Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-23
Legislative Summary.

extending the time for the completion
Of the North Pacific railroad. A bill
was introduced for the erection at Mil
waukee of an Asylum for insane.
MONDAY, Jan. 14th-Assen,bM. = A
memorial to congress was introduced
for the coinage Of silver and to regulate
the value thereof; also for the COM
pletion of the Sturgeon Bay and Lake
Michigan ship canal. A bill was intro
duced to abolish the office of rail
nounced the following
STANDING COMMITTEES:
Judiciarv-Mess Warner, Potter,
Peters, Jonas, Pope, Kelly, Pierce.
Ways and Means-Messrs. Parker,
Dexter, Graham, Hamilton, Luch
singer.
Federal Relations = Messrs. Ford,
VIM. Fitzgerald, III. Smith. Carter, Dor
win.
Observation-Disclosures. Jonas, Durham,
McGinly, Kelly, Oils.
Railroads Messrs. keogh, Parker,
Conditt, Nash, Johnson, McFetridge,
Hurlburt, Bullock, Jones.
Insurance, Banks and Banking
Messrs Johnson, Dick, King, lngraham,
Clarke.
State Afairs-Messrs. Wall, Haight.
Lyle, Hyde, Kimball
Privileges and Elections = Messrs.
Peters, Lawler, White, Gilbert, Barlow.
Incorporations-Messrs. Potter, Vitz
Holzhauer, Guernsey, Anderson.
Assessment and Collection Of Taxes
Messrs. Kickbusch, Dove, Mccoy:
Guernsey, Gray.
Lumber and Manufactures.-Mess
Arnold, fish, Mehan, Ellsworth, Knapp.
Public vements-Messrs. Jew
ell, Burns, Willard, 2. M. Smith, Nit
chell.
Milita-Messrs. Steffen, Mullowney,
Thornton, Woodward, Rusk.
observation-disclosures Ball, Ellison,
Rice, Thomas, Aldrich.
Town and County ORGANIZATIONS
Messrs. Conditt, fish, Cheves, Bryant
Funke.
Roads and Bridges-Messrs Bow,
Coughlin, Langenfeld, Baker, Pember-
ton.
State Lands-Messrs. Weaver, Mason,
Rogers, Ingraham. Hill.
Medical Societies-Mes Post, Mos
cowitt, McGintv, SHEPPARD, Stark.
Legislative Expenditures Messrs.
Mccoy, Wall, James Fitzgerald, Barrett,
Wood
Engrossed Bills.-Messrs. Thornton,
Scotland Graham, Hawks, Hawn.
Enrolled Bills. = Messrs. Flynn
Werts, Burnes, Miner, Sem.
JOINT COMMITTEES.
Claims.-Messrs. Cheves, Meehan,
Bow, Arnold, Jones.
Charitable and Penal Institutions
Messrs. Bentley, Dexter, Lyle, Swan,
briggs.
Printing.-Messrs. Nash, Keogh, Coe
TUESDAY, Jan. 15--Senote. were
introduced to require the commissioners
Of school and university lands to trans
NIT certain information to county clerks;
to ratify, confirm and make valid the
acts Of certain state timber agents; also
memorial asking for an appropriation
for the enlargement Of the Oshkosh hos
pital for insane.
TUESDAY, Jan. 15.-Assenably-B
were introduced: to provide for the
payment Of labor in the lawful money
of the United States; for the division of
the countses of Clark and Marathon and
the erection of the county Of Forest;
regulating the publication and revisions
of city charters; to authorize the drain
age of lead bearing mineral lands; In
relation to the appointment of nOtarles
public; regulating the school month; to
legalize proceedings of the board of SUI
pervisors of Monroe county.
The resolution relating to the enlarge
ment of the state library and supreme
court room was adopted.
| WEDNESDAY, Jan. 16-Senate. The
following was lntl Oduced
| LA CROSSE, Jan. 16. 1873.
To the Honorable, the Legislature Of Wisconsin =:
Agreeable to sec Is, chapter SO, of the general
| lnws or 1861, have the honor to transmit here
with statement of the amount of logs scaled and
| lumber manufactured in this district during the
! season OF 1877:
| Number of feet Of logs scaled at mouth
| OF Black RIVER ..--. Sb. 434, 26O
Number of feet of lumber manufactured
on Upper Black river 10, $50, 900
Total product of Black river....>. Sc, 6s4, 26O
! Number of fee of lumber manufactured
at La Crosse and Immediate vicinity. 80, 600, GOO
| Amount OF shingles manufactured in
Tue uisIlicL %, ooo, uVO
Amount of lath manufactured in the
G. c. HIXON
Lumber Inspector District No. 2, Wis.
Also the following: 73et
| II emorial congress to promote the deposit Of
| savings and retunding the national debt
! To the Senate and House Of Representatives Of
| the United States I'm Congress assembled:
4 Your memoriaiists, the legislature of the state
| of iscOnsin, respectfully represent thai owing
to the demonstrated insecurity of many savings
| banks repositories for the surplus earnings of
the people. public policy and the general welfare
alike combine to demand that congress should
| authorize the issue of bonds certificates of de
post bearing low tie of interest not exceeding
four per cent. per annum, in which the indus
trial classes of the country at all times invest
| their earnings, making such deposits entirely Sc
| cure. and at all times convertible, whenever in
vestors shall desire That the bill introduced by
| Hon. Hiram Price, of Iowa inro congress IN
most Of its general features, meets the approval
Of this legislature; that 10 ms for the payment
or retirem mt OF national bonds ought hereafter
| 10 be made until the same have been offered to
| the people of the United States to be taken in
| small denominations SO that every prudent citi-
zen may have an opportunity, according to his
means, to hold portion of the public deDt, and
| no syndicate ought to be cOuntenanced transfer
ing said debt abroad until the loan has been
| offered in the open market at home through any
| designated depository the ey-order post
| Offices of the United States
Your memoriaists, therefore, earnestly request
that the matters aforesaid may receive the early