The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-02-15
LEGISLATIVE.

MONDAY EVENING FEB. 5-Se'sate-No
quorum present and no business done.
.Assem5ly-There were sixteen petitions
presented, mainly for law to restrain llq
uor dealers. Several resolutions were IF
fered, and fourteen bills were introduced
among which were to repeal that part OF
the law passed last winter requiring In
mates of the Hospital for the Insane TO be
partly supported by relatives or localities
to exclude private property from seizure
Oh sale for municipal debts. Memorials
were introduced to Congress for grant
of land to aid the Green Bay and Superior
Rail Road and to authorize the Oneida
Indians to become citizens.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6th-S6R0te-Pe
titions were presented for and against the
passage of the bill to prevent the evils
resulting from the sale of intoxicating
LIQUORS. The Senate refused to concur in
the Assembly joint resolution Of inquiry
as to the expediency of using money con
tributedtof fire sufferers for there establish
ment of roads and bridges destroyed By
the great fires in Northern Wisconsin,
Bills were introduced to appropriate t.
the Joint visiting committee 500 each
for the collection of statistics Of towns
villages and cities, showing the amount
of taxes raised therein; and providing fl
the collection OF judgments against incor
porated villages. A communication was
received from Governor Washburn, re
appointing William Starr and w. G. Whit
ford and app hitting J. FL. Evans as
Regents of State Normal Schools for three
years from January /, 1872.
Assem5}y-Petitinns were presented for
temperance law and a change in the sys
tenn of school superintendency.
The following resolution was adopted
ResoZoed BIZ the assembly, the Senate con
curr5ng, That the committee on the Re
vision of the Statutes be instructed to take
into consideration the propr:ety of re
curing all railroad companies hcreinaft Ell
incorporated, to plans forest or timber
trees upon both sides of their track, with
in a limited time after its completion
A number of bills were introduced and
the bill repeating the dog tax was re
jected.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY Senate
Fourteen petitions were presented tor the
passage of 3 law to prevent the evils re
sulting from the sale of Intoxicating liq
uors. Senator Reed introduced the fol
lowing, which was adopted:
ResoIued by the Senate, the assembly con
calrrd71q, That the State Board of Ohari-
ties and Reform be instructed to investi
gate and ascertain the number of foreign
born citizens who are now inmates of our
charitable and penal institutions, lnciud
ing county iails and poor-houses, and
what number of those who are such III
mates that have been IN similar instltu-
tions in the country from which they
came, so far as practicable, and to report
as fully as they are able to do, in their
next annual report.
A resolution was introduced to furnish
the County Clerks of the several counties
one copy of TayIors Compilation of the
Revised Statutes, for the use Of said coun-
ties A Joint resolution authorizing mem
bers of the Legislature to exchange ore
COPY of the Revised Statutes for Taylor
Compilation, was adopted. The joint
resolution ordering 5000 copies OF the
report on the lead regions, was adopted
The Senate concurred in the Assembly
Joint resolution instructing the Committee
on Revision of the Statutes to take Into
consideration the propriety OF requiring
railroad companies hereafter incorporated
to plant trees on the line of their roads
The nominations made by the Governor
for members of the Board OF Regents Of
the Normal Schools, were confirmed
AS8em6W.--SeYeral more petitions were
presented, including one Of 100 inmates OF
the State Prison, for the passage OF the
personal responsibility temperance Dill
mo. ia } and a number Of remonstrances
mainly from Milwaukee, with over 6,OOl
signatures against the passage OF SAID
bill also, petitions Tor q change OF school
superintendent system. Several bills were
introduced among which was one to make
drunkenness capital crime.
THURSDAY, FEB. S--6endte-A petition
was presented for law to prevent evils
resulting from the sale of Intoxicating
LIQUORS. A jsint resolution instructiDg
the Secretary OF State to deliver to each
messenger of the Senate and Assembl :
one copy of the Legislative Manual fol
1872 was offered and adopted. The reso
luton requiring the Secretary of State tc
furnish to the county clerks OF the State
one copy Of Taylor's compilation of tht
Revised Statutes was adopted. A bill
was presented to repeal chapter 1855, gen
eral laws of 1868. providing for the vsi
tation of the State Prison and ReformatorJ
institutions of the State. Several unim
portant bills were concurred ln.gT