The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-03-19
FROM MADISON
Adjournment of the Legislaturd.
Review of Its Action

| From Tie Madison De at.
| The Legislature adjourned at 9 o'clock r.
m. yesterday. after a session Of forty nine
| days. This is the shortest regular scs sion
/ Of tie legislature ever held IL Wisconsin,
| vet 1t has accomplished more for the people
than all the lengthy sessions of rhe last FIVE
wears combined. The reform assembly has
lone a great work, and has forced repab
fcan Senate to enact some wholesome leg
i-lation. II has IN the main ,rIed out the
exreilent recommendations contained IN
Gov. Taylor's annual message. II has cur
tailed The current expenses, and has fur
nished the people some profession against
the greed and extcrtion OF grand monopo
los. The new party has iraugurated as
era Of retrenchmcnt and reform hitherto
unknown in the history nf Wi COZ sin.
We shall not at this time ATTEMPT a re.
view Of the work Of the session, Of the
bills introduced. passed and defeated. It
* almost wonderful that so mnch should
haSe been accomplished in eight weeks.
An enumeration Of some of the more i'm
pCrtant bills that passed the Reform As-
aernhly to meet with defeat in the Repair
lenn Senqt" will probably conclude the
brief notice Of the final adjournm mt. The
first reform measure that was slaughtered
h7 the Senate was the registry law tina
would have saYel the state AT least So ,GG0
Gen. Vests warehouse BIZ that would
have saveI the farmers Of thi~ state one
cent = hu>hc! on al tie grain they sold.
~"nt through the House 10 meet it. fate in
the Srnata The hin to Tux Insurance com
rnnir~, iiiat would haze brought 800 600
rnto the state treasury aud relieved thr
p"op'cof IL It amount of bnrdensam. taxes,
was killed in the Sennte after passing the
Assembly hy large majority.
The bes: and most restrictive railroad
bill OF the session wa. introduced by Cen
West, and adopted by the Reform Assem-
Big ns emboiying the legislation required
on thi. subject, amended in the Senate
BY the adoption of a substitute very mill
in it, provisions, and mere acceptable to
tie railroad monopolies The Assembly
pas.eG bill lncrcasin. the license fee Of
railroads to five per cent, but the Sena'e
reduced the amount 70 four per cent. Tie
House nlSo pro.uScl bill nbolishing un-
just determinations l,y railway companies,
but it was either defeated BY tie Senate or
50 modified as TO destroy its force And
- close the iaburs tia. senate refused 10
concur in the bill passed hy the Assemble
to straiglten the line Of the Central Wis
cnnsiG railroad between Portage City and
Stevens Point. That measure alone would
have dore more to incrense the vaire af
r"t, estate in central and southern Wis.
consin, than all the legislation that was
pnssei this session.
We do not Of course claim that all Of
these questions were party measures. We
can safely say, however, that had the com
r'cxio7 Of the Senate been different most
Of these hII's that were defeated " liIat
body would to day have been enuctei irto
iu-t and wholesome laws While they
were not distinctly political issues, they
serted to indicate the sympathy of the re-
form tarty with the people, and their tilel
i,y tc every pledge made during the last
ctmpaiSn.