The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-03-26
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
senate.

tgate the condition of the Green Bay and Minnesota
RAILROAD referred to committee after considera-
bic discussion The bill providing for trials in
circuit courts in vacation was referred the judi
cary committee. The following bills were passed:
To include merchants and traders within the prov-
sons OF the revised statutes relating TO exempt ms
to prevent the spread of contagious, infectious and
presidential diseases; to authorize boards of trustees
of certain incorporated villages to levy corporation
taxes; providing that exemptions from the payment
of poll tax in respect to age shall be the in vii
lagos in towns-over 80 years and under 81 relat-
ing to the compensation of sheriffs in certain
-. Bills concurred in: To revive and keep in force
for ten years the law under which ferry con-
structed ST. Croix river; authorize the city of
Oshkosh TO issue bonds for the payment of the debts
of said city. Indefinitely postponed Reducing the
allowance for services of yoke of oxen in working
out highway taxes from 81. so to S1.00 per day. re-
curing insurance corporations to pay tax to hand
engine companies with less than fifteen but more
than nine members; appropriatng 500 to d. j.
Price for expenses incurred in contesting his right
to seat in the senate from Sixth district il Mil
waukee county. The bill to provide for preserving
the records of the territory of Wisconsin passed
under suspension of the rules -. Adjourned till
Tuesday evening.
MADISON February 22-Several bills were passed
including one compelling officers sentencing BOYS to
the Industrial school to send all evidence at his trial
to the officers of the school The bill to appoint
person to gather early records in Brown and other
counties, which passed Saturday under suspension
Of the rules, killed telegram was read from
Senator Cameron announcing the serious illness of
Senator Carpenter.
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passed, among them the following To limit the
lien for debts upon the estates of deceased persons
to prevent the obstruction of navigation of the
tiers of the state to authorize A. D. Andrews and 9TH
ers to maintain canal in Barron county and to
improve the nayigabity for log driving and other
purposes of Bear lake, in the counties of Polk and
Barron to appropriate to the regents of the uni
yersity of Wisconsin the of S25 000 TO provide
for the payment u attorney fees and the fees of in
terpreters in certain cases. to egaze the acts of the
officers of the village of Brandon, III the county of
Fond du Lac. The chair-announced the following
as a joint committee apportionment the part
of the senate; viz Messrs. Price, Ryland Scott and
Rankin, Mr.. Ryand to be chairman of said commit
tee. -. Adjourned.
MADISON, Februry 25.-After the opening the
petition of large number of German ladies OF Mil
waukee was received 49,. Van Setback arose and an
nounced the death of Senator Carpenter and the
senate adjourned till 1870, evening, ont of respect TO
his memory. AT the evening session forInal.n
sage was received from the governor confirming the
sad intelligence received during the day of the death
of Wisconsin's gifted senator after which COM
mittees were appointed to act in conjunction with
like committees from the assembly to arrange for the
funeral and draft appropriate resolutions of respect
for the memory of the deceased senator . Business
was then resumed the time for perfecting dead-head
bills being extended till Wednesday. The bill
Offering state bounty of six dollars for wolf scaps
was concurrcd in after amending so that counties
shall not be compelled in order to receive
sucn bounty, to pay similar bounties The
bill to allow railway corporations to elect di-
rectors for one, two and three years passed under
suspension; also the bill for printing two thousand
blue books to sell to the public at 90 cents each
Adjourned
MADISON, February 26.-The rules were sus-
pended and the assembly bill to authorize the board
of supervisors of the town of Beloit to issue bonds
TO pay their bonded Indebtedness read a third
time and concurred in. THE following assembly
bills were read third time and concurred in in their
regular order For payment of a bounty on wild
animals; to appropriate the of S25 to each and
every resident Clergyman officiating chaplain at
the present session of the legislature The assem-
bly, resolution in relation to the mismanagemeut of
and Minnesota etTTct
ing the railroad commissioner to investigate such
1nismanagement, was postponed until mex Tuesday.
The following senate bills were read third time
and passed: To appropriate the State Horticultural
society 5000; to provide for public park in the Fifth
ward of the city of Milwaukee; TO amend revised
statutes relating to logs and timber Wolf river
and its tributaries; TO amend revised statutes re-
lang to costs and fees to divide the Third judicial
circuit and to create the Thirteenth judicial cir
cult to appropriate to the Wisconsin State Agricul-
tural society the sum of 81 000 to amend the char
ter of the city Of Ripon.. At the senate evening
session nothing OF Importance was transacted beside
the adoption of series of resolutions expressive of
sorrow at the death of Senator Carpenter.
Assembly.
MADISON, February 19.-BTls coneurred in: To
amend the revised statutes so as to include costs and
fees taxable by law to amend the union school law of
the city OF Watertown; to authorize the county
board Of supervisors of Kenosha county TO iesue
bonds for the construction of court house and
jail; authorizing the town board of any town con-
tanning an unincorporated village to appoint police
/ that
shal be paid out OF the general fund of the town. to
authorize notaries public to take dispositions on cleo
ton day; regulating the practice under the civil
| jurisdiction of the County Court of Wiunebago
! county. Assembly bills read third time and
! passed: To provide that guide-boards shall be
/ erected by tn chairman of the town superyisors
/ only upon vote of the qualified electors of such
town; to include Sheboygan county within the pro-
visions Of section 2433 Of the revised statutes en-
/ titled ''of the Circuit Courts: to amend the
revised statutes by providing that the county judge
snail be personally accessible at all times during
business hours, unless prevented by sickness una
voldabe absence from the county, and tue penalty
provided in section 100 is hereby declared and made
applicable to all county judges who refuse or neglect
to comply with these provisions; providing that any
! married woman may bring and maintain an action
/ III her Own name for damages against he person or
body corporate for any injury to her person or char
acter, the if she sole fixing the fees of
jurors in justices courts at $3.50 per day for each
juror in attendance less the amount advanced by the
/ opposite party when the jury shall have been de-
manded by him. An amendment to the revised stat
utes also passed adding the following to the list
of actions that survive by the law: For the
! recovery Of personal property, Or by the unlawful
conversion thereof: for personal injuries: for ma
icious procurement of loss to another: fer torts
founded on negligence; for breach of promise Of
marriage; by parent, guardian master for loss Of
service OF child ward servant caused by the tortious
act of the defendant for wrongfully harboring a
married woman and inducing her to live apart from
her husband; for assault and battery false innpre-
onment or for goods taken and carried aWay and
alsofor damages to real or personal property. Ad-
journed.
MADISON, February 21.-The senate met this even
ing, barely quorum being present The vote by
which the Barnes bill TO prevent quacks ffOm deceiv-
ing people passed was reconsdercd and further con-
sideradon Of the subject postponed until Thursday
THE bill passed to prevent taking pike or bass in
Wisconsin between February and May first; also to
have polls in cities open at O'Clock and close at sun
down. unless opened at sunrise by order of the coun-
ell. large number OF bills were advanced to
third reading, and large number indefinitely post
poned Among the latter n resolution for con-
stituhonai amendment making sheriffs eligible for
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sin Darymens association to grant state certificates
to persons having taught school twenty-one years. to
prevent any person not graduate of state univer-
sity or Of some normal school from being elect d
county superintendent; fixing surveyors fees at So
per day. to establish bureau of statistics for labor
ing men, to fix So per day the pay for lawyers an
pointed by the court for impecunious criminals:
creating municipal court for RichIand county: and
several Others Yearly twenty in al. Adjourned
until Tomorrow night.
MADISON. February 22.-The usual number Of
petitions for q prohibitery liquor law and praying
for the repeal of the oil law presented The
resolution 10 amend the constitution to make
sherids eligible for reelection, indefinitely post
poned on Monday, was reconsidered-ayes 40, noes
20 The bill authorizing Oshkosh to issue bonds to
pay Indebtedness sent to the governor Bills
passed: To purchase 400 Webster's dictionaries at
$500 each; fixing the terms of court in Milwaukee.
Brown, Fond du Lac and Dodge; appropriating S25
TO each clergyman praying for the legislature. AZ
ter O'Clock the session became Irregular the mem-
ters forgetting their dignity and INDUCING in sort
OF variety entertainment.
MADISON, February 24-Leave was granted VIM.
Kingston to re-introduoe the bill to amend subdiyis-
ion of section 1872, revised statutes The resou-
ton to refer railway tax bills to special committee
of nine came up and adopted. The resolution
requiring ali bills relating to taxation of railroads to
be referred to joint committee OF both houses was
lost. A motion to reconsider the vote killing the
bill to appropriate 500 to the Wisconsin Wool Grow
ers' association was carried, and the bill put on
its passage and passed-52 to 80 Bills passed. To
authorize Belot supervisors to issue bonds changing
in
county, to assist laborers and servants in collecting
their earnings; to limit the extent of liens created
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