The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-24
WISCONSIN LEeISLATuRE.

The Senate Committee on Finance. BanAt
and Insurance reported a bill on the 18th to
authorize loan of trust funds TO the State for
the payment of the war debt. The State is to
pay per cent. interest on the loan. The bill
directs that the Governor, Secretary of State,
and State Treasurer shall ascertain the amount
due and pay it to the Treasurer of the United
States on May 81. The Senate bill to transfer
the land grant now held by the Chicago,
Portage and Superior Railway Company to the
Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha
Company was concurred in by the As
sembly by vote of IS yeas to II nays,
Carmichaefs bill to abolish the brass tester
now used in weighing grain, and substituting
therefor measure holding half bushel was
ordered to third read ne. Senator Kingston's
bill TO regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors,
being a copy of the laws now in force in Ne
brasks, was indefinitely POSTPONED. The As
sembly Committee on State Affairs re-
ported on the Bates bill, TO tax church
property and recommended that it
be indefinitely postponed. Both the
Senate and Assembly adopted the re-
port of the conference committee sp~
pointed to determine the size of the Commit
tee on Apportionment, making 1t consist OF
seven Senators and eleven Assemblymen.
Caucuses of Republicans and Democrats were
held in the evening, and the following were
elected members of the committee: Senators
Scott (Chairmanl, Wing, Hamilton, Simpson,
Randall, Wilkin and Delaney Assenfblymen
Conley, Reyes, Washbum, Stanley Estabrook,
Thorp, Price, Pierce, Keogh, Winans and Mac
Bride.
Senator Wings bill for the restoration of tho
death penalty was passed by the Senate on the
10th by 20 yeas to 7 nays. Senator Simpsons
,oint resolution proposing an amendment to
the constitution, SO that the Legislature may
prescribe regulations for the registration Of
electors in Incorporated cities and villages,
was passed by vote of % to- S.
Simpsons resolution for a constitutional
amendment, giving the Governor power to APP
point Judges of Supreme and Circuit Courts
instead of their being elected, was indefinitely
postponed. Senator McKeeley offered a resO-
luton calling upon the Secretary of State
for all laws and court decisions bearing
upon the use of the swamp and overlooked
land fund. to see if some means cannot
be devised to provide relief for persons
whose lives and property are damagcd by
overhows of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers.
In the Assembly, a resolution to submit the
question of church-pToperty taxation TO vote
of the poopls was lost The f0siowing Senate
bills were indefinitely postponed i'll the ASSEM-
bly,: For the preservation Of the records OF
Michigan Territory now in Iowa, Brown and
Crawford counties appropriating moneys TO
reimburse Carpenter & Tenney fer losses under
the State printing contract, sustained inst prior
TO the commencement Of the late war.
The Legislative sessions werS devoid of spe-
cial interest on the 18th. There was some de-
bate in she Senate over McKeeby's Pharmacy
bill. Mr.. Hill, Of St. Croix, opposed its passage
on the ground that it would work hardship in
IRs l1I tho III 20,
give a strip of State land near the Northern
Insane Hospital to the Chicago and North
western Railway Company was concurred in.
In the Assembly the following bills
were killed: Providing for new trials
in criminal cases for the preservation
of evidence taken in County Courts provid
ing the death penalty for train wreckers re-
enacting the law by which persons convicted of
State-prison offenses may be sent to the Mil
waukeo House of Correction; giving State aid to
free high schools for iveyear longer author
izing Judges of Cncuit Courts to appoint inter-
prefers. The following bills were passed For
the division of towns into precincts IN order to
facilitate elections to punishthe mLtllatlon OF
public records forbidding liquor dealers to
furnish intoxicants to spendthrlfts +; making
per cent. the legal rate of interest.
Only an evening session of the Legislature
was held on the goth, developing but little Of
interest. In the Senate bills Incorporating the
cities of Baraboo and Port Washington were
concurred in. Gov. Rusk sent in the name Of
Rev. Ct. i. Gordon, of Milwaukee, to be Regent
of the Normal Schools in place of Carl Dur
finger, resigned. In the Assembly tho
following Senate bills were concurred
in +: Providing for the removal Of
bodies remaining in old Calvary Cemetery, Mil
waukee creating the Kewaunee Harbor Com
mission allowing State aid to free high schools
five years longer Assembly bills passed For
the more general distribution of Legislative
proceedings for a State road from the city
OF Milwaukee to Port Washington, and APP
propriatIng $20,00a to the Governors contin-
gent fiintk !