The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-04-11
WISCONSIN SOLONS'

IN the Senate bills were concurred in on the
2Sth ult. making principal contractors liable for
liens against sub-conIractor to the amount of
the Indebtedness of the former to the latter.
Both houses passed over the Governors veto,
with only one dissenting vote, a bill to Consti-
tute Joseph and Charles Osthelder of Sheboy-
gam the lawful heirs of the 300 estate of their
deceased stepmother who persisted in a fire
at Oshkosh several years ago, leaving no
heirs nor WILL Naturally the property would
under such instances, escheat to the State.
The property had been accumulated by Osthel-
Ger senior, and before his death had been decided
10 his wife, the stepnother of the claimants in
the case. The legislators believed that the Gov
e1nor had been misinformed as to the facts of
the case. By a vote of to the Senate Railroad
Commute voted to make an adverse report on
the Taylor railroad bill. After q long debate in
the House the bill making trusts and trade COM
binations unlawful was ordered to g third read
1nS by g. majority big enough to indicate that it
Will safely pass the House. Senate bills were con-
CURED in increasing the annual salary of Cir
cult Judges from $500 to $1,000 permitting
the wife to have insurance in her own name
placed ON the life of her husband empowering
any school board to purchase at public expense
one OF more flags of the United States. to be
placed III the school-room and permitting 10
cents per capita of the school children in town.
ships to be set aside for school purposes and
appropriating $4,000 to the State Veterans
Home. Bills were killed forbidding the use of
sleds with runners less than four feet apart on
public highways, and amending the libel laws.
IN the Senate bill was killed, on the 23th
ult., requiring patriotism to be taught TO chill
dren III common schools. A House bill was con-
Cured in requiring fre-escapes to be placed
all buildings OF more than TWO stories in height
IN which aSSemblageS gather, or which are used
Tor dormitory purposes. The House concurred in a.
Senate bill giving to the State University for
in mechanical department per cent of all license
moneys annually received by the State from
railway, telegraph, and telephone companies. A
bill was ordered to third reading providing that
every railway corporation shall be liable for
damages sustained by any emplOye thereof
within this State without contributory negli-
gence on his part, when such damage is caused
by the negligence OF any employee. bill to reg
ulate telephone rates was killed.
THE Legislature passed Senator Cooper's cleo
ton reform bill on the Both ult., and the meas
ure is now ready for the Governors signature.
The bill is modelled largely after the Australian
system, though the best features of similar laws
IN other States are incorporated. The measure
is to apply only to cities requiring registration.
Dill requiring express companies to pay q State
license OF per cent. on their gross earnings was
Killed, as was the bill making railway cOmpa-
MES responsible for injuries to employees caused
by the use OF faulty car-cOuplers.
The Senate after all elaborate debate, on the
4th inst killed the famous Taylor railroad bill,
the House bill creating the County of Mills out
of the east half of Ashland County, and the bill
exeInptlng ex-Union veterans from payment of g.
poll tax while the House by q vote of AZ to 46
refused further action in relation to it.
The bill to appropriate 100000 for the
in Milwaukee, and bills requiring the
payment of highway taxes in cash, and re-
quiring thorough inspection of all beef cattle
before being killed, We're killed. The House also
killed Senate bill permitting the retirement of
Supreme Court Judges on q $4,000 salary after
reaching the age of seventy years. In the Sen
ate a bill was passed appropriating to Bentley
q Nowlan, contractors on the south wing of the
Capitol at the time of its fall $26 900 to COM
pensate them for expenditures made in rebuild
ing it. A Senate bill was concurred in empow-
ering the Methodist Episcopal Church of the
State to organize a mutual insurance company.