The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-02-03
THE STATE CAPITOL
legislative Joke--Another Bill to Tar
olurcn Property-Governor Tay.
ior's Action---Appointments.

MADISON, January 22.-Within half
week nothing has transpired in eth.
or senate or Assembly which conld ha
put down AS an important event of tho
session. But many little things which
- W make interesting reading matter
,or Inc general thinker has taken place.
yesterday the gravity of previous pro-
ceeo,ngs was somewhat broken by a
resolution offered by Hubbard, of She
ooygan, that because the Senate did
adjourn on Friday, January 18th. 1877
"i,noo' tne consent of the Assembly
70 tuesday, January 10th, thereby vic.
ia.ing the constitutional provision.
winch declares that "neither honse
snail, without the consent of tho Other
adjourn for more than three DAYS ),
therefore
| -, Hiss4Ipeo, That the sergeant-at-Arms he ana
ne Is hereby directed to bring the Senate stLa
VI wisconsin before the bar of this honse to
Our Assembly has been called the
House of Commons, but 1 question
whether itshould retain this eognomen
considering the little apparent homage
1t pays to the dignity of the upper
body. And the Pierce county mem
Der did further bring it down from it's
dignity, by having the resolution re:
TERED to the Committee on Charitable
ond Penal Institutes. The applause
which assembled at this double NAV
showed that the Assembly could ap-
preclate an occasional sprinkling of
mock Legislature:
The resolution introduced by Carl G.
Pope, OF jackson county, and referred
to the Judiciary committee, providing
A SWEEPING TAXATION
on all property, except oniy publ;c
property and places set apart for the
burial of the dead. This is designed.
as all your readers probably know, to
prevent any further exemptions from
taxation of property struggled in, under
the heads of religious and charitable
institutions. The bill was referred to
the Judiciary committee, where, after
being considered in the serious manner
which such a subject warrants, it will
be again brought before the Assembly
tperhaps in few days. and again dis
cussed. Much of the solar hidden
talent of the Wisconsin assemblymen
must be brought out when the great
principles of church and state taxation
are discussed.
The reform circles of Madison and
the state were stirred to their depths
when it became known the first of the
week that Governor Taylor had
PAID IN
1925 to the State Treasurer, this sum
comprising items charged to have been
irregularly retained by him. His
friends explain this conduct by point
ing to his nice sense of honor in thus
sacrificing his pecuniary interests, rath-
er than have any strain rest upon mis-
name. His enemies put it down as no
less cowardly move than to thus sure
ly dodge the penitentiary doors. Friend
and enemy will continue to eternity to
hold to these diverse opinions, and,
Governor Taylor himself only could set
either party right. But the money is
paid in, and resolution of inquiry to
the State Treasurer as to the exact
amount, introduced and laid over.
APPOINTMENTS.
Governor Ludington recommends the
following appointments on the State
Board of Health and Vital Societies
o. G. Seldom, H. P. Strong, D. T. Reeve,
James Bintliff, S. Marks, John Faville,
E. S. Griffin, all to hold over until JAN
uary 81, 1877; Board of Regents of Nor
NAL Schools, S. M. Hay, to hold over
until February l, 1879, and T. D.
Weeks, to hold until February 1, 1879.
MADISON, january 24.-No one
species of legislation seems to have SO
struck the fancy of Senate and Assem-
bly, this winter as that of
CHOPPING UP COUNTIES
and forming new ones from the frag
ments. The upper house had hardly
started their machinery before 1t was
proposed to form the county of Mani
fowls out of the northern part of Lin
coin county. There was no strenuous
to this, and the matter was
to the Committee on Town
and County Affairs. Then followed
the proposed slicing of Marathon and
Lincoln counties, making Ludington
county therefrom. This was more than
the patience of the Marathonians could |
endure. and a protest in the shape of a
petition has been received IN the Sen
ate, which is a laughable combination
of earnestness and righteousness. 1t
with drive at the assessors
and supervisors of the county, who, SO
the petition AYERS, in attempting to
levy tax made it some thousand-fold
larger than they intended, from their
scant knowledge of arithmetic.
These men wish $50 the petition