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THE MIMAURER LITHO & ENGR.CO.
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SECRETARY OF STATE.
1893.
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INTRODUCTORY.
The statutes requiring "The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin" to be published bien- nially, provide that it shall contain "Jefferson's Manual," the rules and orders of the sen- ate and assembly, lists of senators and assemblymen, and employes of each house, dia- grams of the senate and assembly chambers, statistical and other information of the same description with that heretofore published in the "Legislative Manual" (the name by which it was [designated prior to 1878), with such other matter as may be deemed useful. In compliance with law, Volume XXVII of this manual is herewith submitted. The gen- eral plan heretofore pursued has been followed. Some matter inserted in the last Blue Book has been omicted, and other of a statistical character inserted in its stead. The added matter consists chiefly of an enlarged chronological sketch or outline history of the state, and a list of the state officers of all the states of the Union, and of the political committees in the several states. This, it is hoped, will add much to the interest and value of this volume.
It had been proposed to include in this volume a synopsis of all information in respect to the state, which can be derived from the Eleventh United States Census. But only that relating to population is sufficiently compiled in the Census Bureau to furnish the de- sired information. The addition of the names of the officers of the various states of the Union, and of the various state political committees of the several parties, is a feature that, it is believed, will enhance the usefulness of this volume.
Much care has been exercised in compiling the election returns, the figures of which con- stitute a large portion of the work, and great pains taken to avoid errors. It is hoped that none have occurred, but perfection in such matters is rarely attained. While con- iaining the matter required by law, it is confidently believed that in some respects this volume will be found more useful than the preceding ones.
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ILLUSTRATIONS.
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Page.
State Capitol.
Frontispiece
Wisconsin State Building, World's Fair
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Armory and Gymnasium.
16
College of . Law Building.
32 48
Dairy Building.
Normal School, Whitewater
Normal School, Oshkosh
School for the Deaf.
Industrial School for Girls
Wisconsin Dairy and Stock Farm
Normal School, River Falls
Industrial School, Boys
Light Horse Squadron Armory
State Hospital for Insane
Northern Hospital for Insane
State Prison
School for the Biind
University Buildings
Science Hall.
Washburn Observatory
Normal School, Milwaukee
Public School for Dependent Children
Normal School, Platteville.
Soldiers' National Home
Fish Hatchery
Veterans' Home.
560
Senate Diagram. Front
Assembly Diagram.
Front
Judicial Circuit Map.
Back
Senate District Map.
Back
Assembly District Map.
Back
Congressional District Map.
Back
Map showing population by counties.
Back
80 96 112 128 144 160 176 192 352 368 384 400 456 456 464 472 480 488 496 544
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
For General Index alphabetically arranged, see pages 663 to 688.
PART I .- Pages 1-106.
Declaration of Independence.
1-2
Constitution of the United States
3-12
tricts, counties and precincts .. 262 297 amendments to same 9-11 Vote for president, 1884 1883, by coun- ties .. 298 history of amendments 12
Constitution of Wisconsin
13 30
amendments to same 31 83
Jeffe sou's Manual
Precedents and forms 74 86
Rules of the senate
81-92
Rules of the assembly .
93 101
Joint rules
102 104
Election of U. S. senator
105-106
PART II .- Pages 109-194.
Outline history of Wisconsin
109-118
Territorial governnient ..
119
Territorial officers 119
Territorial legislatures.
120-128
Constitutional conventions
129-130
State government from organization. 131 Officers of state governments. 131-134 Judges of supreme and circuit courts. 133-134
Members of Wisconsin legislatures from 1848 to 1891
135-181
Senators ..
135-142
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Assemblymen
143-181
Speakers of the assembly
182
Chief clerks of the senate
183
Chief clerks of the assembly
183
Sergeants-at-arms of the legislatures .. 184
Legislative sessions, when held and
how long
185
Constitutional conventions, when held and how long 185
Agricultural college fund
334
State organization
185-187
Presidential electors.
188
Income of same.
334
Representatives in congress from Wisconsin 189-191 Delegates from Wisconsin territory ... 189 United States senators. 189 Presidents of the United States. 191 Vice-presidents of the United States .. 192
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Presidents pro tem U S. senate
193
Speakers U. S. House of Representa-
tives
194
PART III .- Election Statistics, pages 199-326. Electoral vote for president from 1800 to 1892. 199
Popular and electoral vote 1892
with pluralities .. 200-201
Popular vote for president from 1856 to 1888, pluralities from 1884. 202-206 Summary of electoral votes from 1789- 207 1884. .
Summary of popular vote and elec- toral vote from 1789-1884 209 Presidential and gubernatorial votes, pluralities by towns and
election districts
210 261
Page. | PART III-Flection Statistics-Con.
Page.
Congressional vote in 1892, by dis-
Vote for president, 1892, by counties with populaci n.
Vote for state officers,
1802, by
counties.
200.201
Summary of gubernatorial vote in Wis-
consin from 1848 to 1892
305
Summary of vote for state officers
1892 ..
306
Summary of presidential vote in Wis-
consin from 1848 to 1884.
307
Votes for associate justices of
su-
preme court, April 7, 1891
30
Same April 5, 1892.
30:
Votes for circuit judges.
310-31
Vote on constitutional amendment
Nov. 8, 1892.
314-313
Number of election districts in state,
1892. . .
31€
Vote for members of legislature,
1892, by districts ..
317-326
for senators
317-315
for assemblymen
318-326
PART IV., Pages 327-347. State finances
The State debt.
327
General fund.
327-328
School fund.
222
School fund income
333
University fund .
333
University fund income.
333
Normal school fund and income.
334-5
Drainage fund
335
Delinquent tax fund.
335
St. Croix and Lake Superior R. R. tres-
pass fund ..
336
Redemption fund.
336
Wisconsin Railroad Farm Mortgage
Land Co
336
Manitowoc and swamp land funds
337
Columbia and Sauk Co. indemnity fund 337
Indemnity land fund.
337
Allotment fund.
337
Recapitulation.
338
Condition of state banks.
339-347
PART V., Pages 351 to 455 Newspapers in Wisconsin . . .351-361
Postoffices in Winconsin, alphabetic-
ally.
362
Same arranged by counties.
375-380
Same of 1st, 2d and 3d classes. with
salaries
.. 381
Fogtal information, rates of postage, registry fees and nioney orders 382-384
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Internal revenue districts in Wiscon- sin .... 401 Receipts and expenditures of United States Government, 1862 to 1892. 402 Principal of public debt. 403
Legal holidays in Wisconsin 403
National banks, statistics as to .. .. 404-405 Statistics of principal countries in the world. 406-407
Public debt of the nations . 407
Expenditures of U. S. Gov't for fiscal years 1862 to 1892 408
Areas of states and territories .. 409
Assessed valuation of real and personal property in states, 1880 and 1890 410-411 Foreign carrying trade. 412
Railroad mileage in Wisconsin 413
Qualifications for electors in each of the states .. 414-415 Political platforms and committees 416-435 National Democratic platform, 1892 416-418 Same of Wisconsin, 1892 .. 419
National People's party.
420-421
State, of same.
423
National Prohibition 424
Same, state.
426
Republican, national.
427
Same, state .. 429
Republican national and state commit- tee. 430-431 Democratic national and state commit- tee .. 431-432
People's party national and state com- mittee. 433-434
Prohibition party national and state committee. 434
Republican league of U . S. 435
Republican college league 436 Bureau of labor 525
National association of Democratic clubs 436
The World's Columbian Exposition 437
Departments of same ... 437
State board of managers of same 438
Abstract of assessment rolls in Wis- consin 439
Live stock in state, 1892 439
1 Farm products in 1891 440-443 Public libraries in Wisconsin 444 Eleventh U. S. census, 1890 445
Population of Wisconsin by counties, cities, towns and villages. .445-455
PART VI. Pages 457-499.
State institutions, general statement . 459 The state capitol .. 460
Educational institutions-University of Wisconsin. 461-472
Regents of 461
Faculty of 462
Board of visitors of. 461
Colleges of 464
Courses of study in. 465
State Normal schools 472
Regents of and officers
472
History of. 472
Admission to 474
Enrollment in. 474 At Milwaukee 476 At Oshkosh 476
At Platteville 476
At River Falls 477
At Whitewater. 477
Faculties in the several. 478-480
State Board of Control 481-499
Institutions under 481
Same inspected by 431
Officers of 491
General statement, as to 481
Cost of institutions for insane 484
PART VI-Continued. Page®
Wisconsin Hospital for Insane 485
Northern Hospital for Insane. 486
School for the Deaf 487
School for the Blind .. 489
Industrial School for Boys 491
State prison .. 492
State public school 493 Wisconsin Veterans' Home 495
National Home for Disabled Soldiers 496 Industrial School for Girls .. 498
PART VII .- Page 501.
The judiciary-the supreme court of
U. S .. 503
Circuit courts of United States. 503
Court of claims, U. S .. 503 Justices of supreme court, U. S. 504 Judges U. S. district courts. 505
U. S. district courts of Wisconsin 506
Wisconsin circuit court judges and terms of .. 507 -516
U. S. Government.
517
The president, how chosen 517
Executive department 517
The Vice-President 517 The cabinet .. 517
Department of state 517
The treasury, officers of 518
The war department, officers of 519 The navy department, officers of 521 The department of the interior 522
The post office department, officers of 522 The department of justice. 523
The department of agriculture 524
The government printing office 524
U. S. civil service commission 524
Inter-state commerce commission 525
U. S. Fish commission ... 525 National board of health .. 525
The fifty-third congress.
526
Party divisions 52d and 53d congress. 530
Representatives under the 11th census 531 Ratio of representation in .. 531
U. S. diplomatic and consular service 532 Foreign legations in the U. S. 539
The new apportionment. 541
State Governments.
542-559
Wisconsin state government 560
: Executive department.
560
State department.
560
Treasury department. 561
Law department ..
562
Department of education 562
Railroad commissioner s office. 562
Commissioner of insurance's office 562
Bureau of labor, census and industrial statistics 563
State treasury agent 563
Office of public lands 563
Adjutant general's office 564
Quartermaster general's office 564
Office of superintendent of public
property .. 565
State Boards, etc.
of examiners for admission to the bar 566
State pension agent . 566
State library, trustees of (law) 566
of health and vital statistics .. 567
of pharmacy.
567
of dental examiners 568
Supervisors of illuminating oils 569
Inspectors and inspection districts 569
Commissioners of fisheries 571
Dairy and food commission 579
State fish and game warden
Miscellaneous state societies.
573
State historical society
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State agricultural society 574
Wisconsin Dairymen's association. . . State Horticultural society. 575
575
Wisconsin short horn breeders' as- sociation. 575
Wisconsin Jersey breeders' associa- tion 575
Wisconsin swine breeders' associa-
tion. 576
Wisconsin sheep breeders' and wool
growers' association. 576
Wisconsin farmers' alliance 576
Wisconsin state grange 576 Wisconsin press association. 576
Wisconsin state teachers' association 577
Wisconsin academy, arts and sciences 578 Game laws, summarized. 578
Colleges, academies, etc 579
Wisconsin national guard. 580
roster of same 580-581
companies in same. 582
Officers of agricultural societies and amount of state aid 584
County officers. .586-591 Free high school principals. 592
School census statistics. 594
Summary of school statistics. 596
PART VII-Continued. Page.
Foreign born population in state . . .. 597 Increase of farming land in Wiscon- sin, compiled from 11th census 598 Statistical list of senators for 1893.599-600 State senators alphabetically ar-
ranged, showing committees .... .. Assemblymen alphabetically ar-
601
ranged,showing committees, etc, 605-606 Standing committees of senate .. 607 same of assembly 608 Joint committees. 609
List of employes of Wisconsin legis- lature 610-611
Biographical sketches.
United States senators. 619
Representatives in congress 620-622
State officers. 623-625
State senators
626-634
Members of assembly 635-636 Justices of supreme court. 658 659
Heads of instructional force of Uni- versity . 000
General Index 663 Index of Names. 689
Apportionment Law 699
Addenda
706
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PART I.
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. CONSTITUTION OF WISCONSIN. JEFFERSON'S MANUAL. CUSTOMS, PRECEDENTS AND FORMS. .. S AND ORDERS. .
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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
UNANIMOUSLY PASSED BY THE CONGRESS OF THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, JULY 4, 1776.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; and that when- ever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are suffer- able, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies, and such is now the necessity which con- strains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having, in direct object, the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world:
He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, un- less suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and, when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people unless these people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature-a right inestimable to them, and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and dis- tant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly for opposing, with manly firmness, his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions. to cause others to be elected; whereby the legisla- tive powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exer- cise, the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the danger of invasion from without and convulsions within. He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose, obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their emigration hither, and raising the conditions of new appro- priations of lands. He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislature. He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdic- tion foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us; for protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment, for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of
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these States; for cutting off our trade with all parts of the world; for imposing taxes on us without our consent; for depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury. For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences. For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries, so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies; for taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering, fundamentally, the powers of our governments; for suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection, and waging war against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coast, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time, transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun, with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands. He has excited domestic insurrections among us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions.
In every stage of these oppressions, we have petitioned for redress, in the most humble terms; our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury, A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them, from time to time. of attempts made by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them, by the ties of our common kindred, to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They, too, have been deaf to the voice of justice and consanguinity. We must. therefore, acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, ene mies in war - in peace, friends.
We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly pub- lish and declare, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and inde- pendent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connections between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
(Signed) JOHN HANCOCK.
And by the delegates from New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, Rhode Island, &c., New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.
PREAMBLE.
WE, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
ARTICLE I.
SECTION 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
SECTION 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several States, and the electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors for the most numerous branch of the State legislature.
No person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained the age of twenty-five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.
Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this Union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to serv- ice for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons. The actual enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Con- gress of the United States, and within every subsequent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direct. The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, but each State shall have at least one Representative; and until such enu- meration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to choose three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.
When vacancies happen in the representation from any State, the executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.
The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other officers, and shall have the sole power of impeachment.
SECTION 3. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the legislature thereof, for six years; and each senator shall have one vote.
Immediately after they shall be assembled in consequence of the first election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three classes. The seats of the Senators of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year; of the second class, at the expiration of the fourth year, and of the third class, at the expiration of the sixth year, so that one-third may be chosen every second year; and if vacancies happen by resignation or otherwise, during the recess of the legislature of any State, the executive thereof may make temporary appointments until the next meeting of the legislature, which shall then fill such vacancies.
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