Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-04-24
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
Tn the Senate.

Tn the Senate.
MADISON, April Ex-senator Kempf
made an attempt to introduce bill
regulating the government of all county
hospitals in similar manner to that ap-
plying to the new Milwaukee hospital,
by giving the governor the appointment
OF part of the trustees. He intro
duced the bill under title of q
dead head bill relating to the employ
ment of child labor. Mr.. Mead,
however, called for the reading of the
Dill, Ind when the senators took in the
situation they promptly killed the bill.
The Senate bill authorizing not less than
nine druggists doing business in the
state to organize druggists mutual In
sursn &c company, was passed. Assem-
Relating to the public b C School school,
system of Milwaukee, and pro-
viding for the appointment Of
an assistant superintendent; pro-
v1dlng for the weekly and bi-weekly
payment Of wages; specifying the man
ner OF drawing petit jurors in Milwau-
kee; providing that an action for dam
ages by reason of defects in highways,
streets, alleys, etc., shall be brought
either against the owner of AUDITING
property or the municipality, or both;
empowering the county of Florence to
raise $3, 800 to aid in the construction Of
bridge; authorizing the building and
maintenance of toll bridge across the
Wisconsin River in Wood County, be-
tween the cities of Centralia and Grand
Rapids; giving consent to the federal
government to construct and maintain
levee in Columbia County and empow-
er1ng local authorities to acquire and
convey title to lands for such purpose;
amending the charter of Rice Lake;
appropriating 1918 to Grant County
the amount of a judgment obtain
ed by the county against the
amending the fish laws SO as to prohibit
the use Of a net in any of the inland
waters of the state from which a one
pound fish cannot escape; also permit
ting pickerel to be caught at any time,
and somewhat changing the time when
other fish may be taken; making it un-
lawful for any life insurance company
or mutual benefit society to do business
In the state while an unpaid judgment
stands against it; providing that q
saloonkeeper may not sell liquor while
an appeal from an order to revoke his
license is pending; providing that in re-
deemlng land sold for taxes only IL per
cent. on the purchase money, in addi-
ton to the principal and costs, shall be
paid; providing that whenever the
amount of any loss sustained by mutu-
al insurance company shall exceed
the amount of the cash funds of
the association, an assessment shall
be made upon all the property
insured and pro rata payment shall be
made by each policy-holder to cover
such deficiency; to provide fshways on
dams in Rock River, Rock County; ap-
propriating $2ls to Grant County; re-
quiring county clerks to furnish to as
enumeration of personal and real prop
erty; relating to the fishing industries
of Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Che
quamegon Bay, Green Bay and Stur-
geon Bay; providing for the payment of
the clerk of Assembly committee on in
corporations.
MADISON, Wis, April 16.-The Sen.
ate rejected the peddler bill in the form
in which it passed the Assembly, and
adopted an amendment to it, made by
the Senate judiciary committee, which
strikes out all that portion abolishing
the state treasury agent. A vote on the
bill caused its passage in amended form,
81 to 5. The Assembly concurred in
the amendment, on motion of Mr.. Os-
born. The bill to abolish the state park
was refused concurrence by the Senate
The bill providing that number of for
eign benevolent associations may do
business in this state, was ordered to
third reading after some discussion.
The Assembly bill providing that every
person who endorses certificate of de-
post shall be responsible to the bank
for the genuineness of the signature Of
the payee. was non-concurred in. AS
sembly bills were concurred in as fol-
lows: Changing the school system of
Milwaukee; amending the lien laws rel
alive to stations; fixing the terms of
court Tor Iowa County, in the Fifth Jul
dicial Circuit; limiting the treasurer's
tax collection fee to 2 per cent in any
town or village where the tax roll
amounts to $l,OOO,OOO; requiring
railroad companies to clear away
all brush at the intersection
of railroads and highways; linn
iting the number of minnows, etc.,
allowed to be caught for bait to one
bushel by any one person; requiring
two wards to be set aside in each of the
two state insane hospitals for the ac-
commodation and care of inebriates to
be sent to such hospitals by county
Judge on the affidavit of two examining
physicians; requiring fishways to be
placed in all dams across the Catfish
River in Dane County; providing that
saloonkeepers may not collect debts
against the estates of deceased persons,
if such debts are contracted for liquor.