Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-02-08
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.


Vlslt Washburn observatory was read, after
| which several bills were introduced, the most
important OF which were as follows: To re-
store capital punishment; relating to evidence
IN courts of justice.
MADISON, January 31.-Bills introduced. To
reapportion the state into legislative and con-
| gresslonal districts; to amend the laws regard
ing private nulsances; to repeal the law of 1881
In relation to fishways. Some routine bust
| ness was then transacted and the senate aftev
! having received an executive communication
relating to the trouble with laborers on the
Chicago. Portage and Superior railroad. adj
| journed.
MADISON, February 1.-The railroad commit
tee reported the governors message concerning
| the air line riot, and the Omaha transfer
! bill. motion to suspend the rules for inn
| mediate action was lost for want of third
majority. bill was introduced to authorize
ferry across st. Croix River at Hudson A
number OF bills of no general Importance were
introduced, after which the senate adjourned.
| MADISON, February 2.-HamiIton introduced
a resolution for constitutional amendment
! providing for female suffrage. . Kingston in
| trOduced bill declaring certain streams navi-
| gable for log driving. The senate bill relat-
ing to insurance corporations was passed. -.
| The Judiciary committee reported in favor .of
the capital punishment bill, only two members
dissenting Adjourned.
| MADISON, February 3.-Ryland introduced q
| b1lto procure suitable highways to fair grounds
and cemeteries. The joint assembly resolu-
! tlon providing for joint committee on liquor
| trlfhc was not cOncurred in. Bills passed:
Appropriating $4,000 to the purchase of law
! books for the state library; appropriating 800
each to members of the legislative visiting COM
mlttee to state institutions: to limit the lein of
| Gebts on real estate of deceased persons and
| provide for making record of descent thereof;
vestlng in assignees in case of voluntary assign
ment all the right of creditors in avoidance of
fraudulent claims; to transfer the land grant
from the Chicago, Portage and Superior Rail-
way to the Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis and
| Omaha line (ayes 81, noes 6. )Adiourned till
| Monday night
| MADISON, January 30.-The usual number of
! memorials for WOmen's rights, chronic insane
! hospital and temperance legislature were handed
Id. after which bills we're introduced as follows:
| To appropriate sum of money for the estab-
| lishment of a school for dependent children:
| to permit general storm and hail insurance
! companies to do business in Wisconsin: to ap-
! propriate $4,000 to the contingent fund of the
! governor; to detach Waukesha from the Second
| (Hiwaukee) judicial district The assembly
then resolved itself into committee of the
| whole, with Pierce in the chair. Upon the bill
referring to appropriations for the deficiency
| IN the state institutions, Price made speech
denying the imputation that had been made
against the last legislature to the effect that it's
| demagoguery and needless extravagancies had
resulted IN the large Deficiencies reported to the
! present legislature, and claimed that the de-
ticlencles were due in part to the fact that the
liabilities of the different institutions were not
reported at the time. Adjourned.
MADISON. January 81 Petitions. memorials,
| etc. presented: RESPONSIVENESS against passage
| of bills for exemption of taxation; memorial
| Of the officers and members of the State Histo-
rieal Society, presenting exhaustive arguments
in favor of the erection of fire-proof building
for its rapidly expanding library and manu-
and Oth thor of &Lo
county board of Sheboygan for the repeal of
a portion of chapter al, laws of 1881. relat-
ing to inquests of the dead; memorial of
Columbia county board in relation to over
flow of the Wisconsin river; remonstrance
against passage of tax exemption bills.
The resolution to limit the reception of new
business to February 7th was then brought up.
After some debate the date was changed to
February 9th and the resolution amended so as
not to restrict committees from reporting on
business reaching them after that time, and to
except also privileged resolutions Bills in
troduced: To prevent the manufacture and
sale of adulterated food and drugs; relating to
an act to prevent quacks from dece1Ving the
people by professional title, and amendatory
of the laws of 1881; approprating $4,000 to
! pay the just debts due to the Chicago,
/ Portage and Superior Railroad to its laborers;
! amending the revised statues relating to lands
sold for taxes; for the preservation of fish
| In Bass channel, Brown County; COMPEL
ing compulsory attendance of children at
school between the ages of and Is; cutting
out SheboygaD County from the rule for Dane
and Sheboygan requiring the coroner to hold
all inqaests: to provide for education of deaf
mute children by school boards in cities and
villages, with limited state aid; to authorize
certain improvements in Jackson County for
numbering, cranberry and meadow purposes.
Adjourned.
MADISON, February 1.-Numerous remon-
strances were received against the taxation of
oh oil
woman suffrage =. Cabanis introduced a Joint
resolution providing for joint committee of
the liquor traffic to consist of three from the
senate and five from the assembly. Bills in
troduced: Authorizing the state board of con-
troll to make additions to the two state hospital
for the insane at Madison and Oshkosh, and to
the Milwaukee County hospital, for the per
manent care Of chronic lnsane for the erection
of state asylum for chronic insane at Chip
pewa Falls; increasing the maximum punish
ment for drunkenness to $50 fine or sixty days
imprisonment; appropriating 5000 to the State
Horticultural Society; allowing patent inside
newspapers to have the benefit of $50 payment
for publication of the laws; authorizing the
search of any place IN this state where there is
reason to believe there are any spirituous or
vinous liquor given away or sold in violation of
local laws; establishing local boards of health;
for the punishment of murder in the first de-
gree by hanging or life imprisonment; the
Nebraska liquor laws authorizing the loan of
INC StdlG IuSG JULIUS dG per CSut.. pIONlO1HSo
for capital punishment. :. Adjourned.
MADISON February 2.-Petitions, memorials,
etc. For the improvement of the Mississippi
and its navigable tributaries; against taxation
of church property; for an amendment to the
law regarding Intoxicating liquors; for a mem
orial to congress for building a harbor at Lake
| Pepin. Bills introduced: To prohibit the sale
or use of toy pistols or other toy firearms.
punishment: Imprisonment not exceeding six
months, or fine not exceeding 800, or both fine
and Imprisonment; to apportion the state in
to congressional districts; amending the laws
for the protection of brook trout; for an in
sane asylum at Eau Claire, costing $175, 900;
authorizing the Chipp eva Valley and Superior
Railway Company to build and maintain a
bridge across the Chippewa River. The as
sembly bill to maintain the waters of Potter's
Lake, Walworth County, was passed . The
bill authorizing the county of Chippewa; to
build and MAINTAIN free bridge across the
Chippewa River and issue bonds to pay for the
same was passed under suspended rules.
Adjourned.
MADISON, February 3.-Tne joint resolution
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