The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-03-23
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
In the ScnaIe-


performance of their duties; repeating
chapter 46S, laws of 1897, relating to the
time of holding court in the Twelfth Ju-
dicial circuit; amending the charter OF
the city of Janesville authorizing the
State Board of Supervision to purchase
a tract o. land adjoining the state hos
pltal grounds; amending the charter OF
the city OF Shullsburg; providing for the
more ready transfer OF boys between
the State Industrial School for Boys
and the State Public School; relating to
the terms of court in the Eighth Judicial
circuit: amending the statutes relating
to the arrest and examination OF :
lenders, commitments for trial and
taking bail; relating to civil ac-
tions IN courts of record; authorizing
the establishment of a permanent camp
and rifle range at Camp Douglas for the
Wisconsin National Guard, not more
than 5000 to be paid for the grounds and
not more than 5000 for the improve
ment thereof. Under a suspension of
the rules the bill to amend the charter
OF the city of Fort Atkinson was passed.
The only bill killed was that to appro-
pirate $2.4SS.36 TO John b. Norton to
reimburse Linn for loss sustained by the
non-fultillmeLt of a contract on the part
of the state.
MADISON, March 1.-THE report of the
Electric Light Committee was taken up
and the ma jority report adopted on the
close vote of If to l3, Senator Mann
speaking on behalf of the minority re-
port. Senate bills passed third
reading as follows: To amend
the laws relating to houses of i'll
fame so that the ofiense of
keeping such house shall be punished
by imprisonment and not by fine; to
appropriate to the various agricultural,
mechanical or industrial fairs or expo
sitions an annual sum of money equal to
40 per cent. of all premiums paid out
by such societies; relating to ails,
police stations and lockups, placing
them under the direct supervision
OF the Board of Charities and Re-
forms; to amend an act authorizing
Leander Choate to build a dam across
Eagle river, so as to include w. h.
Bradley, George Gerry and Walter
Scott; making the minimum rate of in
terest on trust funds per cent; relat-
ing to the confinement of certain insane,
incompetent and imbecile persons ;
authorizing the chief clerk to employ
additional copyists; to authorize
the city of Oconto to issue
in as follows: To amend the charter Of
the city of Niroqua; authorizing the
Common Council OF Milwaukee to with
draw matters from the hands of local
committees when such committees
are unable to agree; to amend
the act incorporating the Watertown
Musical Society COncordia; TO provide
for the docketing of judgments of the
United States courts III Wisconsin; to
strike out the words Wood and Oneida
Counties IN the law relating to liens on
logs and lumber; to authorize d. NJ.
Benjamin, w. S. Stanley and II. G.
Payne, their associates, heirs and as
signs to erect dam across the Toma-
hawk River in Oneida County; to anne nd
the charter of the city of Darlington; to
repeal an act incorporating the fire de-
partment of the city Of GAINESVILLE. I'M
der suspension of the rules the bill
amending the charter the city of Edger-
ton was concurred in, as also the bill 10
detach certain territory from the town
of MayviIle in the county of Clark and to
create the town of Hoard. The follow
ing bills were indefinitely postponed:
To provide for the appointment of a
stenographer in tie county court of
milwaukee; to amend the statutes re-
rating to assessment of taxes; granting
to Jacob Richtman the right to estab-
lish ferry across the Mississippi River
In the county of Buffalo.
MADISON, March 15.-The chief clerk
presented the following report, show
ing the condition of business before the
Senate: Whole number of bills intro
duced. 39S; in the hands of standing
committees, 167; Indefinitely postponed,
So; passed, lis; in the hands of select
committees, 66; bills concurred in by
the Assembly, 42; Assembly bills
received by the Senate, 207;
in the hands of committees,
91 concurred in, SO; ordered to third
reading, u; refused concurrence, 6.
The governor thus far approved 104
bills. Assembly bills were concurred in
as follows: Authorizing the Common
Council of the city of Milwaukee to re-
nit the taxes upon the Layton Art Gal
lery; amending the laws relating TO the
building and maintenance of flooding
dams on Cawley Greek, Clark County;
amending the statutes relating to
changes of venue; repeating an act re-
lating to elections of the town of Grand
Rapids; repeating an act authorizing
Wood County to puild and maintain 3
pier bridge across the Wisconsin River
at Grand Eapids; amending the charter
of the city of Chippewa Falls; providing
for the payment of certain amounts into
the county treasury by executors, ad
ministrators and guardians IN lieu of
fees in all counties whose pop
ulation exceeds 100000; provid-
ing for the payment of $500
salary to Milwaukee aldermen; increas-
ing the salary of the city treasurer of
Milwaukee to $1,000, and authorizing
him to appoint deputies; regulating the
election of supervisors in counties con-
tanning not less than 100000 inhabitants; ;
amending the act incorporating the
Portage Liederkranz Society, amending
the charter of the city of Cedarburg;
amending the charter of the city of
Portage. The following Serate bills
were indefinitely postponed: Providing
for extra employees of the Legislature
and fixing compensation therefor.
MADISON, March 1S.-The following
Assembly bills were concurred in:
Amending the laws relating to the
amount of ground to be allowed for the
use of cemeteries; amending the char
ter OF the city of Green Bay; TO legallze
the payment of salaries to employees of
the public library and museum by those
institutions themselves. The Senate
bill was passed making the penalty for
the abduction and seduction of women
five years at least and not more than
fifteen years in state prison.
MADISON, March 19.-Assembly bills
rassed third reading as follows: Pro-
viding for the punishment of persons
defrauding proprietors of hotels;
amending the procedures for commit
ing persons to the insane asylum; to
prevent cruelty to milch cows; provid-
ing that where licenses have been fixed
by popular vote they can be altered
only in the same manner; providing for
the payment of repairs to streets in
town road districts, so that such costs
be borne in proportion to the assessed
valuation of the property of each village
or town IN such district; providing for
the filing of bond by school district
treasurers of an amount equal to double
the money that passes through their
hands; to authorize A Vsrg, Jr., has
associates, heirs and assigns, to build
and maintain dam across Shioc Creek
and to dig canal across bend in said
creek in Shawano County. Wis, and TO
confer upon said a. Varg, Jr., certain
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