The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-04-02
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
Senate.

MADISON, March ia long debate was had on
the question Of ordering the i-treating bill to
third readI g. 1t was finally so ordered, but mo-
ton to pass il failed owing to failure to secure
two-thirds vote. A bill of similar character
ang to the sale of liquors to minors, ordered to
! third reading. =. The following Bills were passed:
Relating to the sale of lands for delinquent taxes;
relating to special powers of county board re-
atng to water powers; to provide for secretary of
! the board of public works of Milwaukee; to amend
the charter of the city of Madison The assembly
bill to amend the revised statutes entitled of rail-
roads, concurred in The assembly bill in
definitely postponed to amend the revised statutes
relating to the expenditure of highway taxes. Adj
! journed.
! MADISON. March 21.-The biennial sessions resolu-
ton made the special order for Wednesday
ing. The senate refused to recede from its amend
ment TO the bill regarding the propagation of fish,
and appointed Thomas, Hunt and Wing a commit
tee on conference The anti-treating bill came up
on its concurrence and after debate and amendment
conCurred in also the bill regulating the
sale of liquor to minors Bills passed: Relating to
Milwaukee tax saes ofenses against real estates
dctments and informations; babeas corpus trial by
Jury: timber depredations At the evening sessisn
committee reports heard and action the gov
! ernors house bill reconsdered. .Ad journed
MADISON, March 24.-Bills passed: Prohibiting the
discharge Of firearms in Beloit and providing for
registry of electors; allowing the abandonment for
OF lands taken for public in Milwaukee, if
done within thirty days. approprating 1925 for tran
scribing the senate and assembly journals; for the
! correction of errors in state assessments; to
negotiate for the purchase of the Perkins, collection
of antiquities Assembly bills concurred in: To
appropriate 1000 for experiments in the production
of amber 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-
stitutiona amendment providing for income tax
ordered to a third reading The bill providing
! for license tax female dogs and to provide a
residence for the governor were laid until Fri
day. At the evening session the bill regarding par
tcipation in the Yorktown centennial was laid over
The bill relating to town insurance companies in
| definitely postponed in the morning. recon-
| sidered and referred to the judiciary committee
The bill to furnish blue book to each newspaper
was also reconsdered and referred to the general file
Adjourned.
MADISON, March 23-Bils passed: Concerning
liens; admissions to insane hospitals; construction
OF dams: the assumption of professional titles by
quacbs; amended charter OF La Crosse judicial Or
| ganization OF Price county; street tracks in
towns. Bills indefinitely postponed: Relating to
road juries; registry in Milwaukee; highways;
else. The constitutional amendment granting the
right of suffrage to women killed. Adjourned.
MADISON, March 4.-Bills passed: Amending the
industrial school statute providing for biennial
sons of the legislature and biennial elections of state
officers; providing for the enlargement of Seventh
ward park, Milwaukee; appropriating $1,000 to allow
the governor and staff to attend the Yorktown CEN
tennial and to purchases memorial stone for Wiscon
sin to be placed in the historical monument; appro
/ priating to the Delavan Deaf and Dumb institute
| s32,s1s.65; waukesha Industrial School for Boys
S49,S61; State Hospital for the insane at Madison
IA; Northern Hospital for the Insane at Osh-
kosh, s64 go. 80. Adjourned.
MADISON, March 25.-Bills passed: Yorktown CEN
books of banks; restrictions railroad rates; board
Of immigration appropriation; Clark county railroad
aid; action corporation and school orders; Outa-
gamie 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 ac collection of statistics; admission of
evidence; concerning quacke. -. The Mississippi
ferry tiI was indefinitely postponed. The uni
form taxation and registration amendments to the
constitution passed. Bills killed: Reducing
salaries OF legislature employees; fixing rates of in
tercst appropriating money to purchase residence
for the governor The bill to appropriate s35 900
to build additional building for the State Histori-
eel society referred back to the committee, with
instructions to report estimates, plans, etc. Ad-
lourned.
Assembly.
MADISON, March 19.-The joint resolution to in
vestigate the Madison Mutual Insurance company
indefinitely postponed. Bills were passed: To
amend revised statues entitled of highways; amend
ing revised statutes entitled of assessment of taxes;
relating to the inspection and measurement of logs
and lumber; authorizing the governor to deliver
patents to the G. st. ?. NJ. & o. Railroad company
to prescribe procedure for committing persons to IL
sane hospitals in relation to trespass; relating to rail-
road laborers liens; re-esabhshing the ROCK county