Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-12-01
CAPITAL NOTES.
MADISON, Nov. %, 1881.


Since the state election but little
of public concern has disturbed the
Capital. Official returns are now IN
sufficient to settle beyond cayil that
General Rusk's plurality will vary
less than one hundred from 10000.
The vote for Kanouse is singularly
about equal to the difference between
that Of Rusk and Frat, or about
$4,000. The Greenback ticket re-
ceived about 1000 votes, which is
two thousand more than VISA sener-
ally expected before election. Sew
eral days after the election there was
much anxiety in political circles
here, and, for the first week, to have
expressed an opinion that the entire
republican ticket was elected by
majorities ranging from 1000 to
10000, would have been regarded as
the muttering of "crank."
The biennial sessions amendment
to the constitution having carried by
ga large majority" Wisconsin will
after 1883 be relieved of the blum
ders and scandals of legislative SEES
sions every other year. Many peo-
pie. however, think the change a
mistake, that will speedily develop.
With the majority, we think differ
emily. There seems little basis for
fear that legislation will be worse,
or that a session once in two years,
even if a third longer, will entail q
greater aggregate of evils than an
nual sittings.
The acquisitions already secured
to the school fund, and the prospect
of their being greater in future from
fines and penalties, through the eff
forts of Attorney General Wilson,
is credit to his administration al
ready recognized widely through
the state press, and will stand as q
monument to his faithfulness and
efficiency as a public officer. 1t is
estimated that from this source q
half million dollars may be added
to the school fund of the state with
in . decade.
An unusually interesting and i'm
portant Legislative session for this
winter is expected. A valuable land
grant is to be disposed of, for which
different railroads will contend.
The redistricting of the state Will
be holly contested 10y conflicting In
terests. The proposed constitutional
amendment providing for biennial
elections will have to be disposed OF,
and other matters of Importance are
expected to develop.
Much speculation and anxiety is
noticeable as to appointments under
the new administration. Only a few
places seem to be decided upon as
yet, and consequently the great mass
of applicants are in a state of nerv-
GUS expectancy. As usual Madison
has rather more than her quota Of
place seekers, and although applica-
tons from other sections are said to
be more numerous than ordinary,
there is no probability that the cap
ital city will not have her full share
of the spoils,
DIR. Vivian is here to-day attend
ing session of the State Board of
Charities and Reform. The princi-
pal business of the session is to dis
cuss the problem of how to provide
for the proper care of chronic in
sane, the number of whom is so
great that they cannot be provided
for in the state hospitals. But few
counties are prepared to properly
mare for this class of unfortunates,
,nd3 consequently hundre ds Of them
are confined in the poor house > and
jailsi Of the different counties, and
necesl sarily subjected to the same
treatment rs paupers and criminals.
TYe long continued rains of the
fall rendering transportation by
wagon impracticable, has, here as
elsewhere, had the effect to give
farm products required for home
consumption a great boom. Every
thing of this class which the people