River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-04-09

MADISON, Wis, Special Telegram, April q
The senate this morning concurred in the as
sembly bill increasing the compensation OF
country papers for publishing laws from s6o
to $780, and also the bin authorizing the gov
ernor to appoint three state fish and game
wardens. with an annual salary of $500 each.
The assembly concurred i'll the senate bill IN
creasing the annual salary of circuit judges
from 5000 to $500, and killed the
senate bill placing all country highways
in care of the boards of supervisors. Assem-
bly, bills were passed for the organization OF
a battery of light artillery in the state mil
tia; for the appointment of state Vetef-
marian, and for the adoption of stringent
measures to guard against the spread OF
contagious diseases among domestic animals;
requiring telegraph companies. to pay an
annual icence OF 81 per mile on the first wire,
30 cents on the second wire, 30 cents on the
third wire, and 20 cents on each additional:
The present fee is 20 cents per mile on all
wires after the second, the fee on the first
two beng the same as the new law provides.
Other house bills passed: To provide for the
purchase of overcoats and fatigue uniforms
for : 800 members of the state militia; to allow
militiamen 81. 80 for each day III camp, and TO
increase the militia fund for contingent expen-
ses So, 500 per anpum. House bills were
killed providing for the appointment of state
ms 9ector of gas meters and steam boilers.
The bill was ordered to third reading en-
towering the MAYOR of Milwaukee to decline
to grant liquor licenses in his discretion. A
Joint commit zee of conference was appointed
to decide upon the day of final adjournment.
This contamination will probably be reached
the middle of April
Providing for the better preservation Of fis
in lakes, bayous and sloughs of the Mississippi
river; creating commission consisting of the
insurance commissioners, attorney general and
eight members to be appointed by the supreme
court to draft a form of fire insurance pollcy,
to be used by all fire insurance companies do
ing business in Wisconsin, the same to be re-
ported to the next legislature; enacting gen.
eral law for the incorporation of cities, and eS-
tablshng a commission to investigate and re
port on the ACCESSIBILITY of establishing an in
dependent state agricultural college.
Adjourned till Monday evening. At the
morning session the senate concurred III the
following assembly bills:
Requiring fire escapes on factories ana notes
three stories in hight; fixing the annual tele-
phone license at ! d per cent OF the gross
earnings encouraging the establishment OF
free high schools in towns having graded
schools preventing the manufacture or sale
of oleomargarine, and prohibiting the manu-
facture, sale or transportation in the state
of explosives intended for criminal purposes.
The assembly bill was killed approprlatlng
$4,000 to the new Fifth normal school of the
state at Milwaukee, but an attempt was made
to have the action reconsidered.
The senate tonight killed these senate bills:
Specifying legal size of cranberry barrels;
licensing express companies at per cent on
gross earnings; making telegraph messages
presumptive evidence in certain cases; appro-
priating $4,000 per year to carry on sorghum
experiments in Iowa county.
Adjourned till morning.