Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-25
LEGISLATIVE.
Senate

MADISON. March 16.-The committee on
I claims reported adversely on the bill grant
ing state aid to cities and Incorporated vii
! lagos for maintaining schools for deal
mutes. Bills were cOncurred in authorizing
! the granting Of unlimited state certificates
! to graduates Of the normal department of
| the Milwaukee High School, and establish
/ ing n State Board of Dental Examiners.
| The Assembly bill authorizing towns to APP
propriate two-fifths of license money for
local purposes was non-concurred in.
MADISON, March 17-Bills were passed
granting teachers certificates to graduates
| of free high schools; prescribing the manner
| of transfer Of insane, and legally defining
| the term ''nsane." Bills were concurred
| in Requiring telegraph companies to de
/ liver messages within one hour of receipt;
making the professor OF engineering In the
! State University the state sealer of weights
and measures; prohibiting unauthorized
use of the words bank" banking" or
| ''banking house" for advertising purposes;
/ obliging the state treasurer to report to
county clerks ali sums paid over to the
treasurers Of their respective counties; pro-
! vidng for recOpying records OF the state
| land Office. Bills were killed granting
municipal right OF suffrage to women; APP
propriating 81 900 to st. Luke's hospital,
. Chippewa Falls.
| MADISON March 1S.-The joint reso-
/ luton was concurred in providing for the
! taking of special list of Union veterans in
| the next state census Bills were concurred
| in allowing loan and building associations
| to have a capital stock of 5000, 900; to
| amend the charters Of Kewaunee, Beloit
and Sturgeon Bay.
! MADISON Wis, March 19.-Bills were con-
| Cured in regulating the sale of cranberries
| by the barrel; allowing members OF the
| State Board OF Charities 4 cents per mile
| lowance. Assembly bills were killed. Fix
ing the size of grain-tester at half bushel;
prohibiting the sale, distribution or exhi-
bition of obscene or immoral printing, en-
craving or literature; reserving the right of
the Legislature to amend charters granted
to corporations.
MADISON, March 20.-Bills were concurred
in approprOpriatingS 81 500 to the Central
| Wisconsin Agricultural Association, 81, 800
to the Southwestern Wisconsin Industrial
| Association and 50 900 to the Wisconsin
| Industrial Association and the Milwaukee
| Industrial Exposition; making it the duty
Of the railway commissioner to inquire into
| any reported violations of the law governS
ing railway corporations; authorizing coun-
ty boards to form new towns; compelling
! builders of public institutions and manu-
featuring esta blishments to make the doors
of buildings swing outward The Assembly
| memorial to Congress asking that munich
palities be relieved from the care of indi-
gent soldiers was concurred In. Bills were
| passed authorizing the city Of Milwaukee to
| issue $3.50, 900 bonds for extending the wa
ter works system; to prohibit the commit
| ment of congenital insane to county asy
lums.
! Assembly.
MADISON, March 16.-Petitions were pre-
| scented against the creation of State
| Board of Agriculture, and for the passage
OF the bill to regulate the sale Of liquor by
pharmacists. Resolutions were offered in
| stucting the committee on assessments and
collection OF taxes to report the bill confer
ring upon the raiload commissioner au-
thority to act with the state treasurer in
| the supervision and granting of railway
| licenses; also that the Legislature adjourn
! Saturday, March %. A message from the
! Senate announced its concurrence, with
q nendments, in the bill extending the limits
OF the Second Ward of the city of Milwau-
| lee. Bills were passed allowing the de-
PENDANTS in attachment suits to deny all
| material facts; authorizing the city Of Chip
! pewa Falls to issue bonds to pay it's in
Indebtedness; providing penalty for the
failure of officers to make endorsements on
| papers served; adding physiology and
hygiene to the list ofcommon school studies;
| appropriating 81 900 to the Wisconsin In
dustrial Association.
| MADISON, March 17.-Bills were passed:
Restricting justices Of the peace to consider
alton of civil actions not involving more
than $500; allowing police justices in in
corporated villages and cities to unite with
court commissioners in issuing processes in
cases of yagabondage; authorizing
! of members of county boards of So per day;
obliging mortgages to be signed by the wife
Of the mortgage if he be married man;
restricting the sale of Paris green to regis
| tered pharmacists forbidding county super
| ntendents of schools to teach during their
terms of Office; also, forbidding any person
under contract to teach to fill said office;
fixing compensation of justices OF the peace
for taking inquests at SIS per day and 10
cents per mile Travelled, and of jurors 81
per day and 10 cents mileage; authorizing
| a Firemen's Relief Association in Milwau-
kee; authorizing the sentence Of Migrants to
diet of bread and water The bill for the
official publication of Moses NJ. Strong'e
Territorial History Of Wisconsin was or
dered to a third reading. At the evening
session bills were killed providing for free
textbooks in public schools; requiring pub
lie notice of the formation of partnerships;
providing penalties for peddling bogus cleo
ton tickets. The new Milwaukee harter
was reported.
MADISON, March 18.-A resolution was
adopted limiting debate on any topic to five