The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-14
WISCONSIN SOLONS.

The first lively day in o business way was had
in the Senate on the 1st inst, over bill aiming
to cut down the pay of Circui5 Court reporters
from $4,000 to $3.50. After q lively scramble
ordered to q third reading. In the House
bills were killed requiring all public
thorities to give preference to Union veter
ans in engaging employees; also permitting the
State to loan $4,000 to the Milwaukee Light
Battery; requiring counties to annually levy
rs OF a mill tax for the support of INDECENT ex-
Union veterans, and also for the inspection of
stationary boilers. A bill was passed to incorpor
ate the city of New Lisbon. An adverse report
was made on the bill appropriating $150000 for
an eastern extension to the Capitol building
BOTH houses of the Legislature by a rising
vote, on the 5th inst, adopted the following:
WHEREAS, A former member of this body ana
foremost citizen of the State has been chosen
Secretary of Agriculture in the Cabinet of Presi-
dent Harrison; therefore be it Resolued, By the
Senate, the Assembly concurring, that regard
less of party affiliations we gladly embrace this
as lifting opportunity to place upon record in
behalf of ourselves and all the people Of Wlscon-
sin, q testimonial to the personal worth and abil
ity AS we'll official integrity and fearlessness in
the discharge of public duties and valuable public
services as legislator soldier, Congressman,
Governor and commander in chief of our mill
tia, of General jeremiah M. Rusk, and to declare
our belief that to bring into requisition Cab
met Minister of the Republic his ample knowl
edge and experience is at once credit to the
Judgment of the President and guaranty
to the people OF the United States that this new
executive branch intended to foster and pro-
mote those interests which are the very founda-
tion of wealth and prosperity, has been COM
mitted to the hands of patriotism energy and
capability. RESOLVED, That the, hearty good
Wisconsin go with ly General Rusk pS1 to his
new field of duty and responsibility, &C.
companied by the convection that his future
will be as successful as his past career, and no
less useful to the whole country than it hereto
fore has been to the State OF Wisconsin. Re
solUed, That these resolutions, duly enrolled, be
forwarded to General Rusk q permanent
mark of public esteem and confidence, and that
Governor Ryland be requested to wire
CALCULATIONS to Secretary Rusk. In the Senate
bill was killed providing that the officers and
sonally Liable for debts contracted dur
ing their term of Office, after remedy
is exhausted against the CORPORATIONS.
Cured in making appropriations OF several
hundred thousand dollars for the maintenance
of various State institutions during the next
two years. Bills were killed requiring bankers
to destroy all counterfeit coin acquired by them !;
forbidding the transportation of cattle or horses
i'll the same car with calves, hogs, or sheep; re-
curing all persons practicing architecture to
first pass an examination before q commission
of five members appointed by the Governor; and
forbidding the posting of bills portraying acts
which, if executed in reality, would constitute
an Oftense against the law
AMONG the bills passed by the Senate on the
9th inst. were the following: TO create mu-
nicipal court at Ashland; to appropriate $50 900
to the Waupaca Home giving Circuit Court
porters $1,000 O. year providing that towns
having water-works need not keep fire engine
to secure per cent. tax from insurance COM
panies to create g, police relief fund in Mil
waukee authorizing the State Superintendent
TO manage school libraries; to make tho
penalty for kidnapping ten years in prison
requiring the Treasury Agent to make an annu-
al report; increasing the penalty for assault
and robbery, resolution was passed to amend
the Constitute in relation to the incorporation
of cities and with reference to the State Super
intendent Several petitions were presented in
the House favoring the medical bill. bill was
introduced increasing the salary of the Mayor of
Milwaukee from 5000 to $4,000, and the bill
was passed authorizing the citizens of Ripon to
vote for water works and creating municipal
court III Monominee, Dunn County. Sena to
bill was concurred in appropriating $4,000 to
the State Board of Health to be used to suppress
contagious diseases Or prevent their introduction
to the State.
BILLS were passed in the Senate on the Eth
inst. making the salaries OF circuit judges 81 000
Fer annum and payment of their official eX-
penses; authorizing courts to exclude all minors
not necessarily present from the court-rooms
where obscene or scandalous cases are being
heard, and requiring circuit and coun Y Judges
to render decisions in cases heard by the m with
in six months after such hearing. THE Senate
Railroad Committee, by nearly unanimous
vote, has decided to indefinitely postpone
what is known as the Taylor railroad bill. This
provided for commission of three, with power
to establish rates, and applied features of the
interstate commerce law to State raffic. includ-
ing the long and short haul clause The bill
was actively opposei by the railroads and may
now be considered dead,] In the House a
bill forbidding the teaching of German in the
public schools was killed also bill providing
for the organization and regulation of life-in-
surance corporations associations. and So
cietles transacting business on the assessment
plan. Bills were passed permitting only su-
preme, Circuit, and presiding Judges to admit
to bail persons charged with murder, or any
other offense punishable by imprisonment for
life, thus taking the power from court commits
soners appropriating 5000 for the purpose of
ground for II rife range at Camp Douglas and
5000 for the improvement Of the same
exempting from the payment Of poll tax hon
orably discharged soldiers, sailors, and ma
rines and incorporating the city of Shulls-
burg.