Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-04-01
THE LEGISLATURE
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polling town boards to grant liquor
licenses to druggists: to amend the char
tiers of the cities of Prescott, McnomOnIe
and Shullsburg relating to municipal
court for Dunn County. prescribing the
manner of keeping time of employees in the
numbering business; releasing state prison
cOnvictS from working on Sundays and le-
ga holidays; repeating chapter 464, Laws
of 1889, relating to the division Of towns.
MADISON, Wis, March 24.-BillS were
ordered to third reading as follows: To
provide for state repositories: to provide
for the punishment of Migrants by cities.
At the evening session the Assembly
passed the bill to amend the charter of the
city of Greenwood, and refused TO concur
in Senator K9nitZer's bill to provide
for diScharging mortgages of record in
certain cases. The Senate bills to apprO-
pirate money for the State School for the
Deaf. and to purchase land for the North
ern Hospital for the Insane, that had passed
all the stages in the upper house, been
read twice in the Assembly and been re-
ported favOrably upon by the proper AS
sembly committees, were referred to the
committee on retrenchment when they
came up for the fOrmality of third read
ing.
MADISON, March 25.-Bills to incorpo-
rate the town OF Amberg, Marinette COun-
ty, and amending the charter of Portage,
were passed under suspension OF the rules.
The Senate joint resolution accepting from
Congress appropriations for the college OF
Agriculture was cOncurred IN. The fol
lowing bills were passed: 10 prevent the
selling of narcotics to minors; granting re-
lice powers to certain Offices of the Wis
cOnSln Humane Society; comforting addl-
-tiOnal powers on the Common Council OF
Kewaunee; extending lien laws; to pre-
serve fish in Trout Run, Jackson County;
permitting certain persons to build dams
III the Wisconsin River; apprJprlatlng to
Michael Wilhelm S165, claim for work
and material on carpenter and boiler shops
of the State University; to iegallZe every
highway in the town Of Chiffon, Calumet
County; to regulate the booming logs at
Beef Slough and fixing the charges there
for; for distribution of the blue book; reg
ulating the drawing of petit jurors in Mil
Waukee County; remedynG defects in re-
corded instruments; slightly amending the
law relating to mortgages.
MADISON. March rs. The following bills
were passed: TO allow the secretary of
the Milwaukee County Soldiers Relief
Commission salary of $500 per year;
making the term of the Milwaukee city at
tOrney two years; to raise special tax III
the Second Ward of Milwaukee to pave
streets. The Assembly reconsidered the
vote by which it yesterday laid on the table
Mr.. Warden'S bill for an extra clerk in the
Office OF the state superintendent, and the
bill was referred to the committee on re-
trenchment
MADISON, Wis. March 27.-In the As
semhly the following bills were passed:
no aid inpccunlous litigants; providing for
appeals to the state superintendent from
decisions Of town boards in regard to
school district boundaries; providing for
the condemnation of lands for county
buildings when the county and owners
are unable to agree as to value; amending
the laws concerning appeals; forblddlng
the manufacture of butter and cheese
from substances other than milk, but pro-
vlding for the proper making OF OleOmarga-
rine. Senate bills were cOncurred in IS
follows: For the removal of distractions
in highways after the owner has refused
when directed to by court; providing
for keeping open certain county offices
during the business hours of each
day, and for the examination Of the
books OF any person. so desiring; slightly
amending the laws relating to corpora
tons: providing that no accounting in the
county court shall be necessary before
beginning ar action against suretieS
when the guardian shall die or re-
move out of the jurisdiction Of the court
appointing HIM; providing that no
execution shall issue upon any Judgment
until 1t shall have been perfected by the
taxation and the insertion OF the costs IN
such action, as required by law, on the eX-
piratiOn of the time mcntioned; giving to
county judges So per dayfor the eXamlna-
ton OF insane persons.
The Senate.
MADISON. Wis, March 25.-The Senate
tonight concurred in the Milwaukee bond
bills for library. bridges, school sites,
park, city hall and water-WOrkS. Senator
Kempf's two bills TO prevent accidents in
factories and against locked doors were
passed. A bill authorizing Joseph Linden
mann to build dam across Oak Creek in
Milwaukee County, was passed. The AS
sembly bill fixing the rate of interest on
trust finds was cOncurroQ IN.
MADISON, Wis, March 24.-The bill pro-
viding for an additional circuit judge i'll
Milwaukee County passed the Senate, as
did the bill offsetting the amount of the
to the state with the amount which
it is to receive on the apporton-
ment made by the state superintendent.
The bill giving the United States juris-
diction over certain lands in ShebOygan
was passed over the governors veto, all
senators voting for it with the understand
ing hat the governor requested the action.
Assembly bills were concurred in as fol-
lows: Authorizing the citizens of Water
town to Issue bonds to construct bridge;
authorizing Milwaukee to issue bonds to
build bridge; authorizing Mineral Point
to borrow money to make Improvements;
authorizing ManitoWoc to issue bonds to
build q bridge; fixing the fees OF circuit
court reporters for transcribing testimony
at 10 cents per folio; requiring exceptions
10 SuI0llCS OH appear W Tue SupIclHo COuIG
to be made within twenty days instead of
ten; the bill giving James Reynolds and
others the title to lands uncovered by the
drainage of MuSkego and Wind lakes,
providing they will complete and give
bonds to complete and perpetnate sys-
tenn Of drainage. passed under suspension
of the rules. The Senate at the evening
session passed the bill to incorporate the
City of Colby and concurred in the bill to
|. create n uricipal court for Polk County.
MADISON, March 25.-Bills were passed
as follows: Authorizing certain parties to
improve Iron River IN Bayfield, County;
returning to jackson County the
money properly belonging to it re-
ceIved from the sale of swamp lands by
| the ST ate, providing for the publication OF
| $4,000 railroad maps biennially; reducing
| from four-ffthS to three-fOurths the
| amount of stock necessary to authorize one
corportion to take stock in another; author
ling Milwaukee to issue bonds to
construct a bridge. Bills were con
Cured in as follows: Forbidding the
employment of children under the
age of u years in factories or places of
| amusement; giving jurors in justices courts
| 4 cents per mile for travel to and from the
place of trial; authorizing Milwaukee to IS
| sue bonds to construct yiaduct across the
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