The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-04-12
OUT hts UIdI OUIIOS POIIeICHV'
MADISON CORRESPONDENCE.
April Sd 1865

week some important business has been dls-
posed of in both houses. One important
measure that excited considerable interest
was the through train bill, providing for
trains running through from Milwaukee to
La Crosse on the Milwaukee and st. Paul, E,
and the Milwaukee & Minnesota companies
line The provisions of the bill covered the
that one line Of road connecting
with another, should have the privilege of
using its rails on paying an equitable COM
pensation. This bill drew forth many pc
titions in its favor, arguments had been
made for and against it by distinguished
lawyers, and prominent men of the State
had made business of advocating and OPP
posing it in the Hobbies, so that when the
bill came up in the Senate last Tuesday
evening on its third reading, there was
much feeling concerning its fate by The
many interested parties present. The ~.
was refused third reading py 10 noey to
IA ayes. Sen. Sholes, as Sen. Van Wyck
did last season, voted no.
A bill has passed both houses, legalizing
the admission of Col A. r. Chaplin, former
Iy of the 10th Wisconsin infantry and now
residing at Rockford Illinois, into the Wis
consin hospital for the insane. #s
The land grant matter on which there
has been SO much speculation and so much
sharp figuring in the legislative halls, is
now disposed of. The conflicting interests
have been compromised and the bills in
cooperating the Portage city & Superior
road have passed both houses by an almost
unanimous vote and with little or no oppo-
sition The result of this is, that land
grant road will run from Portage city to
Berlin, that another will start from Doty 8
island and run through Ripon, both forming
a junction at Berlin and running on tc
Stevens Point, Bay and Superior.
Memorials and resolutions to Congress fol
the necessary legislation to give effect
to this compromise arrangement, have
also been passed and adopted and i
the grant can be made beneficial to the
State, all that is needed to make it so, is tn,
requisite capital, energy and enterprise. e.
Connected with these lines there are bill!
introduced for others independent of th,
grant from Milwaukee, and other places
which when all are built will make tn,
| lumber and other resources of the State ae
cessible.
The bill to provide for settling the oil
claim of Daniel Proctor for work done OIL
the Capitol years ago, has passed bot
houses, and it is probable and devoutly t
be wished that this old claimant who ha
haunted the legislative balls for years vii
now haunt them no more at least. on sue
perplexing business.
There has been considerable discussion il
the Senate on bill appropriating $4,000
Mrs. Barstow for her late husbands exper
ses in contesting his seat with Bashford.-
! The bill was ordered to third reading b
16 ayes to IL noes, but on Friday evenin
the bill was refused passage by IA noes
II ayes Several of its friends were absen
and they claim they have enough strengt
E to pass the bill. The vote by which Il
bill was lost, is recoDsidered, and the hi
will be again considered to morrow evenin.
= When the bill was on its passage Senat'
d Sholes stated that his sympathies strongl
inclined him to vote for the bill but fro
what he knew and from what he had heal
during the discussion he felt that he mu
n vote against it and did so.
j. The Senate Committee on railroads ha,
made the following report on the Assemb
: bill for establishing a uniform tariff f
freight and passengers.
e The committee on railroads to who
: was referred,
II No. 351 A.,
A bill to establish uniform tariff f
If freight and passengers on the railroads
this State, and amendatory of tho warrior
railroad charters granted by the legistatu
of this State.
Have had the same under considerable
and would respectfully report that in Il
,lopinion of your committee there is no doul
that the Legislature of this State has Il
power to establish by law, the rates to
: charged by railroad corporations in tn
j. state for the transportation of freight an
's passengers, and whenever the rates charge
. by such corporations become grievous an
t. are calculated to impair the interests of tt
= people, and the prosperity of the state,
y will be the duty of the legislature to exc
= else it power IN protecting the interests
the people Your committee are also
Iopinion that the many complaints Of inju
: tice made against such corporations, cali fl
a thorough investigation Of the matter b
this legislature. While the legisIatur
should seek to protect the rights and int
e ests of the people, it should also guard I'll
: rights of all interpretations existing by il
;, authority, in a proper exercise of the
lawful powers. A freight tariff in order t
be equitable, must of necessity be frequent
ly revised, and changed to correspond wit
n the advance and the decline in the price
i labor and materials that enter into the Coz
Of transportation. A tariff that is RICH
to day, may be too high or too low 81
months Aence, An arbitrary rule that can
not be varied according to varying circum
stances, will very likely be unjust to on
party or another. Your committee ar
of opinion that the bill under consideration
does not establish just and equitable tart
for freight. Neither do we believe that w
have before US sufficient information O
zine to enable us to amend the bill as t
make it just and equitable. Your commit
+ tee have therefore instructed me to repor
the bill with recommendation that its fur
Their consideration be indefinitely postponed
4 \. M. LITTLEJOHN, Chm
! The consideration of this bill is made tn
special order for Wednesday at p M. an(
there is much feeling and interest in it.
/ The bill to apportiou the State into Sen
ate and Assembly districts on the basis o
the last census has nassed the Senate md IL