Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-03-13
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
In the Senate.

TAI the Senate.
MADISON, March 5.-The following
Senate bills passed third reading:
Providing for organizations for .protec'
ton against fires. so that members oil
fire and police departments, constitut-
ing firemen's or polcemen's relief as
sociations are constituted bodies cor
porate; providing for the annual
publication OF railroad map
and appropriating the money nee
essary therefor; to appropriate
to the governors contingent
fund $1,000 per annum for the years
1889 and $780, amending the Revised
Statutes relative to property rights oil
married women. Assembly bills were
John Edwards and Walter A. Scott to
raise, build and maintain dam across
the Wisconsin River and the piers
and booms used in connection
Herewith; relative to the recording OF
plats in the city of Milwaukee and re-
curing the streets and alleys on new
plats to correspond in width and gen.
eral direction with adjacent ones; to
ratify and legalize sewer plans in the
city of Milwaukee,; to authorize the
Freeman & Fellows Lumber Com
pany to improve Four Mile creek;
withdrawing disputed matters from
the hands of local committees in
wards of the city of Milwaukee and
placing the disposal thereof with the
Common Council to authorize the Com
mon Council of the city of Milwaukee
to appropriate to the assessors of the
Fourth, Fifteenth and Seventeenth
Wards of the city, of Milwaukee, such
sums of money as to give them a full
years salary for 1887; to appropriate
$1,000 to the Wisconsin Industrial
School for Girls; relating TO pub
lie administrators and fixing their
duties; to amend the charter of
the city of Richland Center, providing
that justices of the peace may hold their
Office in any ward of said city; to amend
sections 81, SO and 80 of chapter "a of
the charter of the city of Richland Cen
ter; to legalize the acts of the First Bap-
fist Church and society of Lincoln, and
to constitute said body a legally organ
lied body, and to change the name OF
said society to the First Baptist Church
and society at Whitehall; providing for
deputy coroner in counties having a
population exceeding 10000 ihhabit-
ants; fixing the amount chargeable for
the maintenance of insane persons in
county asylums, so that in no case such
amount shall exceed S. per week. The
following bills were killed: TO provide
that the officers and directors of pri-
liable for debts contracted during their
term of Office, after remedy is exhaust
ed against the corporation; allowing
circuit court judges to appoint four
commissioners; enlarging the powers
of the president and trustee of every
village of $500 inhabitants; relating
to costs in civil actions and in
actions to recover penalties under any
ordinances of any city, village or town;
to protect public lands by comforting on
sheriffs the powers heretofore held by
state timber agents; allowing justices of
the peace discretion in the matter of
costs of prosecution and the payment
thereof by the defendant
MADISON, March ga communica-
ton from the faculty of Beloit College,
strongly urging the passage Of the coun-
ty option bill, and condemnatory of the
liquor traffic in its effects on the young
men of the country, WAS read in the SEN
ate. Several petitions for the bill were
also read, and among those against it
was one introduced by Mr.. Kempf,
bearing the signatures of eco Milwaukee
men. Senator Cooper introduced a bill
to provide for terms of the circuit court
in the First District, and to provide for
special terms. The following Senate
pills nassed a third reading: To appro-
pirate $4,000 to the Veterans
AAOI1O at C0aC
reporters in circuit courts be paid at
least s., 900 per annum; to appropriate
$1 800 to the committee on convict labor
appointed by the Legislature of 1887;
providing that in villages maintaining a
system OF water works with sufficient
pressure for fire purposes, it shall not
be required that a fire engine
be maintained; to authorize Joel Rich
ardson, his associates, heirs, etc., to
construct a dam across Beaver Brook,
IN Polk County; providing that the sal
airy of the secretary of the fire depart
ment in Milwaukee be 81 200 per an
mum; to create the municipal court in
the city of Ashland; to create. regulate
and control the policemen's relief
fund of Milwaukee; to authorize a com
piation of the statutes of Wisconsin
and to make the same evidence;
to amend the statutes relating to the
widening and altering of highways;
placing school district libraries under
the supervision of the state superintend-
ent OF schools; making the imprison-
ment for the offense of kidnapping ten
years instead of five; requiring town
clerks to make reports relating to
schools to the county superintendent of
the district in which his town is stu.
ated; providing for full reports from
cou1tytsuperintendent of schools on or
before August 10 each year; requiring
the state treasury agent to make an an
nual report; to declare portion of Dell
River or Dell Creek, in Sank County,
navigable; to make, declare and consti-
tute Charles and Joseph Osthelder the
sole heirs at law of Marie Young; amend
ing the statutes relating to punish
ment fo- assault and robbery, making
the punishment imprisonment in the
state prison for not more than twelve
years or less than one year; dividing
the state university into five separate
departments or colleges; to authorize
the Winona & Southwestern Railway
Company, of Winona, Mimi, to con-
struct bridge across the Mississippi
River from some point i'll Buffalo Couty
opposite the city of Winona ard
to acquire land for the approaches
thereto; amending an act relating to
evidence of title by descent, so that on
application of the guardian of heirs the
county Judge shall issue a certificate