Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-06-13
The LEGISLATURE of this

MAssAcHUsErTs.-The Legislature of this
State adjourned on Saturday night week.
Among the acts passed by the Legislature
were the Plurality Bill which gives the choice in
case of Presidential Electors to the candidate
with the highest number of votes at the first
trial, and in the case of Congressman at the Sec
ond trial.
They also enacteda Free Banking Bill which
allows any number of men not under five, the
privilege of issuing bank notes as money, on
their pledgng security in stocks.
A Bill exempting $500 in the Homestead of
every family was also passed
But, the most important and valuable law OF
all was that which authorizes the use of the Sc
lect ballot. We say the most important, for the
consequences of this important measure are in
calculable in a state like Massachusetts, where
the influential business man or manufacturer
(who has in his employ from ten to five hundred
hands, has been in the habit of directing how
all those votes should be thrown, this measure
will be surely felt and well appreciated. Indeed,
it is but the entering wedge which is to break
up the powerful interest of combined federalism
and wages slavery. This step will do more to
establish Massachusetts upon democratic ba-
sis and relieve it from its ancient smell, than all
other measures combined.
We hope the Legislature of Wisconsin will at
no distant day secure to the voters the right and
the privilege of the secret ballot. Then will the
reign of demagogues be over, and Wisconsin be
indeed what she Is in name, democratic State.
Protection from the Lightning.
We wish to call the attention of the Trustees
of the schools and the citizens of the districts to
the necessity of protecting by lightning rods, the
Public School Houses where our children spend
so much of their time. In a season like the
lightning, the necessity for this protection seems
doubly obvious. The value of the buildings
should be considered a little; to say nothing
about the value of so many precious lives and
jewels of hope and promise that are congregated
there, Not thunder storm has passed over the
city that has not left the track of the swift light
ming on some object or other
The cost of these rods are but little when
compared with the worth of the lives and prop
erty at stake and we hope the trustees of the
districts will take upon themselves the responsi-
bity of procuring thcsasafe guards at once.
o. ISAAC p. WALKER has been 'resolved''
into candidate for the Presidency, bya conven-
ton of Land Retormers at Tammany Hall, New
York-subiect to the decision of National Con-
vention. At which place and time, Mr.. Wilson
of Milwaukee said the nomination would be sec
onded by the Democrats of the west and con-
firmed by the National Democratic Convention.
Yes, we guess it will, "over the left" A man
who has no more mind and stamina of charac-
ter than he, would be wonderfully fit man to
nominate for the Presidency. There is no doubt
but the Land reformers par excellence mean to
keep showing Isaac along into notoriety. But
he will only cheat the bush"-some lucky doc
will always jump into the cars ahead of him and
then swear they were always there. Isaac can,
command the strength of the Free Soiers of his
own State, Who are in fact the only reliable land
reforme-s in this section--for proof, look at the
| delinquents named over by Father Van Amringe
! in his letter few weeks ago to Young America
Those of the bunker stamp have already gone
and tho of the breed wifi 90 the first oppor.
tunity.