The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-02-09
Legislative Summary.

MONDAY EVENING Jan. 30.-SeRats.-The
session was mostly spent in considering bills
in Committee of the Whole aud number
were ordered to a third reading bill was
introduced to incorporate the State Agrlcul-
tural College Of Wisconsin
As&embtH-A resolution was offered in
structing the railroad committee to inquire
what legislation is necessary to guard
guard against railroad monopolies and also
in regard to the power Of the legislature to
| fix pro rata or maximum tariff.
The only general bill introduced was one
Amending the soldiers suffrage bill,
TUESDAY, January 3l.-SsaGte.-A resolu
ton was introduced making drive at the
Attorney General, inquiring whether there
is such All officer, where he is, how he may
he consulted. &c A resolution was intro
duced and adopted favoring the raising OF a
regiment for iANCoOK's veteran corps, and
commencing Major GEO. t. OrIs in charge
of recruiting fol that corps.
A bill was introduced amending section
So, chapter 81, r. S., relating to execu-
tions and proceedings supplementary there
to, 50 that Judgment creditor may redeem
through the successor in Office of the person
making the sale, as well as the officer him
self making the sale. A bill was introduced
and passed for correcting aud completing
the muster rolls and records in the Adjutant
Generals Office, and appropriating $4,000
therefor.
Bills were also passed to extend the right
of suffrage to persons i'll the military service
so as to allow men in hospital and in detach-
ments of not less than ten to vote; to pay
mileage to the Regents Of the University OF
ten cents a mile but not to exceed $50 a
year to any one Regent
The principal part of the session was oc-
cupied in the discussion of the bill to regu
late the payment of local bountieS to volun.
teers. The majority was decidedly against
allowing tax to be voted to pay bounties
to veterans re-enlisting, who had been cred
tied to localities under former calls
assembly Resolution were adopted, ask
ing the Governor to confer with the Federal
government in regard to further corrections
Of the quota of this State; instructing the
railroad committee to report what legislt
ton is necessary to guard against railroad
nonopoiles, and giving $40 worth of post
ace stamps to each member and officer of
tile Ioi'sa. The Senate resolution, that the
committee on that subject visit the benevoI-
ent institutions of the State, was concurred
in. Isl.
A memorial to Congress was introduced
for a survey of the Fox and Wisconsin riv-
ers, with view to the construction of Il
ship canal, connecting the lakes aud the
Mississippi, Also, a general bill 10 faciIi
tate the collection Of costs and fees III jus
tees court.
Considerable time was spent on the memo
rial to Congress asking for an increase of
bounties to volunteers aud to add six
months extra pay to such bounty to re-
enlisting veterans There was good deal
of discussion on an amendment to ask also
for an extension Of tie period of liability to
conscrption An amendment was finally
adopted, asking that all between the ages of
seventeen and fifty be permitted to enlist.
The memorial was then ordered to be en-
crossed for third reading.