Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-28
PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE.
Sen aEes

PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE.
| Senate.
MADISON, February 19.-Blake presented a
| petition for the regulation of railroad passen-
ger and freight traffic. Lord introduced a
| resolution to allow him to introduce bill APP
proprlatng $4,000 to the flood sufferers IN
| Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky :. Bills were
passed to authorize towns to hold elections and
transact business in villages and cities; appro-
prlatlng 500 for expenses to legislative COM
mittee visiting state institutions.
MADISON, February 20.-Cot rill presented
petition of the citizens OF Milwaukee, for the
passage Of the bill designed to prevent specu-
latlol IN grain for future delivery. The Joint
resolution of Lord, to permit him to introduce
bill for the relief Of the Ohio sufferers by the
floods was lost -. The following bills were
passed: Amendatory of the charter OF the
city OF Portage changing the time of holding
elections in the city Of Grand Rapids; to au-
thor1ze Hans johnson to build piers into the
waters of Lake Michigan. The assembly bill
to authorize Thomas J. La Flesh and others to
build and maintain certain dams on the east
fork or Black River, in the counties of Clark,
Jackson and Wood, was concurred in.
MADISON, February 21.--Lord submitted O.
remOnstrance against the bill to incorporate
Edgerton as a city. Cottrills bill prohibiting
the sale and use of pistols to minors was passed
by vote Of 10 to H.. The bill providing for
safety air cushions and non infammable eleva-
tors In hotels was passed.
MADISON, February GA memorial to con-
gress asking for q repeal of the duty on
matches was concurred in. The bill apprO-
priating 800 to the Lafayette County AgricuI-
tural Society was passed. The bill relating to
the claim of Simeon Mills was indefinitely
postponed, after debate, by vote of II to Is.
The vote WAS reconsidered and the bill recon-
mltted to the judiciary committee
MADISON, February ga bill was passed
appropriating $500 to the Wisconsin Horticul-
tural Society for each of the years 1888 and
1884. Assembly measures were concurred in
Relating to The setting Of spring guns; author
lzlng Nelson Lawson, J. II. McCOurt ct al. to
maintain dam across and otherwise improve
Straight River in Polk County; memorial to
congress for the immediate relief of the Stock
bridge Indi ms. The bill to provide that all
easements, right of way, franchise, grades or
other work belonging to railroad corporations
shall forfeit to the state IL certain cases, was
indefinitely postponed. Adjourned till Mon
day evening.
Assembly.
MADISON, February 19.-Campion presented
petition for less burdensome bounty law
Taylor presented a petition of 150residents
for division of Burnett County The bill
relating to dam in the east fork of the Black
River was passed under suspended rules
The bill providing for the equalization of all
property subjected to taxation IN Wisconsin
was indefinitely postponed.
MADISON, February 20.-Huntley presented
petition for prohibitory amendment :. The
following bills were indefinitely postponed;
Authorizing an unmarried woman to sue for
her own seduction; making the charge of un-
chasteness actionabe without proof Of special
damages; Furnishing an assault with danger
Gus weapon with intent TO do bodily harm, by
imprisonment in state prison not more than
three years nor less than one year; making Ian
guage of provoking or abusive character a
mitigation Of punishment for assault.
MADISON, February 21.-Anderson presented
| a remOnstrance from the county board of Bar
ron County against division of the county
The bill Incorporating the city of Portage was
| passed under suspended rules. The bill ap-
propriatng $500 to Amos N 0tt who was
! crippled while hunting the Williams brothers,
near Durand. Pepln County, was indefinitely
postponed.
| MADISON, February 22.-The bill amending
| the charter of Wausau was passed under sus-
| pended rules. The senate bill granting
Walter l.. Peck the right to build and maintain
bridge across Lake La Belle in Waukesha
! County was concurred III; also, the memorial to
| congress asking for mail route between Gil
mantown and Independence, in Trempealeau
| County. Bills were passed providing for an
abstract of tax sales In Waupaca County; incOr-
pOrating the city of Baraboo regulating the
1OOO "a lAAtS1CoO IlOf4O4AlS AO1 " OOuLCS OlA
wild animals. The bill incorporating the city
of Amigo, Langlade County, was killed by a
vote of 40 to II after some sharp discussion.
The assembly bill increasing the salary of
county supervisors was indefinitely postponed
%. "A resolution by Hawks instructing the COM
mittee on state affairs to investigate into the
alleged charges made by the Juneau Tele-
phone against the administrators of the affairs
of the Wisconsin Farm Mortgage Company was
adopted.
MADISON, February 23.-The bill to prohibit
the bringing of suits to recover license moneys
from villages or towns after said moneys had
been expended by the villages or towns was
killed.
MADISON, February pa flood of petitions
| asking for a prohibitory amendment to the
constitution was received, and Johnston moved
for the appointment of special committee of
five to have charge Of all petitions relating to
the subject and of the prohibltory amendment
now pending "A large number of bills were
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