Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-01
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.

MADISON, February 20.-The assembly bill to
incorporate the city of Port Washington, was
concurred in under suspension of the rules "
An executive communication was received,
nominating Rev. G.. e. Gordon as member of
the board of regents of the state Dormal
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 bill to repeal
the wolf bounty law was killed-ayes 40, noes
31-after lengthy discussion. The bill ap-
propriating $4,000 to build levee to protect
Fox River from overflow from the Wisconsin
was shown by Winans to be faulty in construc-
ton, in that the state was not really restricted
to any definite amount in expenditure After
vigorous debate, INDUCED in by Price, Horn
and Winans on one side, and Reyes and Parry
on the other, the bill was referred to the COM
mittee on state affairs.
MADISON, February 22.-Very little was done.
The bill allowing Racine to bond its funded in
debtedness was passed.
MADISON, February 23.-A number of unin-
portant bills were concurred in, and q number
advanced to third readings. The bill amend
ing and repeating certain sections of the re-
vised statutes relating to sessions of the legis-
lature, by which the time of the first biennial
session is fixed to commence on the second
Wednesday in January of the year 1884, came
up as special order for II o'clock. Wing
held in 1883, instead of 1884, and it was lost by
vote of IL 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 APP
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. ;. Assembly bills passed:
To provide for laying out and establishing
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 overdowed 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 time.
MADISON, February 22-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.exempGng him from road tax; permitting
the village of Reedsburg to dig or drill well;
appropriating $500 to the Unity Guard on ae-
count of loss by fire. The Fox River overflow
case elected warm discussion and was ordered
to third reading.
MADISON, February ga memorial to con-
gress for increased mail service between Ian
caster and Cassville was 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. F. 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 vote of 81 to SO. %.
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 1evee bill then came up, and was
passed after some debate by a vote of AZ to 81.