The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-30
WISCONSIN LEeIsLATuRE.

SENATE-0n the 10Th adopted a memorial
asking the Government to purchase the SturN
geon Bay & Lake Michigan Canal Bills in
troduced: Appropriatlng $4,000 to defray the
| cost of the State exhibit ut New Orleans aud
| to reimburse individuals of the State who adj
vanced money TO meet said expenses: appro-
priating 5000 to Milwaukee Industrial School
for Girls. AT the evening session resolutions
of respect were passed and eulogies delivered
upon the late ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS James NJ.
Bingham.
ACCOMMODATIONS were presented by
Heinrich Dietrich, who has been a cripple for
life by the Capitol disaster, asking for COM
pensation and relief. Bills introduced: Is
tablshing ferry between Prairie Du Chen
and McGregOr; regulating special and regu-
lar terms in the Seventh Judicial District; au-
thoriZing Neenah to build n new bridge and
issue bonds therefor; providing hotels snall
be provided with outside balconies and stair
eases, electric alarms, etc, for benefit of
guests imperled by fire; allowing unlimited
State certificates to graduates of the Milwau-
kee Normal Schools, and providing for text
books to be loaned in district, village and city
schools.
SENATE-On the 21st bills were introduced:
Increasing the number of committee employees
| and authorizing county boards to select with
| proper safeguards, banks in which to deposit
| county funds The joint resolution was con-
Cured in, urging their Representatives to
vote for an increase of pension 10 MANNED
| veterans.
AssEMBLY-The joint resolution relative
| to the Governments purchase of Portage
! Lake and Lake Superior Ship-canal was con-
| CURED in. Bills were observation-disclosures
| the law of 1882 comforting additional power
| on the County Judge of Kewaunee; incOr-
porating the city of Cumberland; making it
a misdemeanOr to sell or expose for sale i'm
pure or adulterated milk, artificial or
adulterated butter or cheese; to amend the
Revised Statutes in purely technical matters.
| The bill passed rearraDging dates for holding
| regular and special terms of court in the
Seventh Judicial Circuit, Out Of respect to
| the memory of the late Iieutenant-Go
| bingham, the Assembly adjourned.
SENATE-On the I'D the following bills were
| introduced: To preserve to counties tax-sale
| certificates not paid within thirty days after
| dateof sale; appointments of State Agent to
| prosecute pension claims before the United
| States Pension Bureau and to secure payment
| by receivers of past due wages 10 employees;
| to amend the Voluntary Assignment law to
| prevent dishonest creditors evading its pro-
visions, and the operation of the law more
satisfactory. Executive appointments con-
| 4rmed: A. V. Fl Carpenter, member State Fish
| Commission; Frank A. Flower, Commissioner
| of Labor Statistics; John III. Vivian, member
| State Board of Charities; James Il. Reeve, In
| spector of Illuminating Oils; James Bintliff
and Charles ID. Parker, members of State
| Board of Supervision; Samuel c. Johnson and
| George n. Witter, members State Board of
| Health; Emil Walker, Jonathan Evans, c. A.
| Hutchins and Gustavus E. Gordon, as Normal
| School Regents.
AsSEMBLY-The resolution was passed to
| adjourn to Monday on account of the Grand
Army encampment the Senate declined TO
concur. Bills introduced: Providing for the
| appointment of five Commissioners by the
| Supreme Court to examine applicants for nd
mission to the bar and issue certificates of
| qualification; appropriating 5000 for improY-
| ing the ventilation of the Senate and As
| sembly chambers; for the appointment of
| three Commissioners of the Circuit Court in
| each county to make up jury lists; apprO-
| priating $4,000 to purchase 5000 copies of
| The Senate memorial to Congress relative to
! the Federal purchase Of the Sturgeon Bay
| Ship Canal was cOncurred in.
SENATE-On the 23d bill was introduced
authorizing the Chicago, Freeport & St Paul
Railway to bridge Lake st. Croix, and the
| Wisconsin, Chippewa, KickapOo and Black
| rivers; a new bill also provides that all high
ways that have become such by use shall be
| deemed to be of the width of four rods under
the common law. Adjourned to the 18th.
| AssEMBLY-Bils were introduced exempt
| ing from taxation the Milwaukee Exposition
property; providing for better classification
of statistics sent to the Secretary of State
| from County Clerks, and increasing ShGriffs
| fees for removing insane persons to asylums
| Adjourned to the 18th
SENATE.-On the 26th bills were introduced;
| To appropriate $4,000 as Governors cOntin-
ent fund for the ensuing two years; that pub
| lie schools shall be kept open annually at least
| six months instead OF five to entite them to
| State aid, and to encourage the maintenance
! of watering-places on public highways. A
| notification sent to the Senate that the
| Governor had appointed B. o. Reynolds, of
| Geneva, member of the State Board of
Health.
AssEMBLY-The following bills were offered:
| Providing for State Dental Commission;
| providing for agricultural institutes to be held
| in various counties, the University Regents
| priated annually 10 defray expenses; to pub
| Iish annually not more than eight thousand
| copies of the report of the State Board of
| Health; for State Commission to enforce the
statutes for the preservation of game and
| fish; that the common schools shall include
| the study of physiology and hygiene; to in
| crease the pay of newspapers for publishing
| State laws from $50 to SI20.