The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-04-19
From our Regular Correspondent.
MADISON CORRESPONDENCE.
April 10th 1866


troduced in the Senate and GA in the AS.
sembly, and there have been $50 local laws,
l45 general laws, 119 appropriations, II
memorials and 8 joint resolutions passed,
making S66 enactments in all.
Since my last some important measures
have passed both houses. Among them is
the bill recognizing the State University
and comforting the grant of lands for an Ag-
ricultural College thereon, and authorizing
Dane county to issue bonds to the amount
OF $4U, 900 for an experimental farm for the
University. There seems a determination
to have the State University credit and
utility to the people of the State, and from
the additional facilities to this end afforded
by the Legislature there is every reason to
hope that an institution, capable of giving
thorough and practical, industrial and sci
entitic education will result Its future ca.
reer will be jeaiousIy watched by a people
approaching intelligence and capable of prop
erly estimating the means and exeltions
suppHed LOT SeCtlnS 1t.
The resolutions calling Senator Doolittle
to resign, that you have already published
were adopted in the Senate by Is ayes to
/ noes, and in the Assembly by 50 ayes to
% noes They were ably advocated in the
Senate by Senators ShoIes, LittIeiohn and
Bentley; Senator Littlejohn repeatedly styl-
ing Doolittle 'Johnson's dirt-eater." There
is some curiosity as to whether DoolittIe
will comply with the request of the resolu-
tons by resigning, but those who know
him best laugh at the idea These say thai
he.will only resign to occupy some profta.
BILE office prepared for him by his master, anG
that he will receive the resolutions of his
betrayed constituents in his usual didactic
style, only saying of them 'Lord forgive
them for they know not what they do"
can imagine Doolittle saying these word,
with still sweet smile upon his placid fea.
lures and with his Pecksniffian hand upon
his Pecksniffian breast. No matter what
Doolittle does, the Represent atives of the
Union party in the Legisl ature did right by
showing what they mean and what they
want, as it is too true that of late more
than Doolittle have sighted the radical
principles that gave them power and pIac,
and the country safety and progression.
But those principles will survive the deser
ton. They have bravely lived in a minor
ity, surrounded by obloquy and contempt
and have been the vanguard in struggle
that unshackled the limbs of millions, ape
now in their day of triumph when tn,
peans of liberty float through regenerateC
land and error lies transfxed at their feet
it is almost sacrilege to suppose that few
deserters like DooIittle and Randall, who
these victorious principles made and eleva
ted, can in the least effect their durability
and power. Let the deserters say, safe il
their Presidents favor, as noted character
in Par adise Lost Is made to say by Milton
" Here we may reign secure, and in my choice
Reign Is worth ambition, though in Hell
Betterto reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven
But it is certain that the masses of thu
Union party who have sacrificed for thei
principles more than words and whose va
cant places and MANNED and wounded bod
les attest the sincerity of their professions
have no such thoughts, and cling with re
: newed fidelity to that policy which ter
years ago was spurned in the high places o
, the land, and which now in its power jus
as Independent of patronage as in its weak
ness, refuse to compromise with wrong auC
smile on measures whose hesitancy to admi
, full right and progression, is their best re
commentator to the select few favorins
them. aai1 alI
; The bill appropriating 100000 to pur
) chase tract of wood land adjoining the In
; sane Hospital got through the Senate but
> was lost in the Assembly, but an appropria
ton passed both houses, and at meeting
8 of the trustees held last week it was resolved
. to advertise for proposals for the construc
ton of two additional wings
The railroad bills that created such ar
excitement and made the railroad men sc
busy have both been killed. The Assembly
freight and tariff bill died through not re-
ceiving the concurrence of the Senate anC
: the Senate Commissioner bill, being the
substitute prepared by Senator Sholes dice
t flor the want of the Assembly's concurrence
, If this last bill had become law much
, would have been done to allay the existing
agitation on this subject; which will un
doubtedly continue and in the end produce
bill perhaps not so just to the railroad
companies and the people, as the measure
pr opposed by Senator Sholes, which met the
! apl robation of the many thoughtful anc
j, exp arienced men who examined it.
The dog law, Notwithstanding the many
proposed amendments one or two of which
are incorporated in the law, will remain
nearly the same as before the session, nc
county or counties being exempted from the
lprov1sions of the, law and the tax on dogs
ranging from 50 10 So or according 10 sex
The Larkin bill that l gave you the par
ticulars of in my last, has become law by
1.-THE Governor again signing it. Hego lie
gal advice as to the condition of the bill af
ter he had ence signed it, which proved the
bill to all intents and purposes a law. p.
The lawyers must keep d sharp look out
on the laws that are published If they wish
to keep track of the numerous amendments
to existing laws and statutes that have
been made. The numerous amendments Of
this character that each session produces,
occasions general surprise and to thought
full man gives the idea that our laws have
not the immutuabIe quality, attributed to
those Of the Modes and Persians
A bill has probably become a law ap-
pointing three commissioners to revise the
assessment law. 1t is said that three capa-
BILE, steady men can make needed improv-
ment in this instrument. and that the next
Legislature may expect perfect bill on the
subject
Before the Legislature adjourned there
were some present atoms in the Assembly
but none in the Sci nate. Speaker Barron was
u I i. I Il.