Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-02-25
EDITORIAL ConREspoNDENCE.
MADISON, Feb. Is. 1856.

/ much excitement short time since, are
slumbering quietly in the Senate, or in the
! pockets of some of the members The COM
mittee on the Hubbell case are still employ
ed, and when they will report no one knows
or guesses. The committee in the House
on the Maine Liquor Law petitions have not
yet reported, but will soon. Four out of five
OF the committee are opposed to the prayer
OF the petitioners, and will so report. The
Chairman and minority will report a bill
with clause submitting it to the people, as
the best thing which can be hoped for this
session, the HOPE, even at that, being very
| slim.
To return to Railroads again, from which,
by-the-by it seems difficult to escape, Bill
has passed the Senate chartering the Wis
consln Central Road connecting Fort Win
nebago on the north with Genoa on the
south, intersecting Whitewater and Elkhorn,
in Walworth County. This is very SINH
lar project to the Fox River Road project,
and will have about the same relation to our
interests. There are now three Roads char
tered or proposed within very few miles of
each other, viz: the Delavan charter, the Fox
River charter, and the Central Road charter
VIII they ALL be built or none? Much
more probably, think, the latter, and yet
there are men spending time and money and
urging the charters as if their very existence
depended on it.
The death penalty bill lays on the table,
awaiting the movement Off its friends. per
ceive you think enough time has been spent
on this subject and express the wish, that
the law of last winter may not be interfered
with. If it required six months hard Legis-
lative labor to accomplish the absolute repeal
of the death penalty, | should think it we'll
bestowed. But | am in hopes this bill will
pass without any great expenditure Of time
or labor, for which result, all signs are now
| favorable.
Some of your citizens | understand are
under the impression and apprehension that
the law of last winter comforting certain pow
ers upon Boards of Supervisors, had been re-
pealed. Let ME say, to my knowledge, the
law has been in no way interfcred with.
A bill to pay the Keosha City Guards
s1GO for services in the execution of McC af-
frev is i'll the hands of House Committee
it having passed the Senate. From the man
ner in which the House to-day disposed of a
couple of bills somewhat similar in character,
am afraid this bill will find a difficulty in
! getting through the House 1t is to be ho-
ped justice may be done in the matter, and
those interested may receive fair reward for
| their services.
| A bill was to-day introduced into the
| House to repeal the Supreme Court Law of
last session. What favor it will meet with,
it is now impossible to tell, though should
think under the circumstances, it would not
meet with much. The Court will involve
an annual expense of not less than $4,000.
1t ought to be very seryicable to justify it.
| believe | before mentioned that propo-
sition is before the House TO change the
present system of County and Town govern
ment. 1t will he warmly urged by its
friends, but have confident hopes it will not
prevail.
Another proposition before the House is,
to authorize the State Superintendent to re-
wise the School Laws. No doubt there are
incongruities and contradictions in the law,
but l very much doubt whether it is worth
while to commence anew again, and under
| 90 all the vexations and difficulties attendant
upon a new law, to get rid of these obiec-
tions, which are every year being better I'M
| dcrstood, and becoming smoothed down.
and this, to say nothing of the expenses.
Our annual State expenses are growing
rapidly. This year l presume they will be
100000, and not less hereafter. A propo-
sition to instruct the Judiciary committee to
report bill so amending the Constitution as
to curtal sessions to 60 days in length, was
| lost.
1 am told q did not read it myself) that
the editor of the Democrat in his Madison
correspondence speaks of me as opposing the
adoption of the Maine Law principle, in the
Free Democratic platform. Whatever might
have been my views on that subject, suffice
it to say, did not say word in the Con
vention on any subject except to move an
adiournment-so the assertion is mere fig
ment of the fancy.
Among the incidents Of to-day, was let
ter from Judge l1ubbcll expressing much de-
sire to facilitate the labors Of the committee
in his ease, and offering to do any thing re-
quircd of him for that end. 1t was quietly
laid on the table, the House probably think