The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-27
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.

SENATE-On the 18th petitions f0R ana
against high license and for woman suffrage
was presented. Bills were passed authorizing
the city of Beloit to accept a donation of If
teen acres for cemetery purposes; making
authorizing the holding of agricultural in
stitutes was concurred in The total number
of pardons granted by Governor Rusk during
1SS5-'H were nfty-one.
AsgtMgIY-Bills not adopted: Exempting
property OF INDECENT persons from taxation;
relating to the PRESCRIPTION of fish; to the liza
hilitv of stockholders In corporations: amend
ing the charter of Bei0ie The bill 70 regulate
the practice of dentistry was ordered 10 q
third reading.
SENATE-On the 18th Joint resolution was
passed urging the Wisconsin members in Con-
gress to labor for the passage of the Oil pro
hibiting foreign labor contracts; approprlat-
ing to the Fish Commissioners S12,OOS 1oE
1885 and SIS, 900 for 1886.
Recommendations were filed for uniform
school text books; for woman suffrage; abol'
ishing prison labor and for schoolinstruction;
relative to alcoholic stimulants- A message
was received transmitting resolutions from
the common councils of Berlin Portage and
Menasha, relative to the Improvement of the
Fox and Wisconsin rivers The bill appropri-
ating $4,000 for the State exhibit at New. Or
leans was defeated. The amendment cutting
down the license for druggists from 500 to So
was adopted.
SENATE@Ou the 18th the following bills
were passed: 10 appropriate $500 to the
State horticultural Society for 1855; for
the preservation Of fish in Little Muskego
Lake; to provide for The election OF Supervis
ors in counties containing not less than lO0,-
600 inhabitants. The bill 10 utilize the tee-
phone and the telegraph in making arrests
and to modify the law prohibSt1ng unauthor-
in the State were killed; the SenaSe also re-
fused to postpone the bill to increase S0e Hen
of laborerS for wages due from employers
and advanced it to third reading.
AsSEMBLY-A resolution of inquiry was of
fered concerning the title of the State to $3.50
acres of land in Marathon County; the Senate
bill appropriating $4,000 to defray the ex-
penses of the Wisconsin State exhibit at New
Orleans was concurred in. Bills passed:
Authorizing Watertown to levy tax to build
| ing for the holding of yearly conventions of
| county school superintendent in four diher-
ent districts of the State.
/ SENATE-On the 10th the joint resolution
relative to perfecting the title of the State to
50540 acres Of lands decided by Marathan
| County to tho State in settlement of it's State
| tax was adopted. The bill TO establish State
| reformatory for girls and women was de-
| feated, also the bill fer lighting the capttof
| with electric lamps
| AssEMBLY-The bill for the reconstruction
Of Science Hail and appropriations therefor
were cut down from So, 900 to $35. OOO-for gym
nasium and armory; for apparatus. etc, from
$4,000 to $4,000; the bill to create counties
| in the northern part of the State was adverse
| ly reported on. A favorable report was made
| upon the bill requiring marriage licenses
| with the fee therefor fifty cents. Bills in
| definitely postponed: To prevent over
insurance of property and requiring counter
| felt dairy products to be branded as such
| Both houses adjourned to Monday.
| SENATE-On the 18th the report of the State
| Superintendent of Public Instruction was sub
! mitted, and shows that the number of persons
in the State between four and twenty years
| of age was 52S, $50 in 1881; as compared with
| 1882 there was an increase of S,5l7 in two
! years; the number enrolled in public schools
| between four and twenty years of age was
| years Number of teachers, 7,459. Total
amount expended for educational purposes
| for 1884 was 3d. ia, 1555l
AssEMBLY-Senate bills concurred in: The
burial of any necessitous honorably-dis-
charged Union soldier and sailor; encouraging
| the maintenance of public watering places.
| Bills passed: For more specific statistics Of
| realestate sales; for the preservation of the
| lakes and water courses of WalwOrth COuntyS
| empowering Town Boards to make distinctions
| in bridges; for a separate census of iDhabit-
| ants of unincorpOrated villages. Bills killed :
| Appropriating $1,000 to the Northern WiBcOn-
| sin Agricultural and Mechanical Association
| providing for election ballots on plain white
| paper, without distinguishing marks; for the
| better preservation OF game; requiring the
| the contingent fund; requiring trial of per-
| sons for rObbing railroad cars In any county
| through which the cars run; requiring con-
| ductors on "bob-taii" cars in Milwaukee.