Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-18
LEGISLATIVE.
Senate.

MADISON, March 10.-A number Of re-
monstrances were presented against the
Dill amending the charter Of the Northwest
ern Lie Insurance Company. The bill to
secure the equal distribution of property
OF debtors among creditors was passed
after a long debate
MADISON, March 11.-Petitions were pre-
sented IN favor of woman suffrage. in favor
OF the bill suppressing obscene Iiterat 1re
Bits were passed, incorporating the eitv OF
West Bend; fixing the size of cranberry bar
rels at twenty-five inches. The Joint reso
luton Tor an amendment to the state con-
stitutiOn providing for verdict for five
sixths OF juryin criminal cases was indefi-
nitely postponed. The bill allowing women
to vote on school matters was with other
wOmna suffrage bills, made special order
for Friday morning.
MADISON, March 12.-Petitions were nre-
sented in favor Of q separate agricultural
college and in favor of the bill relating to
the bureau of labor statistics. The bill
passed for lighting the pitol and grounds
with the electric light. The bill prohibiting
the placing of water meters in premises in
Milwaukee without the owners consent
was killed. The bill for the increase OF the
state school fund was the special order and
after debate was referred to Senator Kidd
memorial to Congress for the Fox and
Wisconsin River improvement was ordered
to third reading.
MADISON, March 13.-Bills were concurred
in: Allowing highway overseers to
open roads through adjacent fields, where
highways are blocked with snow obliging
justices OF the peace to promptly report
fines received in criminal cases to the county,
treasurer altering the territorial road be-
tween Racine and Waukesha; giving Mil
Waukee County one additional court
commissioner; allowing water mills to be
incl lodi To-.
The bill granting municipal suffrage to
women was made the special order for
Tuesday morning.
Assembly.
MADISON, March "a petition was pre-
sented against the bill abolishing toll-gates
between Milwaukee and Wauwatosa, on the
Milwaukee, Watertown and Madison plank
road. Among the bills killed was the one con-
ferring civil Jurisdiction on the Milwaukee
municipal court; making husband and wife
competent witnesses against each other; re-
curing railway companies to use patent
couplings on freight cars for the taxation
of railway property on Che basis of value OF
property instead of a license on gross earn
ings.
MADISON March 1O.-Assembly bills were
passed: Forbidding the contract system in
poorhouses and insane asylums; for copy
ing and perpetuating the records of the
state land Office providing for apartments
in the capitol for the Wisconsin Academy
OF Sciences, Arts and Letters; requiring the
state treasurer annually to report to
county clerks the moneys paid by him into
the treasures Of the respective countless
Obhging churches, public and priyateschool
houses, hotels, factories or other manufact-
uring establishments to be SO constructed
that the doors shall swing outward; pro-
hibiting the use of the words 'bank bank
ing or banking house, except by bona fide
A.
meanOr to manufacture or sell adulterated
candy making the department of engineer
ing OF the State University the custodian Of
official weights and measures, and making
the university professor of engineering the
state sealer OF weights and measures; oblig-
ing telegraph companies to deliver messages
within one hour of receipt; licensing express
companies at 2 per cent. of their gross earn
ings in this state. The bill limiting the SEES
sions of circuit courts to eight hours was
killed. The bill appropriating 81, 900 to
the State Agricultural Society was ordered
engrossed. Resolutions of regret at the
death of Prof Sterling were adopted.
MADISON, March II. = "Reminiscences
were presented, signed by stockholders in
the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
Company, representing $119, OOO against
the passage of the Goddard bill; also
against high license; against regulating the
practice of medicine; against increasing the
taxes of life insurance companies. Petitions
were presented in favor of regulating the
sale of liquor by druggists; favoring woman
suffrage, and in favor of erecting the county
of Rusk. Resolutions were adopted for the
printing Of testimony at the cOrOner's Jury
in the case OF the capitol disaster; also dis
charging all standing committees OF the As
sembly from further consideration Of Assem-
bly, bills on Friday, March 20. The bill
providing for state bank examiner, at
To- Of 60 zoo with n al 1nwanpn Of 81
900 for clerk hire was passed. At the
evening session the bill for the establish
ment Of a separate agricultural college was
defeated by a vote of so to 43. The COM
promise license bill as amended and agreed
upon in the Republican caucus Tuesday
evening" was adopted without amendment
by vote of 81 to A.
MADISON, March 12-The Joint resolution
was ordered to a third reading providing
for a constitutional amendment for the
election of state and county schoo superin-
tendents in the spring instead of the fall,
and authorizing the Legislator to prescribe
educational qualifications for those officers.
Senate bills were concurred in Authorizing
supplies of stationery for district school
clerks; regulating the time for holding terms
of court in the Eighth Judicial Circuit; APP
propriating 81 900 to the WATERFOWL Fair;
repeating the law of 1881 obliging the word
limited" to appear in the title of certain
classes OF corporations. Inc Dill dllOWlnG
school district taxes to apply on the fee Of
tuition in public schools was indefinitely
postponed. At the evening session the bill
to provide free textbooks for public
schools, was postponed until Friday. Bills
were passed authorizing the withdrawal of
state lands from the market to be subse-
quently offered for sale as other public
lands are sold allowing mutual loan and
building corporations to carry stock not to
exceed $4,000, 900; appropriating 81, 600
to the Racine Industrial Association, and
$4,000 to the Northern Wisconsin Fair;
authorizing two or more counties to unite
in the care of the insane.
MADISON, MARCH 13.-Senate bills were
concurred in: Providing that when any
foreign life or accident insurance company,
doing business in Wisconsin, shall make
application to remove to a Federal court
any case against it begun in any court OF
this state, arising out o. any business
transacted in this state, it shah absolutely
work forfeiture of license; making the
width of roads acquired to public use