Wolf permitting a county to help a
town in building a bridge when the
cost exceeds one-half of one per cent,
(not 1-4 as now) of the valuation of
the town property; by Mr. Bullard,
making It an offense for any person
to beat a hotel keeper by a false show
of baggage or for such person to se
crelty remove baggage on which a Hen
rests; by Mr. Boncel, making the
homestead-exemption from seizure
$5,000; by Mr. Hagemelster, permit
ting counties to establish workshops
to which tramps and persons guilty of
misdemeanor shall be sent instead of
to Jail and kept at hard work; by Mr.
Blake, absolutely forbidding deception
of every character in relation to the
sale of butter and cheese.
Madison. Wls., Jan. 24. —bills were
introduced lu. the senate: by Senator
Thayer, providing that men who can
not mark their own ballots in the elec
tion booth be permitted to have as
sistance; by Senator Davis, to provide
for joint county workhouses for vag
rants; by Senator Putnam, prohibit
ing gambling, and tie sale of liquor
on. fair grounds under penalty of the
withdrawal of state aid.
lu the assembly bills were intro
duce*!: by Mr. DeGroff, making the
annual license fee of sleeping car
companies 5 per cent, on their gross
earnings: by Mr. Stillman, making the
homestead exemption $5,000: by Mr.
Surge, providing for the compilation
at, a cost not to exceed $1,500 and the
publication of 8,000 copies of the
town laws of the state: by Mr. Boncel,
exempting from attachment monthly
pay of married men to the extent of
$3O, instead of s(io as now: by Mr.
