Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-04-15

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Toe subject of state agencies and a con-
tingent fund for the relief of Wisconsin sick
and wounded soldiers, was referred to the
committee on State Affairs.
a large number of bills were passed, in
GLIDING Senate bills relating to evidence in
certain cases; to appropriate to the State
Hospital for the Insane $4,000 for current
expenses; requiring assessors to omit the col
lection of the usual statistics this year; to
amend section IS, chapter 134, r. s., rela-
tive to executions; relating to the duties oil
the school land commissioners; to amend Sec
ton 95 of chapter 10, r. s., relative to the
bonds of sheriffs; also Assembly bills relative
to costs and fees; to amend chapter 1877, gen.
eral laws of 1859, amending chapter Is, X.
S., relative to the assessment and collection
of taxes; relative to costs and fees and to
repeal chapter 2S9, general laws of 1862;
to provide for the payment of State tax on
suits in certain cases; for the relief of sew
eraI county agricultural societies.
assembly. The Committee on Education,
to whom was referred the resolution in re-
gard to the expediency of requiring parents
to send their children for a stated time each
year, to some public or private school report
ed in favor of the principle of such law, but
expressed the opinion that it was too late at
the present session to attempt the passage of
bill on the subject.
Senate bill was passed to protect bailors
Of personal property, and Assembly bills to
amend sec 81, chap. ll2 r. s., concerning
guardians and wards more effectually to pro-
tect state lands; and foritaking dispositions of
persons in the military service.
The Assembly refused to order the bill
raising the salary of the Governors Private
Secretary to $4,000 to a third reading. Bills
apprOpriating $4,000 to the Insane Hospital,
to provide for extra pay to Wisconsin SOL
diers and pensions for the wives and children
of those dying in the service and to encour-
age immigration, were lost.
WEDNESDAY, April 5.-Seadte. bills
passed ratifying the organization of the Mil
waukee and st. Paul railroad company under
the land grant sale; limiting the pay of the
Assistant Adjutant General to 81, 542; relat-
ing to absent, nonresident or concealed de-
PENDANTS in certain cases. Among other AS
sembly bills passed was one for the better
protection of State lands having mineral upon
them.
A bill to authorize the Oshkosh and Wau-
sau railroad company to build road from
some point on the Wisconsin river to Lake
Superior was ordered to third reading, the
vote reconsidered and the bill postponed till
tomorrow. The bill authorizing a committee
to examine military claims was refused a
third reading.
ASsenbly.-The resolutions for a settlement
with Prof. HALL of the late.geological survey
we're tabled.
Several local bills were passed; also bills
to encourage the wool growing interest, re-
lating to grants of lands, and amending the
statutes concerning alienation by deed; and
authorizing the state banks to reduce their
capital stock.
Considerable time was occupied in the dis
cussIUu VI DIIIs pTUuIoIGIng raIIIUau UounPa-
mics 20 carry freight cheaper for one person
than for another, and amending the Wiscon-
consin state telegraph charter. The former
was ordered to third reading.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, April 5.-Sendte.-
The Senate voted to recall from the Assem-
bly, the bill confirming certain acts of the La
and then returned it again. The Judiciary
Committee reported against the bill forbid
ding consolidation by the Milwaukee and Chi
cago Railroad Company, the Senate refused
to suspend the rules for action on the bill and
made it the special order for IL A NJ Thurs
day. An Assembly bill proposing to extend
aid to the wives of soldiers who have mar
ried since they entered the service and to
some others, was referred to the Finance
Committee, which is understood to indicate
the defeat or essential modification of the
bill.
Assembly bills passed restoring the per
diem of the Supreme Court Clerk; and in re-
lation to the investment of the trust funds
| of the State.
Assenlbly-3 O'CLOCK P. M.-The vote by
which the bill appropriating $4,000 for the
purchase of 100 additional acres of land for
the State Hospital for the Insane was killed,
was reconsidered.
The committee to codify and consolidate
all laws relative to the assessment and collec-
ton of taxes, reported two bills, one relating
to the assessment, and the other to the col
lection of taxes.
The remainder of the afternoon session was
spent in Committee of the Whole on the bill
to incorporate the Portage City & Superior
Railroad, and confer the land grant upon the
Company. Pending the consideration of the
bill, the House adjourned till u o'clock P. M.
Bills were passed at the evening session
relating to railroad corporations; to legalize
an order of the board of supervisors of Craw
ford county; to amend the Racine city char
ter; to incorporate the 0utagamie Petroleum
Company; to regulate academies, colleges
and schools; to repeal chap. 1872, local laws
of 1864, amending charter of Sinsnewa Mound
College to incorporate the Northwestern
Business Mems Company; relating to taxes,
and regulating the issuing Of tax deeds; to
provide for the completion of the south wing
of the capitol.
THURSDAY, April 6.-Senate.-The Commit |