Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-03-14
PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE.
Sem ates

state OF Wisconsin to every school district,
teacher Of high school, and town or county
officer IN the state desiring to purchase the
same for public use at price not less than $40
each; to donate to the counties Sank and
Columbia the proceeds from the sale of swamp
and overfiowed lands lying therein: appropriate
ing to the professor of agriculture at the state
university the sum of $500 for use in the manu-
tacture OF syrup and sugar frem amber cane.
-. Bills indefinitely postponed: Making the
daily salary OF attorneys, when assigned to de-
fend criminals, $40 instead of $15; providing
for indeterminate sentences to state prison to
facilitate the collection of wages.
MADISON, March GA bill was passed au-
thorizing the State Historical Society to sell a
certain tract of land Assembly bills con-
Cured in: To authorize the voters of incor-
porated villages to direct whether the offices of
village clerk and school commissioner shall be
filled by appointment OF by election; to author
ize the maintenance of a bridge across the
Rock River in the city of Beloit; to apl ro-
pirate to the Wisconsin Dairymen's Association
$1,000 for the years 1888 and 1884 The vote
that killed the bill cutting down the per diem
of lawyers assigned to the defense of criminals
by judges was reconsidered, and debate on
the matter was postponed till the evening of
the 9Th inst.
MADISON, March 7.-BiIls passed: Incor-
porating the city of Tomah; Incorporating the
city of Lake Geneva; providing for the APP
pelntment and compensation of registers of
probate courts and prescribing the duties of
such registers. The bill relating to the or
ganzation of corporations for the establish
ment and maintenance of hospitals, asylums,
or insane institutions for the care, treatment
or relief of insane or feeble-minded persons,
and amendatory of chapter sc, revised stat
utes, entitled ''of the organization of corpor-
atoms was passed by vote of q to TO-.
The following bills were concurred In: To au-
thorize Jerome Peltier to build and maintain
q do fhp ,,oioN
to bountles on wild animals; to repeal the act
Incorporating the city of Chiffon; providing
for passways for fish in Iowa and Lafayette
Counties. The bill providing for indeter-
inmate sentences was indefinitely postponed by
q vote of 20 to 10, and the bill relating to the
sale of intoxicating liquors without a license
was indefinitely postponed by the same vote
-. Jonas joint resolution amending section
of article l of the constitution in relation to
trial by jury was killed by a vote of Is to Is.
The proposed amendment provided that "a
jury trial may be waived by the parties in all
cases, In the manner prescribed by law, and in
all civil cases a verdict COncurred in by three
fourths of the Jury shall be sufficient
MADISON, March 8.-The bill amending the
act incorporating the city of Menomonie was
passed under suspended rules. Other bills
passed: Authorizing John H. Knapp and Hen
ry l.. Stout Il Co. to construct dam across
Long Lake River, Burnett County; appropriate
ing certain sums of money therein named to
the charitable, reformatory and penal instItu-
lions of the state; providing for laying out q
state road on the line between the counties of
Marathon and Lincoln. The following bills
were ordered to a third reading, and cOncurred
in under the suspension of rules: Authoriz-
ing Harlow Ammenson and John Ammenson to
construct dam across and otherwise improve
Poplar River IN Florence County; authorizing
tae maintenance of a dam across Scarbro
Creek. in Kewaunee County; authorizing yhe
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q boom in kickapoo River, Crawford County;
authorizing Erick Lundholm to erect and main
tain a dam across Dunnum Greek in Burnett
County; authorizing the city of Eau Claire to
construct and maintain q bridge across the
Chippewa River, between the Sixth and Eighth
wards of the city; authorizing II. B. Mills to
improve Robinson Creek, Jackson County, for
log-driving purposes 49,. The bill for the pro
lection of bridges over rivers and streams
where such rivers and streams are used for
flooding and driving of logs and timber was
indefinitely postponed. The interest bill was
concurred in with an amendment making the
minimum rate 6 per cent. and the maximum
rate 10 per cent.
MADISON. March 9.-The bill creating the
county of Sawyer was concurred in under sus-
pended rules. i. Bills were also concurred in
regulating the rate of interest and providing
for the better protection of fish in the bayous
of the Mississippi River. The public land bill
WAS OIueE6u LO IL InlFuTSdQ1uS, VI6 G0 provision
being retained, with two amendments; one by
Senator Kingston, giving settlers on state
lands, previous to its being granted by the
government, the first right of purchase The
other amendment was mere technicality in
relation to giving notice when the lands are
offered at public sale. Adjourned till Monday
evening.
Assembly.
MADISON, March 5. Senate bills concurred
in: Authorizing the appointment of a register
of probate in La Crosse County; amending the
law SO as 30 make it necessary for an elector
to be resident of his voting precinct for ten
full days before voting; amending the law SO as
to make general elections biennial instead of
annual; allowing any town to be considered
duly organized when it has exercised the pow
ers, functions and franchises of town for q
period of two years. The assembly bill au-
thorizing the St. Paul and Eastern Grand
Trunk Railroad to build a bridge across Wolf
River, in Shawano County, was passed. The
following assembly bills were killed: Author
izing school district boards to declare a school
district office vacant in certain cases; Walsh's
medical diploma bill, repeating the law pro-
viding for the regulation and practice of phar-
macy; amending the revised statutes, prohibit
ing medical quacks from recovering fees, or
testifylng as experts, by making fifteen years
practice equal to college diploma, before the
law. The senate bill abolishing preferred
creditors was reported adversely on by a ma
jority of the judiciary committee, and cons1d-
Grafton Of the measure was laid over TILL Fri
day.
MADISON, March 6.--Speaker Finch presented
d statement from d. w. Maxon, president of
the Wisconsin Farm Mortgage Land Company,
reciting the charges preferred against him and
asking afull investigation as a matter of justice
to himself. The assembly bill for the ex-
emption from taxation of corporations engaged
in the manufacture of zinc from native ores
was passed by vote of IS to 81 Sheupe of
fered joint resolution that the legislature adj
journ without date on March 81.
MADISON, March Reconsideration of Sharps
resolution for adjournment March u, was
postponed for one week. +. The bill was con-
Cured in appropriat1ng sum of money to the
State Horticultural Society for 1883 and 1884.
-. Bills passed: Relating to state road from
Westboro to Glidden; authorizing Burt Ford
and Frederick Ford, their assigns or associates,
to maintain dam or dams across the north
fork of Clam River, Burnett County. :. The
bill incorporating the city of Sparta was in
definitely postponed. :. .Walsh's bill creating
bureau of labor statistics and providing for the
publication of a biennial report, was adopted.
-. .Scheiber's resolution providing for a con-
stitutional convention was refused third read
ing.