The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-03-28
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Senate.
MADISON. March l6-The committee on
claims reported adversely on the bill grant
ing state aid to cities and incorp grated vii
lagos for maintaining schools for deaf
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 State Board OF Dental Examiners.
The Assembly bill authorizing towns to ap-
propriate twO-fifths Of license money for
local purposes was non-concurred in.
MADISON. March 17.-BilIs were passed
granting teachers certificates to graduates
OF free high schools; prescribing the manner
OF transfer Of insane, and legally defining
the term "insanc.n 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 all sums paid over to the
treasurers OF their respective counties; pro-
ylding for recOpying records Of the state
land office. Bills were killed granting
municipal right of suffrage to women; APP
propriating 81 600 to St. Luke's hospital
Chippewa Falls.
MADISON, March 1S.-The Joint resolu-
ton was concurred in providing for the
taking OF a special list of Union veterans in
the next state census. Bills were concur
red in allowing loan and building associa-
tions to have a capital stock Of 5000,
600; to amend the charters OF kewGUnee,
Beloit and Sturgeon Bay.
MADISON, March 19.-BiIls were concurred
in regulating the sale Of cranberries by the
BARREL allowing members Of the State
Board OF Charities cents per mile in addi-
tion to the 81 per diem allowance. Assem-
bly, bills were killed: Fixing the size OF
grain-tester a half bushel; prohibiting the
sale distribution or exhibition of obscene
or immoral printing, engraving or litera-
ture; reservluE the right Of the legislature
to amend charters granted to corporations
MADISON. March 2O.-Bills were coucurrcd
in approp iatiug 81 500 to tie Central
Wisconsin Agricultural Association. 81 500
to the Southwestern Wisconsin Industrial
Association and 50 600 to the Wisconsin
Industrial Association and the Milwaukee
Industrial Exposition; making II the duty
OF the railway commissioner {" inquire
into any reported violations OF la" govern
ing railway corporations; authorizing
county boards to form new towns: COMPEL
ing builders Of public institutions and man
ufaetming establishments to make the
doors Of buildings swing outward the As
sembIy memorial to Congress asking that
municipalities be relieved from the care Of
INDECENT soldiers was cOnCJrred in. Bills
were passed authorizing the city Of Mil
waukee to issue $3.50 900 bonds oreXtend-
ing the water works system; to prohibit the
commitment OF congenital insane tocounty
asylums.
Assembly.
MADISON, March 16.-Petitions were pre-
sented against the creation OF State Board
of Agriculture and for the passageof the bill
to regulate the sale OF liquor bypharmacists.
Resolutions were offered instructing the
committee on assessment and collection OF
taxes to report the bill cOnierring upon the
railroad commissioner authority to act
with the state treasurer in the supervision
and granting Of railway licenses. also that
the LegiSlatu adjourn Saturday, March
Is. A message from the Senate announced
its concurrence, with amendments, in the
bin extending the limits OF the Second Ward
of the city of Milwaukee. Bills were passed
allowing defendants IN attachment suits to
deny all material facts, authorizingthe city
Of Chippewa Falls to issue bonds to ray its
Indebtedness: providing a penalty for the
failure OF officers to make endorsements on
papers served. aOullG pNN NSibitIN ana
hygiene to the list OF common school
studies: appropriating 81, 900 to the Wis
cousin Industrial Association.
MADISON, March 17.-Bills We're passed:
Restricting justices of thepeace to consider
alton of civil actions not involving more
than $500; allowing police justices III IN
corporatcd villages and cities to unite with
court commissioners IN issuing processes IN
eases Of vagabondage. authorizing payment
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obliging mortgages to he signed by the wife
Of the mortgage if he be married man;
restricting the sale of Paris green to regis
tered pharmacists, ,iOrhiddIng county super
intendeuts Of schools to teach during their
terms OF office: also, forbddiug any person
under contract to teach to fill said Office;
fixing compensation OF justices OF the peace
for taking iuquests at 50 per day and 10
cents Der mile Travelled, and OF jurors s.
per day and 10 cents mileage; authorizing
n Firemen's Relief Association in Milwau-
kee. authorizing the sentence Of vagrants to
diet Of bread and water. The bill for the
official publication OF Moses NJ Strong's
Territorial History Of Wisconsin was or
dered to a third reading. At the evening
session bills were killed providing for free
+ex+-b hooks in public schools. requiring pub
lie notice Of the formation OF partnerships;
providing penalties for peddlng bogus cleo
tion tickets. The New Milwaukee charter
was reported.
MADISON. March 1S.-A resolution was
adopted limiting debate on any topic TO
five minutes. The free textbook bill was
refused reconsideration by vote OF 81 TO
40. Bills were cOncurred IN: Providing for
the pavment Of additional legislative EN-
Moves voted for a few weeks ago; apprOprI-
atinc 81 600 annually TO the state law
library for the purchase Of books, prOvid-
ing for SIX months country school instead OF
five, enab bling the city Of kenosha to reduce
the interest on its Indebtedness by refund
ing its bonds at lower rate OF interest.
Bills passed providing Tor transcripts OF
public records; for an annual appropria
ton OF 81 900 TO the State Agricultural
Society: abolishing the Office OF marshal in
incorporated villages; reducing the legal
membership OF fire company IN order
that II may receive fees from underwriters,
from thirty to ten; authorizing the city OF
Milwaukee TO raise a special taxln the West
Sewerage District: providing for the colec-
tion Of highway and sidewalk taxes IN VII
1sges The compromise license bill was re-
referred 10 the committee on state affairs,
the object being TO have the freeholder
clause stricken out. The joint resolution
providing for an amendment TO the constl-
milton r.lacirz -ha question Of co-pecsa-
ton dutie. powers and time of election
Of state nd county school sUperinteudents
IN the hands OF the legislature. was greed
TO. The bill defining the la olhty OF railway