Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-04-03

costs; appropriat1ng. TO kewaunee coun-
ty sum of money; vacating portion
of Knapp Street, in Milwaukee, and por-
tons of other streets; placing it in the
discretion of the council to call elections
to fill vacancies in city Offices; amend
passed under a suspension of the rules:
To create municipal court in Douglas
County, and to amend the charter Of
the city of Amigo, and amending the
charter of the city of Wausau.
MADISON, March 27.-In the Assem-
bly, this morning the bill to increase
the salary of circuit judges came up
again, and an effort was made to have
it indefinitely postponed. Mr.. Ring
urged that disposition of it, and was
supported by Messrs. Watson, Phillip,
Allen, e. F. Mohr and Stevenson, while
Messrs. Mead and McElroy thought
that the bill was worthy one and
should pass. The vote on indefinite
postponement was very close, but was
defeated. Senate bills were concurred
in by the Assembly as follows: Divid-
ing cities into classes and pro-
viding for their incorporation and
government; providing that wives
and widows of Union soldiers be en-
titled to the benefits of the Wisconsin
Veterans Home; allowing the State
Board of Supervision to adopt rules for
crediting some portion of their earn
ings to deserving convicts; to authorize
a compilation of the statutes of Wiscon-
sin, and to make the same evidence !;
amending the statutes relating to ac-
tons of ejectment; providing for the
adxy 0f H0f foIl or
tons, and lock-ups; increasing the pun
ishment for the ofense of kidnapping;
to amend an act to authorize Leander
Choate to build dam across Eagle
River; amending the charter of the city
of Monroe; to amend the laws relating
to punishment for assault and robbery;
relating to the confinement of certain
insane, incompetent and imbecile per-
sons; defining more closely evidence of
title by descent. Assembly bills passed
third reading as follows: Giving pre-
cedence to laborers' liens in mines over
all other debts; amending the laws re-
lating to the Knights of Maccabees of
the World; providing that the county
clerk shall not act as canv asser on a re-
count of election ballots, if he is a cam
didate for reelection and his office is in
dispute; for the preservation of fish in
the Douglass mill-pond, and Douglass
Creek, and its tributaries in Jackson
County; re lating to organizing an insur-
ance corpo ration for church property;
providing for log marks; relating to
sewers in the city of Green Bay; relating
10 the manner of making election re-
turns in villages; amending sections L.
$40 and 1912 of the Revised Statutes re-
lating to fire insurance corporations of
hn of 90 ha1; Itch y,cr
of the toll-gate on the Milwaukee
and Cedarburg plank road; repeating
chapter 2SS, laws of 1885; amending the
charter OF the city Of Port Washington;
increasing the sa,ary of the tax commits
sioner of Milwaukee to $500; 10 pro-
vide for the opening and laying out of
temporary highways; to amend tho
laws relating to free high schools; re-
lating to public printing in the city of
Milwaukee; providing for the payment
by the state of all necessary expenses
incurred by the commissioner of insur-
ance in the fultillment of his duties; al
lowing the mayor of Milwaukee to fill
vacancies in the common council
for the unexpired term thereof;
to amend the Revised Statutes
relating to religious societies;
increasing the city controllers salary
of Milwaukee to $4,000; authorizing
Dunn County to borrow money. A bill
to regulate the election in Chippewa
County was passed under suspension
of the rules. At the evening session
the bill to create municipal court for
sion of the rules. The following bills
were killed: Abolishing the State Board
of Supervision; appropriating money
for the establishment OF nautical
school in Milwaukee; authorizing Isaac
Staples to conduct and maintain dam
across the st. Croix River; providing for
the separate election of school officers;
providing for change of venue in civil
cases.
MADISON, Wis. March 28.-The veto
of the bill to grant certain rights in
property escheated to the state from the
estate of Maria Young, deceased, to
Charles and Joseph Osthelder, came up
for consideration and the bill was passed
over the governors veto The follow
ing senate bills were concurred in by
the assembly: To allow circuit court
judges $500 for expenses in addition to
their salary; regulating the admission
of children to the State Public
School for Dependent and Neglected
Children; amending the revised statutes
relating to roads and bridges in refer
ence to their widening, altering or dis
continuing; repeating the amendment
of 1887 made to the statutes relating to
plank and turnpike corporations; secur-
ing the appropriation of portion of
the common school fund for the pur-
chase of a school library; providing for
the rights of married women to insure
their husbands or children's lives for
their own benefit; allowing school boards
to purchase one United States flag each
dividing the university into depart
ments or colleges; amending the form of
appeals in criminal cases. On motion
of Mr.. Coolidge the rules were suspend
ed and the bill appropriating the sum of
10000 to the Veterans Home at Wau-
paca was passed. An amendment to
vest the title in the state after one year
was adopted in order to allow the state
Grand Army Encampment next year to
ratify the measure. After long debate,
the libel bill was killed, being laid on
the table by large majority.
MADISON, March 29.-1he Assembly
settled the co-amnIOva hill uuoction