, 1873-01-23
STATE LEGISLATURES.
WISCONSIN.
Special Despatch 10 4,he Chicago 1tibu',e.

......... BENATE.
MADISON, Jan. 22.--Dills woro introduced fixing
tho salary Of tho Bocrosary Of State, Troasuror,
mud Attorney General At So, 800, and providing
that all feos should 60 into the State Treasury;
to appropriate $100 to tho Waiting Committee OF
S92 a' OF Two 80 bnnggy
moaning.
Tho 6onato blla provide for letting tho pub1i-
cation Of tax~llsta 10 tho lowest bidder, whore
there hro ovor certain llu'nbcr Of dosoriptionsi
to appropriate $780, 600 for tho Northern Hospital
for tho Insane At Oshltosh, $4,000 bo!ng for
curront EXPENSES.
Tho Senate lill declaring Masons, Odd Fol-
lows, and cortain othor socta exempt from taxa
caslonod quito longthy debate. and was finally
passed..
Tho Assembly joint resolution refusing to ro-
coivc my now businoaa after tho 9th Of Febru"
ary, waa conourred In.
Several momorials for the repeal OF tho laws
exompting property from taxatlon wcro prosent-
cd also, tho petition Of s; D. Carpenter for re.
iof from an alleged injustice in tho 6otelement
Of MI old printing contract.
Resolutions woro offorod sotting forth that
tho laws had boen 80 changed by successive on
actmonts, since 1853, that Mother lawyera nor
people could detor-nfno What tho law was, hnd
directing tho Governor to appoint throo COM
1niBsionors to codify and amend tho laws, their
compensation not to exceed five dollars day;
directing au inquiry by tho Commissioner Of Ed
ucation into tho propriety Of establishing uni
form syBtem OF township school government NIL
over tho 8tnto.
Bills woro introduced to amend tho School Law
80 rs to olect all District officers annually; to
disfranchising doserters; to amond Chapter
1888 Of tho Lawn Of 1879, 80 as to provide for col
looting Judgments ngatnRt incorporated villages,
from the property Of tho district embraced, in
amending Sections and Ohapter d, Revised
Statutes, relative to tho sale of lands by o1eou-
tors, administrators, and guardians, for tho
debts OF deceased poreonB; to repeal Section 98,
Chapter 1B2, General Lava Of 1880, providing for
amond Section Q, Chapter 164, Laws Of
1869, providing for lion On logs In certain
countios, by adding proviso in regard
to the manner Ct giving notieoi to repeal ohap.
Of indebtedness OF counties to the State; to give
q minimum compensation for County Judges to
5000 In counties with over 10000 inhabitants,
and $500 dollars In counties with loss; to pro-
yide for printing o,ooo copies Of the Goyer1lor's
| Tho Oommittco on Federal Relations reported
| In favor Of the indefinite postponemont Of the
resolution proposing an amendment to the Con-
| stitution, providing Tor biennial sessions. Tho
majority Of the aame Committee, b1oaHrs. Villas
| md Komper dissenting, reported In favor Of tho
| passage OF McCheever's resolution protesting
against tho passage Of the Soldiers Bounty Land
bill by Congress-
| SulHI GOAfENlAUHs
AT noon the two HouBes met, pursuant to low
| Of Congress and joint resolution Of the Son
ato Assembly, In Joint Convention. Lieutenant
Governor Pettit being acting Governor In Gov
ornor Washburn'a absence, Hon. q. L. Eaton;
President pro lem. Of tho Senate, presided, and,
tho journal having boon read by the Chief Clerk
votes for Timothy Q. Howe to a Tor Henry L.
Palmer and for Charles A.. Eldridgo, Mr. Howe
was declared elected United States Senator from,
Wisconsin for six years from tho 4th Of March,
| 1873.