By Mr. McDill: No. 111, A., A bill to discontinue a part of a certain state road extending into the counties of Barron and Polk. To committee on Roads and Bridges. By Mr. Shepard: No. 112, A., A bill to amend the revised statutes. To committee on Judiciary. By Mr. Stanley: No. 113, A., A bill to amend section 3533 of chapter 152 of the revised statutes, entitled of the foreclosure of mortgages by advertisement. To committee on Judiciary. By Mr. Pape: No. 114, A., A bill to repeal chapter 150 of the laws of 1881, relating to the payment of a bounty on wild animals. To committee on State Affairs. By Mr. Huntley: No. 115, A., A bill to revise and amend the charter of the city of Beloit and the several acts amendatory thereof. To committee on Cities. By Mr. Warner: No. 116, A., A bill relating to the violation of the insurance laws of the state of Wisconsin. To committee on Insurance, Banks and Banking. By Mr. Warner: No. 117, A., A bill relating to penalties collected from insurance companies. To committee on Insurance, Banks and Banking. By Mr. Fingado: No. 118, A., A bill to facilitate elections in towns. To committee on Privileges and Elections. By Mr. Carmichael: No. 119, A., A bill to amend section 1671 of the revised statutes, relating to grist mills. To committee on Agriculture. By Mr. Estabrook: No. 120, A., A bill to punish the mutilation and destruction of public records. To committee on Judiciary. By Mr. Clarke: No. 121, A., A bill relating to the charter of the city of Wausau, and amendatory of chapter 323 of the general laws of 1880, entitled an act to revise, consolidate and amend the city charter of the city of Wausau. To committee on Cities. By Mr. McConnell: No. 122, A., A bill to amend chapter 39 of the revised statutes, entitled of town officers. To committee on Town and County Organization. By Mr. Lane: No. 123, A., A bill to authorize Edward D. Brown, Thomas W. Anderson, Anderson W. Brown and Webster E. Brown, their associates and assigns, to build and maintain a dam, piers and boom in and across the Wisconsin river in Lincoln county. To committee on Lumber and Manufactures. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. The committee on Insurance, Banks and Banking, to whom was referred No. 11, A., A bill to authorize the Merchants' and Mechanics' Savings Bank of Janesville to reduce its capital stock, Have had the same under consideration, and have instructed me to report the same back with the recommendation that the bill pass. GEO. D. McDILL, Chairman. The committee on Roads and Bridges, to whom was referred A bill to amend section 1323 of the revised statutes of 1878, relating to highways and bridges, Have considered the same, and instructed me to report it back and recommend its passage. JOHN CONLEY, Chairman. The committee on State Affairs, to whom was referred No. 3, A., A bill regulating the rate of interest, Have had the same under consideration, and have instructed me to report the same back with an amendment and recommend its passage when so amended. No. 48, A., A bill to amend section 1, chapter 121, general laws of 1881, relating to weights and measures, Have had the same under consideration, and have instructed me to report the same back and recommend that it do pass. Jt. Res. No. 6, S., Limiting the time for receiving new business, Have had the same under consideration, and have instructed me to report the same back with amendment and recommend its adoption when so amended. J. W OSTRANDER, Chairman. The joint committee on Claims, to whom was referred A bill to appropriate money to pay legislative employes, A bill to appropriate a certain amount of money out of the general fund to William Craven and Riley Fry, Have had the same under consideration, and have instructed me to report the same back with recommendation that it be indefinitely postponed. JESSE STONE, Chairman. Mr. Kidd moved that all rules interfering with the immediate consideration of No. 65, A., A bill to appropriate money to pay legislative employes, Which motion prevailed. The bill was then read a third time and passed by the following vote: The ayes and noes being required, the vote was as follows: Ayes Messrs. Apple, Bartlett, Bate, Beckwith, Bishop, B. P., Bishop, G. W., Bolender, Borchardt, Bowles, Brownson, Cabanis, Carmichael, Chamberlain, Clarke, Conley, Davis, Derthick, Elver, Estabrook, Everts, Fingado, Gillen, Grubb, Haben, Harrington, Holehouse, Horn, Howell, Huchting, Jeche, Juve, Keogh, Keyes, Kidd, Krueger, Lane, Langer, Leonardson, Lindsay, Loomis, MacBride, Marshall, Maxon, McConnell, MeDill, McDonnell, McDowell, Meiklejohn, Milliken, Moeller, Murray, O'Neill, Ostrander, Pape, Parry, Peterson, Pierce, H., Pierce, S. W., Pooler, Price, Proctor, Rewey, Saugestad, Schatz, Shear, Shepard, Smith, Stanley, Stevens, Stewart, Tanner, Tate, Vosburgh, Wakefield, Warner, Williams, Winans, Zabel and Mr. Speaker 79. Absent or not voting-Messrs. Abert, Babcock, Barber, Buckstaff, DeLano, Eidemiller, Gabriel, Goedjen, Gray, Hogan, Huntly, Jones, Moran, Phillips, Rogers, Root, Ryan, Stone, Thayer, Thorp and Washburn - 21. The committee on Enrolled Bills report the following bill correctly enrolled: No. 9, A., A bill fixing the terms of court in the tenth judicial circuit, Have had the same under consideration, and have instructed me to report the same back, C. FINGADO, The committee on Charitable and Penal Institutions, to whom was referred No. 31, A., A bill to ratify the donation of a piece of land to the county of Sheboygan, by the city of Sheboygan, for the location of an asylum for the insane, and to authorize said city to pay for the same, Have had the same under consideration, and have instructed me to report the same back with the recommendation that the same be referred back to the Judiciary committee. WILLIAM S. GRUBB, Chairman. The committee on Agriculture, to whom was referred A bill to repeal chapter 162 of the laws of 1880, entitled an act authorizing and allowing horses, mules, cattle and sheep to run at large upon uninclosed lands in the county of Vernon. No. 30, A., A bill to amend section 2, chapter 174 of the laws of Wisconsin for the year 1879, relating to grain testers, Have had the same under consideration, and have instructed me to report the same back with the recommendation that they do pass. A. O. CHAMBERLAIN, Chairman. The committee on Cities, to whom was referred No. 68, A., A bill to amend section 1 of chapter 2 of chapter 236 of the laws of 1878, an act to incorporate the city of Jefferson, Have had the same under consideration, and report it back with the recommendation that it do pass. No. 78, A., A bill relating to and amendatory of chapter 241, laws of 1879, entitled an act to incorporate the city of Seymour, Have had the same under consideration, and report it back with amendment, and recommend its passage when so amended. No. 79, A., A bill to amend chapter 92 of the laws of 1881, entitled an act relating to the area of villages, and amendatory of section 854 of the revised statutes of 1878, Have had the same under consideration, and have instructed me to report the same back with the recommendation that it be indefinitely postponed. C. E. SHEPARD, Chairman. The committee on Charitable and Penal Institutions having moved the reference of No. 31, A., A bill to ratify the donation of a piece of land to the county of Sheboygan by the city of Sheboygan, for the location of an asylum for the insane, and to authorize the city of Sheboygan to pay for the same, To committee on Judiciary, The bill was so referred. COMMUNICATIONS. Hon. F. L. Gilson, speaker of the assembly: The commissioners of the Wisconsin Railroad Farm Mortgage Land Company, in response to Res. No. 14, A., submit the following report: 1. The number of acres of land conveyed to the company on account of construction of railroad between Portage and Tomah is 68,650; the net amount received on account of said lands is $83.689.80; the number of acres remaining unsold January 1, 1882, is 7,090; the estimate value is $1,772. 2. No lands were conveyed to the company in the indemnity limit of the St. Croix grant. The company claimed 160,000 acres indemnity lands in the grant of 1856. After six years of litigation with five different railroad companies, the circuit court of the United States rendered a decree in favor of the "Farm Mortgage Company" for indemnity lands, the quantity and location to be reported by a master. The case was appealed to the United States supreme court, and on the 13th day of August last the Farm Mortgage Company sold its claim to Edgar P. Sawyer for $160,000, an account of which is rendered in the annual report of the commissioners on file in the office of the secretary of state. 3. The annual report also shows how much has been distributed to claimants and how much remains on hand, to which the attention of parties interested is respectfully invited. 4. The rules for the admission of claims have been amended from time to time, as experience has shown necessary, to protect the company against the admission of fraudulent claims. |