The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-28
HIS LIFE WORK ENDED. WISCONSIN sOLoNs.

IHE Legislature was IN session but q Jew min
utes on the evening of the 18th inst. The Sem
ate passed q bill to make the penalty
severe for the abduction of women. The House
bill relating to the Public Library and Museum
of Milwaukee was also passed.
RESOLUTIONS for adjournment sine die April
sl2 We're adopted by the Senate on the 18th inst
Senate bills passed requiring two-fifths of a
mill tax levy in each county for the support of
1nd1gent eX-Unlon veterans and their families
and requiring each school district to set aside
Is cents per capita of school children for the es-
Establishment of school libraries In the House
bills We're passed for the protection of hotel and
clearinghouse keepers from dead beats pro-
h1biting the election of County Treasurer three
times in succession, and requiring owners of
mich COWS to which calves do not have free ac-
cess to milk such COWS twice daily. Bills were
property all membranes thereon; providing
for the seml-annual payment of taxes exempt
ing property of Conservatives of music from
taxation, and Tor o more sure assessment of
mortgages.
A BILL empowering school officers to purchase
@ United States flag for each department in every
public school, and keep it displayed therein, was
passed by the Senate the Goth inst. Other
Senate bills passed Incorporating the city of
Superior and making the penalty for abducting
women Tor immoral purposes from one year to
five years imprisonment. discussion of the
Taylor Railroad bill was had in the Senate in
the evening, on recommendation of the
Committee on Railroads, that the bill
be indefinitely postponed, Mr.. Taylor
spoke against the recommendation of the COM
mittee, supporting in strong speech of an
hour and q half the provisions of his measure
In the House debate occurred on the bill appro-
priating ST 900 to the State Firemen's Associa-
tion which was finally killed by q vote of "a to
IS. The House concurred in the following bills ::
Providing additional help in the State Superin-
tendent's office at an expense not to exceed
81, 900 q year; to amend the Revised Statutes in
relation to common schools, and providing for
printing separate reports from Washburn Oh
servatory.
IN the Senate bill was passed, on the 21st
inst, providing that l per cent. of railroad
licenses received by the State shall be devoted to
the establishment and maintenance of courses
for instruction i'll locomotive and electrical
gineering at the State University. Bills were
killed making the salary of the State VeteTina-
rian SO per day, to DE paid out of the treasury
OF towns and counties in which he is employed
to Investigate diseased animals; requiring
cities having a population of 5000 or more to
erect and maintain hospital for persons af-
d1cted with contagious diseases; repeating the
law providing fer the appointment of game
wardens providing for the greater efficiency of
the Wisconsin National Guard by ordering it
into camp not less than ten days per year. each
enlisted man to receive 50 per day while in
service, and appropriating to Lorenzo Sackett
$4,000 for damages alleged to have been
sustained by him by the adjustment
OF g. certain plank road between Milwaukee
and WauwatOsa. House bills were passed
providing that in suits for damages growing out
OF injuries received by reason of default negli
Sence OF any person or corporation in properly
maintaining sidewalks or highways, such person
or corporation shall be primarily responsible for
damages; requiring the erection of guide-boards
at the intersection of all main travelled roads in
townships requiring insurance companies desir-
ing to do business in this State to make official
declaration to that effect and also requiring
them to appoint all Insurance Commissioner as
their attorney, upon whom legal process may be
served; requiring all so-called "fraternal as
sessment insurance corporations" to report to
and be under the jurisdiction of the Insurance
Commissioner; and making the President of
the State University, ex-officio, a regent House
bills were killed: Prohibiting the use of pastors
on election tickets making it q miSdemeanOr
to Islander @ community, and requiring counties
to pay County Superintendent not to exceed
5000 per year for their expenses. Both houses
nave voted to adjourn sine die April II.
IN the Senate House bills were concurred in on
the I'D INST making it q misdemeanor to "beat"
hotel and clearinghouse keepers, and incor-
porating the city of New Lisbon. A Senate bill
was killed incorporating the city of Dodgeville.
House bills We're non-concurred in exempting
from poll-tax honorably discharged eX-Union
soldiers, sailors and marines, and making coun-
ty treassurers ineligible for third successive
term of office. In the House bills were
concurred in providing that for the
time lapsing after q mortgage falls due,
no higher interest shall be obtained than is pro-
vlded for in the mortgage and incorporating the
city OF superior. House bills passed in
cooperating the. city of Mayville, and providing
that a husband who willfu11y abandons his wife
or minor children being able to earn the means
OF their support, shall be punished by imprison-
ment for from fifteen days to one year.
House bills were killed instructing the Gov
ernor to appoint an Assistant Insurance
Commissioner in every village and city in this
State who shall be the only person in said vii
la9e or city who shall be allowed to take pay
for insurance to affix rates therefor, his com
pensation to consist OF fees forbidding the for
NATION of insurance trusts; forbidding discrim-
1natlon in insurance rates forbidding hunting
rabbits with ferrets OF weasles; aud requiring
taking inquests of fires and the accumulation and
reporting of fire statistics.