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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Sun
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1890
Page
14
The Wyoming territorial assembly passes bills on penitentiary funding and Union Pacific indebtedness, approves licenses and gambling controls, reads and engrosses measures on coal weighing and poll tax collection, and creates Weston County while debating wages exemptions and game protection. The session adjourns after a lengthy committee review.
The council and house initiate and consider numerous bills including budgets for the insane asylum and hospital at Rock Springs, amendments to statutes on incorporation, education for the blind, militia organization, and a new criminal code. Various committees report amendments pass measures, and the governor approves several acts while nominations are debated and postponed.
The Friday session had full attendance except Evans. Council file 40 proposing a territorial hospital at Rock Springs was read first time. Several bills advanced on third reading, including council file 19 granting municipal corporations extra powers and council file 31 amending banking stock requirements.
The article notes a legislative action on wages and debt attachment with a 15 to 6 vote. It also mentions Council file No. 36, setting a rate paid by insurance companies to city fire departments, approved by an 11 to 9 vote, with Schnitger and Hebard opposing.
Unanimous consent Dwight Kellogg introduces House Bill 109 to promote farm product growth while Mr. Adams moves House Bill 101 to amend school laws. Bills 104 73 85 cover banks constitutional employee pay and territorial brand registry as the house debates general file. The session resumes with committee of the whole chaired by Mr. Adame and consideration of Council File 18 on wildlife protection.
The council opened with routine business and first readings of several house bills. H B No 75 would increase the jurisdiction of justices. H B No 91 concerns pleadings in civil actions. H B No 93 repeals a prior section.
Emma Juch, an American soprano, sang major roles in London under Colonel Mapleson before engagements with Thomas and Steinway. Her career featured Verdi’s Traviata and Wagner selections on a home tour, earning praise for discipline and development. An A. M. E. debate last night addressed government policy toward colonisation in southern states and Oklahoma, with judges noting strong negative arguments.
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