The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-27
WISCONSIN LEeIsLATuRE

SENATE-On the 18th bills were passed :;
Granting diplomas OF the same force and eff
feet OF hrst7grade certificates by free high
schools; Giving the State Board of Charities
/ power to direct the transfer of insane from
or 10 county asylums, and to issue leaves of,
absence: making telegraph companies liable
for negligence in the transmission aud dcliy-,
cry of messages; to authorize County Boards.
70 perIect ute 10 real estate from the records
of adjoining counties. The bill granting mu-
nicipal suffrage to women was Indefinitely
| postponed.
AssEMBLY-Ther resolution for final adjourn
meRt was laid over. Bills passed: For the
more stringent suppression of vagabondage;
| increasing the compensation of County
Boards from 81 to 50 per day; providing
| ment for tramps. Bills killed: Requiring
| public notice of the formation of partner
! snips; providing penalty for peddling bogus
election ballots, or otherwise decaiving voters
The resolution calling for legislato on to BERTHE
, the interests of the State in the collection of
licenses from railroads was adopted.
SENATE-0n the 18th petitions were pre-.
| sented protesting against increasing the taxa.
| ton of insurance companies. The joint reso.
| luton for taking a census of Union soldiers
ana sailors was cOncurred in; also the bill
allowing mutual loan and building associa-
tons TO carsy stocks not to exceed $5.00000O.
AsSEMBLY-Bllls concurred in: Requiring
public schools to be kept open six months to
| share in the division of the school-fund in
GOMEZ appropriating $1,000 annually TO the
State Law Library for the purchase of books;
also $1,000 annually to the State Agricultural
Society. Bills killed: Requiring the delivery
OF messages by telegraph companies within a
reasonable time, in cities not more than one
hour; giving liens upon logs and lumber to
persons furnishing supplies for logging COM
pantes.
SENATE-On the 10th a resolution was
| adopted to investigate the boom tolls on the
Chippewa River. The bill regulating the size
of cranberry barrels was eoncurred in. Bills
killed: Fixing the size of grain tester at ha!f
Dushei; prohibiting the sale of obscene or
criminal literature or pictures, and reserving
the right of the Legislature to amend charters
to corporations.
ASSEMBLY - Bills passed: Recognizing
central or railway time as the standard; pur-
chasing 1900 copies of Strong's Territorial
History; regulating liability for damages
caused by steam; authorizing County Boards
to compromise and settle actions and cancel
tax certificates. The bill creating the county
OF Rusk was defeated.
SENATE-On the 10th the only transactions of
interest was the concurrence in the bills pro-
vi ling that persons arrested in stealing from
railway cars in transit may be tried in any
county through which the road runs" and
approprlatlng $1,000 each to the Milwaukee,
Mineral Point and Racine Exposition Assoc.a-
ton and $500 to the Watertown Association.
AssEMBLY-A bill was reported to provide
for committee to draft uniform life lIsur-
ance policy, An adverse report was made on
bills creating Fairchid and Stephenson coun-
ties also on the bill regulating the practice of
medicine. The bill compelling all public
buildings to have doors to open outward was
passed.
SENATE-On the 23d bill passed for the
punishment of persons who break into rail-
way-cars loaded or unloaded for the purpose
OF stealing rides; also concurred in the bills
authorizing Chippewa Falls to issue bonds
for paying Indebtedness, and revising the
charters of New London and Chippewa Falls.
AssEMBLY-Bills were passed authorizing
the compilation of the laws and forms of the
State relative to towns and town govern
ments; permitting towns. where the town.
ship system exists, to borrow money for
school purposes from the State trust funds;
to prohibit the manufacture of oleomar-
garine. Bills postponed: Exempting the
Order of the Red Cross from the operation of
the Insurance law; requiring dealers in prop
erty sold on fnstallments to refund a portion
Of the purchase money in case defaults are
made,