Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1840-12-29
MADISON CORRESPONDENCE.
MADISON, Dec. 23d, 1910.
Editors of the Southport telegram

EdltOrS OF the southport Telegraph
The Legislature are making very slow
progress in the business'o Of the session; il
is now nearly three weeks since the ses
sion commenced and no bill has yet been
enrolled for the examination and approval
Of the Governor, the principal topics of
discussion have been the proposed change
in the system of county government, and
a succession Of resolutions presented from
day to day in the Council for the adjourn
ment over the holidays. The repeated and
unyielding efforts made by several mem
bers of the Council, 10 effect an adjourn
ment Of that body for ten or fifteen days,
have as YET proved unavaiting and pre-
sumo any subsequent attempt will be at
tended with no better success, yet it is pos
sib!e the advocates for adjournment may
carry ii tomorrow, as the vote on several
trials has stood six to six, and some Of the
members seem determined TO absent them
selves, some to celebrate the whig jubilee
o! the triumph Of 'hard CIDER" over the
present administration; and others to attend
10 their own private affairs, and 10 spend
the holidays in q moro rational manner,
with "their own better half" and in 'rhe
bosom Of their constituents" so that it is
manifest nothing will be done, whether an
adjournment takes place or not, till after
new-years, when 1t is hoped the energies
of-the Legislature will be faithfully directed
to the business Of the people of the terrific
ry, which has brought them together.
The question of the proposed change of
the present county commissioner system to
system Of township and county govern
mcnt, more consonant with the principles
Of democracy and the wishes and right Of
the people, is likely to become ga vexed
question" in the Legislature. Repeated at
tempts have been made to raise committees
with instructions on this subject, and the
question has been referred in various ways
to committees, but as yet no report has
been made 10 either house, nor has the
subject yet assumed such form as to en-
able either house TO give test ofits views
in relation TO the change. The House Of
Representatives have a select committee
consisting of one member from each cleo
tive district, who are understood to stand
equally divided for and against the New
York system; what their report will finally
am not able to predict. There is unques-
tionably majority in both houses III favor
of'a change but whether majority can
be united in the details and general princi-
pies of the system sought TO be substituted
for the present county system, is extreme
ly proolematical, yet it is highly probable
the odtous features of the present form Of
county government will be removed, if
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the system should not be radically changed.
| am aware that the people in the eastern
counties confidently expect, and in some
instances have peremptorily instructed their
servants to use their influence for the abo-
litlon of the present aristocratic plan of
county government, yet | apprehend it NAV
be seriously questioned whether the pro-
posed remedy, Though grateful and salu-
tary IN its operation upon the eastern DO
puation,) would be healthful and expedi
ent for the people in the western portion of