Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-03-23
WISCONSIN LEGISI

WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
Madison, March 14.-In the senate to-
day Senator Voss presented the follow
ing memorial, which was referred:
To the Honorable Legislature of the
State of Wisconsin:-The undersigned
residents of the city Of Beaver Dam.
Wisconsin, Sureties upon the bonds of
Edward G. McFetridge, past state
treasurer, and the widows Of such sure
ties as are deceased, respectfully ask
and request, the passage of senate bill
No. 216, being a bill to allow any past
state treasurer or his sureties to settle
and discharge his Obligations to the
state for any interest received by such
treasurer on account OF the deposit of
| the funds of the state.
AS sureties we speak from actual
knowledge of his circumstances finan-
cially, and state that it will be utterly
impossible for Mr.. McFetridge to pay
the principal with the full interest call
ed for, at the rate fixed by the judg-
ment against him and us, and the suits
now pending:
| Wherefore, unless the state, through
its legislature, shall temper justice
with mercy by the reduction of inter
est asked for in the pending bill, the
SuretieS on the bonds of Mr.. McFetridge
will be forced to pay a large sum of
money to make good what he cannot
pay, and this to most of the sureties
and to the estates of those who are
deceased, will be a great hardship and
produce want and privatiOn;
/ Of those of his sllreties who live
here, not one is in any way politician,
ali are, or were, business men, who
paid little or no attention to politics.
They were friends and associates of
Mr.. McFetTidge, whom they esteemed
and trusted, and who is still worthy of
that trust and esteem.
That they are entirely innocent in the
matter of the treasury suits is well es-
tablished by the testimony taken in ac-
tons against them.
1t would seem that the state might
well be lenient in the matter of the
! interest charged, since in reducing the
interest, to per cent, the state would
then be getting as high a rate as it
would have received, and such interest
restored to the public treasury, without
depressing the innocent or impOverish-
ing those who had no part in the trans
actions with the past treasurers.
Very respectfully,
Mis-. Mary RoweH,
! Widow Of Ira Rowell, deceased.
John T. Smith,
Mrs. Mary Hildebrandt,
Widow of H. Hildebrandt, deceased
Andrew Willard,
! T. L. Newton,
Geo. B. Congdon.
Sarah A Lewis,
/ Widow of S. P. X. Lewis; deceased.
! J. S. Rowell
! In the assembly bills We're killed as
follows:
Permitting highways to be laid out
across railway property the same as
in the case OF other property.
, Requiring Black River Falls to main
tain the bridge across the Black river
at that point instead of the county.
/ The following bills were killed:
Relating to the observance of the
sabbath.
Establishing a uniform standard of
admission to the bar
Madison, March Is. In the senate
today senate bills were passed:
Appropriating to the governors con-
hngent $4,000 for 1898 and 1894
Appropliating $1,000 to the State
Firemen's association for the years
1893 and 1894.
The following assembly bills We're
conculTed in:
Amending section 1852, revised stat
uteS, relating to county courts. This
bill provides that no judge of the coun-
ty court, or his Law partner, or his
clerk, or any person employed in or
about his office shall be retained or en-
plOyed as solicitor, attorney or counsel,
in any action or matter which may de-
pend or in any way relate to any judg
ment or decree made or passed by him;
nor shall he be solicitor, attorney or
counsel for or against any executor,
administrator, trustee or guardian ap-
pointed without his jurisdiction, in any
action, etc.
EXempting the following persons from
serving as jurors. All officers of the
United States, the governor, and other
state officers; judges, clerks of courts of
record, county officers, cOnStables, at
tOrneys, ministers, physicians, the pres
ident, professors of the university and
of colleges, teachers in the normal
schools, one teacher in each common
school, the officers and employees in the
state institutions, one miller to each
gliSt mill, one head sawyer and engi-
mill, and one foreman and engineer
in any factory or machine shop, one
fefTyman to each licensed ferry, one
druggist in each prescription store, the
officers of any state or national bank,
/ telegraph operators and superintendent
conductors, engineers, firemen, collect
DIS and station agents Of any railroad,
fire departments and all members of
fire companies, persons more than sixty
years of age, and persons of unsOund
mind, or subject to any bodily infirmity
amounting to disability: and all per-
sons shall be disqualified from serving
as jurors who have been convicted Of
any infamous crime
The Judiciary committee reported in
favor of the passage OF the bill to re
peal the present Dane county drainage
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