Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-02-01
THE LEGISLATURE.
TUESDAY, JAN. %.

TUESDAY, JAM 20.
| Senate 1t was in session but 20 min
utes; some of the senators and the lieut..
enant governor not having returned tn
/ the city. A resolution was offered by Sen
Hill, joint, that no new business be re
ceived by the legislature after the 9th Of
| February. The resolution lies over I'M
der the rule; and two bills were introduc
ed. One by Sen. Jonas, TO amend chap
ter 190, R. s entitled OF change of venue
in criminal cases; and the other by Sen.
| Comstock, to amend section 1928, r. s.
entitled of railroads.
A bill relative to justices of the peace
and constables in the city of Milwaukee
was Indefinitely postponed
AssembLy-Rev. G. o Maltby opened
the session of the assembly with prayer.
The speaker transmitted to the assem-.
bly, the following statement from Chiet
| Clerk Carr:
To the honorable, the assembly of the state o,
| Wisconsin: In response to resolution No. z, A
| the chief CLERK would say that on the second day
of the session his attention called to chapter
lbs, laws of 1882, relating to the furnishing OF
stationery for the use of the legislature. Tke
clerk, after examining said chapter also chapter
| II, laws OF 1882, and after consulting with the
chief clerk of the senate and members Of the
legislature, to the conclusion that it was his
duty to furnish small amount of stationery for
the purr0Se of expediting and properly transact
ing the business of the legislature. He therefore
placed upon the desks of the members for the
transaction of legislative business thirty sheets
of legal cap, twenty-five envelopes, one PEN hold
or and three steel pens, one ink-stand with ink,
aud one mucilage bottle, at an average cost of
elghtY-twO cents for each member.
Your chief clerk also found that the chief
clerk of the senate had already placed upon the
desks of the senators equal or greater quantity
of stationery and therefore believed he could not
err in following the precedent set by an old and
trusted officer of the legislature especially when
such precedent is reinforced by the laws Of 1882.
1T. CARR, Chief Clerk.
BY Mr.. Brown, repeating an act en-
abling Samuel Neff and others TO build a
bridge across Wolf river at Fremont; also,
petition for said repeal.
By Mr.. nj. Adams, to revise and codify
the city charter of Columbus.
BY Mr.. Albert, to enlarge and extend
the corporate limits of the city of Mil
waukee by extending the second ward to
81 h street.
WEDNESDAY,. JAN. "a.
SenGte-Bills were introduced as fol-
lows
Senator Ringle, relating to electors and
general elections, and amendatory of sec
tions Il and IA, chapter of the revised
statutes.
Senator Ringle, relating to returned
highway taxes, and amendstory of sec
tion 1345 of the revised statutes, entitled
of highways and bridges.
Senator Cottrill. to amend section 2610,
revised statutes, entitled of the forms of
civil actions and of parties thereto.
Senator Mcdonald, for the appoint
ment of registers of probate in La Crosse
county. with accompany petition.
BILLS PASSED,
Relative to the taking of inquests of the
dead in the county of Racine.
To amend section 1925, revised statutes,
relating to garnishments in justices
courts.
To prevent policy shops.
To authorize John II. Knapp and others
to maintain dam across Red Cedar river
in Dunn county.
To amend section 2728 of the revised
statutes relative to replevip.
The bill to provi e punishment for
fraudulently removing or embezzling
goods leased or subject to contracts or
purchase, was Indefinitely postponed.
The joint assembly resolution of SYM
pathY with the citizens of Milwaukee in
view of the Newhall disaster, was con-
Cured in.
blythe session of the assembly
was the longest one of the session, being
about one hour. Mr.. Bolender presented
petition of forty electors of Green coun-
ty for passage of bill No. II, A., relative
to elections in the town of Monroe.
The following bills were introduced:
Mr.. Scheiber, relating to executors, ad-
ministrators, guardians and testamentary
trustees, and the enforcement of their OBJ
legations.
Mr.. Leonhardt, to authorize a certain
pier into the waters of Green Bay.
Mr.. Martin, relating to the testing and
grading of wheat.
Mr., Button (by request), to form ard
establish the county of Keeps,
Mr.. Pratt, amending sub-divisio. Z,
section 1772, revised statutes, relating to
filing articles of association with the Sec
retary of state.
Mr.. Fairchild, providing for the prep
aration and publication of an index to the
session laws of 1882, and to the laws there
after enacted and published; also, pro-
vidlng for the appraisement of exempt
property in certain cases.
Mr.. Bugh, amending the laws of 1879
relating to special terms of the circuit
court in the 7lh judicial district.
Mr.. Friend, amending the revised stat
utes in the matter of collecting judg-
mepts against towns.
Mr.. Hawkes., amending revised statutes
relating TO security for costs in Justices
courts.
Mr.. Tanner, relating to advertising
lands sold for taxes.
Bills passed:
Relative to the appointment of phon-
egrophic reporter in Milwaukee and Ke-
nosha counties.
Pardons:
The clerk read a communication from
the governor reciting the pardons grant
ed by him during the year and the reasons
therefor. From state prison there were
pardoned II persons; from the Milwaukee
house of correc tion 2; and from county
ails, 4; to q persons who had been cred
tied with good conduct in state prison,
pardons restoring them to citizenship,
had been issued at the end of their terms.
THURSDAY, JAN. 25.
Se1aate-The following bills were intro
duced.
Sen. Adams, to authorize the attorney
general to satisfy and discharge the judg-
ment named therein against Simeon Mills
on the payment by said Mills of fifty per
cent. of said Judgment.
Sen Randall, relating to the school tax
in Brodhead district.
Sen. Comstock, to provid for the ap-
pointment and compense ton of clerks of
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