The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1882-03-11
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.

LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
MADISON February 27.-The bill to regulate
| pharmacy was passed. The senate committee
on finance reported back the assembly interest
bill, making the legal rate per cent. and limit
10 per cent.
MADISON February 2S-The bill to authorize
| the town Of kewaunGe to build and maintain a
bridge across the Kewaunee River was passed:
| also bills to procure suitable highways and
| streets to fair grounds and cemetery associa-
tons; to authorize the Chippewa Valley and
Superior Railway Company to construct and
maintain bridge for railway purposes over and
scross the Chippewa River in the city OF Eau
| Claire, and bridge across the Chippewa River
| in the county of Dunn. The assembly bill al
| lowing horses mules, cattle and sheep to run
| at large upon uninclosed lands III Vernon
| County was concurred in; also bills TO author
| lZe Chippewa County to maintain a bridge
| across Chippewa River; to authorize West
| Kewaunec TO maintain a bridge across Kewau-
nee River; relating TO ian act to prevent
| quacks from deceiviug the people by assuming
professional titles" for the preservation OF
| fish i'll the waters of Bass Channel, Brown
/ County; to amend general laws Of 1881, for the
| preservation of brook trout .. The assembly
| bill for the establishment and maintenance Of
| public watering places was indefinitely post
poned. Adjourned.
MADISON, March Memorials to congress,
asking for the improvement of the Mississippi
| River and its tributaries connecting With great
lakes, and requesting the establishment of q
harbor of refuge Oh the eastern shore OF Lake
| PGpin near the village of Stockholm, were con-
| Cured in. The resolution III relation to the
swamp land claims of the state on the general
government instructing members of congress
/ to obtain necessary legislation TO indemnify the
! state. was passed. The bill relating to ilum-
| mating oils and the inspection thereof was
passed; also bills to amend laws of 1880, reat-
| ing to the swamp lands IN the counties Of
| Marathon, Clark, Chippewa, ShaWanO and
Oconto; to appropriate s., 900 to the professor
Of agriculture of the state university for the
| purpose of carrying on working experiments
| in the cultivation of amber and other varieties
| of sugar cane, and to detach the county Of Wau-
kesha from the second judicial circuit, and to
attach the same to the thirteenth judicial cil-
cut In the evening the woman suffrage
resolution indefinitely postponed after de
! bote by vote of 16 to 49,
MADISON, March 2-The bill to amend laws
! of 1877, authorizing Christian Burkhardt to
| slulce logs through a certain dam on Willow
River, and to collect tolls, was passed; also
| bills to authorize towns, cities and villages to
! purchase and hold certain bridges or interests
therein; to amend revised statutes relating to
! the inspection and measurement of logs; to
| allow bounties for the destruction Of wolves
| lynxes, foxes and wild cats; to regulate the
keeping of dogs in the several towns.
MADISON, March Bills passed: To estab-
ish ferry across Lake St. Croix, at Hudson;
| relating to the measure Of damages in actions
| to recover possession of logs. timber or lumber
| Wrongfully cut from the lands of another: to
| amend the law authorizing d. p. Smous 60
! construct and maintain a dam across and i'm
! prove Butternut Creek, Price County; author
tzing John II. Knapp and Andrew Fainter TO
{ construct and maintain dam across Red
| Cedar River, Dunn County; bill to provide for
/ a6 70 or1x h1c
plta for the insane by relatives friends; to
| ratlfy the donation or piece of lana To the
| county of Sheboygan by the CRY of Sheboy-
gan forthe location of asylum for the III
sane; relating to the payment of bounty on
| wild animals; to authorize A. W. Lawrence and
others to build piers in waters of Sturgeon Bay.
Assembly
MADISON, February 27.-Assembly bills
passed: Requiring plating Of streets in vii
Iage; appointing a register in probate for Dane
County; authorizing the city Of Watertoun to
levy special tax for building two iron bridges
increasing the efficiency of the national state
guard by providing for encampments and bet
ter equipments; allowing general storm iusur-
ance companies insuing against damages by
wind to do business ia Wisconsin; allowing
Columbia County to aid III the reconstruction
OF bridges washed away by the floods; estab
fishing evening schools III the common school,
districts u the state; allowing Marathon.
Clark. Chippewa and OcontO Counties to grant
the swamp lands owned by them in aid OF
railroad construction. Adjourned.
MADISON, February 28.-The following bills
were passed: Amending laws of 1891 in rela-
ton TO fences to prohibit the sale or Use of toy
pistols or any other tOy-frearms; authorizing
An rev Nelson to build a pier in the waters OF
Green Bay, Door County, Wis: AUTHORIZING
Fred. Relchert to build pier in the waters OF
Green Bay, Door County, Wis; amending the
laws of 1881 relative to the raising of a specia
tax by the town of Fredonia for the building
and erection of bridge across the Milwaukee
River. The special order, the bill relating t.
the assessing OF church property, then came III
for discussion on the qu' stion of indefinite
postponement. After long debate and the re
lection of a compromise amendment Offered by
Prlce, the bill was indefinitely postponed by
vote of 81 to 20. On motion of Horn, Smp
sons bill repeating the anti-treat law was con
Cured III under suspension of the rules.
MADISON March bills passed: A bill tC
authorize the city of Sheboygan to retire fifty
bonds issued by said city in aid of the Milwau.
kee, Mantowoc and Green Bay Railroad Com
pany, on the 1st day of March, 1871, and tC
issue new bonds in substitution for the same
bill to authorize the city of Baraboo TO con
struct sidewalk from the city of Baraboo tC
Baraboo cemetery; senate bill to appropriate Il
the commissioners of fisheries the sum OF
$1,000; to punish the seducers of females un.
der sixteen years of age by Imprisonment fo
authorizing the Chippewa Valley and Superio
hallway Company to build and maintain
bridges for railway purposes over and across
the Red Cedar River, in the County of Dunn
and across the Chippewa River In the city O
Eau Claire. The bill authorizing H O. Loo
bye to build and maintain pier in the water
OF Detroit harbor, Door County, was indefinite
ly postponed.
MADISON, March 2-The following senat,
bills were concurred in without debate: Au
thorizing the town of Menasha to hold its elec
| lions ana town meetings within the corporate
limits of the city Of Neenah; amending revised
statutes relative to annual school meetings
Tor the preservation Of trout in the waters o1
Brown County. The following assembly bills
were passed: 10 cede certain state lands In
Waukesha County to the town of Waukesha
for roadway to the cemetery of said town; au-
thOriZing Chippewa County to refund its
bounded Indebtedness; authorizing Chris.
LeOnhardt to build a pier in the waters of
Sturgeon bay; authorizing James Tufts to
build pier IN Lake Michigan, Door County;
prohibiting the importation of diseased cattle.
sheep or SWINE; authorizing and empo gering
George w. Perry and his associates or assigns
to build and maintain a pier docks or wharf
IN the Bay of Superior; providing for building
dams and otherwise improving Jump River,
TINS state for log driving purposes: authOriZ-
ing r. Ayres, G. Rich, their associates and as
signs. to construct and maintain dam across
Blake brook, Waupaca County.
MADISON, March 3.-Ihe following senate
bills We're concurred in: Ordering the purchase
of sufficient number of copies of Webster's
dictionary for the use Of the schools in the
state; memorial to congress for government de-
posltories for the savings Of the industrial
classes; amending the city charter of Lancaster
-. The assembly bill repeating the law making
the relatives of insane people pay in part for the
care Of the same was passed. . The following
assembly bills were indefinitely postponed:
Amending the revised statutes in relation to the
| assessment and collection of highway taxes: