The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-03-07
Assembly.


MADISON, Feb. 23.-A large number OF
bill. was killed, eleven were passed and six
Senate bills cOncUrred in. The committee
on education reported q substitute for the
bill to purchase Noses VI. StrOng's history
OF Wisconsin. \ minority report Of the
committee on education, which recommend
ed the passage OF the agricultural college
bill, was made in opposition to the measure.
Senate bills We're COucurred in: Relating to
the burial OF INDECENT soldiers and sailors:
encouraging the maintenance OF public
watering places; amending the law EXEMPT
ing secret societies from the operations of
the insurance laws. The bill regulating the
practice OF dentistry was passed The bill
requiring strcet-car companies to employ
conductors was indefinitely postponed
MADISON, Feb. EXHIBITIONS were pre-
sented against high license and in favor Of
woman suffrage Bills were passed in re
latIon TO attorneys and their admission to
the bar; extending the limits Of the Second
Ward OF Milwaukee into Wauwatosa: pro-
viding Tor the more efficient collection of
fines belonging to the state authorizing the
quartermastcr-gencra to issue rifles to each
G. \. K. post in the state. Appropriating
S23S, 900 to rebuild Science Hall OF the
state University. \ memorial was pre-
Seuted by the executive board Of the State
Agricultural Society opposing the assump-
ton by the state OF the management Of the
society's affairs.
MADISON, Feb 2j.-The bill cnlareinr the
fees OF sherifis for removing insane persons
to hospitals was recommended to the iu-
dietary committee. Petitions were uresent-
ed against high license; i'm favor OF woman
suffrage; regulating the sale OF personal
property. Senate bills were courIrre1 in
appropriatug s. 900 to the commission
er- of fisheries, fixing the salaries al the Off
GERS OF the State Historical Society. The
uniform textbook bin was reported on ad-
ycrsey by the committee on education.
Several bills oG minor Importance were in
definitely postponed.
MADISON, Feb. 2G.-In the Assembly
there was an unusually large grist OF nett
tioHs and remonstranccS. Most of them
were petitions for woman suffrage and re
mpu-trauceS against high license. Several
purely local bills were PASSED. The hiIl Dre-
ScrIbng the manner Of procedure for l}ro-
hIhitIug owners OF telegraph telenb0ue
electric light and other wire and en- hIa- from
acquiring legal and perpetual RIGHTS
through peaceful attachment OF said wires
and cables to private buildings was passed.
Walsh bin 10 prohibit the labor contract
system IN prisons came up on special order.
The debate over the bin was participatcd
in 10y Walsh. Parish and Ifammcl in favor
al the bill, and NorcroSs. HOLMAN Iernont
and Hubbard against it. All attempts to
amend IT were voted down, and the bin was
indefinitely postponed. Adjourned
MADISON Feb. 27.-Senatc bills were CON
curred in authorizing the Chicago. Frceport
& 1t Paul Railroad COMPANY 10 couStrIIc
bridges over the Wisconsin Kickapon
Chippewa. Black and Eau GaIlc Rivers and
Lake -. trolN; apprnpria ting 81 900 for
the governors contingent fund for the en-
suing two years, appropri8ting 81 coo for
the state horticultural Society for the en-
SUNG tW" years. Assembly bills were
passed requiring graiu-testrr~ To be the
size "i q haii-hushel measure; changing the
name Of the Wisconsin Institution for the
Education Of the Blind and Wisconsin In
stItutlon for the education OF the Deaf and
Dumb TO Wisconsin School for Blind and
Wisconsin School for Deaf, respectively: