Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-01-19
The Wisconsin Legislature Elects
Officers and New Com
mItteeS.
KeOgh Becomes Speaker OF the
Low / House AMI Forth
Chief Clerk.
Sam Shaier Secures the Gle X
ship oI the >enate-Saw-
yer's Successor.

AT Madison the llth inst. the 4lSt
session OF the Wisconsin legislature COLI
yened and officers, all Of course demo
cratic, Were either elected or appointed
in both houses. Those in the senate are:
President pro. tem.-R. ]. MacBride,
of Clark.
Chief Clerk-Sam j. Shafer, OF Colby.
Sergenl .-itI-arnS- i. Becker, OF
Dodge.
Assistant chief clerk-Frank Bowen,
of Oshkosh.
Journal clerk. Silbaugh, of Vernon.
Bookkeeper-Ed. Malone, of Water
ford.
observation-disclosures Books and W.
N. Wells.
Copy-holders- Rasdan and Nellie
Gates.
Index clerk-Jessie Knowles, of Mil
Waukee.
Assistant sergeant-K. Owatzk, of
Milwaukee.
PostmaSter-N. w. Ryan, Of Medford
Assistant poStmaSter-A. Wegner, of
Oconto.
Enrolling clerk. c. Folds, Of Ar
cadia.
Custodian of enrolling room-Adam
Shroth, of Milwaukee.
Printing page-L. Nash, Of Mantle
woo.
Document clerk-F. W. Leske, of
Princeton.
Document room attendant-Carl
Schneider, Of Portage E. Cary and n.
Beaver, Of Milwaukee, and S. Sher-
wood.
Night watch-Mr. Arndt, of Appleton.
Attendants-J. Reed, of Chippewa
Falls, and J. O'Rourke, Of Oshkosh.
Gallery attendant-Stephen Baas, of
Madison.
Committee room custodian-Wnn.
Kennedy, of Appleton.
Janitor-R. NJ. Burke, Of Shawano.
Messengers-M. Norris, of Vernon; H.
Baumgaertner, of Madison; John Smith,
of Dodge; II. Tierney, Of Dane; John
Hayes, Harry Levy and Paul Frank.
The following committees were ap-
pointed:
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Kennedy, Kings
ton, Lees, Bashford, Phalen, Brown and
Weeks.
State ADMINISTRATORS Lees, Apple
and SpenSiey.
| Finance, banking and insurance-Sen-
ators Yahr, Altpeter and Phipps.
Railroads Senators Pratt, Voss, Con
nor, Yahr, KoenitZer, Murphy, Withee
and Baxter.
! NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Falconer, Ken
nedy and Bechtner.
Manufactures and commerce Senators
Koenitzer, FalcOner and Withee.
Assessment and collection of taxes
Senators Smead, Solliday and Burdge.
IncorpOra tons MacBride,
Martin and Phipps.
Town and county OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
tors Kingston, Conner and Spensley.
Public lands-SenatorS Connor, Muir
ply and Withee.
Military affaiIs-Senators SOlliday,
Fetzer and Weeks.
Privileges and election-Senators
Horn, Bashford and Bechtner.
Legislative expenditures - Senators
Mcclellan, Pratt and Baxter.
Federal relations Senators Altpeter,
Brown and Weeks.
Roads and ridges-Senators Fetzer,
Phalen and Phipps.
! ASriculture-Senato Apple, MCGEE
han and Burdge.
: Engrossed bills-Senators Wescott,
Smead and Spensley.
! Enrolled DlllS-SenatorS FOSS, kluSzka
and Burdge.
Joint committee on claimS-SenatorS
Nash, Woodnorth and Burdge.
Charitable and penal Institutions
Senators Wodnorth, Wescott and Becht-
ner.
| Printing-Senators Kruszka, Nash and
Bechtner.
| Sergeant-at Arms L. Knapstein made
the following appointments: Assistant,
John r. Rooney, hewaunee county;
postmaster, William McMullen, Calumet
county; assistant postmaster, George L.
McElrOy la Crosse county; doorkeepers,
S. Hanizesl1i, Milwaukee county; Albert
Hoppenbach, jefferson county; Ole Mel
son, Dane county; Fred Hartman, JEFF
ferson county; gallery attendants, Au-
gust Mann, Dodge county; Caspar I.e-
bias, Chippewa county; John Penzer,
KenOsha county; document room at
tendant, Joel Venus, Waupaca county;
document room clerk, Ulrich WettStein,
Monroe county; porter, Joe Chebuck,
Seymour; night Waterman, Fred Bishop,
Shawano county; custodians of commit
tee rooms, Joseph Hartt, Dodge county;
William Crol, Jr., Manitowoc county.
Thursday in joint convention the gov
ernor read the following message:
The Message.
Fellow Citizens of the Senate and AS
sembly:
The people Of the state of Wisconsin
have reason to be thankful to Divine
Providence for the manifold blessings
which have been bestowed upon them
during the past two years.
We have been secure, happy and
peaceful in the enjoyment of the pro-
ducts OF our labor. While in other por-
tons Of the Union conflicts of the most
serious character have arisen between
employers and their workmen, defer
ence to the plain provisions Of the Con-
stitution and the laws have enabled
Wisconsin not only to avoid all serious
results from such difficulties. but to
save expense and the too frequent ex-
ASPIRATION attending needless use Of
state troops.
The reports Of the state officers,
boards and institutions of the state, re-
quired by law to be made, will be pre-
scented to you in full. From a careful