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

to select committee consisting of Senators
Reed, Pope and Littlejohn. requesting the |
Secretary of War to modify the existing or
ders relative TO recruiting, and to allow the
Governor to appoint recruiting agents and
thereby to facilitate the filling of the quota
of Wisconsin.
The assembly resolution for printing the
Governors message in foreign languages
was concurred in, after being amended SO
as to fix the number at 5000 German, g.
500 Norwegian, 1900 each of Welsh and
Holland, and 1000 in Bohemian, and pro-
viding that no bids should be accepted from
parties connected with any press whose pub
locations had evinced dsloyalty to the gov
eminent.
No bills of general interest were introduc
ed. Bills passed to facilitate bringing &C
tons against school districts and towns; to
incorporate the Wisconsin Soldiers Home,
fixing terms of Court in the 9th circuit $
giving the State Prison Commissioners s.
900 for the purchase Of supplies, and num-
Der of small appropriations and local bills.
ASSembJy.-A communication from the
building commissioners including the Gov
ernor; Secretary of State, State Treasurer
and Bank Comptroller, was presented, pro-
nouncing the walls of the retunda safe and
that there was no part of the wall that need
be taken down at present. The communica
ton was accompanied ny letter of similar
import from architect Mix of Milwaukee.
Petitions were presented in regard to
raising money for volunteers; to prevent
railroads from desecrating the Sabbath for
memorializing Congress to make desertion
of enrolled men to avoid the draft a felony,
and for an extension of the CONSUMPTION so
as to include men under fifty-five years of
age.
The only general bill was to amend sec.
20, Of chap. 125 of Revised Statutes, con-
corning pleadings i'll civil actions.
THURSDAY, Jan. 26-Ssnate-Th reso-
luton offered notwithstanding that au
thority to appoint recruiting agents, except
second lieutenants, has been taken from the
Governor and there difficulties about ex-
penses for transportation, subsistence or
lodgings, and that under the existing sys
TEN of recruiting it will be difficult to fill
the quota of Wisconsin and requesting the
Secretary of War to give the Governor au-
thority to appoint recruiting agents-was
adopted.
Several local bills were introduced, also
to increase the compensation of Sherlfts for
keeping prisoners, from $3.50 to So 80 a
week.
The general file was considered in COM
mittee Of the whole, and several bills order
ed to a third reading.
| Bills were discussed, and re-referred to re-
peal the statute allowing parties tried for
assault and battery to testify in their own
defence making parties a. plying to set as
ide tax levies, snles certificates and deeds.
and bringing other suits of that character,
pay their own costs
Senatot VAN WICK introduced resolu-
ton in regard to the care of Wisconsin SOL
diers in the field and in hospitals, which
was adopted.
assembly General bills were introduced
to amend section 80 Of chapter Is, Revised
Statutes respecting assessments; to repeal
chapter 227 of laws of 1860 respecting pris-
ons; to secure correct State enrolment !;
to confer the Land grant on the Appleton,
Lake st Croix & Lake Superior Railroad !;
to amend section 81 of chapter 19, Revised
Statutes Also, memorial to Congress to
divide the State into two judicial DISTRICTS
by creating Western District.
Bill were passed appropriating S. 600 to
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law under which towns, cities and villages
may raise bounty 5000 for volunteers -
After considerable discussion, the Senate
memorial to Congress for the establishment
of Naval Depot at Milwaukee was passed
without amendment.
FRIDAY, Jan. 27.-Senate--A petition was
presented against the immediate collection
of taxes now levied to pay bounties, and a
memorial for the better observation Of the
Sabbath by railroad and steamboat conpan-
ies resolution was offered, directing the
committees on charitable and benevolent
Institutions to visit and report OH the Char
table institutions of the State and those of
Milwaukee as early as possible. The Assem-
bly, resolution against transacting any bust
ness that can be done by supervisors or
courts was rejected.
A bill wasJntroduced to provide for tax
ing census of the State.
The bill to pay the salaries Of the Cover
nor, the mileage and per diem of the 1t.
Governor and members of the Legislature in
coin, was indefinitely postponed by vote
of % to 7.
The remainder of the session was occu-
pied in the discussion of the Assembly bill
authorizing towns, cities and villages to
raise money by tax for the payment of
bounties to volunteers, mainly as to wheth-
err towns should be allowed to give bounty
to substitutes and representative recruits,
which was finally agreed to, and the bill re-
ferred to select committee for perfection
assembly, Several petitions were presen-
ted from Dodge and La Crosse counties for
legislation to relieve farm mortgators to
railroads; also petition for monthly aid to
families of drafted men.
General bills were introduced for the pur-
chase aud distribution of digest Of Wiscon-
sin Supreme Court Reports; for aiding fam
lilies of drafted men aneDdatory of sec. Sc
chapter Is, Revised statutes relative to as
sessment and collection of taxes; and rea
ting to town officers, amending Sec 43, chap. |
Is, r, S.
The Senate resolution asking the Secreta-
ry of War to authorize the Governor to ap- |
point recruiting agents was concurred in.
Adjourned till Monday evening.
SATURDAY, Jan. 90 Ssnate-Lt Cover
nor being absent Senator CHANDLER was
elected President pro TEN.
The resolution instructing the committees
IN Charitable and Benevolent Institutions to
visit the charitable institutions of the State
and of Milwaukee, at as early day as pos
,ible, was adopted. The Senators voted
themselves $40 more postage stamps
The only general bill introduced, was one
Increasing the number of copies of the Su-
,reme Court Reports ordered printed, from
500 to 600, of which 400 instead of 300 /;
IS heretofore, are for the use of the State,
md increasing the price from $3.50 to
;4,5O per volume. The only general bill
passed was one increasing the amount al
owed members of the Legislature for sta
ionery from $15 to 80. The vote was 20
o5.
The bounty bill was postponed to Tues
lay, and the Senate adjourned to Monday s
vening.