The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-20
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.

SENATE-0n the 10th but few members were
able to get to the Capital, several bills, how
ever were adopted viz: Authorizing the
State TO pay the funeral expenses of needy
veterans; oblging County schools to be
taught six months instead of five; repeating
the section of the Revised Statutes making
the failure to file an inventory act as void in
cases of voluntary assignments. The follow
ing gentlemen were nominated by the Gov
ernor and sent to the Senate: B. o. REYNOLDS
of Walworth, State Board of Health and Vital
Statistics. Normal Regents: E. Wallber, of
Milwaukee; S. NJ. Hay, of Oshkosh, and John
&. Phillips, of Portage.
AssEMBLY--A resolution was adopted con-
graduating Wisconsin dairymen on their fine
exhibits ut New Orleans. A memorial to Con-
gress was passed asking that General Grant
be placed on the retired list. Bills: ReQuir-
ing the Governor to give an itemized state
ment of expenditures of the contingent fund;
making the cost of LIQUOR licenses not less
than $500 retail and 500 wholesale, and pro-
yiding that $50 additional fee paid for every
person employed by a dealer in addition to
one employer; appropiatlng $4,000 to the
State Agricultural Society for building pur-
poses; SuppFeSSing obscene literature and en-
cravings; to prevent the Trustees of the
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany from erecting a building on the old
Newhall House site.
SENATE-On the 18th the memorial from the
Assembly to Congress asking for General
Grants retirement, was concurred in. A bill
was introduced for the purchase of an Exeeu-
! tive mansion not to exceed $4,000. The bill
permitting County Boards to select places for
depositihg the County funds was passed. The
Senate confirmed the executive appointments
or Is. y. Reynolds, member of the State Board
of Health, for seven years; also Emil Wallber,
S. NJ Hoy and John Phillips as Normal School
Regents for three years
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS tributes were made on
the life and character of the late s. S. Merrill,
General Manager of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul Railway, by several members Bills
were introduced, appropriating $4,000 for two
years as contingent fund to use in case Of
ASiatic cholera; authorizing the township
system of schools; to borrow State trust
funds; TO separately list buildings at their
market value authorizing when public interest
requires, to withdraw public lands from sale;
increasing the maximum amount of capital
stock which corporations may have from
100000 to S5000,000. The bill relating to bas-
tardy cases, che changing of venue, etc., was
killed.
SENATE--On the 18th the following bills were
| introduced: To tax telephone companies
! two-and-a-half per cent. and telegraph COM
panies four, on gross earnings; requiring
more prompt and efficient delivery, making
them liable to fines and responsible for loss or
damage that may be sustained; making rail-
road corporations liable for damages sus-
tanned by any agent or servant through neg
lgence, and no contract, rule or regulation
Quiring more humane treatment of stock by
railroads; providing for a more perfect record
of patients in hospitals for the insane; for the
purchase and distribution of 5000 copies of
the Territorial history of the State; to protect
and increase the fish supply in Lakes Mich
| igan and Superior and Green Bay.
AssEMBLY-Bills were introduced: Includ-
| ing all kinds of wild ducks within the provis-
ions of the Game laws; providing that trial of
persons for larceny from railroad cars may
| be had in any county through which the cars
| may run; allowing church members to form
| corporations for religious purposes; appro-
| priating $1,000 for the Wisconsin Industrial
| Association at Racine; authorizing County
| Boards to compromise and settle actions
| brought on account of tax-o certificates issued
making the University Professor of Engineer
| ing State Sealer of Weights and Measures;
making perpetual appropriation of $4,000
| annually to the State Agricultural Society;
| creating new counties in honorto Governor
| Rusk and Congressman Stephenson; f. a.
! Flower Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor
| Statistics was unanimously confirmed.
| SENATE-On the 18th among [the most i'm
| portant business were a joint resolution for
submitting Constitutional amendment grant
| ing suffrage to women; also the bills: Ap-
| propriating $4,000 with which to experiment
| in sugar and sorghum on a farm in Iowa
| County; to establish q reformatoTy for fallen
| girls and abandoned women under thirty years
| of age; to secure wages due to employees from
railway corporations; TO protect children en-
| plOyed in factories.
| AssEMBLY-Bills introduced: Giving phys.
| icians and surgeons not less than $40 for each
examination in attending inquests; for a
! State inspector of gas meters; re-enacting the
| law making railway corporations responsible
| for injuries sustained by employees; taxing
/ dogs; Furnishing Migrants by compelling
them to subsston bread and water; provid-
| ing that personal property may be seized and
sold for unpaid taxes axe on real estate;
err Industrial School; removing the
Milwaukee Police and Fire Depart
ment from politicsA influences making
4 owners OF dams responsible Tor damage done
| by flooding; creating the county of Matt Car
penter out of the territory detached from
| Ashland, Longdale and Oc0nto counties; to
! compel Black River Improvement comp anies
to keep Black River free of Instructions; for
| bidding the manufacture or sale of Gdulterated
| candies. a new law prescribing the qualiflca-
| tons of electors ann manner of conducting
| elections was introduced
| SENATli-On the 10Th one hundred and nine
bills were introduced. The most important
were: For the gradual permanent improve
ment of highways; to establish a State School
| for the feeble minded; for the better protec-
| ton of society against crime; prohibiting the
| committing of idiots to county asylums; al
| lowing women the right of suffrage in school
| matters; appointing a State veterinary sur
| geon; requiring the heating of street-cars
! improving the system of assessment for taxa
| ton; fOrSIddIng saloons to sell liquor on Sum
] day or tOwn-meeting days.
! AssEMBLY-Two hundred and sixty-three
bills introduced, among them the following
| Licensing pharmacists to sell liquor on pay
ment of IS; providing for the maintenance of
| the Fifth Normal School in Milwaukee; reduc-
ing rates OF fare on railroads to three cents
per mile for companies earning above $4,000
| per mile. per annum, and to four cents per
mile for companies earning less than $1,000
| per mile per annum forbdding the contract
| system of maintaining paupers and idiots in
| pOOr-houses and aSylums; requiring that
| doors of all churches, factories and public
| buildings open outward; submitting the ques-
ton of saloon license to popular vote; for
bidding the manufacture or sale of explosives;
| licensing engineers and appointment of
| inspectors Of steam-boers; to prevent
the manufacture and sale of coun:
terfeit dairy products; creating State Board
of Agriculture; authorizing towns, villages
and cities to tax telephone companies; for
bidding railroad companies to charge a
greater rate for short than for longer hauls of
freight; requiring railroad companies to use
patent couplings; authorizing the Secretary
of State to withhold appropriations to agTi-
cultural societies which permit gambling on
fair grounds.