The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-02-29
LEGISLATIVE.

MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY ID
S8nGte.-Several petitions were presented
in favor Of temperance law also petit
tion Of former Wisconsin soldiers, pray
ing for the equalization of State aid to
soldiers who enlisted from this State.
Some bills were presented.
ASSEMBLY, Petitions were presented for
the temperance law, and q change in the
system Of school superintendency,a and re
monstrance against the former. A memo
rial TO Congress was adopted for ship
canal around Niagara Falls Senate
bills were concurred in i: appropriating
$23, 407 for current expenses aid repairs,
1874 $50 for Indebtedness, $4,000 for per.
manent improvements, and $500 for libra
~, making S58, 1898 At, at the State Prison.
Several bills were ordered to third read
ing, including among them one to exempt
private property from seizure or sale to
pay municipal debts, in opposing motion
to postpone which Speaker Hall, who had
called Mr.. Barron to the chair, said unless
some such remedy was provided the soil
of Wisconsin wonld be Redeemed with the
blood of its citizens in resisting attempts
to thus Cypress the people in violation OF
all precedent and right.
TUESDAY, Feb. 20.-Senatc A petition
was presented from Lucy Stone, Julia
Ward Howe, Mary Grew, Henry B. Black
we'll, Geo. VIM. Curtis, I. w. Higginson
VIM. Lloyd Garrison, Frank Leland and
81 O. hers, praying for the passage of a
law abolishing all political distinction on
account of sex also several petitions in
favor and circumstances against the tenn.
perancc law The Assembly joint resolu-
ti0n requesting Hon. r. G. Schenck to so
licit from the British government, for the
State Historical Society Library, a set OF
the historical records OF the British Army
and requesting our Senators and Repre-
6entatives in Congress to secure a grant OF
land for the benefit of farm mortgages
were concurred in. The Assembly me
mortal to Congress for a ship canal around
Niagara Falls was concurred in, undet
suspension of the rules.
ASsem1bLy-There were large number
of petitions and remonstrances on the
temperance bill also petition for extra
pay to soldiers. Most of the session was
occupied in discussing the Wirnebago
county contested seat of n j. Judd VS.
Nelson Beckwith. The resolution Of the
minority of the committee on privileges
and elections, that Mr.. Nelson Beckwlth,
the sitting member, was entitled to a seat
in the Assembly, was adopted, instead OF
that reported by the majority giving it tc
Mr.. Judd
"WEDNESDAY, FEB. Observation-Disclosures
Gus petitions and circumstances on the
temperance bill were presented. The ma
jority of the Joint Committee on Appor-
tionment of the State submitted the fol.
lowing report and bill DO apportion the
State into Congressional districts:
The frstdistrict, consisting of the coun
ties of Rock, Racine, Kenosha, Walworth
and Waukesha contains population OF
13S,2O8.
The second district. consisting of the
counties of Columbia, Dane, Jefferson and
Sank, contains population of 1885, 96.
The third district, consisting of the
counties of Crawford, Green, Grant, La
fayette, Iowa and Richland, contains q pop
ulaticn of 1877, $50.
The fourth district, consisting of the
counties of Ozaukee, Milwaukee and Wash
ington, contains population of 1919, 400.
The fifth district, consisting of the
counties of Dodge, Fond du Lac, Sheboy
gan and Manitowoc, contains population
of 1854.
The sixth district, consisting of The
counties of Green Lake, Waushara, WIN
nebago, Calumer, Outagamie, Brown, Re
waunee, Door and Waupaca, contains 6
population Of l48,628.
The seventh district, consisting of the
counties of Vernon, La Crosse, Monroe
Jackson, Clark, Trempealeau, Buffalo, Eau
Claire, Pepin, Pierce and st. Croix, con-
NJ
The eighth district, consisting OF the
counties of Douglas, Bayfield,, Ashland
Burnett, Polk, Barron, Dunn, Chippewa
Marathon, Shawano, Wood, Portage, Ocon
to, Adams, Juneau and Marquette, con
tains population of 83,262.
Several bills were ordered to third
reading. Thebill prohibiting the pur'
chase or receiving in store grain by any
other weight or measure than by
the legal standard of weight or measure
was ordered to third reading. The sen
ate adjourned to Friday morning at ~
o'clock.
ASsem6Ig-A large number of petitions
and remonstrances were presented on tho
temperance BILL and remonEtrance
against the union of Kenosha and Racine
counties. Mr.. Graham's temperance bill,
stNo, 7, A." was considered III committee
of the whole, the amendments reported by
che committee, including those atriking
out the 4th section, Furnishing drunken
ness, and that portion OF the 9th section
making the owners of buildings where IL
qucr is sold, liable. The bill'wes then re.
e. fa.f..l.fs saf .f.tar