Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-04-18

apportionirg the state into congressional
districts was passed by r strict party vote
A bill was concured in, providing for a re-
tired list Of the Wisconsin national guard.
Senator Main offered an amendment to
the assembly bill prohibiting the sale of
morphine or tobacco in any form 20 mi
nors, striking out the section relating TO
morphine rs that was already covered 10y
general statute forhiddng the sale Of NOR
phine to any person excep. on physician 5
prescription. and It was adopted and the
bill ordered to IA third reading. The bill
amending the license law IN relation to
pharmacists came up upon its third read
ing. Senator Joiner opposed the bill as a
ra heal change not in the interests of the
temperance element of the state. Senator
Woodnorth, who is druggist,
said the object of the amendment
was to raise the pharmacy above
the saloon The bill was killed.
At the evening session of the senate the
Legislative reapportionment bill was re-
ported back BY vote of 20 to 2 the as
sembly bill was killed which proposed to
reduce the compensation of weekly papers
for publishing the laws from 500 to $50.
assembly, proposition to hold night
sessions regularly was voted down. The
following house bills were passed: Con-
terring additional jurisdiction on the
county court of Portage county; providing
for fshways in dams in Rock river; to in
corporate the city of Durand; making
Scribner rule the standard for scaling
logs in Wisconsin; appropriating $1,000
for new building at the state fish hatchery;
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providing for liens upon logs, so as to bet
ter protect furnIshers of supplies to log
glng camps; for preservation of trout in
rivers and streams in Polk county; relat-
ing to sale of lots by trustees of cemetery
associations; providing for the pubica.
tion of statements of banks in towns and
villages; amending the charter of Chip
pewa Falls; fixing terms of court IN
Brown county, and amending the general
laws governing improvements in villages.
The following senate bills were concurred
in: Authorizing the state treasurer to
credit S9,44S TO the Chicago, st. Paul,
Minneapolis & Omaha rail way for excess
Of taxes heretofore paid; Incorporating
the Oshkosh and Mississippi Railway COM
pany; making appropriations of about half
million dollars to the penal and other state
institutions; providing for the appoint
ment of agents of the state public school
who shall look into the condition of all chill
dren for whom application for admission
has been made; to credit to Jackson county
amounts due for the sale of swamp lands
within its limits: making trustees of a
county asylum for chronic insane ex--
ofhcio trustees of the poor house, author
izing an inquiry into the religious be-
lief of dependent children by
judges and others authorized TO
commit such children and to take such be-
lief into consideration in making the com
mitment; to improve a branch of Pine
river, in Forest county; providing for a
contingent fund for the governor, and Civ
ing to James Reynolds authority to drain
Muskego lake. The Maxon and Dixie CO.
employe bills were indefinitely postponed
without discussion. The assembly at its
evening session, Senator Mains bill pun
ishing habitual criminals by life imprison-
ment was killed. The bill was also killed
which sought to prevent fraud in the
manufacture of baking powder.