The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1882-03-04
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.

MADISON, February 20.-The assembly bill Il
incorporate the city of Port Washington, wal
concurred in under suspension of the rules. -.
An executive communication was received
nominating Rev. G. f. Gordon as a member OF
! the board of regents of the state DOrma
| schools for the unexpired term Of Carl Doer
! finger, resigned Assembly bills to incorpor-
ate the city of Baraboo and amend the char
| ter of Waseca were concurred in.
| MADISON, February 21-The bin to repea1
] the wolf bounty Law was killed-ayes -, noes
| 31-after lengthy discussion. The ill ap
! propriating sc, 900 to build levee TO protect
| Fox River from overflow from the Wisconsin
| was shown by Wlnans to be faulty in cOnstruc
! ton, in that the state was not re lily restricted
| to any definite amount III expenditure. After
| vigorous debate, INDUCED in by Price, Horn
| aud Winans on one side, and Keyes and Parry
on the other, the bill was referred to the COM
mittce on state affairs.
MADISON, February 22.-Very little was done.
The bill allowing Racine to bond its funded in
debtedn6ss was passed.
MADISON, February 23.-A number of unim-
pOrtant bills were conculred III. and number
advanced to third readings. The bill amend
ing and repeating certain sections of the re
vlsed statutes relating to sessions of the 3egIs-
lature, by which the time of the first biennial
session is fixed to commence ON the second
Wednesday in January of the year 1894, came
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offered al amendment that the first session be
held in 1888, instead of 1884, and it was lost by
a vote of ID ayes to 16 noes. After some dis
cussion on minor provisions the bill was re-
ferred to the committee on state affairs.
MADISON, February 24.-Bills passed: To ap-
propriate $1,000 to the fish commissioner; TO
allow the superintendent Of public instruction
to purchase a sufficient number of Webster's
dictionaries to supply school districts. The
assembly bill giving Fond du Lac the right to
light its streets by electric lamps was then con
cured IN, and the assembly bill to amend the
act incorporating the city of Ripon Indefinitely
postponed.
Assembly.
MADISON, February 2O.-The senate bill to
extend the time within which free high schools
shall be entitled to the state aid now provided
by law was passed. .ASsemtly bills passed:
To provide for laying out and esta blishing
state road from the city Of Milwaukee to Port
Washington; appropriating two thousand dol
lars to the governors contingent fund . The
four assembly bills relating to establishment of
chronic insane asylums were all indefinitely
postponed. - The senate bill ordering the sec
Rotary of state to publish annually four thou
sand five hundred copies of the blue book was
passed under suspension of the rules
MADISON, February 21.-The resolution in
relation to the swamp and overfowed land was
passed. The bill relative to annual school
meeting was passed; the memorial to congress
relative to postal saving repositories was also
passed. The bill to regulate the practice of
pharmacy, the licensing of persons to carry on
such practice and the sale of poisons in the
state of Wisconsin was ordered engrossed and
read third tune.
MADISON, February Assembly bills passed
Authorizing Marathon County to sell lands
other than swamp lands for the purpose of
aiding railroad building; cOmpensating any
farmer who keeps up public watering trough
by exemphng him from road tax; permitting
the village of Reedsburg to dig or drill a well
appropriating $500 to the Unity Guard on ac-
count of loss by fire. -. The Fox River overflow
case elected warm discussion and was ordered
to a third reading.
MADISON. February ga memorial to CON
gress for increased mail service between Ian
caster and Cas5vIlle passed under suspen-
sion Of the rules An effort was made to sus-
pend the rules and pass the Fox River levee
bill, but the assembly refused it by decisive
vote. 81. The special committee on Temperance
reported in favor of prohibiting the manufac-
ture and sale of intoxicating liquors in this
state, except for use in the arts and for medical
or sacramento purposes, is forever prohibited.
MADISON, February PA resolution was in
troduced providing for the printing of 1900
copies of the report of the committee on the
liquor traffic. This was adopted, under sus-
pension of the rules, by q vote of 81 to 49,
The following senate bills were then concurred
in: To organize Price County for judicial pur-
poses. and to fix the salaries of clerks of court
and the district attorney therein; to appropriate
sums necessary to meet the expenditures at the
state institutions during the coming year
The Lewiston levee bill then came up, and was
passed after some debate by vote of Al to 81.