Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-19
THE LEGISLATURE.
MONDAY JANUARY 9.


Sendte-The senate met without
quorum, and without doing any general
business adjourned.
assembly. In the assembly about
half the members were present, the rest
being off on blackaded trains; no special
business was transacted and after intre-
duclng few unimportant bills the as
sembly adjourned.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10.
Sendte.-la the senate tew impor-
tanC Oils were introduced and reports
OF committees We're received. No other
business was transacted as the senate
was without quorum.
ASSemblg-In the assembly there was
n@ quorum during the day, a number of
bills were presented and reported all of !
a local character.
WEDNESDAY, FEB II.
Senate In the senate bills passed:
Concerning county boards of supervis-
ors, and TO amend section 693, revised
statutes relating thereto. To appropria-
Is to the governors contingent fund the
sum of 50, 600 fer the years 1885 and
1856 To appropriate to the Columbia
County Agricultural society the sum of
$1,000. To amend section ,, chapter
249, laws of 1888, entitled of suits by or
against partnerships. Senate bills in
definitely postponed. To provide for
the convenient discontinuance of
causes. On motion of Mr.. Maxwell the
senate stood adjourned.
ASsemblg-In the assembly bills were
Introduces: Mr.. Etkert, relating TO
meetings of the county board, and
amending sec. 664 of the revised statu-
ties. Mr.. Reynolds, making an appro-
priation to the contingent fund of the
governor, tS be used in case of an, out
break OF Asiatic cholera in the state.
The bill apprOpriates $4,000 for each of
the years OF 1885 and 1885, Mr.. Young,
TO authorize the township system of
schools to borrow money to build school
hous es. Mr.. johnson, to appropriate
5000 to the sheep breeders and wool
grow ero' association TO pay for publish
ing its annual report.
The following was adopted:
WHEREAS, Sherburn S. Merrill, whose earthly
life has just been closed, has been for more than
thirty-four years citizen of Wisconsin and by
his services, pressed with untiring energy and
skllful enterprise during the last twenty wears
IN the important public station of general man
ager of the greatest corporate agency created bv
| her laws, has been among the foremost who
have contributed to develop the wealth and re-
sources of the state, inspire its business and in
crease the opportunities and rewards for labor
for its people, while III all the walks of citizen
| snip he has been public spirited and manly de-
serving and gaining the general respect and es-
TEEN Of his fellow-citizens who Join in the com
mon sorrow for the public loss and in profound
sympathy Tor his bereaved family Therefore.
be it -
| ReSolred, By the assembly, the senate concur
| RING, That the legislature of Wisconsin declare
tne general judgment of the state and her peo-
| pie, that the life and services of Sherburn S.
Merrill have been of great and special usefulness
| and value to his fellow men, and entitle his mem
ory TO be preserved in grateful, honor; and that
IN proper mark OF the public sensibility this
| luton shall be spread upon the journals of the
| senate and assembly; that the legslsture will
| upon the consideration and adoption of the same
adoHrn its sitting for the day; and that the flag
| upon the capitol shall be suspended at haf-masi
| until his funeral obsequies shall have been ceIe-
| brated and In token Of the public sympathy for
their grief, copy thereof shall be engrossed and
| transmitted by the chief clerk of the assembly to
/ the members of his family
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10.
Senate-A large number of bills were
Introduced this morning in the senate.
| The only bill of general interest was
| one to make more stringent fish laws
| for Lakes Superior and Michigan.
Frank A. Flower was unanimously
confirmed commissioner of labor Stats
tics.
portant bills introduced we're as follows:
Taxing telephone companies per cent.
| Of their receipts in the state, and fixing
the license fee for telegraph companies
at per cent. ON their gross receipts ia
| the state. Another DILL taxes telegraph
companies 81 per mile for the first wire,
| IS cents for the second wire, and every
additional wire 90 ce,.ts. Also, bills
consolidating the laws relating to the
| state militia; to erect the counties of
| Rusk aud Stephenson, and obliging tel
| eg1 aph companies to deliver messages
within one hour of receipt. A memorial
| to congress for government aid to ex-
pertinent in sugar manufacture was
| passed.
FAIDAY, FEBRUARY 10.
Sen0te-In the senate, a joint reso-
luton was introduced for a constitu.
| tional amendment providing for a YER
dict by fve-sixths Of the jury. & bill
was introduced providing that any
| railway company succeeding another
shall become liable for the amounts due
the employees and laborers for period
not exceeding six months prior to such
| succession; establishing reformatory
school for girls; prohibiting unauthoriz-
| ed Insurance companies from doing
! business in the state; for the purchase
Of certain farms in Iowa county for
an experimental station for the culture
of sorghum; and making arrangements
| for the next state census.
House-Over seventy bills were in
troauced III the assembly this morning.
A joint resolution was offered for a
constitutional amendment exempting
| Milwaukee county from the provision
| for Uniform county governments. Bills
were introduced relative to the inspect
ion and measurement of logs; providing
for licensing of dogs; prohibiting the
| use of nets in fishing in the Rock river;
that taxes shall be lien on personal
property, and creating the county Of
Matt Carpenter. Bills passed repeating
Chapter 70 of the local laws of 1872,
relative to the compensation Of County
Judges.
"The Ieprous distilment, whose effect