Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-01-28
From eur Special Correspondent.

From eur Special Correspondent.
MADISON, Jan. &c, 1875.
Since the organization of both
houses of our Legislature has been
perfected, the principal business TAX
en- up and dispatched consisted chiefly
of meeting and adiourning; both
extremes being sand wiched with
slight sprinkle Of resolutions of little
importance and an occasional bill
cut and dried tefore entering the
annual grist Of manufactured law
articles. "A far as The actual BUSH
ness Of the session is concerned. our
sclons are all engaged in trying to
rulverIze their chair bottoms by
patient sitting and waiting for some
thing to turn up. Your oorrespon-
dent finds
SOMETHING WORTH LOOKING AT
in beautiful little string of sinners
coming up in the Senate, and intro
duced by Senator John Black of
| Milwaukee in the shape OF q number
of bills to subsidize sundry and d.
vers Catholic establishments in Mil
waukee, who come forward annually
and under the broad plea of charity,
and good will TO all men, extend
their ever open hands TO lessen the
contents of our State Treasury to
the best of their humble abilities
While all are ready to concede that
charity should know no bounds, it
must not be forgotten that these in
situations are of a religious character,
| Catholic at that, and that under our
constitution, our State ought to have
nothing whatever TO do in sustaining
them by pecuniary aid.
They are only clamoring for So
600 this year, and they say this little
mite Is not asked tor the comfort and
commodity of Catholics alone (why,
of course noD. Every one Of these
institutions are as open to the Jew,
Mohamedan or Protestant as they
are to their own chosen people. This
fact no one can dispute. They are
open to all for the simple reason that
they are the
RECRUITING OFFICES
of the Catholic church, and whose
ever pelts their subsidy plum of S.
900 down for them from the tree OF
state is deserving of strong Demo
cratic endorsement which, IS ell are
aware, most generally emanates from
these stronghold. In your eorrespon-
dents humble opinion these subsidies
are downright, consummate steal
and q
DANGEROUS PRECEDENT
which, once permanently established,
throws open the State treasury to
the reach Of every religious denomi-
nation in tho state DESTROYS of enter
ing upon this charity business. Ser
ator Baker follows up senator Black
with a similar demand for an appr0-
priation Of $1,000 for St. Luke's
Hospital of Racine. Comment in
this instance is needless; for what is
sauce for the goose, is sauce for the
gander, and the quicker the eyes of
our lawmakers are opened, the
quicker there will be a stop to this
system of lander. Senator Barron
has introduced bill to authorize the
Wis. Cen. Railroad to build its road
by direct line from Stevens Point
to Portage city. This is IN item,
which for number Of years, has
never failed 10 coming up on the
journal and if persistent effort Is des-
CRYING of reward the measure ought
certainly to pass. Bro, Pease of the
EXPIRES" will probably file his
demurrer and scuffle will ensue as
usual. While every thing else is still
dream of things to sprout, the
ALL Absorbing QUESTION
seems to be the Senatorial conflict,
and this il, indeed, a matter that..has
kept the political Thermometer up
to "blo0d heat" The throng of
members constituting the "third
house" in bringing this knotty ques-
ton to a satisfactory termination,
has been immense. Hotels here
bave never before been 50 overcrow-
ded with people from every nook
and corner Of the state, who have
focked here either to see the muss,
or to take hand in it, than at this
time. Among them are strangers
from abroad, and old prominent poll
ticians, whose almost forgotten phi
siognomics spring upon the scenes
of active life as unexpectedly as if
they had come from the realm of
shadows to teach a new generation
how TO shoot and spot the mark.
The beet, wisest, and shrewdest
among this latter class Flip promptly
forward to put in good word for
Matt. H. Carpenter,
THE LION OF THE WEST,
and the first and greatest intellect in
the U. S. Senate to-day. The con-