The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-03-17
NUMBER Al.
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.


the Judgment recently obtained on his receipt
ing in full; fdr services as Treasurer of the
State Hospital for the Insane, Vas unanimously
passed by the Senate on the Sth inst. The
Assembly bills to prevent the adulteraton of
food and drugs, and to establish local boards
of health in towns, villages and cities, were
passed. Horns resolution to adjourn
sine die March q was refused passage
in the Assembly-ayes, A; noes, so.
CarInichaeTs bill, substituting q half-bushel
measure for the brass testers now in use in
weighing grain; was refused passage in the AS
sembly BY vote of SO ayes to 81 noes. The
farmers were finally convinced that they
wouldn't get more for their wheat, and the
halg-bushel tester would only produce confusion
when grain is sold for delivery outside of the
State The Judiciary Committee of the AS
sombly reported bill which empowers Circuit
Judges to appoint three Jury Commissioners in
each county, who shall select seventy-tive grand
and 40 petit jurors, and report them to the
Clerk of the Circuit Court.
A debate of nearly two hours was held in the
Senate on the 9th inst, over the five bills author
iziDg John E. Glover and W. H. Phipps, of Hud-
son, and ]. H. Wing, of Bayfield,, to erect
dam over ToogaticanS river, in Bayfield, eoun-
ty. The bill finally passed to third reading.
The Judiciary Committee of the Senate report
ed a substitute bill providing that all persons
called to testify as experts should be allowed SIS
per day and mileage The special COM
mittee appointed to consider all matters
pertaining to the care of the chronic insane
reported bill for new State institution nd also
for the enlargement of the Milwaukee Hospital.
The new building is to be located north and
west of Wisconsin river, which must be at La
Crosse Sparta, Eau Clare or Chippewa Falls.
| It shall be capable of accommodating $50
patients, and the site is not to cost more than
$4,000. An appropriation of $l25,000
is made for the building and $780,
600 co.,. for the 4o erection %an Of ad STm
The select Senate committee on the proposed
new bui ding for the State Historical Society
| reported amendments providing for the aban-
| donment of the proposition of a separate build
ing, and authorizing the construction OF ad-
dilions TO tho State Capitol for the use of the
Supreme Court and State Library. The bill
appropriating s., 000 to the widow of Charles G..
! Coleman, who was shot by Maxwell desperadoes
at Durand last July, was passed by the Assembly.
| Mr.. Bowles' resolution, amending the constltu-
| ton so that the provisions requiring all fines
| collected for breaches of the penal laws to be
| paid into the school fund be stricken out, was
| passed by the Assembly. The Senate joint res
| olution amending the constitution so that State
! and county officers can be elected at the same
In the Senate the joint resolution providing
for an investigation into the State Industrial
School for Boys at Waukesha was indefinitely
postponed, on the 10th inst. Bills passed pro-
viGiDg for the settlement and payment OF In
debtedness of the State to the General Gov
ernment by the issuance of certificates of in
debtedness and to provide for the payment of
interest thereon. The following Assembly bills
| rvnra oOnourrod in No atoprOpFinta Sk00
each to the State Dalrymen's Associa-
! ton and State Horticultural Society
| prohibiting the sale of toy pistols and
other firearms to provide for the greater
efficiency of the Wisconsin National Guard by
having annual encampments and otherwise i'm
proving the service; prohibiting the importation
into the State of diseased cattle and swine: ap-
| propriating 800 to the Woolgrowers' and
Sheepbreeders' Association Among the AS
sembly bills indefinitely postponed were the
following: Providing for numberingA houses,
stores, etc., il villages and minor cities.
In the Assembly the Committee on
Ways and Means reported that there
funds now in the hands of the State Treasurer,
and the amount is rapidly accommodating. The
committee recommend that the Senate bill au-
thorizing loans out of the trust funds at per
| cent. be amended to make it per cent. Senate
bills concurred in; Incorporating the city of
Menomonee, Dunn county permitting any
| relative or friend of an insane person to take
the latter to the asylum, with expenses
paid, but no fees. The Assembly bill was
| passed throwing more restrictions around the
admission or attorneys to the bar. Several
| members asking for leave of absence, Mr.. Price
objected to any more leaves until final adjourn
ment. He said it was time to buckle down to
business. Amid laughter and confusion the
Assembly refused to grant the leaves asked
for.
But little of general interest transpired in the
Legislature on the 18th, owing to the absence
of many members. In the Senate the follow
ing Assembly bills were concurred in: Repeal
ing chapter 248, laws of 1880, and chapter 296
of the laws of 1881, relating to fshways; to
authorize Chippewa county to refund its bonded
Indebtedness; providing that certificates of title
issued by the Chief Clerk of the Land Office
| shall Oe deemed presumptive evidence of the
facts therein stated. The following Assembly
bills were killed Prohibiting the Clerks of
Circuit Courts from acting as practicng at
| torneys to facilitate elections in towns al
lowing general storm insurance companies or
ganized under the laws of other States to do
business iii this State. In the Assembly the fol-
! lowing Senate bills were concurred IN: Punish
! ing fathers for willful abandonment of chill
dren when of sufficient ability to support
| them providing for the establishment of high
ways leading to fair grounds and cemetery di-
recting the Insurance Commissioner to revoke
the license of company which displays decep-
tive signs or advertisements authorizing two
| or more towns, cities, Or villages to hold COM
| mon interest in bridges; authorizing the Chi
cago and Northwestern railroad to guarantee
bonds issued by corporations whose railroads
| and franchises have been absorbed ap-
| propriating So, 600 with which to continue
experiments with amber cane On the University
farm providing that combinations of sem
fences made by the Governor shall not reduce
the terms to shorter time than the term to
| which such sentence is committed. The follow
ing Assembly bills passed Establishing State
road from Medford, Taylor county, TO Cadott
Falls, Chippewa county increasing punishment
for maliciousy spiking logs so as to be not less
than 81, 900 fine, or three years imprisonment.
The Assembly bill to define what shall consti-
tute possession of land in certain eases was in
definitely postponed. The bill for the relief of
Simeon Mills, late Treasurer of the Wisconsin
State Hospital for the Insane, was considered
by the Assembly in committee Of the whole.
The bill to declare legal claims paid by the
Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha
Railway Company under the law requiring the
| company to pay the Air Line laborers and all-
thorizing setoffs and counter claims, was passed
| by the Senate at its session on the 14th. There
was an animated debate IN the As
sembly over Harrington's bill exemptlng
| six months wages of all persons from
execution, attachment or garnisheement.
1 Mr.. Harrington read a statement that during
1881 total Of 1000 garnishee snits had been
commenced against the Milwaukee and St.
Paul, Chicago and Northwestern and Wiscon-
sin Central Railway Company These suits
cost on an average SIS each, and the employees
often admit Judgment rather than incur the
| expense of defense. Mr.. Burchard de-
nounced the bill as being the means whereby
deadbeats coul IsRinde boarding-h keepers.
| Among the more-important bills passed by the
Assembly were the following: To Top off several
of the north towns of Oconto and Ma1inette
| counties and creating Florence county; appro-
priatIng So go for ieyees a. Lewiston to protect
the valleys Of Neenah creek and Fox river from
| overflow; providing that inmates of industrial
| schools shall be released on becoming Is years
! of age; providing for submitting to the people
the proposition to amend the constitution so as
to have general elections the same year that
| Congressman are elected.
A THEATRICAL man at Chicago thought
| it would be smart to make friend vino
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