The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-03-16
In the Assembly.

MADISON, March 6.-The judiciary
committee reported substitute for the
bill to amend the excise law of 1885.
The substitute provides that in all cases
when an election has been held or shall
bs held in any town, city or village, un-
29G, laws of '85, the sum
fixed by the electors at such
election shall be the sum to be paid for
licenses in such town, city or village un-
til an election is again held under the
same law, and until different amount
is fixed at a subsequent election. The
Senate bill giving the city of Racine
the power to establish an electric light
pant was concurred in. A resolution
was adopted allowing Mr.. McElroy to
correct his bill changing the time of
holding court in the Second Judicial
Circuit, and also a resolution by Mr..
Tarrart to provide for the using of books
of Insurance companies as evidence.
Under suspension of the rules the fol-
lowing bills were passed by the assem-
bly,: To authorize an act to entitle the
citizens OF Ripon to vote on the question
of water works; to create a municipal
court at Menomonee, Dunn county; to
amend the charters of the cities of
Darlington and Grand Rapids.
MADISON, March THE following AS
sembly bills passed a third reading: To
authorize the proper state officers to pay
special assessments for the year 1887,
against the property of the state in the
city of Milwaukee, commonly known as
the State Industrial School for Girls;
to amend the charter of the city of
Niroqua; to authorize the Sault Ste
Marie & Southwestern Railway Com
pany, its successors and assigns, to build
a bridge for railway purposes across the
Chippewa River IN the city of
Eau Claire; to amend the charter
of the city of Neilsville; to apply the
law relating to liens on logs, lumber,
etc, to the county of Lincoln;
to give the aldermen of Milwaukee an
annual salary of $400; to authorize the
Duluth, Red Wing & Southern Railway
Company to construct bridge across
the Mississippi at or near Red Wing, in
the state of Minnesota; to authorize
the State Board of Supervision to pur-
chase a tract of land adjoining the
grounds of the state hospital; to
regulate the election of supervisors in
counties containing not less than 100,-
600 inhabitants, so that they shall hold
their office for three years, and there
after they shall hold their office for two
years; that no other officer than the
judge of the supreme court or
circuit court shall hereafter be author
lied to admit to bail person
charged with the crime of murder or
with any offense punishable by I'M
prisonment for life; regulating the ap-
pointment of guardians for infants; to
enlarge the duties OF town clerks, so
that they shall furnish list of the num-
ber of highway districts III the towns 10
the county clerks on or before the
lst day of April Of each year;
10 provide for the exemp-
ton from poll tax of honorably
discharged soldiers, sailors, and ma
rines; to regulate the terms of court in
the Tenth Judicia, circuit; to amend
the charter of the city of Oconomowoc;
to purchase tract of land near Camp
Douglas for permanent camp and rifle
range for the Wisconsin National Guard; !;
to authorize the Appleton Gene
tery Association to remove the dead
from the old burying ground in
the city of Appleton to the new ceme-
terry in said city; to place the funds ap-
proprlated to the Public Library and
the Public Museum of the city of Mil
waukee under the charge of the trustees
of those institutions, and not under the
control of the Common Council of the
city as all other funds. The bill
relating to salaries of county Judges,
and providing that no Judge shall
receive less than $4,000 a year, was
killed, the vote standing 36 to % to the
effect. The following bills were passed
under suspension OF the rules: To cre-
ate the town of Hoard in Clark County;
to amend the charter of the city
of Shullsburg; to authorize the
city of Green Bay to maintain a free
public library; to repeal an act
to authorize the town of Grand Rapids
to keep an office and hold elections;
concurring in the Senate bill to amend
the charter of Baraboo. Mr.. Babcock
offered a joint resolution authorizing
| the appointment of clerk for the COM
mittee ON interpretations: the resolu-
ton being adopted and concurred IN
by the Senate. By resolution of Mr..
| Raeser the bill to issue bonds for school
purposes in the city of Milwaukee was
| recalled from the governor in order 20
allow an amendment, making the
| amount of such bonds $3.50, 900 instead
| OF 5000
| MADISON, March S.-Under a suspen-
| sion of the rules, the following bills
| were passed: Two bills providing for
| the construction OF vladuct across the
| Menomonee Valley in Milwaukee Coun-
| tv: to create the town of Harrison In
| the county OF Lincoln; to amend the
| charter of Janesville to repeal the act
| incorporating the Janesville Fire De-
| partment, to amend the charter OF Port