The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-03-30
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
In the Senate.


passed under the suspension o; rules IS
follows: To amend the charters of In,
cities OF Menomlnee, WsuSau, New
London, Superior and MaIineite. Sen
ate bills were passed as follows: To
authorize school boards TO pur> hase
United States flags, but providing that
only one flag be given 10 each depart
ment; to prevent crime and the abddc-
ton OF women.
MADISON, March 2l-The bill author
lZlng the common council Of Milwaukee
10 allow TIE tax commissioner such dd
dltiOnal clerical help as he might le-
quire, and to authorize the appointment
OF deputy tax commissioner was
passed under suspension of The rules.
On motion of Mr.. Fritz the bill intro
duced by Mr.. keogh 10 provide for
uniformity in the election tickets was
referred to the Milwaukee dele
cation, the object being 10 have the
bill killed, j sn amendment to
the Cooper election bill Is made includ-
ing Milwaukee in It's provisions. Mr.
MAINS bill appropIiating per cent OF
| the funds derived by the state from the
license tax upon railway comp nies,
telegraph, telephone and other cleo
trIcal companies to provide additional
facilities for instruction In the depart
! ment of mechanic arts OF the State Uni
versity. and to establish courses of in
structlOn in railway and electrical engi-
neerlng, pa sed a third reading. Bills
were indefinitely postponed as follows:
Requiring town clerks 10 furnish
TO the county clerks of heir respective
counties the number OF road warrants
| they need in their towns; making it
the duty OF district attorneys TO exam
| Inc into matters at the request Of the
encouragement; to anne nd the Re-
ylsed Statutes relating to the removal OF
cases III justices courts; to authorize the
uperintendent of public property 10
purchase certain books for use in the
| office OF the attorney y-general; to pro-
vide for the punishment of assaults
| resulting in great bodily harm; to
amend an act in relation TO transcripts
from justices judgments; providing
that property derived by married
woman from her husband shall, in case
she dies without heirs, descend to the
heirs-at-law of her husband; to provide
fishways in each dam in Sugar River, in
Green County; TO appropriate 10 Thos
Anderson the sum of 800; re-
laung to the compensation of
the state veterinarian; to ap-
propriate $500 to the Columbia
County Wool Growers and Sheep
Breeders Association; to extend the
| maximum time OF encampment for the
Wisconsin National Guards to ten davs,
and fixing com pensation OF members at
81 per day; 10 amend the Revised
Statutes entitled of the forms of action
and the parties thereto; appIOpriating
sum OF money TO pay for the Blue
Books; to provide 70 the erection and
maintenance OF a hospital Tor per-
sons infected with contagious dis
eases in cities having pop
| or more; to repeal an act to provide for
| the appointment of game wardens and
prescribing their duties; TO appropriate
to the Iowa County Agricultural Society
| $500 in the next two years; 20 appro-
| pirate 81 COCO to Lorenzo Sackett; pro-
vlding that only licensed attorneys OF a
| court of record be eligible as county
| judges IN counties of 30, 600 population:
| appropriatIng to the Northwestern Agri-
| cultural Society of Eau Claire. a certain
| sum Of money. The bill amending the
| charter OF the city OF Monroe was
| passed under a suspension OF the rules
MADISON, March Assembly bills
were cOncured in by the Senate as fo!-
| lows: To amend the act providing for
| the protection of children and TO pro-
| vide for their removal from the custo "
| OF their parents or guardians in certain
cases; providing for the punishment Of
| persons defrauding hotel keepers; to
| authorize the proper state officers TO
| pay special assessments for the wear
| 1887 against the property of the state In
| the city of Milwaukee commonly known
as the State Industrial School for Girls:
amending the method of commitment for
| insane persons TO hospitAls;to authorize
| the county of Brown to issue bonds TO
| 5und Its outstanding indebtedness; to
! !egallze the official acts of Michael
B1nks, justice of the peace; providing
| that when a license is once fixed by a
| popular vote 1t can only be changed by
| the same method: TO authorize Andrew
| Nelson to build and maintain pier in
| the waters of Green Bay; providing for
| the compensation of commissioners of
| assessment; to amend the charter of
| he city of Menasha: to authorize th G
| city of Menomonie to borrow money to
| pay its bonded Indebtedness; providing
| that circuit court clerks forward state
| ments of all fines and foreclosures upon
the close of each term, 10 the attorney
| general; to secure the right of wav
across the Menomonee Valley in Mil
| waukee, between Eleventh Avenue and
| Sixteenth Street, to be used as a via
| duct; to provide for the better collection
| of water rates in the city of Milwaukee
| to require all persons interested to be
| specially notified in case of street OPEN
| ings in Milwaukee; TO authorize q. S.
| Blron and Laura Biron to build dam
across the Wisconsin River. The Sem
ate passed the bill TO repeal an act to
| amend sections 1886, 1887 and 1888 ofthe
| revised statutes, entitled of plank and
| turnpike corporations. Bills were in
definitely postponed rs follows:
| To provide for exemption from
| poll tax of honorablv discharged
| soldiers, sailors and marines; making
persons to whom insurance policies are
| issued by virtue thereof members of i'll
| surance corporations; amending the act
| to authorize the organization of local
| IRE insurance companies IN the cities
! and villages of the state; to limit the
| number of terms person may be eligi-
| BILE to the office of county treasurer; to
| provide for the regulation Of life, en-
| dowment and casualty insurance COM
! panles or associations upon the Coop
| eratlve or assessment plan; 10 proviGe
| for uniformity in fire insurance policies.
MADISON, March, 26.-Considerable
| opposition developed in the Senate to
| the governors veto of the bill relating
10 wills, which provides IOr the eXem p
| ton OF a homestead from debts and
| funeral expenses IN case the devisee be
| the widow or minor child. The veto
was sustained bv a vote of II to u. but
| a motion prevailed TO reconsider the
/ vote tomorrow morning. The opin-
| ion among those opposing the
| veto was that the question WAS one that
| the legislature was more competent to
decide than the governor, as there was
| no question of constitutionality IN
volved. The governor also returned 10
| the senate with his veto the bill confer
ring upon Charles and Joseph Osthelder
| the interest which the state of Wiscon-
| sin has in certain real and personal
property derived ron Maria Young,
/ deceased. Action on the veto was laid
/ over till thursday morning. Under a
| suspension of the rules, the bill
! to create a municipal court in Douglas
| County, was passed. Senate bills passed
g third reading as follows: Defining the
! dutv Of the secretary Of state and state
/ treasurer in the disbursement Of money
! received from sale Of lands therein