Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-03-09
CAPITAL NOTES.

on the home stretch begin to accumulate
Presentations, with oratorcal aceompan
ments, are taking place, of SILVER tea sets and
cvclopedas and sets Of Dickens, to surpri ed
officials who accept them with tears in hen
eyes and hearts too full for utte'auce. Vain
efforts for Saturday sessions are being made
by gentlemen who like to 90 on the record
before their rural constituents, as being in
favor of q short session Resolutions Ia I'D
journ sine die on some stated day in the near
future are beginning to pile in, to he iys
tematically "sat on The Friday evening
sessions, with hardly a quorum, and appar.
emily only held for "buncombe," and for fun,
become more and more hilarious. The lcgis
lativc party is being agtated, The female
book agent and The female with the rubber
marking stamps are getting anxious to score
success. The lobby men who have gotten
their schemes through, look sleek and happy
and are preparing TO 20 home, while those
with irons yet in the lire are getting rs nervous
as sitting hen The air is filed with the
sweet scents of spring the frost 5 out Of the
ground and The bottom out Of the roads and
the rural member is anxious to return, like
Cncinuatus, to his pillow the lawyer is pant
ing for the spring term Of court, and the trader
to sweep his shelves for the seasons new
stock. The end is nigh. No earthly power
can keep the Solons here mitch, longer; they
are not quite ready to say so, yet but when
the members in general begin to fret for home,
there win be nothing 10 do but close ont the
business and call quits"
While but little legislation of i'm
portance has yet been perfected and
many weighty matters are on the
docket for disposal, things have pro
crossed far enough to justify the
prediction that an adjournment will
be effected before April first.
The bill providing for biennial
sessions has passed the Senate, and
will not be materially changed. II
provides that the first session under
the amended constitution shall be
in 1888, and biennially thereafter.
The question of allowing stationery
TO officers, committees and reporters
is the only one about which there
appears much difference of opinion.
One proposition is to allow officers
and reporters the same us heretofore, !
and empower the Chief Clerk of |
each house the extent of S30.O0l
worth for each committee. Under
such law N embers would secure five
to ten dollars worth each, and as it !
is the most liberal of all plans pro- !
posed, its adoption is deemed most
probable.
The ponderous and unweildy com !
mittee on apportionment has thus
far not progressed far enough to
warrant prediction of what its
report will be, and that the com
mittee will agree Oh anything is eN-
tremcly doubtful Since learning
that the state VIII be accorded nine
members of Congress, one thing APP
pears to be practically settled, I. e.,
that the third district will remain as
at present constituted. At one time
there was a probability that Dane
county might become a part of the
third district, but latest indications
are that such will not be the case.
Members from the third are gener-
ally ayerse to an alliance with Dane
county, and Boss Reyes is strongly
opposed to said scheme, on the
ground, rs stated, that he does not
want to be placed in 4 district that
is "irredeemaoiy mortgaged to one
man."
In harmonizing conflicting inter
ests, ideas and ambitions affected
by Serate and Assembly districts
lies the greatest ditliculty-as one
readily discovers on attending a
meeting of the committee, or con-
versing with members. The Sd
Congressional District will surely
lose one, and probably two Assem-
blymen, One will surely be dropped
from Iowa and Richland counties,
probably one. from Lafayette and
Green. The united front of Iowa
county ought, certainly, to insure
her two members, to which she is
indisputably entitled under the con
stitution and the rule OF recompense
by which the committee claims to
act, Notwithstanding one of the
members representing the Sd Dist.
on the committee is n Richland
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