The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-11
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.

the publication Of a revised edition of the me-
mortal record of the fathers of Wisconsin, was
referred to select committee. A resolution
was lhtFoauced requesting our Senators and
members OF congress to support a bill in Con-
gress to place q duty of 25 cents Der busbel on
barley malt, and specific duty on
barley, ana another asking them TO
support a law regulating the railroads.
A resolution was presented extending svmpa-
thy to the oppressed of Ireland Bills were in
trodueed providing for the appointment of a
State Entomologist, and to appropriate to fine
State Agricultural Society $4,000. The Gov
ernor submitted the following appointments
Dr. Scion Marks, of Milwaukee county,
to be a member of the State Board
Of Health and Vital Statistics for the term
commencing the first Monday in February,
1881; Jonathan H. Evans, Of Grant county
Carl Doefinger, of Milwaukee coun-
ty, and G. A. Hutehins, of Fond du Lac coun-
ty, to be Regents of tho Normal School for the
term commencing the first Monday in Februa-
~, 1881 Mark Douglas, of Jackson county,
and q. l.. Valentine, of Rock county to be
Commissioners of Fisheries for the term COM
mencing April l, 1881 J. T. Reeve of 0uta-
gamie county, to be State Supervisor of In
spectors of Illuminating Oils for the term of
two years, commencing April 1, 1881 The
Joint resolution for the relief of the Stock
bridge and Munsee Indians was conculTed in.
-ANoA~~AA1A-1s
sympathy Of the people of the State of Wis
consin is hereby extended to the unhappy
laboring class of Ireland in its effort to effect
reform IN the present oppressive tenant
system prevailing in that country.
| resolution was offered asking the
United States Senate to pass the bill for the
relief Of the Stockbridge and Munsee Indians
in the State of Wisconsin. A few unimportant
bills were introduced. The Senate bill was
Concurred in appropriating So, $780, 10 to Sena-
torsSutherland, McGraw and Smith for their
services as a committee and those of their
clerks and experts engaged in investigating the
affairs of the State Hospital for the Insane.
THURSDAY, Feb. 3.-SENATE.-A resolution
was presented instructing the Committee on
Charitable and Penal Institutions 10 ascertain
whether the shortage of Drs. Boughton and
McDill to the hospital fund has been made
good. Another resolution was presented, in
structing the Attorney General to begin suit
against the official bond of Steward
Gardner, of the State Hospital, for
shortage IN his accounts. Referred to
the Committee on Charitable and Penal In
situations. Bills were introduced: To amend
section 4, 731 of the Revised Statutes, relating
to punishment in the State prison to amend
sections 2, 753 and 2,76S of the Revised Stat
utes, relating to punishment; to appropriate
W ID O' 11uhNillS l1lO oull VI GOOu Oh account
of service III the army to appropriate to the
Northern Wisconsin Agricultural Society the
oum of 81 900 to appropriate to the Wisconsin
Horticultural Society the sum of $780, The
Senate, by resolution, extended sympathy to
the suffering people of Ireland.
AssEMBLY.-A great batch of petitions
against the liquor traffic were presented. A
resolution In regard to Interstate commerce,
and instructing representatives in Congress to
vote for the Reagan bill, came up, and after
discussion. was referred. Bills were introduced:
To regulate the tariffs of telegraph companies
to repeal chapter 245, laws of 1877, in relation
to the more equal distribution of taxes in GER
tain counties to amend the Revised Statutesin
the matter of payment of witnesses, interpret
ers and jury fees in other than in Circuit
Courts to amend the Revised Statutes in the
matter of divorce from the bond of matrimony.
FRIDAY, Feb. 4.-SENATE.-A constitutional
amendment for registration in cities was pre-
sented. Another resolution was introduced for
the early completion of the Fox and Wisconsin
rivers improvements, and authorizing the Gov
ernor to send agents to Washington to secure
an appropriation. Bills were sent up: For the
settling of the claims for printing to define
and punish peri ury to prevent the adultera-
ton of food, medicine; etc., and amending the
city charter of Milwaukee. select committee
reported favorably on the women suffrage
amendment, and the matter was made the
special order for Friday next
AssEMBLY.-A great number of petitions
were filed for an amendment of the constitu-
ton for the abolition of the manufacture and
sale of intoxicating liquors. An amendment
to the constitution was offered that taxation
shall be uniform, and taxes shall be levied upon
all property in this State except that owned ex-
l. Il L IL
any county, city, town, village or school dis
trict, and places set apart and in use for the
burial of the dead Bills were introduced To
finally settle the printing claim of Hon. S. ID.
Carpenter ct al. !; to appropriate $482.72 to
Burnett county for the support of an insane per-
son. amending the charter of the Superior Boom
Company: two separate bills amending
the charter of the city of Milwaukee; to author
ize the town of Beloit to issue bonds; to appro-
pirate $1,000 to the West Wisconsin Agricult-
ural and Mechanical Association: to appropriate
81 200 to the Central Wisconsin Agricultural
and Mechanical Associations; to amend the Re-
vised Statutes in the matter of rivers and floats;
relative to certain logging dam across the
South fork of Yellow river; providing for the
instruction Of deaf mutes in the city of Mil
waukee. The Legislature adjourned until 1880
Monday evening.
MONDAY, Feb. 7.-SENATE.-Bills were pre-
sented: Giving the widow of the late Chief
Justice Ryan one years salary of her husband
appropriating $4,000 to the State University
for repairs to the Water-Works, and for other
purposes; for the apprehension OF female
tramps. communication was received from
the Congregational and Presbyterian convoca-
ton, lately held in Milwaukee, for the passage
of prOhibitory liquor law.
AssEMBLY.-A bill passed relating to punish
l.,
1t provides that any person, being armed with
a dangerous weapon, who shall assault an
other, shall be punished sby imprison-
ment in the State prison not more than
fifteen years nor less than five years.
A bill was presented taxing express companies
2 per cent. on their gross receipts and fixing
penalty of $4,000 for not making necessary re-
ports to the State Treasurer another amend
ing weights and measures, and another in re-
gard to the municipal government of Mil
Waukee.
TUESDAY, Feb. 8.-SENATE.-Bills were in
troduced: To amend the articles of associa-
ton of the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
Railroad Company to provide for a public
park in the Fifth ward of Milwaukee to pro-
vide for the humane care of the chronic insane
not otherwise provided for; to amend the
charter of the city of Lacrosse ; III relation to
elections and appropriations. Bills passed
To authorize the city of Milwaukee to purchase
certain real estate in trust for the use of the
First ward; to appropriate to the Superinten-
dent of Public Property the sum of $500 to
provide for stationery for the use of the Legis-
lature.
ASSEMBLY, lis were introduced: Relating
TO the incorporation of the city of Oconomowoc;
to amend the Revised Statutes relating to
notaries public; to authorize the construction
of telegraph lines upon the lines of railway in
this State amending the Revised Statutes in
the matter of taxation of railroad, express and
insurance companies; providing for change
of venue where the Judge has been the attor-
ney or counsel for the defense in a criminal
case; to appropriate $4,000 to construct a
State public school for the education and care
of INDECENT children fixing the term
of court in the Eleventh judicial
circuit; to amend the Revised Stat
utes relative to public printing to amend
the charter of the city of New London to ap-
propliate 800 to the Adams County Agricut-
uraf and Mechanical Institute to amend the
Revised Statutes relative to the rights of mar
ried women to sue and maintain an action Civ
ing Outagamie county the light to borrow
money; relative to abstracts IN Outagamie
comfy; to amend the charter of the city of