Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-26
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
SENATE

SENATE
! MADISON. Wis, March 17.-In the senate
/ yesterday routine business wss transacted BY
eleven members.
MADISON. Wis. March lS-In the senate
yesterday bills we're eoncurred in exempting
/ Gold Spring park in Milwaukee from taxes as
long as il shall be used by the Wisconsin Agri.
cultural society; increasing from six
months TO one year the time when as.
| signors may apply 10 the court for
/ discharge from their debts; authorizing
the governor 70 appoint q person TO MI
vacancy N the ONCE OF commissioner OF insur-
ance; authorizing the common council Of Mil
waukee 10 order its proceedings printed in the
Polish language.
| MADISON, Wis, March I9-The bill abolish
/ ing the state board Of charities and reform and
state board OF supervision and creating the
state board OF control came up as special order
| in the senate yesterday, and after three
/ hours debate it was passed to a third
reading by a vote OF Is TO 13 A resolution was
adopted to amend the constitution so that
counties having population exceeding 10000
shall be privileged to have more than one cir
| cult court. Bills we're passed permitting the
| establishment OF a ferry at Hudson and fixing
penalty for manufacturing bogus vinegar,
| MADISON. Wis March 2O.-The senate yes
| terday passed the bill requiring telephone COM
panies to pay an annual license fee OF 81. per
]
| passed appropriating 5000 for a water tower
~ the school for the deaf and 81, 200 TO buy
| land for the northern hospital for the insane.
| MADISON. Wis, March 21.-In the senate
yesterday the bill abolishing the
state board Of charities and re
torn and the state board OF supervision
and creating a new board of control was
passed; also bill allowing railroads TO con-
struct underways or tunnels 20 obtain entrance
10 city and TO condemn property for this pur-
pose.
ASSEMBLY.
! MADISON. Wis, March 17.-The assembly
| yesterday passed bills to provide for religious
| freedom in public reformatories. and making
| September a holiday to be known as Artisans
day. The governor sent message vetoing the
bill Incorporating the city Of Kaukauna on &C
count of an irregularity in some of its pro-
visions.
| MADISON, Wis, March 18-The assembly
| yesterday killed twentyeignt bills among
| them one abolishing the offics OF dairy and food
commissioner Twenty eight bills were passed
to third reading. A long debate was had over
the bill prohibiting tle sale of tobacco, cigars,
| cigarettes and narcotics to minors. The debate
| was not finished at the time OF adjournment.
| MADISON, Wis. March 19.-In the assembly
| yesterday Mr.. Halls resolution providing that,
| as various railway and sleeping car companies
| had failed to pay the license fees due the
state, the committee on claims be empowered
| TO draft such amendments as will make
| the law effective, wa adopted. The bill
| was ordered to a third reading which
forbids the sale OF opium or other
narcotics TO any person except on a
doctors prescription and the sale of tobacco in
any form TO minors by a dealer after such deal
er has been forbidden to do so by parent. The
governors veto to the Kaukauna charter bill
| was sustained by unanimous vote.
MADISON. Wis. March 2O.-The assembly
/ killed ten bills yesterday, among them one re.
| firing justices of the supreme court at the age
OF 20 at a salary of $1,000 per annum. Bills
were passed prohibiting discrimination in
! insurance contracts giving justice court
| jurors six cents mileage in addition to the
regular per diem allowed by law; in
creasing the pay of the national guard during
encampment from $3.50 to 81 per day; protect
ing fish in Sturgeon bay; authorizing a dam on
Spring brook, Washburn county; fixing the
time Of the spawning or closed season for
the Brule river; giving to free high
schools from the general fund of the state
sum not to exceed $500 per year. permitting
| municipal or county judges to commit neglected
deaf mutes or blind children TO the state insti
tutions for such persons.
MADISON. Wis, March 2i.-In the assemble
| yesterday the railway committee reported fol
indefinite postponement the bill decreasing the
| fare on lines of the Chicago Milwaukee & St
| Paul road to two cents per mile A bill
was passed requiring foreign loan and
building associations to deposit $780,
900 in cash or good bonds In the
state treasury as a prerequisite for do
ing business in Wisconsin. Bills were con
| CURED in making the homestead of a testatoI
who .leaves no widow or minor liable for his
debts, and permitting female lawyers to act as
court commissioners The governors veto Of
| the Sheboygan site bill was unanimously over
ridden. The civil rights bill was passed
| after some debate. II compels inns and trans
portations TO give all citizens, black or white
the same privileges. Among the bills killed
was one to prohibit the contract labor system
I ia the state prison