The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-02-17
FROM THE STATE CAPITAL.
The "Last Day ".-.Passage Of the Vance
Bill to Third Reading--.Gray VS..
Bennett..Peck's SneculatiOn.

MADISON, February 11.-Thursday be-
ing the last day for the introduction of
bills, over 100 were presented in the
Assembly and upwards Of rs in the Sen
making the total number present
ed in the Assembly Alp, and in the Sen
ate 289
On Wednesday the Vance railroad
bill was considered in the Assembly,
and strong efforts were made to amend
the fourth section, which provides that
railroads shall not charge one person
more than another for like service
from the same place, and upon like
conditions and similar circumstances"
The object of the amendment was to
strike out the words and upon like
conditions and similar circumstance"
so that the amount of freight could not
be made a ground of discrimination.
The amendment was voted down by
considerable majority.
The special order was taken up on
Thursday and occupied the attention
of the Assembly for nearly three hours.
Several slight amendments were adopt
ed and a number of radical amend
ments voted down. Mr.. Charleton of
fered substitute which did not differ
very essentially from the bill. After
sharp fight on parliamentary technical
tiles the substitute was finally voted
down. After a call Of the house, several
motions TO adjourn, and various hind
RANGES, Mr. Pullen Of Rock moved the
previous question, and a square vote
was obtained. The result was that the
Vance bill was ordered to third read
ing by vote of 81 to 81.
The vote stood as follows:
AYES-AnderSon, Barlass, Blount,
Book, Booth, Cook, Dent, Drew, ELS
worth. Fagg, Field Fink, Fiske, Flint,
Germainc, Gleason, GOodell, Gray, NJ
Griffin, z. Griffin, Hammond, Hardy
Higgins, Horst, Hoyt, keOgh, Kite,
Knowlton, kraatz, Lawrence, Lavies,
Lees, Martin, Macarthur, McCOllum,
Merrill, H. b. Mills, Mohr, PAIL, Phil
lips, Pullen, Putnam, Resell Reynolds,
Ringle, Robinson, Schinnick, Schneider,
Scribner, Shufelt, Stearns, Stocking,
Taylor, Tecple, Tisch, Vance, Wall,
Walther, Washburn, Wedig, Wells,
White, Wiltse. Wolf, Zautcke, Zorn and
Speaker Fifeld.
NAYs-Boyden, Bradley, Brown,
Borst, Bump, Comstock, Coates, Col
burn, Carbys, Chase, Charlton, Dewane,
Dole, J. q. Griffin, Hurlburt, Johnson,
Jones, Jordan, Luchsinger, Marshall,
Mccoy, +. Mills, Mumbrue, Neff, Noll,
Schott, Seamanson, Seymour, Steven
son, Walker and lander.
In accordance with a previous reso-
luton the assembly met in the after
noon of Thursday to consider the con-
tested election case of Gray VS.. Ben
nett. 1t will be remembered that Mr..
Gray, the sitting member from Iowa
county, is but q years Of age, and a
Democrat. His seat was contested
upon the ground that several of the
votes cast for him were illegal, arising
from the fact that said voters had not
taken out the necessary naturalization
papers.
Mr.. Gray made a very eloquent
speech IN support of his right to his
seat, and considerably strengthened the
sentiment in his favor. He was fol-
lowed by Mr.. Griffin, of Columbia coun-
ty, who made a lengthy and able arg11-
ment IN support of the action of the
committee.
Charleton, of Dane, spoke in behalf
OF Gray, and Flint, of Green Lake, de-
tended the action of the committee.
The resolution to adopt the report of
the committee in favor of Bennett,
trays opponent, was lost by vote Of
40 to IS, Field, republican, voting for
Gray. The assembly then adjourned,
but within an hour after it was discOy-
cred that there was a discrepancy be-
tween the reporters tallies and that of
the chief clerk. Therefore to-day the
report was again taken up; the assem-
bly, became dead locked, on a motion
TO dispense with further proceedings
under 4 call of the house, three mem
bers being absent without leave. The
assembly was still in session at 1910 p.
r., Friday evening, with prospect of
holding out till morning.
AGRAHD CENTENNIAL PARTY
Is to be given by the ladies of Madison,
IN the Assembly chamber next Tues
day evening, and 1t promises to be one
OF the pleasantest affairs of the kind
Yet held. This being Leap Year. the
ladies propose TO take the thing into
their own hands, and the younger por-
ton OF the "sterner sex are antici-
paung the event with much pleasure.
CHARLETON, OF DANE.
who Is, wlthal, a very innocent and I'M
assuming gentleman when not stirred
up by the excitement of debate, has
earned for himself the reputation of
being the most industrious talker in the
Assembly. Indeed, the opportunities
for speaking which lie does not improve.
are 50 very rare, that Peck, of the la
Crosse Sun X said IN have .'p,,t r,o,o,-