Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-02-07
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
TUESDAY. Jan. %.

Svs,rv When the senate met Tuesday
,ornipv. streams of petitions regard
-, "se1s of infsmy" flooded the clerks
aaA and discussions followed as to the
S,r-,ner disposition of them. Bills intro
snos5. One by Sen. Main to amend thelaw
,rbicb made school districts for the viii
ia1,e and city of Madison. 1t is desired
80 bave Blooming Grove under the school
- so.isdictiou of Madison. Sen. Main asked
- tba publication of fred bo0kn-the
came as the "hlue book" or legislative
o,pai Sen. Mead, bill providing that
tbe property woman may derive from her
husband, shall after her death, she having
10 heirs, 90 to the heirs of the husband.
sen. Krager asked the repeal of the
law which repealed the law making rail-
roeds liable for damages to employees
tbrough the carslessness of their en-
Moves. A bill to appropriate ten thou
sand dollars for purchase of stationery for
the state was passed under suspension OF
Inc rules. Adjourned until 10 O'Clock
"Wednesday morning.
AssE,fgLY.-The same routine work
vas resumed to-day. Eleven petit
tions relating to houses of i'll fame
took the same course as those hereto
fore introduced. The usual number
If appropriation bills then went through
the mill. Mr.. Dunn, bill to amend
the charter of the city of Milwaukee.
A bin by Mr.. Coolidge, asking that the
citv OF Waupaca be authorized to issue
bonds to pay for the donating of ground
for the veterans home in Waupaca. The
bill passed under suspension of the rules.
MIR. Keogh, prohibiting the admission
Of any pauper or insane person not
resld NJ OF Wisconsin, into the state insti-
tutions. The governors message to the
legislature was then read, expressing
his conviction that Wisconsin should be
rspresented at the centennial celebration
IN New York of the Inauguration of
George Washington, aud asking the leg
stature 10 take such action as il see fit
in the matter. A bill repeating section l,
chapter 223, laws of 'S3 was indefinitely
postponed. The assembly then adjourn
ed until Wednesday morning.
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 30.
President pro TEN. Dyson
took the chair, Wednesday morning, and
received another deluge of petitions in
relation TO "deps." The joint resolution
introduced by Sen. Pettibone, for the
purchase of new desks and seats for the
legislature was unanimously adopted.
Bills introduced: Sen. Rust offered a
bill for the protection of trout in the
northwestern regions Of the state. Sen.
Pettibone asks for the protection OF
laborers' earning. His bill provides that
the earning of married persons and per.
sons who have TO provide for the entire
support of family, earned three months
next preceding the issus of execution of
garnishment, shall be exempt. A bill
sent in by Sen. Persons provides that the
widows dover of her husbands estate
shall be One-half instead of one-third, as
under the present sta ute. The senate
adjourned until 10 O'CLOCK Thursday
morning.
ASSEMBLY, Five minutes after the
calling of the roll the messengers made
several circuits OF the chamber collecting
petitions relating TO houses of i'll fame,
aud also petitions from hotel and inn
keepers, asking for the passage of bill,
making it a penal oGeuse to defraud hotel
keepers out of their bills. The resolu-
tiOus then came in fast, and when the
clerks desk was filled the speaker called
time and the clerk started to diminish the
pile. Among the bills introduced were
the following; Mr.. Barney, to amend the
r. S. relating to excise and the sale of in
toxicating liquors. Mr.. Ring, forbidding
an formation OF dsts and TO prevent
mouopoies. It makes it unlawful to
enter or to coHtinue anv combination by
which the manufacture or production Of
any article of consumption is prevented or
restricted; to make any agreement not
TO manufacture or produce any article
below a common standard figure, or by
which it is agreed to sell at a certain
price; TO unite or consolidate, either di-
reetly or through the creation of trusts,
for Jffecting or regulating the price of
any article or preventing competition.
All contracts in violation of either of the
above stipulations are absolutely void.
The purchases of any article or com
modify fror any individual, company or
corporation trarsacting business CON
trary to the prohibition of this act can
not be compelled to pay for it, and may
plead this act as a defense to any suit
brought against him. Adjourned until
lhur5day morning.
THURSDAY, Jan. 81.
SENATE Thursday morning, the
3lsr, the senate received and referred
a great batch Of petitions on "deps."
Among the bills presented was one by
Sen. Pond for the approx ition TO the
Wisconsin state hospital, $4,000; north
era hospitsl, S14S 600; sonool for the
deaf, SS7 900; school for the blind, $40
600; industrial school for boys, 100000;
state prison, $4,000; state public school,
$4,000; also 10 provide for the relief of
INDECENT soldiers, sailors aud marines,
their wives, widows and children,
bill offered by Sen. Reynolds pro
vide- that the rates for twenty four hours
for sleeping cars shall be 81 tor an upper
berth, $50 for lower Ler;h, 81 80 tor a
section and 81 for a stateroom. Viola
tlous OF the provisions OF this act
are TO be punished by fine of not
less than 800 nor more than $500
bin presented by SER. Kempf, ex-
eopts railway tracks, rights Of way, de-
pot grounds and buildings, machine
shops rolliIg stock and other property
necessary to the operation OF rail
ways, from assessment of taxes ex-
cept special levies for local purposes
Further protection to sub-contractors
was asked for by Sen. Dyson. A bill
submitted al for n