Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-22
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.


Sheboygan City to retire fifty thousand dollars
worth of bonds issued in aid of the Milwaukee,
Manltowoc d Green Bay Road, and to refund
that indebtedness by new issue of bonds was
passed. The bill allowing storm insurance
companies to do business in Wisconsin was in
definitely postponed.
MADISON, March 14.-Senate bills passed:
To appropriate $500 to the Southwestern In
dustrial Association; to appropriate money be-
longing to the st. Croix trespass fund to the
corporation, or corporations, receiving patents
of lands granted by congress by acts of June g.
1856, and May 5, 1861 to declare the legal eff
fects of the payments made nnder chapter 10,
laws 1882, and to constitute the Chicago, st.
Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad Com
pany the assignees of the claims paid under
said chapter, and to authorize offsets and
counter-claims In the cases therein mentioned.
=. Assembly bills concurred in: To authorize
s. A. Sherman to maintain dam across Big
| Plover flver IN Portage County; to create the
County of Florence: to authorize John H.
Knapp, Henry L. Stout, Andrew fainter, Will
liam Wilson, Thomas B. Wilson and John
Douglass to maintain dam across Hav River.
Barron County.
MADISON, March ia bill was passed to
authorize John E. Glover to maintain dam
across river in Bayfield,, and adjoining
counties. The following assembly bills were
concurred In: To appropriate 300 to the Clark
County agricultural society; to appropriate
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Mechanical Associations; amending laws in re-
lation to the swamp lands in the counties of
Marathon. Clark, Chippewa, Shawano and
Oconto; to change the name of the village of
Spring Valley, in Richland County to West
| Branch. The senate bill to provide for the
safe keeping of the public moneys. and to
secure and maintain the proper investment of
the same coming up caused considerable dis
cussion.
MADISON, March 16.-Delaney's resolution to
| recommend vote at the next election for Or
! against calling of convention to revise the
constitution of Wisconsin was indefinitely post
| poned by a vote of Is to IA. The bill making
appropriations to the reformatory and charit-
| able institutions on the basis - no session in
1888 was indefinitely postponed. The bill re-
! lat1ng to liens on logs, timber and lumber was
passed. =. : The assembly bill to punish the mu-
tilating and destruction of public records by
| imprisonment I'D the state prison not exceeding
five years, or by a fine not exceeding 800, or
| by both, was concurred In.
MADISON, March 17.-Bills indefinitely post
poned: To restore capital punishment; regu-
latlng the disposal of moneys derived from
| liquor licenses; to incorporate the city of May
| Vile; IN relation to the Rock River Medical
Society; to establish grades of wheat and other
grains; requiring persons to give information of
persons carrying concealed weapons; to prevent
the manufacture and sale of adulterated food
and drugs; to provide for the collection and
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provide for the safe keeping of the public
moneys and to secure and maintain the proper
investment of the same, was with pending
amendments, laid on the table; also, the as
sembly bill making it unlawful for persons to
catch or take fish from the Wisconsin portion of
the Mississippi River except by spear or by
angling was laid upon the table. The assem-
bly, bill reducing the fees of sheriffs attending
any court or officer with prisoner from 81 so to
Is cents per half day, besides actual necessary
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Monday evening.
Assembly.
MADISON, March 13.-BiIls concurred in:
Making the abandonment by husband of his
wife and children a penltentiary offense;
authorizing the Chicago & Northwestern Rail-
road Company to transfer it's division bonds;
appropriating $4,000 for carving on expert
of amber and other varieties of sugar cane al
lowing cemetery associations or industrial or
agricultural associations to condemn property
for suitable streets to cemetery or fair grounds
making it penal offense for deceptive adver-
Using by ire insurance companies; authorizing
towns, cities and villages to purchase and hold
bridge property in commons; repeating the law
allowing the state fish commissioners to sell
trout from state hatcheries. The following
are among the more important assembly bills
passed: Ordering successful Htigants to enter
imperfect judgment upon verdict favorable
to them, within sixty days after the filing of the
verdict; changing the boundary of Langlade
County and changing the name of the latter to
Rhinelander County; changing the penalty for
| spiking logs to be used for construction pur-
poses, from six months imprisonment to three
years, and making the limit of fine one thou
sand dollars instead of one hundred dollars.
MADISON, March 14.-Senate bills concurred
In: Regulating the practice of pharmacy; al
lowing the governor to pay any militia COM
pany it's inspection fees whenever any such
company shall have failed for some valid rea-
son to fulfill the militia regulation in the pre-
misses; memorial to congress asking for cession
of United States lands in Wisconsin state park
to the state; allowing the city of Fond du Lac
to refund its Indebtedness; repeating the law
creating the Thirteenth judicial circuit As
sembly bills were passed as follows Authoriz-
ing sureties in criminal cases to surrender the
principal; requiring justices of the peace to
hold Office until their successors are qualified;
providing for submitting the question of
| amending the constitution so as to provide for
biennial general sessions; increasing the juris-
diction of Waukesha County court :. The SEN
ate bill authorizing loans from trust funds was
indefinitely postponed; also the bill abolis hing
the Office of county surveyor.
MADISON, March 15.-The Lewiston Ievee
bill came upon the passage of several amend
ments adopted by the senate. The principal
one was to the effect that the expenditure of
$4,000 for the levee to be taken out of the
drainage fund instead of the general fund.
The amendments were concurred in after some
debate. The bill exempting the earnings of
laborers for six months previous to any garnis-
ment process was indefinitely postponed. :.
The senate bill providing that When any person
became violently insane with tendency to homi-
eide and suicide, or to destruction of property,
he could be removed to an insane asylum at
the request of relatives, was concurred in.
The bill providing for the erection and mainten-
ance of fences along highways was passed.
| The bill providing for the enlargement of the
capital by the erection of two transverse wings
to cost 100000 was passed after some debate
A recess was then taken until evening. The
bill passed affecting the Waukesha judicial cir
cult, and giving that county court additional
appellate Jurisdiction, and the power to try
civil cases involving amounts less than 1926, 900,
was brought in and the vote reconsidered The
bill was then indefinitely postponed by an al
most unanimous vote. The biennial session
bill was concurred in without dissenting
vote. Wings capital punishment bill was de-
feated after a lengthy debate by a vote of 43
to 40.
MADISON, March 16.-The two assembly CAPT
tai punishment bills. which were virtually