Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-02-26

a resolution for another $40 worth of
postage stamps for each Senator. Sen.
RICH introduced joint resolution that no
new business be acted on after the Sd OF
March. and that the 18th of March be
fixed as the day of final adjournment
These resolutions ali lie over till to-mor-
row.
The following bills were indefinitely
postponed: In relation to assessment and
collection of taxes; to amend section OF
chapter 124, Revised Statutes, in regard
to commencement of civil actiens;'' Sen.
BoHAN's bill to extend aid to the families
of drafted men, Sem KELSEY, informing
the Senate that the Secretary Of State had
decided that drafted men could obtain IN
der existing laws, the same aid for their
families now extended to the families OF
volunteers.
political resolutions, was changed from
to morrow evening to week from next
Friday evening. "
Assem6ly-The whole forenoon, until
past - O'Clock, was occupied in deter
mining whether set of resolutions trans
mitted to the Assembly from the Common
Council of Milwaukee, endorsing and
commencing the political doctrines en-
| bodied in the late message of Governor
SEYMOUR of New York, should be printed
in full on the journal of proceedings
After motions to adjourn, calls of the
House, and points of order too numerous
to mention, the House decided lot to
print the resolutions.
| A new "abolition " scheme was pre-
sented in the form OF a petition from WILL
LIAM WELoH, Esq, OF this city, urging a
convention of the States to amend the
| Constitution by abolishing the State Gov
ernments. 1t set forth that the existence
of the State Governments was inconsist-
ent with the well-being and perpetuity of
the nation.
The bill respecting civil actions against
persons in the military service, designed
to meet the objections of the Supreme
Court to former act on the same sub
.ect, was passed.-Feb. IS.
Sendte.-The memorial from the Com
mon Council of Milwaukee, endorsing the
political acts of Gov. SEYMOUR of New
York, which yesterday gave so much
trouble in the Assembly, was promptly dis
posed of in the Senate this morning, by
rejecting it. Various resolutions were Of
fered inviting the proper officers to ex-
hibt the inmates of the Reform School,
tbs patients of the Asylum for the Insane,
and the convicts in the State Prison.
These were evidently designed to have
the effect of running such invitations into
the ground.
The additional $40 worth of postage
stamps to each Senator were voted, and
S. worth to the Chief Clerk, and same
amount to the Sergeant-at-Arms.
Sen. II. S. THoRP presented an able re-
port upon the affairs of the State Prison.
A bill passed relieving Draft Commits
sioner PoRs, for destruction of property
for the sale of gold coin now in the State
Treasury.
The Assembly bill relieving CARPENTER
q HYER from the obligations of the print
ing contract was concurred in, after hav-
ing been amended by the Senate.
The Senate also concurred in the bill
for relieving Douglas county from the
payment of 1000 of State tax.
| Neutrality-suspicious. were presented
by Messrs. DEUsTER, Of the See-Bote,
RoTHE aud JONES against compensated
emancipation by Congress, and for law
excluding negroes from settling in Wis
consin A resolution was introduced to
receive no new business after the I'd OF
March. The resolution to go into joint
convention to elect Regent of the State
University. on the ground that Rev. Geo.
B. EASTMAN was not legally elected, was
laid on the table.
a large number of bills were introduce
ed: among them a bill by Mr.. BING
HAM, providing for making writs of habeas
corpus returnape to county, or Circuit
Judge, or the Supreme Court; by Mr..
TREAT, to release lands belonging to Beloit
College, from taxation; by Mr.. GALLO
WAY, authorizing the Northwestern Rail
road Company to consolidate with other
companies, and to issue preferred stock to
take up its bonded Indebtedness; by Mr..
BATES, repeating the appropriation to
county agricultural societies by Mr.. BAR
RON, amending the Statutes in regard to
lands sold for taxes providing that tax
deeds shall not be issued except by direc-
ton of the County Board, and that lands
sold for taxes shall continue to be taxed,
but not advertised after the first sale /; and
by Mr.. HnDRBRAND, amending the bank
ing law SO as Ia prohibit the Bank Comp
troller fir, IN receiving any stocks, as secu-
rity for circulation, which have been be-
low par at any time during the six months
preceding, at rare exceeding SO per cent
OF their average value. ...-.
The claim of Daniel Baxter, was again
rejected. The political resolutions made
the made the special order at eleven