The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-04-04
WISCONSIN SOLONS.

IN the Senate bills were passed on the 26th
ult. empowering courts to restore to divorced
wife the name she bore before marriage. House
bills were concurred in requiring mich COWS
with calves to be MIXED at least twice daily,
and requiring the annual collection of statistics
of strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, cur
rants and grapes. Senate bills were killed abol-
ishing the State Park, and increasing telephone
licenses. After speech by Senator III. A.
Taylor, the latter's bill to regulate railway
traffic was re-referred to the Committee
on Railroads, despite the fact that that
committee had once recommended it's death. In
the House bills were passed making an attempt
to lead unmarried women of chaste character
into life of shame punishable by from six
months to one year imprisonment, and making
the minimum standard of merchantable milk B
per cent. of pure butter fat. Senate bill was
cOncurred Ill approprlat1n2 annually to nuIner-
Gus local agricultural industrial organizations
OF the State 40 per cent of the premiums annu-
ally paid by them.
In the Senate bills were passed on the 9th
ult. requiring the taxation of private libraries
making thirGy-five years imprisonment the max
1mum penalty for carnally knowing q girl under
IA years OF age, instead OF life imprisonment, as
now; relieving railway trains from the necessity
OF stopping at crossings and draw bridges II
guard devices approved by the Railroad Commits
S1Oners are used at such places and prohibiting
persons not members OF the Loyal Legion from
wearing the button or other insignia of that
organization. House bill was cOncuTred in,
giving the local board of health control over
plumbing and sewerage matters in places hav-
ing water works. bill was killed, to abolish
the State Board of Charities, and g. reform bill
was introduced to abolish both that board and
the State Board of Supervision, and to create q
new board which shall perform the duties of
both OF the old boards. In the House, Senate
bills We're concurred in providing for uniform city
charters of the three grades, each grade to apply
to cities of different population; Incorporating
the city of DOdgeville; permitting entrance to
the Wisconsin Veterans Home of such destitute
women as are the wives or widows OF men who
We're soldiers, sailors OF marines during the
civil war; empowering the State Board of
Supervision to have credited to cOnVicts q
portion of their earnings while in prison, the
same to be paid them on their discharge en-
powering the State Board of Charities and Re-
form to condemn jails, police stations, or lock-
ups, IT, III it's opinion they are of unhealthy
character or constructed as not to hold prison
ers securely; making the penalty fifteen years
person against his or her will, and making the
punishment for assaulting another with intent
to rob, imprisonment for from one to twelve
years. In the House bills were passed making
the Lien law apply to laborers engaged in
mining, smelling or manufacturing iron,
copper, etc.. permitting Methodlsts to
pany; requiring the marking of logs,
ties, telegraph poles, etc. floating in the waters
OF the State, both on the end and side, and also
the better registration of such markings per-
uniting religious societies to transact secular
business on Sunday, and making such business
legal and asserting the jurisdiction of the State
over the east half of the ST. Croix river Bills
were killed: Providing that an embezzlement
shall be construed to have occurred in the county
and State where the embezzlers employer re-
sides or conducts business; to establish
nautical school in Milwaukee and to abolish the
State Board OF Supervision.
IN the Senate bills were concurred in on the
2Sth ult. making principal contractors liable for
liens against sub-contractor to the amount of
the Indebtedness of the former to the latter.
Both houses passed over the Governors Veto
with only one dissenting vote a bill to consti-
tute Joseph and Charles Osthelder of Sheboy-
gam the lawful heirs of the 81 300 estate of their
deceased ase,1 stepmother, who persisted in fire
at Oshkosh several years ago, leaving no
heirs nor will. Naturally the property would,
under such circumstances, eScheat to the State.
The property had been accumulated by Osthel-
der senior and before his death had been decided
TO his wife, the stepmother of the claimants in
the case The legislators believed that the Gov
ernOr had been misinformed as to the facts of
the case By q vote OF to the Senate Railroad
COMMITTEE voted to make an adverse report on
the Taylor railroad bill. After long debate in
the House the bill making trusts and trade COM
binations unlawful was ordered to q third read
ing by q majority big enough to indicate that it
will safely pass the House Senate bills con-
CURED in increasing the annual salary of Cir
cult Judges from 1900 to $4,000; permitting
| the wife to have insurance in her name
| placed on the life of her husband; empowering
any school board to purchase at public expense
one or more flags of the United States, to be
! placed III the schoolroom, and permitting 10
cents per capita of the school children in town
| ships to be set aside for school purposes, and
| appropriating $4,000 to the State Veterans
| Home. Bills were killed forbidding the use of
! sleds with runners less than four feet apart on
| public highways, and amending the libel laws
IN the Senate O. bill was killed on the 29th
| ult. requiring patriotism to be taught to chill
| dren in common schools. A House bill WAS con-
| Cured in requiring tre-escapes to be placed on
| all buildings of more than two stories in height
| in which assemblages gather, which used
for dOrmitOry purposes. The House concurred in O.
Senate bill giving to the State University for use
in mechanical department per cent of all license
| moneys annually received by the State from
railway, telegraph, and telephone companies A
| bill was ordered to third reading providing that
| every railway corporation shall be liable for
damages sustained by any employee thereof
within this State without contributory negli-
gence Oh his part, when such damage is caused
| by the negligence of any employee. A bill to reg
| ulate telephone rates was killed.
The Legislature passed Senator Cooper's cleo
| ton reform bill Oh the 30th ult., and the meas
ure is now ready for the Governors signature
The bill is modelled largely after the Australian
| SYSTEM though the best features of similar laws
| in other States are incorporated. The measure
| is to apply only to cities requiring registration
| bill requiring express companies topay State
license OF per cent. on their gross earnings was
| killed, as was the bill making railway compa-
mics responsible for injuries to employees caused
| by the use of faulty car-couplers.