Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-03-27
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
I'm the Senate.

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
passed 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 fling of bond by school district
treasurers of an amount equal to double
the money that passes through their
hands; to authorize A. Varg, Jr., his
associates, heirs and assigns, to build
and maintain a 0am across ShiOc Creek
and to dig a canal across a bend in said
creek in Shawano County, Wis, and to
confer upon said A. Varg, Jr., certain
powers; giving the attorney general
supervisory powers over district
attorneys and authorizing him to
draw bills of Indictment against persons
violating the laws of the state; authorlz-
ing the issue of a writ of error to obtain
review by the supreme court of the
order or judgment of any court dis
charging or demanding a person brought
before it by writ Of habeas corpus; also
that when a person is released from
Imprisonment on habeas corpus such
time shall not be counted as part
of his term, if he is again recon-
mitted; to authorize the city of
Milwaukee to issue bonds to the
amount of $4,000 for the purpose of
providing a fund for the repair of
bridges in said city; to legalize plats
teenth Ward, of the city of Milwaukee,
to provide salary of $500 for the regis
ter of probate of Winnebago County;
TO make any person having held the
office of treasurer of any county in the
state for two consecutive terms in
eligible to that office for two years next
succeeding the same; to authorize
w. Ell. Murdoch and Anton Kuckuk
to construct and maintain a dam
across Wolf River in Shawano County.
The following bills were indefinitely
postponed: To amend the statutes re-
lating to malicious trespass, so as to
make the imprisonment not more than
two years in the state prison, or by fine
not exceeding $500. or by both; to ex-
empt from taxation the property of in
corporated Conservatives of music; to
provide for the semi-annnal payment
and settlement OF taxes; to provide for
the assessment of mortgages in the state;
amending the statutes relating to the
assessment of real property so that all
bona fde encumbrances on such prop
erty shall be deducted in the assessors
estimate.
The following Senate bills passed
third reading: Authorizing county
boards to make an additional levy of
one-ffth Of 6 mill upon taxable proper
ty if thought necessary to provide for
the relief of INDECENT Union soldiers,
sailors and marines and their wives and
children; amending the act appropriate
ing portion of the common school fund
for the purchase of a school library; to
reduce the price of lands held
by the state in the counties of
Adams, Juneau, Marquette ard
W1nnebaagoo from so to 25 cents per
acre; fixing the maximum time
of encampments of the Wisconsin Ma
tional Guard at ten days and the amount
OF pay for each man at 90 per day; to
provide for the printing and distribut-
ing of state reports. ETC.; to provide for
the payment Of chaplain in the SEN
ate; to appropriate 500 to M. L.
O'Rourke. Assembly bills were con-
Cured in as follows: To amend the
charter of the city of Neillsville; to
amend the charter of the city Of Sh2-
wano; to appropriate to Andrew E. Ell
more $880.50 for expenses incurred in
contesting q seat in the Assembly.
MADISON, March 20.-The session was
occupied by routine matters. Bills
passed under the suspension of rules as
follows: To amend the charters of the
cities of Menominee, Wausau, New
London, Superior and Marinette. SEN
ate bills were passed as follows: To
authorize school boards to purchase
United States flags, but providing that
only one flag be given to each depart
ment; to prevent crime and the abduc-
ton Of women.
MADISON, March 21.-The bill author
lZlng the common council of Milwaukee
to allow the tax commissioner such adj
dltional clerical help as he might re-
quire, and to authorize the appointment
of a deputy tax commissioner was
P160OU oiOOI oucpCuS1On VI TIC TuI0S.
On motion of Mr.. Fritz the bill intro
duced by Mr.. Keogh to provide for
uniformity in the election tickets was
referred to the Milwaukee dele
cation, the object being to have the
bill killed, if an amendment to
the Cooper election bill is made includ-
ing Milwaukee in its provisions. Mr..
Mains bill appropriating l per cent. of
the funds derived by the state from the
license tax upon railway companies,
telegraph. telephone and other cleo
trical companies to provide additional
facilities for instruction in the depart
ment of mechanic arts of the State Uni
versity, and to establish courses of in
struction in railway and electrical engi-
neering, passed third reading. Bills
were indefinitely postponed as follows:
Requiring town clerks to furnish
to the county clerks of their respective
counties the number of road warrants
they need in their towns; making it
the duty of district attorneys to exam
Inc into matters at the request of the
attorney-general; to amend the Re-
vlsed Statutes relating to the removal of