The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-04-25
w ISCONSIN SOLONS.


Tor the maintenance at the University of q sum-
mer school for teachers for the restoration OF
records of school districts when originals are
lost; appropriating $780, 600 for gymnasium and
armory at the State University; permitting
electors of towns, cities. and villages to- decide
by ballot whether Intoxicating liquors shall be
sold; fixing the number and compensation of
legislative employees; to prevent deception in
the manufacture and sale OF cheese The House
passed the following bills: To give miners lien
on ore; increasing the powers and pay of game
wardens; to give extra pay TO Legislature en-
ployes to allow Sheboygan to settle corporate
debts. Keoghs contract labor bill was passed
by vote of 81 to ~. Also the bill increasing SO
cents per day each the compensation of all
Legislature employees now receiving not more
than So. so. The following Senate bills were con-
Cured in: Reducing fees of treasury agents to
20 per cent for enforcement of judgments; al
lowing trains to run over crossings without
stopping when there are automatic
switches; providing penalties for false
reconsidered it's refusal to confer on
the bill appropriatfng $26,O 900 to Bentley No
Ian and the bill went to the Judiciary committee.
A bill passed the House abolishing the State
treasury agency and requiring the Secretary of
State to collect all peddlers' licenses. The Gov
ernor sent to the Senate the nomination of Rob-
ert Downend, of Osceola Mills, as lumber in
spector for the ST. Croix River district The
legislative committee which has been investigat-
ing the State printing since the session opened
has concluded its work. The State printers and
even g. suspicion of crookedness, but fault is
found with the law because of superfiuous re-
ports it permits to. be printed.
THE following House bills were concurred in
by the Senate on the 18th inst. Appropriating
annually to the Wisconsin State Agricultural
Society per cent. of the premiums paid by it
each year; changing the opening of the deer
shooting season from Oct. Is to Dec l. and pro-
hibiting the use of dogs at any time in hunting
deer, and authorizing the State Superintendent
to appoint a personal aid at annual salary of
81 $40 to aid him in visiting, inspecting and
supervising high schools A House bill was
killed requiring express companies to annually
pay to the State a tax equal to per cent. on
their gross earnings. In the House an editorial
from the Milwaukee Sentinel was read roundly
abusing the House for passing the bill abo1-
and charging it with ignorance, laziness
and demagogism. After heated speeches a reso-
luton was adopted stating that "As members
OF the Wisconsin House on matters of State pol
icy we owe no allegiance to any editor news
PAPER, but guided by oath of office and the
wishes OF constituents, as we understand them,
and we hurl back with contempt and impunitv
the blackguardism of the Sentinel editor with
the exclamation let the CALLED Jade vince )"
Bills were passed abolshing the State Park
and amending the law relative to the State
Veterinarian, requiring that officer to hold no
other public office than that of Veterinarian, and
requiring that he devote his entire time to his
duties of Office. Senate bills were concurred in
Requiring oil electric wires to be properly insu
lated; and making the penalty for decoying wo-
men OF whatever character away from home for
immoral purposes, or for aiding in such villainy
imprisonment from one year to five years and
also making the imprisonment for abducting OF
trying to abduct women "of previous chaste
character" from five to fifteen years.
The Senate concurred in House bills on the
10Th inst. providing that all wages or compensa,-
ton for labor, unless there shall be O. written
contract to the contrary, shall be paid weekly
bi-weekly in cash but this act shall not be
ADD1V a q
clal travellers, persons working on commission
travelling employees of railways and express
companies, persons employed in logging camps
etc. making it unlawful for any life insurance
company or mutual benefit society to do business
III this State while an unpaid Judgment stands
against it; and empowering the county of Flor
ence to raise $3 500 to aid in the construction of
bridge across Brule River. The House passed
bills providing that if an unmarried person
sleeps in one ward and boards in another the
place where he boards shall be considered his
residence, and requiring railway turntables to
pc Kept locked when not attended or in USE
A Senate bill Was concurred in enlarging the
duties of the State Railroad Commissioner and
making his decision in a case arbitrated by him
law, until reversed by court. The House
killed Senate bill appropriating $780, 600 for the
erection of gymnasium at the State Universe
ty and $14, 500 for lighting the State House with
electricity. 1nd concurred in Senate bills ap-
proprlatlng 81 900 annually for the maintenance
OF summer school for teachers at the State Uni
versity, and giving the Governor power to trans
fer chronic insane patients from State hospitals
to county asylums.
BIRLs were killed in the Senate on the 10th
inst, abolishing contract convict labor; abol-
fishing the State Park in Lincoln County: pro-
viding that every person who indorses q GER
tlfcate OF deposit shall be responsible to the
bank for the genuineness of the signature of the
payee; and to remove county buildings from
Superior to West Superior. House bills were
concurred in: Making an electors residence in
the wardin which he sleeps requiring two wards
to be set aside in each of the State Insane Hos
pitfalls for the accommodation and care of inebri-
ates; requiring railway turntables to be kept
locked, and requiring railway companies as we'll
as any other landowners to clear out all bru sh
at The intersection of railroads with highways SO
as To enable people approaching such crossings
on highways to see the railway track in both di-
rect1ons. At the morning session Of the House
Senate bill of great Importance was concur
red IN. 1t provides that no foreign building
ana loan association OF any kind, and no foreign
association corporation representing itself to
be a building sand loan association" or doing
business on the building society plan, and no
assoclat1on OF corporation organized under the
laws of any other State or Territory, and
doing business in the manner provided for
Mutual, Loan and Building Corporations, :"
by Chapter SO of the Revised Statutes or upon
any similar fnstallment plan, shall issue it's
shares, receive moneys or transact any business
in this State unless such association shall have
and keep on deposit with the State Treasurer,
In trust for the benefit and security of all it's
All cAilo opbtS, 10 bII0 dCUubl
cash value of 100000. Other Senate bills were
conquered in: Appropriating $4,000 to Bentley
q Nowlan to compensate them for losses in
CURED in rebuilding the south wing of the Cap
itol after it's collapse in 1885, and over $4,000
to John Trumbull, N. M. Littlejohn, and Gill
bert Anderson, of Whitewater, and various
Milwaukee, Racine and Madison contractors,
for work on the new university buildings as
the result of changes in the architects
plans. Both houses passed a bill cut
ting down the reports of State officers and
boards about one-half biennially This is the
result OF the recent printing investigation,
where the only looseness discovered lay in the
laws themselves. At the evening session of the
Senate q House bill was killed. creating the
county OF Mills out of the east half of Ashland
County, the vote being sixteen to seventeen.
The House killed bill appropriating s25O, 600
for the erection of a soldiers memorial hall in
Madison. and cOncurred in a Senate measure
providing that on petition of 10 per cent. of the
electors of any town, city, or village election
to decide the question of liquor license or no
liquor license shall be held.