Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-05
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.

MADISON, March 27.--The joint resolution
requesting senators and representatives of Wis
consirf in congress to favor, by all practicable
means, the adoption, by congress, of such
measures as shall tend to improve the system
of appointment and removal from civil service
was adopted. Bills passed: TO lay out aud
establish state road from the village of Med
ford Taylor County, to CadOtt Falls, Chippewa
County, to authorize James FL. Weed and others
to maintain dams and improve Spring Brook,
Ionglade County Burrows bill relating to
the sale of swamp and oyerfowed lands, with
the amendment of the committee on state af-
fairs, was indefinitely postponed. Adjourned.
MADISON, March 28.-The following bills
were passed: To provide for the exempting Of
wages from garnishee for ninety days, and to
exempt $500 for persons not owning home
steads in lieu thereof; repeating the law estab-
fishing county hospitals for the insane similar
to the Milwaukee hospital; to provide for the
assessment and taxation of telegraph COM
panies at rate Of 81 per mile for the first wire
and 55 cents per mile for additional wires. -.
The following assembly bills were concurred
in: To provide for the payment OF $4,000 to
Mrs. Margaret Coleman, widow of Charles Ct.
Coleman, of Durand; to appropriate 81, 800 to
Mrs. Ellen nj. Baker, wife of Joseph 81. Baker,
of Portage County; to grant life certificates to
teachers who have taught in the state twenty
one years; to appropriate So, 900 to the state
agricultural society.
MADISON, March 29.-The bill to levy state
tax of $500, 900 for 1852 was passed under sus-
pended rules. Bills concurred in: To estab-
,ish and maintain public museum in the city
of Milwaukee; to authorize J. W. Ostrander
and others to maintain dam over Little Wolf
River, in Waupaca County; to appropriate &c.,
900 for repairing university main building; to
appropriate $4,000 to the Wisconsin Industrial
School for girls; to appropriate $15 to clergy
men officiating as chaplains during the session
of the legislature; to authorize Adams County
to grant some OF its lands for railroad purposes.
-. Bills to exempt gasoline from general laws
relating to Illuminating oils, and to construct a
| chronic insane asylum In the western part of
| the state and joint resolution for.a commission
| to examine and report on all claims known as
war debts, were indefinitely postponed.
MADISON, March 30.-The business is virtual
ly done, and the senate simply awaits the hour
| of adjournment.
| MADISON, March 31.-The senate met at II
| o'clock and received the final messages from
| tho governor. Pursuant to assembly joint
resolution which was concurred in, Senators
McKeeby and Pingel were appointed members
from the senate on the joint committee to wait
upon the governor and learn if he had any
further messages for the legislature. AS the
hour appointed for adjournment o'clock NJ.
approached Senator McKeeby announced that
the governor had no further messages. Sena-
tor Burrows, president pro tenn, then declared
| the senate adjourned sine die.
|
| MADISON, March 27.-A message was received
from the governor, announcing his disapproval
of three separate bills originating in the as
| sembly: FIRST, that giving corporate power to
the Wolf River Manufacturing Company:
second, that changing the voting place in the
| town of Brandon; third the bill changing the
boundaries of towns In Lincoln County, claim
| ing, in the last case, that the constitutional
amendment adopted in 1871 prohibited the
legislature from enacting any special or private
law for incorporating any town or village or to
amend the charter thereof The resolutions
submitting a constitutional amendment to the
people prohibiting the legislature from grant
ing city charters to local cities having less than
5000 inhabitants was put to vote and lost >.
The constitutional amendment giving the
legislature power to fix terms of Office of state
educational officials was adopted by vote OF
So to T. The bill providing for system OF
sewerage in the city of Appleton was then
passed, under suspension of the rules.
MADISON, March 28.-The joint resolution re-
lating to the Fox River and Lake WinnebasC
overflow was adopted by UiuG Uoce vote.
The railway taxation bill was, after some de-
bate, laid on the table, together with an amend
ment exeInpting the Green Bay, Winonaand ST
Paul Read The following assembly bills
were then passed: Amending the law relative tt
the appointment of the Dane County municipal
court jurors; excepting gasoline used for max
ing gas and burning fluid from the meaning an6
intent of the law relating to Illuminating oils
permitting the county of Adams to grant Ger
tain lands for the construction of q railroad IL
that county; amending the law relating to thu
} publication of the state laws in weekly newspa
pers.. The bill appropriating $4,000 for TIT
} construction of western insane asylum wa
tabledby vote of 81 to 81.