The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-03-31
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.


Executive appointments Of n. n. Reed. Of
Jefferson, to be member of the Board Of
Charities and Reform, and D. J. Treve, of Ap.
pleton, to be State Supervisor of Illuminating
Oh. we're confirmed by the Senate at its session
on March g. Among Assembly bills concurred
in were the following Allowing prisoners
sentenced to three years at hard labor to be
sent 10 the Milwaukee House Of Correction
allowing agents of Wisconsin manufacturers to
sen any Mlsconsin-made wares without license
LOVING general accidentrinsufauce companies
% transact business in this State. The
Assembly bill repeating the stat
ute making insanity cause for
divorce was ordered to third reading
The Committee on State Affairs reported back
the Assembly bill to erect wings t. the Sac
Capitol Tor the use of the Historical Society,
Supreme Court and State Library Mish an
amendment reserving the first floor for the use
Of State officials, and with the recommendation
that il pass. Inthe Assembly the joint resolution
providing for constitutional amendment for
bidding the granting of city charters to any place
having less than 5000 inhabitants was, aft r
debate, ordered to third reading. The bill for
c school for dependent children and found
hngs was indefinitely postponed. The bills APP
propriatlng 50, 900 to the State and $1,000 to
the Northern Fair were amended so as to for
bid such fairs to be held the same week, and
then ordered to third reading. The Senate
bill appropnating 81, 900 for s1yar-cane exper-
imenis at the University farm was concurred III.
The Assembly took up the bill allowing women
to vote at school-district elections Mr.. Price
offered an amendment making the franchise
general Voted down. Another amendment
allowing women to vote at municipal elections
was also voted down. The original bill was
then dealt with in the same summary manner.
Senator Wenn offered joint resolution in
the Senate, ON the sd, which WAS adopted
under suspension Of the rules, providing for
final adjournment March 81, and that no BUSH
hess should be transacted after the 29th, except
to receive reports from the Committee on
Enrolled Bills and messages from the Gov
ernor. The bill to repeal the law making
insanity ground for divorce was concurred IN
by the Senate by % yeas to nays; also, the
bill to close up the affairs of the Wisconsin
Railroad Farm Mortgage Company, and
have final dividend declared May l.
The Senate passed bin to tax telegraph COM
panies 50 per wlre The Judiciary Committee
of the Senate recommended concurrence in the
bill making an appropriation to The widow of
Charles G. Coleman, shot by the Maxwell des-
peradoes last July. The Legislative Apportion-
ment bill which, it was thought, would so
through without change was overhauled IN
the Assembly anG amended several times,
making it necessary for the bill to
again run the gauntlet in the Senate.
The Committee on Charitable Institutions re-
ported bill providing for the selection of one
of the State hospitals for use as an asylum for
the acute insane, and that hereafter all acute
cases shall be committed to the asylum so des-
ignated Mr.. Kids bill, providing that own
ers of notes, bonds or mortgages shall not re-
rYT1I.Ng
they shall bear evidence in shape of Assessors
stamp of having been assessed and taxed as
other property, was ordered to third reading
in the Assembly, after a long discussion, and
by close vote.
The Senate, at its session on March "a, re-
fused to concur in the amendment to the Leg
islative Apportionment bill. The COMPRESSION
al apportionment was passed as it came from
committee with but one change, placing Clark
in the Ninth district. Among the Senate bills
passed were the following Providing for pub
fishing 1000 copies of the geological report to
allow railroads an insurable interest in proper
| ty for which they are responsible for enlarg-
| ing the State House for the better acc0mmoda-
| ton of the Historical Society and Supreme
| Court. In the Assembly the Congressional
| Apportionment bill was concurred in, after
| striking out the Senate amendment and restor-
| ing Clark county to the Eighth district. The
Legislative Apportionmept bill came up. The
report of the committee of conference was
| adopted. Filibustering lasted nearly three
| hours, and much bad temper was developed,
| Pierce, Speaker Gibson, Estabrook and Thorp
said the bill was o fraud, and they would rather
keep the session mp till midsummer than suffer
| it. but they we're systematically sat down on.
| The Senate bill was concurred in appropriatlng
1 10 fbn Nnffh Fair Of OShlynah al ~
the bill authorizing the selection of one of the
State insane hospitals as an asylum for the
| chronic insane. There was considerable feeling
| over the fact that q telegram had been received
from the delegates from Wisconsin i'll Congress
expressing dissatisfaction with the proposed
Congressional appOrtlonment, and resolution
| vas introduced in the Assembly that interior
ence from Washington was iIl-advised and inn
| pertinent Mr.. Reyes being in the chair,
Speaker ellison, who was on the floor, was
called before the bar of the House and pre-
| scented with gold watch, Price making the
presentation speech, to which the Speaker feel
ingly replied.
The Congressional Apportionment bill, with
the Assembly's amendment, which seeks TO re-
store it to the condition in which it came from
the committee, was up in the Senate on March
Is, and was laid over until the 9th.
The joint resolution referring the Fox river
overflow difficulty to the Governor and Attorney
General, who are to consult with the National
Government and the parties interested and try
to agree on some plan, was adopted. Among
the Assembly bills passed by the Senate were the
following: Providing that no tax certificates
shall be sold by the County Treasurer in cases
where warrants have been issued unless the
party applying for them shall pay all costs and
charges to provide for the submitting to the
| people the question of amending the constitu-
lion provide for biennial general elections; dis
continuing highways which have been abandoned
five years; to more severely punish seduction
| of females under Is years of age. In the AS
sembly bill was passed to authorize the city
of Milwaukee to issue bonds. The Senate JOINT
resolution relative to the Fox river overflow
brought out several amendments, and further
consideration was postponed until the 18th.
A Joint resolution favoring Pendleton's Civil
Service Reform bill was adopted by the Senate,
March q. The Congressional ApportOnment
bill WAS laid over till tomorrow morning. The
Senate bill to place half the receipts of swamp
land sales into the common-school instead
of the Normal-School fund, as now, was
killed after animated debate A good
deal of routine busjne's was transacted.
In the Assembly the Senate joint resolution
providing for final adjournment the 3lst was
laid over for two days. The Governor sent IN
three vetoes, two of them on bills for logging
dams. which conferred extraordinary corpOI ate
powers on the benefciaries, and the third on a
bill Illegally interfering with the corporate
rights OF towns. The vetoes were unanimously
sustained. A joint Assembly resolution for a
constitutional amendment forbidding the Leg
islature to hereafter pass special laws to incor-
porate cities, and specifying that no city VIII
less than 5000 inhabitants shall be incoipo-
rated, was lost, not receiving two-thirds vote,
A JOINT Assembly resolution for constitutional
amendment placing the control of all educa-
tional officials in the hands of the Legislature
was adopted The design is to takesthe office
OF County Superintendent out Of politics. A
bill to tax dogs was killed.
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