The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-02-13
LEGISLATIVE.
MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3D.

4. ENATE.-Several petitions were pre-
sented praying for the repeal of all laws
exempting property from taxation.
Bills were introduced to give the ST.
Croix and Superior land grant 70 the
Chicago anG Northern Pacific Air Line
Railway Company for building the
road specified in the grant; appropria-
ting, 500 for chaplain service in the
Senate and 500 for chaplain service in
the Assembly during the session of 1878;
Assembly resolution to receive no new
business after Feb. 9Th. was concurred
in. A bill was passed to appropriate
to the Superintendent of Public Proper
ty $4,000 for statuary.
AssEMBLY.-Fourteen petitions pre-
scented. The report of the commission
ers of the Wisconsin Farm Mortgage
Land Company was presented. Several
resolutions were presented. and 80 bills
introduced, ameug them to fix the salary
OF Circuit Judges at $4,000, appropria-
ting $500 in full for services of the chap
lain of the Assembly. arsa sr,t.. .-srsg
Senate bills were concurred in by a
unanimous vote, appropriating 500
each to the members, of the legislative
visiting committee appropriating $685.
600 to the Institute for the Deaf and
Dumb, and $40, $50 to the Institute for
the Blind.
General Assembly bills passed. The
Senate resolution for copies Of the Leg
islative Manual to the Normal, schools,
State Library and Supreme Court lrepor-
ter, was concurred in.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4TH.
CONGRATULATIONS were presented
praying for the repeal of all laws ex-
empting property from taxation; against
the repeal of all laws exenpting proper
ty from taxation A memorial was pre-
sented from the State Historical Society,
relative to the binding of certain docu-
ments. A resolution having in view
an amendment of the constitution was
offered. The Assembly resolution rels
tive to receiving no new business after
February 4th was indefinitely postponed.
ASSEMBLY, More petitions were pre-.
sented for repeal of Laws exempting
property from taxation, and remonstran-
ces against the taxation of charitable and
religious institutions. Several petitions
and resolutions were presented. The
resolution proposing to toe people to
vote on a constitutional convention was
referred TO special committee of one
at large, Mr. Farr, and one from each
congressional district, Messrs. Elkins,
Villas, James, Seaman, Lopez, Lynch,
Bleekman and Plumer. twenty-five to
thirty-f1ve bills were introduced.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9TH.
SENATE-There were over thirty bills
introduced, including the following:
To appropriate $1,000 to st. Nasimus
Hospital in Manitowoc Co., for the sup
port of the poor; to give homestead set
tiers equal rights with free-holders; to
appropriate $187,35O to the Northern
Hospitalfor the Insane at Oshkosh for
building purposes.
Observation-Disclosures for and remon.
strances against the repeal of laws ex-
empting property from taxation; remon~
strances against the repeal of the Graham
liquor law. A number of resolutions
were offered, to be found in the proceed
ings. There were just one hundred bills
introduced, several of them dead heads,
many local and of others there was no
time to learn the true intent and meaning
of more than few.
EVENING SESSION.
SENATE.-A memorial of Martin T..
Morgan, was presented, for the appoint.
ment of three commissioners to examine
and adjust the claim for improving the
navigation of Fox river, and Lake Win
nebago and Green Bay, amounting to $1O,-
600. Several bills>were introduced. Sew
eral petitions were presented and sixty
five bills were introduced among which
were, to amend the chapter of the Revis-
\
Cd Statutes which had not been amended;
to constitute the Democratic party the
heir at law Of the late Liberal party.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6.
SENATE. - Petitions were presented