The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-04
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.


A MHwAUKEE dispatch of Jan. 90 says. &
well-laid plan to influence legislation regarding.
railways has just come to light, and promises.
to make great sensation. Under cover OF in
dorsing the Reagan bill, the plan has been
formed to make determined pressure on the
Legislature to increase the taxation Of
railways in Wisconsin, and also to en-
act some law similar to the old and
YeI-known Potter law, regulating firmly
the terms for freight and passengers, and also
preventing determinations. It has been sup
posed that some such movement was on foot IN
the rural districts, but it now appears to have
originated among the Boards of Trade and
business men of the large towns. It will bs
eagerly supported by the Granger element, and
there is much comment arising in business cir
cles and much uneaslness among the railways.
Bills increasing the taxation Of express and
telegraph companies have already been intro
duced, and the one concerning railroads viii be
heard from in a few days.
MONDAY, Jan. 31.-Both houses had an even
ing session tonight Communications from
the state Grange were read asking. first, an
appropriation for cultivating amber cane sec
ono, that the Wisconsin Legislature memorial
ize Congress to pass the Reagan bill third. that
the Legislature pass a law making the passenger
and frelgh tarln of railroads uniform and elIIaI
Two petitions were presented asking the repeal
of the law for the inspection of Illuminating
oils. In the Assembly bills were introduced
Amending the statutes relative to insurance
companies to amend Revised Statutes relating
to railroads relating to lands granted TO the
State by Congress and resuming the lands and
granting them to the Wabash and Lake Supe-
rior Railroad Company.
TUESDAY, Feb. l.-SENArE.-A resolutions
was presented to the effect that 500 be ap~
propriated for the purpose of supplying the
Madison insane hospital with aItesian well
water The female suffrage question received
attention at the hands of the Senate. Bills
were introduced providing for rigid precau-
tons in the conveyance Of dead bodies through
towns. villages and cities in the State, and that
they shall be accompanied by the certificate Os
physician or a Coroner Teclting the cause of
death, and when it is by any infectious disease
the body shall be Theoretically inclosed IN an
air-tight metallic coffin, and heavy penalties
are fixed for q disregard of its provisions. A
resolution was adopted to procure 5000 rail-
road maps to accompany the report of the Rail-
road Commissioner. The Senate eoncurred in
the JOINT resolution relating 10 the letting of
convict labor.
AssEMBIY.-The Assembly received b ire
mendous batch of petitions for an amendment
of the constitution prohibiting the manufacture
and sale Of Intoxicating liquors. There were
circumstances against the employment Of
children in factories. The joint Senate resolu-
ton requesting the Governor to transmit to the
Legislature the report aid accompanying docu-
ments Of the Senate committee investigating
the affairs of the state Insane Hospital came
up on the order of concurrence, and was con-
cured in. Bills were Introduced: 10 prevent
the spread Of contagious diseases; relating TO
costs and oS in the Circuit Court; amending
the constitution and providing for woman
suffrage.