The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-01-26
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
In the SenAfA-

MADtSON, W Is, Jan. lu.-A Ter fe tf-
ring The Joint resolution for tie investi-
CATION into the Northern dives stories
10 the committee on state affairs the fol-
lowing bills were introduced: BY Mr..
Dyson, to amend the statutes
relating to chatJei mortgages. By
Mr.. Joiner, TO amend the laws of 1883
relating TO fences. The following APP
polntments sent in by the governor, the
only new being that OF Senator w. I.
Parry, OF Portage, as member of the
State Board of Supervision, were con-
hrmed: Chas. Lllling, of Manitowoc,
State Board of Supervision; fish war
dens, +. c. Oliver, Sheboygan, c. II.
Ihayer, of Door County, Jas. Chapman,
Bayfield, County; Scion Marks, member
of State Board of Health for years;
regents of Normal schools, s. NJ. Hay,
of Winnebago County, John Phillips, of
Portage County, Emil Wallber, of Mil
waukee County; supervisor and IN
spector OF illuminating oils, j. I. Reeve.
or Outagamie County; member of
State Board of Charities and Reforms,
A. +. Elmore; state veterinarian, V. T.
Atkinson, of Milwaukee; State Board of
Supervision, W. L. Parry, of Columbia
County.
MADISON, Jan. l7.-Senator Taylor's
railroad bill was read and at once re-
terred to the committee on railroads.
Under the suspension OF the rules a
bill introduced by Mr.. Price, au-
thorlzlng the construction Of
bridge over the Wisconsin River,
between the cities of Grand
Rapids and CentraIia, was passed. Bills
were introduced in the Senate as fol-
lows: BY Mr.. Main, to prohibit the EN-
ployment by railroad corporations of
engineers using intoxicating liquors; by
Mr.. Avery, amending the statutes relat-
ing to villages; by Mr.. krgger, for the
erection of bloch or guards in front of
frogs on railroads IN this state; by Mr..
Scodeld, to appropriate $50 600 to the
Veterans home at Waupaca. The Joint
resolution from the assembly, providing
for the lighting of the capitol by cleo
trlcIty was concurred in, after amending
II so as TO make the committee include
three members from the Senate instead
OF two. The joint resolution relating 10
the appointment of additional employees
was referred to the committee on state
| affairs.
MADISON Jan. IS.-A discussion of the
advisabiIty of increasing the number
of employees occupied the attention of
the Senate, but the recommendation of
the committee on state affairs passed bv
vote of II to I. Bill were introduced
as follows: By Mr.. pOnd-Relating to
the collection of wages and providing
| that q deposit not exceeding $40 be
made by the plaintiff in such actions to
| be applied toward payment of the JUS
| tice' 5 fees; amending the. laws relating to
| the powers of village boards so as to re-
| quire the removal of snow, dirt or rub,
| bish from the sidewalks adjacent to the
| premises Of occupants; to appropriate
$4,000 for the purchase Of stationery
| for use of the state department
| during the next two years. Mr..
Kidd offered a resolution that 500
extra copies of the bill on oitv charters
and 900 of that Oh railroads be print
| ed. The report of the committee on
convict labor was presented by Mr..
| Price and ordered spread on the rec
| ords.
MADISON, Jan. PA bill by c. S.
| Taylor providing that the county clerk
| shall have power to extend the time for
| the collection of the taxes in any tax
| roll made by him or his predecessor in
| office for the time, in the manner and
| with like effect as is provided in sec
| tions II0S and 100 of the revised stat
utes, was passed under suspension of
| the rules.
| Among the bills introduced were the
| the revised statutes relating to the issu-
| ing of tax deeds. Repeating law relat
ing TO erecting and repairing bridges;
| to appropriate to Gilbert Ander-
| son S6, l3l for losses sustained
| in the completion of Science
| Hall at the university, and s6,400 to
| John Trumbull. Also to amend the act
| for the appropriation of a certain sum
| t. the Wisconsin Veterans Home,
so as to change the provisions relating
| to wives of soldiers, sailors, etc, to
| read Widows of men who were UniC n
| soldiers. sailors and marines during the
time Of the civil war. 1t further pro-
vides for weekly payment of s for all
| inmates; to appropriate to the commits
| sioners of fisheries the sum of Sl2 900 in
| 1889 and 1890; to amend an act entitled
| for the prevention of crime and to pre-
vent the abduction of unmarried
women, providing for punishment by
| imprisonment in the state prison
not exceeding FIVE years nor less than
| one wear; relating TO the loss or destru, =
| ton of assessment and tax rolls. Also
relating to the loss or destruction of
| records pertaining to school districts,
to the effect that any person who shall
unlawfully and carnally know and abuse
any female child Of previous chastity
| under the age of IA years, shall be pun
| ished by imprisonment IN the state
! prison during his natural life.