The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1882-03-25
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.



MADISON, March 13.-The bill authorizing
Sheboygan City to retire fifty thousand dollars
worth of bonds issued in aid of the Milwaukee,
Manitowoc Green Bay Road, and to refund
that Indebtedness by a 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 tresspass fund to the
corporation, or corporations, receiving patents
OF lands granted by congress by acts of June g.
1856, ana May s, 1864; to declare the legal eff
fects of the payments made under chapter 10
laws of 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-ciaims in The cases therein mentioned.
-. Assembly bills concurred in To authorize
s. A. Sherman to MAINTAIN dam across the Big
PlOver River in Portage County: to create the
county of Florence; to authorize John H.
KnaOp. Henry L. Stout, Andrew fainter Will
liam Wilson, Thomas B. Wilson and John
Douglass to maintain q dam across Hay River
Barron County.
! MANSON, March ia bill was passed to
authorize John E. Glover to maintain dam
across a river in Bayfield, and adjoining
! counties. >. The following assembly bills were
concurred in: To appropriate 500 to the
CLARK County agricultural society; 10 appropri-
| ate $500 to the Central Wisconsin Agricultural
aud Mechanical Association; amending laws in
relation 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 Richiand 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
cnssion.
Assembly.
MADISON, March 13.-Bils concurred in;
Making the abandonment by husband Of his
wife and children penitentiary offense; author
| izing the Chicago il Northwestern Railroad
Company to transfer its division bonds; appropri-
! at1ng $4,000 for carrying on experiments on the
university farm in the cultivation of amber and
! other var1tles of sugar cane; allowing cemetery
associations or industrial or agricultural associa-
tons to condemn property for suitable streets
to cemetery or fair grounds; making it penal
offense for deceptive advertising by fire insur-
ance companies; authorizing towns, cities and
| villages to purchase and hold bridge property
! in common; repeating the law allowing the state
| fish commissioners to sell trout from state
| hatcheries. The following are among the
more important assembly bills passed: Order
| ing successful litigants to enter and perfect
! judgments upon a verdict favorable to them
within sixty days after the fling of the verdict;
changing the boundary of Langlade County and
changing the name of the latter to Rhinelande
| County; changing the penalty Of spiking logs
to be used for construction purposes, from six
months Imprisonment to three years, and MAX
ing the limit of fine one thousand dollars in
stead 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 Its 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: Author
izing 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 to provide for
biennial general sessions; increasing the iuris-
diction Of Waukesha County court. The SEN
ale bill authorizing loans from trust funds was
indefinitely postponed; also the bill abolishing
the Office Of county surveyor.
MADISON, March 15.-The Lewiston levee bill
came up on the passage of several amendments
adopted by the senate. The principal one was
to the effect that the expenditure Of So 600 for
the levee to be taken out of the drainage fund
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was concurred IN after some debate. -. The bill
exempting the earnings of laborers for six
months previous 10 any punishment process
was indefinitely postponed. 49,. The senate bill
providing that when any person became violent
~ insane with tendency to homicide or suicide
or to destruction of property, he could be re-
moved to an insane asylum at the request of
relatives, was concurred in. The bill proyid-
ing for the erection and maintenance Of fences
along highways was passed. The bill provid-
for no aFlor of ~
erection of two transverse wings to cost $780,
900 was passed after some debate. A recess
was then taken until evening. The bill passed
affecting the Waukesha Judicial circuit, aud
giving that county court additional appellate
jurisdiction, and the power to try civil cases III
volYug amounts less than S25, 600 was brought
up and the vote reconsidercd. The bill was
then indefinitely postponed by an almost IMAM
nous vote. -. The biennial session bill was con
CURED IN without dissenting vote. Wings
capital punishment bill was defeated after a
lengthy debate by vote of 10 to 49,