The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-04-04
Our Madison Correspondence.


April 1st., 1867.
Since my last letter some of the important
measures that agitated the legislature have
been effectually disposed of. The bill for dam
ming the Chippewa river has been killed in the
Assembly; the bill authorizing the Milwaukee
e. Prairie du Chen road to build road from
Monroe to Dubuque, after passing the Senate
without amendment, has been amended in the
Assembly satisfactorily to its friends and Will
undoubtedly be concurred in by the Senate.
There was strenuous opposition to THIS Dill ny
Mr.. Myer q representative ofsome heavy STOCK
holders in the road, but the policy OF Messrs.
Mitchell. Croker and other friends of the bill
has been Overwhelmingly successful. A bill
making adultery the only legal ground OF dl-
vorce has been lost in the Assembly and Dill
amending a clerical error in the law OF last
session making voluntary separation OF hVe
years a legal ground of divorce has been con
Cured in by both houses. A joint resolution
for the people to vote on a female suffrage
amendment to the constitution has been re-
iected by the Assembly and bill for a tax TO
be levied in Milwaukee in certain years for the
payment Of the judgment awarded by the STATE
courts to Hasbrouk the constructor OF the
''straight cut'' has been indefinitely post
poned. One creditable bill now a law, author
ICES the Governor to pay the expenses oil sup
porting Wisconsin soldiers who contracted eye
and ear diseases in the U. S. service in the
Chicago charitable eye and ear infirmary a
bill prohibiting the employment OF WomeI
and children for more than eight hours II
workshops and manufactures and making
eight hours a legal days work when not other
wise fixed by especial contract, has passed the
Assembly and is now before the Senate.
majority of the Senate committee on Fedora
Relations has repotred a bill appropriatins
S15,O 600 to S. NJ. Booth for his expenses incur
red in the Glover rescue case. 1t was accom-
panied by majority and minority reports fol
and against. Mr.. Booth has been here through
out the session supporting his claim, and the
use of the Assembly Chamber is granted tc
him on next Wednesday evening to advocate
it, The republicans in the legislature have
carried on the question without any definite
action and the expression have heard on the
Dill uOeS DOJ lCdu llC W pow AtH l'"s7
Mr.. Salesman of Milwaukee has also been here
advocating bill for the payment of $1,000 tc
Mr.. Ryecraft as the amount of his expenses II
the same case. The bill for the payment o.
the persistent Baxter claim which passed The
Assembly has been lost in the Senate, and an
other bill amending the law of last session
relative to this claim has passed the Senate
and is now before the Assembly. l suppose
that but few of your readers will need to b(
told that this claim is for work done on the
old Capitol building, years ago. $4,000 have
been appropriated for the current expenses OF
the State prison and $50, coo for the completion
of the north wing of the prison and also 1885,
900 to the State Reform School. Other usua
State appropriations have also been made ano
81, 600 for paying the freightage and collection
expenses on articles from this State to the
Paris exposition. A joint resolution has been
adopted by the Senate for amending the Con
stitution so that for every twenty miles Of con
tinuous railroad constructed by the state
800, 900 shall be paid out of the State treasury
ANOTHER LUST.
In my last informed you how the Senate
had lusted- after gold, and how they adopted
and then reconsidered a resolution requiring
the State Treasurer to pay the Governor anC
members of the legislature in that currency
more tempting to some puerile minds, thar
the regular Green Backs based on the blood
and sacrifices of patriots. Since then they
have lusted again and nothing more nor less
IF 11r1o hridU p6 and
illustrated dictionary has been the object Of
their lust.
Your senator and other Union senators were
absent on the night that this dictionary reso
luton was carried and clinched and the die
tionaries would have been brought only that
the Superintendent ofPublic Property inform
ed the startled dictionary senators by COM
munication sent to the senate that he had not
any more dictionaries or any money to get
them. The communication was referred to
the judiciary committee, and this 1 hear will
be the last of it, as such an uproar has been
raised on the dictionary question that even
the most craving Senator, has no desire to
have it brought up again by report. The
Assembly also evidenced a similar lust by
adopting a resolution for $25 dollars worth OF
stationery to each member, to include Web
ster's dictionary, but to their credit they did
not allow it to stand on their journal for
twelve hours before reconsidering and reject
ing it.
A MEDAL TO FIELD.
Senator Sholes from select committee made
Just and elaborate report on that part of the
LIT ln,uA -,
cable and Joint resO Itions introduced by the
committee in the Senate thanking Cyrus w.
Field for his ability and energy in cOnsuma-
ting the trans Atlantic communication and
for the Governor to forward the expression TO
him accompanied with such a medal, proper
ly inscribed, as the Governor may deem APP
propriate TO present in the name Of the state,
have been concurrcd in by the Assembly. !
trust that the intended tribute may be care
fully considered and prepared, so that the SEN
timGnts of the people Of the State to an ingen-
ious and untireing benefactor Of the race may
be handsomely and durably shown.
RAILROAD BILLS.
During the past week, another railroad bill
besides the Monroe IL Dubuque bill, has been
finally attended to. This is the Assembly
uniform tariff bill indefinitely postponed in
the Senate lrst Friday evening.
The Assembly anti-consolidation bill was
reported to the Senate last Saturday morning
by three reports from members
of the railroad committee. Senators j. g.
Thorpe and Larkin insisted in recommending
an amendment prohibiting the consolidation
of the Milwaukee, Prairie du Chen q st. Paul
railroads with the Northwestern. Senators,
PIoudft and Sanderson reported in faver of
the bill with slight amendments, and Senator
Sholes made report urging thoughtfully and
deliberately in favor of general consolidation
on the ground that it would quicken transpor
tation, diminish its expense, and secure in
creased facilities for it; would secure increa-
sed earnings and economy of management Of
and so further the reduction of
fares; would promote equalized rates and uni
form tariffs; greater responsibility and perma-
nence, equalization of advantages to different
localities and facilitate the construction of ad-
ditional railroads. This subject is at present
exciting deep attention, not only in the legis-
lature but among the people, and I regard it
as containing the elements of much future in
vestigation and discussion.
\ COUNTY JUDGE BILL.
One important bill, now law, keeps all
county Judges whether appointed or elected