The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-02-13


ASSEMBLY. = Several remoDstrances
were presented against the repeal of laws
exefnpting religious, educational and
charitable Institutions from taxation; also
a few more petitions for the REPEAL of
laws exempting property from taxation.
Several resolutions were passed.
Messrs. Leland, Button, Bartran, Roe
noer and Zimmerman were appointed q
select committee on the bill to amend the
Graham liquor law A communication
from the Governor was received trans,
uniting an account OF moneys, received
and dis bursed for the fire relief fund,
showing that S. 1913 remained in his
khands January 1st; also inciosing reports
of Capt. A. j. Langworthy, chairman of
the relief committee, and Hon. G. D.
Robinson, chairman of the auditing COM
mittee at Green Bay, showing $3,034.54
left in their hands; also the report of Mr..
Laugworthy in regard to the expenditure
of the State appropriations to rebuild
school houses, and repair roads and
bridges, and expressing the opinion that
| the thanks Of the State was due to those
gentlemen and others for the excellent
manner in which they have discharged
their difficult and delicate duties. A
Senate bill was concurred i'll appropri-
ating $40, 600 for the purchase of station
cry. Several Assembly bills passed,
among them to provide for the payment
of certificates in criminal cases. -Four or
FIVE bills were killed, including one to
make incurable insanity after three years
ground of divorce, and one making an
appropriation to Edwin Hurlbut, for the
Expenses in attending the Prison Reform
Congress at Cincinnati, in 1870. hyd
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY
SEEArE.- ASS, mbly bills were con-
Cured in to amend the act to incorporate
The Wisconsin State Horticultural Society,
and the printing and publishing of its
transactions by appropriating. $50, annu-
ally for printing; to prevent fishing with
nets in water less than 10 miles square.
The Senate bill to enable poor persons to
obtain justice freely was committed to a
select committee of three. The bill ap-
propriating $4,000 to the State Prison
for current expenses, repairs and indebt
edness, and was finally ordered to q third
reading.
ADMINISTRATIONS were presented
for comforting the land grant on the North
Wisconsin and Milwaukee and ST. Paul;
petitions for and remonstrances agains st
repeal of the tax exemption laws. A res
olution was offered for final aijournme Mt
on the 27th The Assembly refused to
adjourn to Monday evening.
SATURDAY FEBRUARY StbA .r
STANDARDIZATION and circumstances
were presented. A communication was
received from the Governor, submitting q
report of his action in the settlement of
the Duluth Dyke trouble, and was referred
to the committee on State Affairs. The
following joint resolution was concurred
in:
ResoJoed By the assembly the Sencte con-
earring, That our Senators and Repre-
sentatives in Congress be requested to use
their inflnonce and best efforts to obtain
appropriations from the general govern
ment for the improvement of the harbors
at the mouth of the Menominee river, be-
tween Michigan and Wisconsin, and the
harbor of the mouth of the Oconto river
In the county of Oconto.
| The Senate adjourned till Monday
evening. a'lH
ASSEMBLY. Petitions for and remon-
strances against the repeal of laws ex
emptlng property from taxation were
presented, also petitions for the bestowai
of the land grant, some in favor of the
North Wisconsin, some of the Milwaukee
81 st. Paul Railroad companies. One
committees report was submitted. NO
bila were acted on. Adjourned TO Mon
day evening. # .
There is strange report from Madrid,
to the effect that King Amadeus proposes
a ~oIs a.