The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.

SENATE-On the Sd number of remon-
strances were presented against high licenses;
also petitions in favor of separate Agricult-
ural Colleges, and for increasing the salary of
the Secretary of the State Historical Society.
A bill was presented to erect a State School
for dependent and neglected children. at a
cost of $4,000. The joint resolution cutting
off new business February IL, was adopted.
ASsENBLY-Bills introduced: Creating the
Office of Public Examiner, to be appointed by
the Governor, at an annual salary of $3.50
per annum; establishing public State schools
for neglected anddependeut children; forb d.
ding the sale of public lands unless the pur-
chase price is fully paid at the time of sale;
providing that service of civil process shall be
made only by Sheriff, his deputy, or cOnSta-
bic appointed or elected for the town. city or
village where the JuSGce Court is sitting;
providing for publication of laws with prac-
teal forms for the guidance of town officers.
SENATE-On the 4th memorial was intro
duced to be presented to Congress for a six
teenth amendment TO the Constitution extend
ing suffrage towomen. Bills presented; ApprO-
priating S1I,0Q0 for rebuilding the Capitol ex-
tension which collapsed last fall; providing
that actions where no counter claim has been
pleaded may be discontinued upon settlement
without allowing costs TO defendant The bill
appropriating $12, 900 to defray expenses of the
Wisconsin exhibit at New Orleans was passed.
AssEMBLY-Bills presented: Imposing a tax
of three per cent. on the gross earnings of ex-
press companies; owners of parlOr, dining
room and sleeping-cars shall pay tax of four
per cent on gross earnings; creating the office
of State veterinarian with powers similar as
those of the State Board of Health; forbidding
the catching at any time of any fish Except
muletS, suckers, bullfSh and dogfShl
vi Witn o,, spear; net trap or grrs aPE PIE
equally among 0 the families Of the i've
laborers killed in the capitol disaster; licens-
ing realestate and money brokers in Milwau-
kee on payment of $50 each; allowing addi-
uonal compensation to expert witnesses in
criminal cases; providing for taking census
OF all Union veterans in the State; requiring
insurance agents to report to the proper au-
thOr1t1eS the amount of every risk taken, and
offering reward for information of over
insurance; eXempting from taxation the
property of INDECENT persons ProhibitiOnistS
were refused, by vote, the use of the Assem-
bly, chamber, to hold meeting. The bill au-
thorizing university professors to unite with
local educators in conducting teachers insti-
tuteS was passed.
SENATE-On the 9th the following bills were
introduced: Requiring firs-escapes to all
three-story buildings; to compel the Chicago,
st. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Com
pany to extend its Hudson s. River Falls
branch to Ellsworth; for arrest of drunkardS
on Fairgrounds and appointing guardians for
habitual drunkards; to legaliZe the use of the
telegraph and telephone in effecting arrests of
lots, and providing that 11ve-SiXth of q petit
jury may render verdicts, were defeated.
AssEMBLY-A joint resolution was intro
duced providing for the submission of Con-
stitutional amendment so that the unanimous
vote of a jury shall not be required to return
a verdict The Senate resolution cutting off
new business on February ii was amended,
extending the time to February Is, and then
concuTed in. Bills introduced: A penalty
on telegraph companies for negligence or
mistakes in sending or delivering messages;
for compiling records of Wisconsin regiments
in the late war: re-enacting the old law taxing
male dogs 81 and females 81; permitting town
insurance companies to insure country stores
to the extent of $500; providing that Justices
of the Peace shall promptly report to the
State authorities all State fines collected.
SENATE-On the 9th appropriation bills for
charitable and penal institutions were intro
duced: For the Insane Hospital, expenses
and repairs, $4,000; for building water
works, tower reservoir, etc, $1O4, 600; for the
Northern Hospital for the Insane current ex-
penses and repairs, restoring buildings burned
and purchasing additional real estate, etc,
200; for the Deaf and Dumb Institute.
current expenses and repairs, additional
real estate, new buildings, etc, $4,000;
penses and repairs, S33,5OO; for the
Boys Industrial School, and purchasing
thirty-two acres of land, $Sl 500; for the State
Prison, $l9,5OO Bills giving protection to la
lien-claim so as to insure payment of their
wages; also abOlishing the present system of
highways, and requiring the rOad-tax to be
paid in cash instead of work, also for lighting
the Capitol building and grounds by electri-
city, were presented. The Senate concurrred
in the Assembly bill for an improved system
of Teachers institutes, also in the resolution
cutting off new business February 10.
AssEMBLY-A statement was presented
showing that the scale of logs passing through
booms in Beef slough in 1888 was 446,356670
feet in 1884 SIS. $4,000 feet Bills presented:
FOrbidding liquor to be sold within three hum
dred feet of any place of worship; abolishing
the fee system for the Milwaukee Register Of
Deeds and paying salary; providing for a
battery of light artillery, and appropri-
ating money for an armOry fund, ETC.;
for Il uniform series of textbooks and
limiting their cost; requiring the Railroad
Commission to investigate complaints; au-
thorizing two or more counties to unite in
providing accommodations for the insane;
forbidding, under q heavy penalty marriages
without first procuring licenses at one dollar
each. The bill for the holding in various
counties of Farmers Institutes. and apprO-
priating $1,000 therefor, was passed; the bill
fOrbidding the erection of partition fences
more than six feet high was indefinitely post
pOned.
SENATE-On the 9th owing to the snow
storm only few members being present the
roll-cal was dispensed with. A memorial
calling for reform in the assessment of prop
erty for taxation was presented IN both
houses. A bill was introduced giving District
Attorneys power to appoint substitute in
liquor cases instead of the court assigning an
attorney, as is now the practice; also three
bills amending the highway laws.
ASSEMBLY - Bills introduced: Providing
that whenever, any wire or cable used for
telegraph, telephsne, electric light, or other
wires or cables for electric purposes shall be
attached to or extend up or over any building
or land, no lapse OF time shall justify a pre-
scriptiOn of any perfect right TO such extern
sion; providing for the formation of a new
town from detached territory after filing
petition with the County Clerk; to allow ac-
cusations in bastardy cases the same right to
changes of venue as inI criminal cases; to re-
peal the charter of the Apple River LOg-driV-
ing Company. A memorial was presented for
an appropriation for experiments in sugar