The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-07
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.

The Congressional Apportionment matter
was finally settled in the Senate. on the 18th
ult, by the adoption Of the Assembly amend
ments and the passage of the bill. inst as if
came from the committee. A bill was passed
giving corporations owning dams the right TO
condemn oveIfiowed lands. A bill was passed
exempting from gsrnisheo alaborer's wages Tor
ninety days and $500 of property of persons
not owning homesteads also repeating the
law establishing county insane hospitals, with
SAVING. clause in regard to institutions
contracted for. Assembly bills were
concurred IN to appropriate 81 900 to the widow
OF the late Sheriff Coleman, of Pepin county
also Sl,oO0 to the widow of the lste Sheriff
Baker, OF Portage county; granting life certi-
hcates to schoolteachers who have taught
within the State for tventy-one wears f: appro-
pr1aung -, QUO to the State Agricultural So
eiety. The bill taxing telegraph COMPANIES
was discussed at length and numerous amend
ments offered. 1t finally passed, taxing COM
panies having over 800 miles of line 81 per
mile for the first wire and Is cents for each sd-
ditional wire Other companies are
taxed by the bill 81 per mile fov
the first wire and IS cents for each
bill to double the taxation on seeond-cl4Ss
railroads was killed The Committee on Ju~
dietary reported bill providing for an is
suance of bonds to meet the States INDEBTED
ness to the General Government and placing
the whole matter in the hands of commission
to report on the matter to the next Leg stature
There was long wrangie over the Senate
resolution on the Fox river and Lake Winnie
bago overflow. 1t was amended so as to give
the Attorney General the right to exercise his
discretion as to whether or not he should in
stitute legal proceedings in the premises. and
eoncurred in. The bill creating Bureau of
Labor Statistics was passed; also the bill to
reconstruct and improve the main building at
the State University The bill appropriating
&160, 900 for the construction of Western hl-
sane hospital was killed. A bill WAS passed in
creasing the minimum of liquor licenses from
$50 to SIS and the maximum from $50 to
$500. Senate bills concurred in were the fol-
lowing Providing for the payment of fees for
recording births and deaths submitting a
constitutional amendment relative to registra-
ton to the people permitting the consolIda-
ton of parallel lines of railroad; providing that
every railroad corporation shall have an insura-
bic interest in all property on its route which
may be liable in damages for fires caused by
operating the road.
The Committee on Finance introduced a bill
in the Senate, on the 29th ult, to levy State
tax of 100000 this year. 1t was unanimously
passed under a suspension of the rules. As
sembly bills were eOncurred in creating a Bu-
reau of Statistics appropriating $4,000 for
the improvement of the main building at the
State University. large number of local and
minor measures were crowded through under
suspension of therules. In the Assembly in the
morning JOINT Senate resolution was concur
red in fayoring Pendleton's Ciyil-Service Re-
form bill also, Senate joint resolution for
final adjournment Friday. Joint Assembly
resolution was adopted for a commission
to examine and report on all claims
against the State, known as war Indebtedness.
Senate bills were concurred in giving corpora
tons owning dams the right to condemn over
flowed lands in relation to the distribution to
the geological survey. Assembly bills were
passed appropriatlng SIS to each person
serving as Chaplain this session to protect
people against medical quacks. A great num-
Der of bills of varying importance were
rushed through preparatory to final adjourn
ment. beautiful set of slverware was
Gov. Rusk signed the Congressional Appor-
tionment bill as quickly as it could De got TO
him after being enrolled. The billas signed by
the Governor stands: First District-Racine,
Kenosha, Walworth, Rock, jefferson Second
-Waukesha, Washington, Dodge, Fond du Lac;
Third-Dane, Green, Lafayette, Grant, Iowa;
Fourth Milwaukee; Fifth-0zaukee Sheboy-
gan, Calumet, Manitowoc Brown, Kewaunee;
Sixth-Green, Lake, Marquette Adams Wau-
shara, Wlnnebago, Outagamie; Seventn-Sauk,
Richland, Crawford, Vernon. Monroe, Lacrosse,
Juneau; Eighth-Jackson, Trempeleau, Buffalo,
Pepin, Pierce, Dunn, st. CroIx, Eau Claire,
Clark, Polk, Barron, Burnett Douglas, Bayfield,;
Ninth-Wood, Portage, Wsupaca, Marathon,
Shawanee, Door Marinette, Oconto, Langlade,
Lincoln, Taylor, Chippewa, Price, Ashland.
Nothing was done in the Legislature, on the
SOth ut., except the receipt by each house of
messages from each other and from the Execu-
tive.-The following appropriations have
been made during the session: