Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-16
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
TUESDAY, MARCH I.

ing vote:
Ayes-Sens Ackley, Adams, Chase, Colman
Ellis, Finkelnburg, Hamilton, Hill, Hudd, Hunt
hlngston kusel, Mckeeby, Meffert, Palmetier
son, an Shaick and Wiley-23
Noes-Sens. Crosby Delaney, Flint Phillips
Pingel, Smith, and Wing-7.
Bills passed: To appropriate 81 900 to th
Northern Wisconsin agricultural and mechanical
| association-ayeS 2S, noes i: relating to teIe
phones, and to regulate the use and rental Of tel
ephones IN this state; to appropriate a sum o
money to pay for railroad maps; to amend ch l9
revised statutes relating to the superintendent O.
puollc property; memorial to congress relating x
the Sturgeon Bay ship canal.
Assemby-In the assembly long debate tool
| place on the bill to repeal the act of 1880 max
ing insanity a cause for divorce.
The resolution providing for final adjournmert
| on the l4th inst was tabled.
The senate bills amending the city charter OF
haclne and relating to dam across Yellow
river IN Douglass county, were cOncurred in and
the following bills were indefinitely postponed
| 10 .create the office of public examiner into
accounts and bookkeeping of public institution
and banks; to promote the better administration
OF justice IN certain cases, by appointing a pro-
baton officer abolishing all incidental fees in
the state university amending subdivision l4
Sectlon VS. revised statutes relating to property
| exempt from execution; relating to penalties
1
Tor the exemption of personal property from exc
cation, attachment and garnishment. amending
revised statutes relative to property exempt from
execution; to provide for the exemption of a
homestead and for selling off the same
WEDNESDAY, March s.
Senqte-Ihe following bills were passed To
amend sections and 1l2 Of the revised statutes
entitled of the legislature. For the relief of
omeon Mills. To construct dam on Red Cedar
river In Barron county. The following bills were
concurred in: To incorp crate the city of
Monroe. To amend the charter of the city of
oshkosh. Fixing the terms of the circuit court
IN the several counties of the eleventh circuit
The following bills were indefinitely postponed !:
In relation to weights and measures. To provide
Tor jury fees in civil actions. Fixing the time of
hol ng terms of court in the thirteenth judicial
clrt: X elating to the terms of the circuit court
in Waukesha county.
AsSemHy.-The following bills were passed:
To prevent the manufacture and sale of adul-
terated food and drugs; relating to the discontin-
uance of highways In certain cases. amending
sec. 1888, s., relating to town insura nee com
panies; for the better preservation of the public
health, by establishing local boards of health in
towns villages and cities, to cooperate with the
state board.
The following bills were indefinitely postponed
Amending sec. 2, chap. ia, laws of 1879, re-
lating TO grain testers-increasng the size of the
tester to half bushel, the present size being two
quarts joint resolution relating to biennial ses-
siOns; re-enacting chap. 65 r. S.. and repeating
chap. 1SS. laws of 1879, relating to Migrants:
amending subdivision a. sec. 1882, r. S., relat-
ing tO property exempt from execution.
THURSDAY, MARCH 8.
Senate At the morning session, on motion of
Sen Colman, the rules were suspended and the
bill to amend the charter of Waupun was con-
Cured in.
Passed: Memorial to congress No. S.. pray
ing congress that the public lands belonging to
the United States within the limits of the state
park, be granted to the state for park purposes
No 127 S.. to amend the revised statutes relating
to county boards.
The committee on charitable and penal institu-
ions made report on the resolution to inVesti-
gate the industrial school for boys in regard to
the punishment of inmates. The report of the
committee was quite long, and went considerably
into details Investigations of that institution
by the board of supervisors, from which !. ap-
peared that the complaints of ill-treatment of
boys had been thoroughly investigated by the
board of supervisors and the most stringent rules
laid down in regard TO the management of the
school, and especially the subject of corporeal
punishment and that there was no necessity for
further investigation. The committee therefore
recommended the indefinite postponement of the
resolution.
Assem5ty-In the assembly joixt resolution
was adopted under suspension of the rules ask
ing for joint committee to supersede the COM
mittee from the assembly to investigate the
| causes of the overflow of the Fox river. The
| Hon. Mr.. Thayer, from the special committee on
provision for the chronic insane reported bill
from the committee providing for an additional
| hospital
The following assembly bills were passed
Relative to the securing to children of the bene-
fits of elementary education; relative to the
| equalization of assessments to protect game and
| prevent the shipment thereof out of the state ;
nhanpInO the boundaries Of ha
ties of 0conto and Marinette and to
create the county of Florence; provid-
ing for life certificates for teachers in certain
cases; amending section 1852, chapter SO, revised
statutes, in relation to cemeteries; for the pres
ervation of fish in the Mississippi river; incorpo-
| rating the city of StOughton; authorizing Ger
tain dam across Hay river, in Barron county;
authorizing an investigation of the causes of the
overflow of the Chippewa river in Dunn county
and preliminary survey for the construction of
levees, dikes, etc., and to prevent the same; ap-
proprating 50 900 to the widow and orphans of
the late Sheriff Charles G. Coleman OF Durand,
who was shot down by the Williams brothers in
July last; appropriating 81 800 to the widow and
orphans of tie late Sheriff Joseph H. Baker, shot
by the Courtwright desperadoes in Portage ceun-
ty some years ago.
FRIDAY, MARCH 10.
Senate The following bills passed: To amend
sec. 1874 chap 16l revised statutes entitled of
costs and fees; to provide for the issue of certf-
Gates of state Indebtedness to settle the claims of
the United States against the state; relating to
hospitals for insane.
The following assembly bills were concur-ed
in: To appropriate to the Wisconsin darymens
association S5000 to appropriate to the Wiscen-
sin state historical society $500; to prohibit the
sale of toys and firearms; to provide for the
greater efficiency Of the Wisconsin National
guard; relating to obnoxious and infectious ami
mails; to appropriate to the sheep fbreeder's asso
citation $100.
Assembig.-Memorials were presented in favor
OF regulating pharmacy; in favor of bill prOhib-
iting sale of obscene literature, and in favor Of
the bill amending the medical quack law. The
following senate bills concurred in: amend
ing the charter of Beloit amending the charter
of Saint Clara female academy: relative 10
swamp lands in Marathon, Clark Chippewa
Shawano and OcOnto countless providing for the
conveyance of persons committed to an insane
hospital by relatives or friends. The following
assembly bills were passed regulating admit
tance of attorneys TO the bar; relating TO
Catholic knights of America authorizing
the bridging OF the Chippewa river at Eau
Claire authorizing the bridging of the Chip
pewa river in Dunn county; to dam Black river IN
Taylor county; entitled of medical societies; to
dam the Wolf river in Waupaca county. The
| following bills were indefinitely postponed: To
legaZe the assignments of tax certificates in GER
tain cases; to provide for sentences to state prison
without fixing the time; to suppress the circula-
tlon OF obscene literature anu conHScdte property
used in its manufacture; relating to equalization
of assessments; to amend section /, chapter 297
laws of 1881; to amend the act establishing fire
mems relief fund in Milwaukee; relating to real
estate and loan agents.
MONDAY, MARCH 13.
Senate-Assembly bills were concurred in: Re-
| lating to exemptions from subpoena; TO provide
| for the better protection of the fish in Devils
Lake, Sauk county, Wisconsin; changing the
| time for holding the general term of the ninth
judicial circuit for tie fall term of the county of
sauk; bill TO amend chapter 80 of the revised
statutes, entitled of town officers; No. 106, a, a