpose to issue bonds Adj
journed.
Venueance Ii non Mule