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IS also empowered to expend 81 900 for
the employment of secretary.
MADISON, Feb. l5.-The resolution
providing for an adjournment of the
Legislature Ii order to allow members
10 attend the Inauguration at Washing
ton was laid on the table. Under a
suspension of the rules the Senate bill
relating, to street railways in the
ely OF Eau Claire and legaliZlng the or
1lhance hereto ore passed by the COM
mon council of said city, and approved
by The mayor thereof, authorizing
the use Of electrical or animal
power on street railways in said
city,. was passed. The bill to
provide for the payment of additional
employees was likewise concurred in.
The following bills were indefinitely
postponed the committee of the whole:
Relating TO the propelling of steam
engices upon the highways and
liking their maximum weight
at five tons; the bill relating
to county aid to towns in making and
tepalrlng highways; that amending the
ret authorizing and requiring the clerk
~ the Board of Supervisors of the
county OF Outagamle to keep and main
tain an abstract of tax sales. Among
the bis that were ordered to a
third reading was that allowing
married women to act as guardians; !;
also, Mr.. Osborn's bill relating to the
measure OF damages in actions 10 recoy-
er possession of logs or lumber wrong
fully cut on lands of another, or the
value Thereof; appropriating $1,000 to
the Wisconsin Industrial School for
Girls; also, providing for the amount
chargeable for the maintenance Of in
sane persons In county asylums.
MADISON, Feb. 1S.-The principal bus
iness of the session consisted in the in
PRODUCTION of new bills. Mr.. Mead in
troduced bill submitting to the people
an amendment to the constitution re-
-atlng to the justices of the supreme
court as provided for in a resolution in
troduced earlier IN the session, which
liked their number at five and the chief
justice an appointment by vii tue of Sc
nlorIty. The bill was passed under
suspension of tie rules.
MADISON, Feb. l9.-The bill allowing
A. l.. Gray SS54.T7 for expenses incurred
IN contestlng his seat with Andrew A.
Elmore was passed in the Assembly un-
der suspension of the rules, while the
bill relating to license of attorneys and
that to appropriate to VIM. Schilling-
lau S4O0 for a threshing machine
destroyed by fire at the Wisconsin
Safe Hospital for the insane were both
killed. MIR. Oliver introduced a "hu-
morous" bill Ito facilitate railroad
travel by removing railway conductors
and to erect contribution boxes III rail-
road trains to enable people to travel at
a cost dictated by their own conven-
ience." The reading of the bill caused
no little merriment. The committee ap-
hyy 10 of
to draft new libel law has completed
It's work, and the bill was introduced
this morning by Mr.. Osborn. 1t reads
as follows: Section |. In actions for
libel there shall be no presumption of
malice, either actual or legal, from the
fact of the publication of the libel.
" Sec. 2. In actions for libel, where
the plaintiff shall fail to prove
express malice of the defend
ant in the publication, no ex-
emplary or punitory damages shall be
allowed, but only such actual damages
as shall be proven to have been sus-
tanned by the plaintiff from the publica-
ton OF the libel by the defendants.
Sec. 3. No action for libel shall be
brought or maintained, unless the
plaintiff, before bringing such action
shall have requested the de-
1enQant 10 puDllsh retrRc-
ton or correction of the publication
complained of and allowed reason
abe time for the publication of such
retraction or correction, and evidence
of the publication of retraction or cor.
rection of the publication complained
of may be received in mitigation of
damages whether the same be
specially pleaded or not. Sec 4.
1t shall not be lawful for any attorney
at law or other person, not the
plaintiff, to bring or conduct any action
for libel, for fee of compensation
which, or any part of which, shall be
contingent upon the result of the action,
and it shall be the duty of the court in
which any action is pending to dismiss
the same, with costs to the defendant,
whenever it shall appear that it is
brought or conducted for a fee or COM
pensation SO contingent upon the re-