Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-01-20
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.
W EDNESDAY, jar

WEDNESDAY, Jan. Is, 1864.
At y o'clock, NJ, the Senate was called to
order by Hon. WYMAN SPooNER Lieutenant
Governor, and the roll being called, all the
Senators answered to their names, except
Senators Bohan, Earnest and Frost
The oath of office was administered to the
newly elected Senators by the Lieutenant
Governor.
The President addressed the Seuate as fol-
lows:
SENATORS A su fiji cient number of your body are
in attendance, and legally qualified, to authorize
you to complete your organization, and to enter
upon the business of the session. BY til provisions
of the constitution it is made my duty, while
cupying the position to which the people have
called me, to preside over your sittings. In the
discharge of this duty, IL Will be my purpose Impair
italy to administer such rules as may be prescrb
ed for the government OF your deliberations, and
to assure to each and every Senator his equal right
and privilege upon the floor of the Senate Cham
Der; and by all proper effort to facilitate
the transaction of business, preserve de-
decorum, and maintain the dignity of your body
a coordinate branch of the Government. In
such purpose and effort feel confident of securing
the cordial cooperation of Senators, to whom in
deed, it is mainly accorded, by the exhibition of
Individual quality and voluntary department., to
make up and reflect that character which they, in
the aggregate, as a legislative body shall bear in
the estimation of the public
Permit me to express the hope that our inter
course during the session, official and personal,
may be governed by a tolerant and liberal spirit !;
that harmony of action may characterize all your
proceedin gs, directed by a patriotic devotion to
the interests of the State and nation, made doubly
earnest by a consciousness of that great increase
Of responsibility which is thrown upon YOU by the
present condition of the country and that, at
the close OF the session, your acts may be received
by your constituency satisfactory evidence that
you did what you could to render the State an
efficient auxiliary to the General Government in
its efforts to suppress the rebellion, maintain the
supremacy of the Constitution, and preserve the
entirety of the Union and, generally, to promote
the object of all good goyernment-the securing to
all the rights of lite liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness.
On motion of Senator BOWMAN, the Sen
ate proceeded to the election of a Chief
Clerk, with the following result:
Frank M. Stewart received % votes
James u. Jenkins received votes
+. NJ. STEWART was declared duly elect
ed and took the oath OF office
On motion of Senator CAMERON, the
| Senate proceeded to the election Of a Ser
| geant-at-Arms, with the following result:
Nelson Williams received % votes Jacob
| Boden received votes.
NELSON WILLIAMS was declared duly
| elected and took the oath of office.
| On motion of Senator KELSEY, the Stand
| ing Rules of the last Senate were adopted un-
| I'll further orders
Senator BOWMAN offered resolution in
| forming the Assembly of the organization Of
| the Senate.
On motion of Senator WILKINSON, the
| Senate adjourned.