Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-03-01
ESTABLISHED 1866.
WISCONSIN SOLONS.

Both houses of the Legislature held
short sessions Monday evening. OF the
twenty-od2 bills ON the assembly calendar
for third re eading nearly all were referred
to committees. and those advanced We're
of minor Importance The Senate passed
two oils. one of which gives employees
and officials of State Institutions, such as
asylunIs and hospitals, police powers.
There were only four absentees in the
Senate Tuesday morning Senators Mail
er. knudson. Woodwork and Weed. Sew
erai petitions in favor of the hill for n
2-cent fare On railroads We're received
Senator Whitehead's bill providing for
stenographer in the County Court of
Rock County in contested cases was on
the calendar for engtSssment. Senator
Whitehead stated that the bill was purely
local IN its nature and asked that ii be
put upon its immediate passage. as a stem
ographer is greatly needed just now The
bill was passed under suspension OF the
rules The Senate concurred in Mr.. Har-
vey's bill relating to actions against ad-
mnistrators and executors. When Sen
ator Green moved an adjournment until
Thursday morning in view of the Senate's
having accepted the invitation of the bus
mess men of Green Bay to visit the new
reformatory, Senator Jones dissented 'e
thought 1t would be wrong to take tim,
out # the middle of the week to go junket-
ing. Senator Jones called for the yeas
and nays on the question of adjournment,
and the motion was lost II to 10 An old
fashioned batch OF petitions and remon-
strances came into the Assembly. Nearly
all of them related to the fish and game
laws and the bill to reduce passenger
rates to ? cents per mile The Senate
resolution commencing Gov. Scofeld and
the Wisconsin volunteers for their ser
vices in the late war was adopted by a
rising vote. A bill by Mr.. Sturdevant,
relating TO the purchase of stationery for
the State, was ordered to a third reading.
The only change from the old statutes is
that ii relieves the State from the ne
cessity of advertising for bids in Chi
cago papers. The Assembly adjourned
until Thursday morning.
There was a session of the Senate We'd
nesday morning. Those present were Sen
ators Whitehead, Kreutzer, Lamoreux,
Jones, Welton, Anson. Martin Stout and
Whelan. Senator Anson introduced
joint resolution asking that one of three
NOW DtlIS uulit De Htlitu
Milwaukee. The Committee on Judiciary
reported for passage Senator Knudson's
bill providing for a satisfactory correction
of description in conveyance of real es-
tate. The Senate adjourned until Thurs
day morning.
Assemblyman True of Baraboo, who
introduced the marriage license bill, on
Thursday offered a substitute bin at the
session of the Assembly Committee on
State Affairs which is more sweeping and
more stringent than the original The
original bill provided simply that license
must be obtained before a marriage could
be performed. 1t might be secured the
day of the marriage. This would not pre-
vent elopements from Minnesota and Illi-
nois. The substitute provides that FIVE
days must elapse between the time the Ii
cense is obtained and the day of the mar
riage. 1t is expected the bill will protect
Wisconsin parents of foolish girls as well
as those of other States, for the suspicious
parent can watch the records. Any cler-
gyman or justice of the peace who violates
the act is TO be punisL ed by fine or inn
prisonment. The bill has a good chance
TO pass.