The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-03-14
LEGISLATIVE.

"A potlClOn IN FAVOR OF the temperance
law was presented. Several bills were
presented and several concurred in, among
which was fixing tie price of license to
persons dealing in spurious or intoxicat
ing liquors between $25 and $500 and re
Quiring the County Treasurers to make
an annual statement Of moneys paid to
Town Treasures.
bJg--Remonstrance were present
ed against a division of Marathon county,
and petitions for union of Kenosha and
Racine counties. The Senate substitu {
for the postal telegraph motion was con
Cured in, as follows:
ResoZ0ed By the Assembly, the Senate con
curing, That the Senators and Represent
atiVes from the State of Wisconsin, now
in Congress, be, and they are hereby, re
speCttully requested to urge the passage
of an act by Congress providing for u
complete system of telegraph, connected
with the postofices and postal facilities
of the several States, and so organized as
to bring readily within the means of the
people generally that desirable means OF
communication.
ReseIved, further, That the Governor b.
requested to forward a certified copy o
these resolutions to each Of the Senators
and Representatives from this State nov
in Congress.
TUESDAY, March 5th-Senate,- Several
petitions and circumstances in regard t,
the temperance bill were presented. The
bill for tue relief of Floyd Smith Of Min.
nesota, wrongly imprisoned on charg'
OF horse stealing, was made the special
order for Thursday.
ASSena6Ey.-Messrs Cheever, Swain, L
B. CasweIl, Black and Walters were APP
pointed on the committee of conference IN
the bill limiting railroad election Sen
ate amendments To the Superior Harboi
and the Oneida Indian memorials were
concurred in. The Assembly concurred
In the Senate's amendment increasing The
appropriation for the Capitol Park fen, e
to O,C00, by vote of 56 to IS rejecting
an amendment reducing the amount to
$4,000. Mr.. Hall made an eloquent
speech in behalf Of his proposed amend
ment to the constitution, to restrict mu
nicipal Indebtedness to per cent Th,
joint committee on claims reported in ia
Vor of appropriations of $1,000 each t.
seven Milwaukee II spitals, Orphan Asy
lums and other charitable institutions
The Committee of Conference, on the dis
agreeing votes on the bill in regard t.,
grain purchasers, made a report, amend
ing 1T so as to prohibit sales as we'll as
purchases of grain except at the standard
weight. and striking out the Senate's
amendment allowing special contracts,
which was agreed to by the Assembly
WEDNESDAY, March 6th-Ssndte. -SeV
eral petitions on the temperance subieci
were presented. The Committee on Char
liable and Penal Institutions presented
bill to authorize the Trustees of the Wis
consin State Hospital for the Insane to
sell certain lands, and the Committee on
General Laws bill to organize the paid
IRE department of any city IN Wisconsin,
into relief associations The report OF
the committee OF conference on the amend
ments to the bill prohibiting the purchase
or receiving in store OF grain by any 9th
er weight or measure than at the standard
weight or measure thereof, as provided
by law, was agreed to by vote of 10 to O
assembly Some two hours was occu
pied in discussing the resolution propos
ing to amend the State Constitution, SO as
to restrict municipal Indebtedness to 5
per cent. of the assessed valuation. II
WIS advocated by Messrs, White, Winfield
Smith, Hall and . 'Rourk, and opposed by
Messrs. Winkler and Weeden, all amend
ments rejected, and adopted The even
ing was devoted mainly to the considera
ton of the Senate Congressional appor-
tionment bill. The bill was ordered en-
crossed by vote of 43 to ii, but that mo-
ton was reconsidered by vote Of 45 to
A. A substitute was then offered ana
adopted by vote of 46 to Al. On mo
ton to reconsider and to table that mo
lion, call of the house was ordered, af-
Fer spending some tlne under which, the
assembly, by vote of 43 to 48, refused
10 table motion to reconsider, and did
reconsider the above amendment. 1t was
then rejected by 43 to 40. The bill was
then ordered engrossed by vote of So TO
30, and subsequently passed as Il came
from the Senate, by so to 41-9 not yot-
ing. A motion to reconsider was tailed
ahus finally disposing Of the matter.
A bill was introduced appropriating
$4,000 for the use of the Governor in
protecting the harbor of Superior and "a
curing the removal of distractions there
from. A Senate bill was conquered in
appropriating $87, 900 for the payment of
indebtedness, current expenses and re-
pairs, and for permanent Improvements.
and the purchase of furniture and live
stock At the Hospital for the Insane at
Madison for the year 1872.
THURSDAY, March Senate. "A petit
ton was presented favor Of the passage