The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-04-06
In the Assembly.

bly, this morning the bill to increase
the salary OF circuit judges came up
again, and an effort was made to have
1t indefinitely postponed. Mr.. Ring
urged that disposition of it, sud was
supported by Messrs Watson, Phillip,
Allen, Z. +. Mohr and Stevenson, while
Messrs. Mead and McElroy thought
mat the bill was worthy one and
should pass. The vote on indefinite
postponement WIS very close, but was
defeated. Senate bills were concurred
in by the Assembly as follows: Divid-
ing cities into classes and pro-
vldlng for their incorporation and
government; providing that wives
and widows of Union soldiers be en-
titled to the benefits of the Wisconsin
Veterans Home; allowing the State
30 ri OF Supervision to adopt rules for
credltlng some portion of their earn
lngs to deserving convicts; to authorize
a compilation OF the statutes of Wiscon-
sin, and to make the same evidence;
amending the statutes relating to ac-
tions of ejectment; providing for the
remedying OF defective jails, police sta
tlons, and lock-ups; increasing the pun
lshment for the ofense of kidnapping;
TO amend an act to authorize Leander
Choate to build dam across Eagle
River; amending the charter of the city
OF Monroe; to amend the laws relating
to punishment for assault and robbery;
relating to the confinement Of certain
insane, incompetent and imbecile per-
sons; defining more closely evidence of
title by descent. Assembly bills passed
third reading as follows: Giving pre-
cedence to laborers liens in mines over
all other debts; amending the laws re-
lating to the Knights of Maccabees of
the World; providing that the county
clerk shall not act as canv asser on re-
count Of election ballots, if he is can
dldate for reelection and his office is in
dispute; foI the preservation of fish in
the Doug ass mill-pond, and Douglass
Greek, and it's tributaries in Jackson
County; relating TO organizing an insur-
ance corporation for church property;
providing for log marks; relating to
sewers IN the city Of Green Bay; relating
10 the manner OF making election re-
turns N villages; amending sections l,-
$40 and ,9l2 of the Revised Statutes re-
latlng to fire insurance corporations of
the state; providing for the abolisbing
of the toll-gate on the Milwaukee
and Cedarburg plank road; repeating
chapter 2SS, laws of 1885; amending the
charter OF the city of Port Washington;
increasing the sa ary of the tax commits
sioner OF Milwaukee to 81, sec; to pro-
vide for the opening and laying out of
temporary highways; to amend the
laws relating to free high schools; re-
latlng to public printing in the city of
Milwaukee; providing for the payment
by the state of all necessary expenses
incurred by the commissioner of insur-
ance in the fultillment of his duties; al
wi n q nj MI To
vacancies in the common council
for the unexpired term thereof;
to amend the Revised Statutes
relating to religious societies;
increasing the city comptroller's salary
of Milwaukee to $4,000; authorizing
Dunn County to borrow money. A bill
to regulate the election in Chippewa
County was passed under a suspension
of the rules. AT the evening session
the bill to create municipal court for
Ashland was passed under the suspen-
sion O. the rules. The following bills
were killed: Abolishing the State Board
of Supervision; appropriating money
for the establishment OF a nautical
school in Milwaukee; authorizing Isaac
Staples to conduct and maintain q dam
across the st. Croix River; providing for
the separate election of school officers;
providing for change of venue in civil
cases.
MADISON, Wis, March 2S.-The veto
of the bill to grant certain rights in
property escheated to the state from the
estate of Maria Young, deceast j, TO
Charles and Joseph Osthelder, came up
for consideration and the bill was passed
over the governors veto. The follow
ing senate bills were concurrcd in by
the assembly: To allow circuit court
judges S40O for expenses in addition to
their salary; regulating the admission
of children to the State Public
School for Dependent and Neglected
Children; amending the revised statutes
relating to roads and bridges in refer
ence to their widening, altering or dis
continuing; repeating the amendment
of 1887 made TO the statutes relating to
plank and turnpike corporations; secur-
ing the appropriation of a portion of
the common school fund for the pur-
chase OF school library; providing for
the rights of married women TO insure
their husbands or children's lives for
their own benefit; allowing school boards
to purchase one United States flag each,
dividing the university into depart
mentS or colleges; amending the form OF
appeals in criminal cases. On motion
of Mr.. Coolidge the rules were suspend
ed and the bill appropriating the sum of
$780, 600 to the Veterans Home at Wau-
paca was passed. An amendment to
vest the title in the state after one year
was adopted in order to allow the state
Grand Army Encampment next year to
ratify the measure. After long debate,
the libel bill was killed, being laid on
the table by large majority.
Nj .DIsoN Morch 90 Tho AcSon hly
settled the co-emplove bill question
this morning by adopting the substitute
bill recommended by the railrond COM
mittee. The terms of the bill are srch
as to entitle employees to damages
when they are injured by the contribu-
tory negligence of those employed
in the departments that may correctly
be called hazardous. This, in the judg-
ment OF the committee, was drawing the
line in spirit of justice to both sides.
The substitute WAS adopted aud ordered
to third reading by a vote of
IS to 3. The bill reads az follows:
Every railroad corporation doing busi-
ness in this state shall be liable for dam
ages sustained by any employe thereof
within this state without contributorv
negligence on his part, when such dam
ge Is caused by the negligence of any
train dispatcher, telegraph operator, su-
perintendent, yardmaster, conductor,
or engineer, or any other employe who
has charge or control of any stationary,
signal, target point. block, or switch"
The Assembly tonight refused for the
first time to extend a member the
privilege to introduce bill. Mr.. Mead
presented a joint resolution allowing
Mr.. kleinfelter to introduce bill to
amend the revised statutes relative TO
the sale of intoxicating liquors,
and, on division, the permission
was refused by a vote of 135 to
49, Subsequently, Messrs. NJ. V. Pratt
and McGlachlin were unanimously ac-
corded the privilege Of introducing bills.
The Senate Joint resolution providing