Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-03-28
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE
TUESDAY. March IL

erlng the governor to ill the office Of in |
surance commissioner when they become /
vacant; legaliziag certain acts Of the board I
of superl isers of the town of Stockbridge. |
Calumet county, and Of the board OF Bar |
ron county and permitting Manitowoc to |
borrow $4,000 Senate bills were killed !
fixing telephone rentals at So per month !
making a village supervisor ineligible for
any town office save that of treasurer, con-
stable or justice. and establishing the
nomenclature of north Wisconsin lakes,
AsSemby.-Mr Desmond's resolution
deprecating the appropriating of public
money to private corporations was killed
by a vote of 81 to 80.
House bills were killed as follows Abol-
ishing the Office of dairy and food commits
sioners giving county clerks extra fees for
attending to election matters; forbid ing
the placing of telephones in houses Of
ill Iame changing the rate of liquor
licenses; requiring polls to be kept open
from a. m. to s p. m. in cities; creating
the Office Of public printer; making brib-
cry Of any kind in elections a penal Of
Tense; requiring electric light wires in
cities and villages to be placed under
ground, and requiring presidential elect
ors to be chosen by congressional districts
An assembly bill was passed organizing
the town of Doyre, lIarinette county.
WEDNESDAY, March Is.
Senate "A resolution was adopted pro
posing to amend the constitution so that
counties having a population exceeding
1901 600 shall be privileged to have more
than one circuit court. Senate bills were
passed permitting the establishment
OF a ferry at Hudson and in
curing the penalty for manu-
featuring bogus vinegar. Senator Mead's
bill to abolish the state board of charities
and reform and of the state board of sup
ervison and to create single board 10
perform their duties was ordered to
third reading after long debate. The
bill was opposed by Senators Bechtner,
Hon. Kidd and Clawson, aud favored by
Senators Mead and Lees. The vote was IL
to 10.
assembly The governors veto of the
Kauka lta charter ball was sustained. Mr.
Hall resolution providing that insofar
as various railway and sleeping ear com
panies had failed TO pay the license fees
due the state from them, the committee
on claims be empowered TO draft such
amendments as will make the law effec.
| tiye-was adopted Assembly bills were
passed amending the charters of New Lis
bon and Marinette and the bill was order.
ed TO a third reading which forbids the
/ the sale of opium or other
narcotic TO any person = except
on a doctors prescription and the sale of
tobacco in any form to minors by dealer
after such dealer has been forbidden to do
50 by parent. The bill was bitterly
| fought, but it won by vote of 40 to As.
| Bills we're killed creating the county of
| Colby out Of portion of Clark and Mara.
thon and forbidding assessors to act as
insurance agents
THURSDAY, March 10.
Senate. Assembly bills were concurred
in amending New Lisbons charter and
creating a municipal court for Barron
county. Senate bills were passed making
the license fee of telephone correspondence
215 per cent. on the gross earnings; APP
propriating $1,000 to the deaf institute
for the erection of a water tower, author
izing the purchase of 40 acres at the north
ern insane hospital, and appropriatng
81, 900 to the governors Conting, mt fund.
Senate bills were killed providing for the
establishment of public information
! bureaus in cities having over $4,000 in
haDitants; deductlng from the assessed
valuation of property the amount of in
cunbrance thereon, anu for the more Sc
we're punishment of drlnkards
ASSEMBLY. Senate bills were concurred
in amending the charters of Oshkosh and
Menasha, Assembly bills were passed
giving justice court jurors six cents mile
age IN addition to other fees giving ma
tional guardsmen in camps 81 per day in
stead OF 81 so; empowering countr and
municipal judges to send children to the
deaf and dumb institute; regulating fish
ing in Sturgeon bay and on Brule river;
forbidding discrimination in life insur-
ance contracts and establishing munich
pal court at Oconomowoc. Assembly bills
we're killed permitting supreme court
Judges to retire at the age of 10
on $4,000 a year after serving 10 years
permitting any person to practice law
after studing five years; creating a munich
pal court for Pepin county; and forbidding
all but sheriffs, deputies, and undersheriffs
from serving legal papers.
FRIDAY, March 20.
Senator Clawson offered a reso-
lntion causuring the Milwaukee JOurna