Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-29

! to the Improvement of the AnImicOn River and
lake, in Douglas County The bill appropriat-
ing $4,000 to the State Agricultural Fair was
then taken up and allowed after an amendment
! offered by Price compelling this association to
| hold its fair at different time from that fixed
| upon by the Northern Mechanical Association
! had been adopted. The bill establishing q
founding home and worzhouse was indefinitely
postponed. The bill appropriatng $4,000 to
| the agricultural farm for experiments in sugar
and syrup making, which had been recalled in
order to make change in the wording, was
| again passed. :. The senate bill for the i'm
provement of the st. Croix River, over which
the senate had quite warm time, was then
passed under suspension of the rules. Senate
bills indefinitely postponed: Relating 70 dam
ages to lands overfowed by the impro1em of
the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers; to provide for
the safe keeping of public moneys aud the III
Vestment of surplus funds; relating to the as
sorting and handling of logs on the Chippewa
River. The assembly bill was indefinitely
postponed providing for the more effective
preservation of certain game.
MADISON, March 23.-The following senate
bills were concurred in: Providing that when
any defendant shall have, in good faith, ac-
quired title to and entered upon timber land
believing such title to be valid, and shall have
CIT timber thereon, the plaintiff can only re-
cover the highest market value of the stump
age; making property of adopted children go
to parents by adoption upon death of such chill
dren. The following assembly bills were
passed: Against the taking of bull-head fishes
from inland lakes; ordering the selection in
each judicial district of three jury commission
ers to make out lists of grand and petit jurors;
fixing the terms of the recent Omaha railroad
grant. The bill applying all the moneys de-
rived from licenses to county poor funds was
refused passage. The bill assessing mort
| cages was adopted after several unimportant
amendments had been added.
! MADISON, March 24-The bill authorizing J.
ii. Weed, S. Bryant and Alfred Weed to con-
struct dams in Langlade County was passed
-. Bills indefinitely postponed: To provide for
| a system of inspection of stationary engines;
| compelling railroad companies to place chemical
| engines on all passenger coaches; authorizing a
| settlement of the Simeon Mills claim The
legislative apportionment bill was returned
| from the senate with message that the latter
| body had refused concurrence In the assembly
| amendments. The assembly, after some de-
! bate, refused to recede from their amendments
and, on notion committee of conference was
| appointed, consisting of Messrs. Stone, Rewey
and Haben. After consulting several hours,
the conference committee reported back the de-
cision it had arrived at to the effect that both
houses should recede from their amendments
and the Legislative apportionment bill be passed
| as recommended by the apportionment COM
mittee After an hours debate and after call
| of the house had been ordered and several
dozen motions to adjourn voted down the re-
| port OF the committee On conference was adopt
ed. The congressional apportionment plan
was presented in message from the senate and
was Immediately put upon it's passage under
| suspension of the rules. Through the efforts
of Price, Clark County was placed back into the
Eighth District by vote of the assembly, and
the bill then passed as amended, with but 10
votes against it.
| MADISON, March 25.-The senate bill was
| concurred in authorizing the construction of
booms in the Kankagan River. The senate
| bill providing for the care of the insane was
indefinitely postponed also q bill relating to
retainers, and two senate bills relating to costs
and fees. The bill appropriating $4,000 to
the State Agricultural Society was passed.
| Adjourned.