Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-04-15

| MADISON, April 9.-Assembly bills passed:
| Appropriating $500 to Michael J. Cantwell,
| Tor salary as member of Assembly to sue
coed William f. Villas; to divide the Elev
enth Ward of the city Of Milwaukee; appro
| prat1ng S9S.8O to Mrs. Clarissa Keves, O.
| soldiers widow; regulating navigation by
| steam upon the inland waters of Wisconsin.
repeating chapter 1913, general laws of SS3,
| relative to highways and bridges; relative to
| the lire department of the CITY of Milwau
kee; memorial to Congress asking that the
| direct war tax be refunded to the several
| states; obhging all railway licenses to be is
sued by the state treasurer, with the ap-
prevail OF the railway commissioner: Joint
Senate resolution authorizing the commit
tee on claims to introduce bill to provide
Tor the current expenses OF the Wisconsin
School for Dependent and Neglected Chill
dren. Senate bills concurred in: Providing
for the appointment of tax commissioner
In Milwaukee in December instead of Janu-
airy, and giving him the power to appoint
assessors; to pay all the necessary current
expenses of the State Public School for De-
pendent and Neglected Children, between
The time when the proposed buildings
shall be completed and until further
provision shall be made therefor. The SEN
ate bill providing for a more stringent regis
try law In cities of over %, 000inhabitants,
was concurred in. At the evening session,
OF the property of insolvent debtors among
their creditors, was killed after a long de-
bate. Ryan reported q bill consisting of
the health department chapter of the
charter revision bill, in order to save it
from the general wreck Of the latter. Nash
offered an amendment to the bill extending
the police power of the city of Milwaukee by
striking out the clause relative to runners
or solicitors for mercantile houses from
other cities The amendment was adopted
and the bill passed. The Senate bill adj
m1ttlng non resident pupils over 20 years
old to common schools was indefinitely
postponed. A recess of 10 minutes was
then taken. Mr.. Nash called the Assembly
to ORDER and invited Mr.. Nye to preside.
The latter directed Sergt. Ewing to bring
Speaker Fairchild before the bar of the
House, and, on his appearance, he presented
the speaker with gold watch and chain.
After recess the House cOncurred in the
Senate bill for q more effective means to
suppress graveyard insurance companies.
Several appropriation bills were reached at
about II o'clock. Fearing that there
would be no quorum tomorrow, members
who had gone home were brought back in
order to get sixty votes to put the bills
through. Finally at near midnight a con-
stitutiOnal quorum was secured, and SEN
ate bills were cOncurred in appropriating
So, 900 to the Milwaukee Industrial School
1or Urls, ana another apprOpr1atlng 81 600
to the Milwaukee Exposition Association.
MADISON, April 10.-Bills were killed for
the appointment OF game and fish protec-
tors; to amend the revised statutes in re-
lation to the sale of liquor; to license ex-
press companies; to exempt the Milwaukee
Exposition property from taxation; pro-
viding for writs OF error and appeals in
criminal cases. The resolution for the
change Of the name Of the county Of Forest
to Fairchild was adopted. Bills were con-
Cured in providing that no lands be sold
by the commissioners of public lands, ex-
| cept on full payment Of purchase money;
prohibiting the catching for sale of any
brook trout in the rivers and lakes of the
state. A resolution of sympathy on ac-
count of the death of the wife of Assembly
man Hubbard was adopted.