The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21
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hESOLuilON, 6uCnOrIZIl1g an exhaustive
vestigation into the subject of State printing, to
de ermine If the charges of robbery and jobbery
can be verified, was adopted by the Senate on
the stn inst. A resolution was also adopted in
structing the Judiciary Committee to prepare
bill providing for the semi-annual collection OF
taxes. bill was introduced appropriating
81, 500 annually for the maintenance of q sum-
mer school for teachers at the State
University. In the House bills were
introduced appropriating $4,000 for
the establishment and maintenance
OF q silk station for Wisconsin and for the en-
couragenent of silk culture; appropriating
$780, 900 for the purchase of permanent grounds
for the use OF the Agricultural Society in the
county OF Milwaukee, and for the erection of
buildings thereon; authorizing the Duluth. Red
Wing and Southern Railway to build bridge
across the Mississippi River at Red Wing; re-
curing express companies to deliver all pack
ages within twenty-four hours after their
receipt, and compelling members of mu-
tual fire insurance companies to bind them
selves TO pay their pro rata share of losses. A
bill was passed amending the articles of incor-
poration OF the St. Paul Railway permitting
the company to issue bonds, 10 fund It's debt, to
change the time of it's annual meeting of stock
holders from June to September and to Issue
bonds for the laying of double tracks A bill
was killed amending the excise law so as to
provide that the liquor license fee voted in
cities and villages shall not apply to towns out
side of the corporate limits of such cities and
villages
The first night session of the present Iegisla-
ture was held on the 11lh inst. The bill to al
low Racine to build bridge passed the Senate.
DILL was offered in the Senate to authorize
the Governor to muster into service three COM
panies of infantry, respectively at Milwaukee,
Marinette, and Fort Atkinson; also to provide
national guard at Camp Douglas. A small
batch of other bills was received in
each of the houses. The most important
measures were those authorizing the Methodist
Episcopal Church OF any annual conference of
that church to organize 81 mutual fire insurance
company to insure churches and other church
property providing for q uniform insurance
policy to be used by all companies doing bust
ness in the State, and making every indorser
of a negotiable certificate of deposit payable to
order subsequent to Endorsement by the payee
named in the certificate responsible for such
Endorsement of the payee to any holder of the
certificate The bill providing for q repeal of
the law of 1887 extending to women the right of
suffrage upon questions i'll relation to school
matters was killed.
A PHARMACY bill was introduced in the lower
branch of the Legislature the 18th inst,
which in certain features is more rigid and in
others more lenent than the existing law. The
measure stipulates that no person under the age
OF 81 or without three years practical experience
at compromising drugs shall be licensed to sell
poisons or dispense medicines. All persons who
are engaged in business and shall have been
Tor three successive years preceding the enact
ment of the law may continue business. The
present Board of Examiners is to be abolished
and one of five members is to be appointed by
the Governor, which shall hold meetings only at
the seat of government One provision is that
none of the members of the board shall be mem
bers of any Pharmaceutical association.
Provisions for the regulation of the sale
of drugs are specified in detail Mr.
Keoghs bill makes the county in which
an embezzlement must be held to have oc-
Cured the one in which the principal office of
is located The House passed the bill to exempt
the Layton Art Gallery in Milwaukee from taxa
alton and bill prescribing the manner of form
ing town insurance companies, limiting the
nav
pose to twenty-five, and STIMULATING that SIS OOO
worth of property shall be owned by any such
organization.
In both houses of the Legislature there was a
flood of remOnstrances on the 18th inst. against
passing Taylor's bill to regulate railway traffic.
In the Senate bills were introduced requiring
the seml-annual payment of taxes: making the
sleeping car tax 81 on each 800 of gross re-
celpts increasing the telegraph tax from 81 tC
ST. per mile for the first wire, from SO cents to
IS cents for the second wire. from % cents to IS
cents for the third wire, and from 20 cents to IS
cents for each addili onal wire appropriating
S15 900 to be used in suppressing and preve Mt
ing contagious diseases. In the House bills
were introduced providing that if the General
Government refunds to the State Wisconsin
share of the tax it shall be devoted
to the II aintenance of the State Veterans Home
to create the county of Harr ison out of the
northeast portion of Oneida County to intro
duce the Australian election system in Wiscon-
sin; limiting telephone rentals to IS per month
for single instrument and so for each additional
instrument rented by the same person or corpo-
ration, and making the rate for conversing De-
tween different localities / cents fer each five
minutes and cents for each ad litional five min
utes making railway companies responsible for
injuries to employees caused by defective ma.
chlnery or negligence of superior officers: per-
uniting only newspapers at county seats to bid
for printing the tax lists: to make Superior the
county seat of Douglas County; extending the
lien law to workers in mines.
IN the Senate bills were introduced on the 18th
Of hot ioi1 SC
by the State Board Of Charities and Reform to
be dangerous to the life or health of prisoners,
such place of confinement may be condemned by !
the board authorizing the Governor to desig-
nate day to be known as ArbOr Day. The
nomination of FL. M. Stark State Labor Com
missioner confirmed In the House bills
We're introduced relieving manufacturers of
agricultural implements manufactured in this
State from the necessity of taking out ped
dlers' licenses; requiring the owners of
ao se to Dos pay and LICENSE OF So on each
providing that no earnings shall be exempt from
any process Of attachment upon any claim for
the necessaries of life; forbidding the fighting
of dogs, birds, ETC., and making it misde-
meanor for any person to be in any way con-
nected with such fighting to abolish the State
Board of Supervision and to require duties OF
that body to be performed by the State Board of
Charities and Reform, each member of which
shall receive salary of 50, 0C0 per year well
as expenses to require banks to stamp
ta destroy counterfeit money; foTbiddng
q contract falls due than has been col
lected to that time; forbidding the Off
GERS of mutual loan and building associa-
lions to make loans to themselves without the
sanction of a majority of the stockholders, Or
make loan on any property not twice the value
of the loan and TO give bonuses to companies
sinking shafts in Southwestern Wisconsin in
search of ore. The last bill seeks to have $780,
600 set aside to carry out it's provisions. A Sen
ate bill concurred in asserting the jurisdic-
ton of Wisconsin to half of ST. Croix River,
authorizing the removal of distractions there
from and the construction of DAMS bOOms, etc.
therein. A sharp debate occurred over propo-
sition to divide Ashland County, and create t1~3
county of Mills, but the me asnre finally
dered engrossed and read the third time