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· and shall immediately inform the other House of its action upon the subject.
COMMITTEES OF CONFERENCE.
10 .- In all cases of disagreement between the Senate and Assembly if either House shall request a conference, and appoint a committee for that purpose, the other House shall appoint a similar committee. Such committees shall, at a convenient hour, to be agreed upon by their chairmen, meet in the conference-chamber, and state to each other verbally, or in writing, as either shall choose, the reasons of their respective Houses for or against the disagreement, and confer freely thereon; and they shall be authorized to report to their respective Houses such modifications or amendments as they may think advis- able. When it shall have been determined by the two Houses to appoint a committee of conference, such committee shall consist of three upon the part of the Senate, and three upon the part of the Assembly.
11 .- After each House shall have adhered to their disagreement, the bill or resolution shall be lost.
Acts of a General Nature.
TITLES OF BILLS.
19 .- The title of every bill of a general nature shall designate the object, purpose or subject of the bill, and when such bill proposes to amend any chapter or act, the title shall road thus:
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JOINT RULES OF SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
"A bill relating to - and amendatory of section -, of chapter ---- , of the - -," filling the blanks with the proper subject, section and chapter of the revised stat- utes or laws, designating the same. And every bill shall recite at length every section which It proposes to amend as such section will read if amended as proposed: provided. such recitation shall not be required when the proposed amendment shall only add to such sec- tion without changing the phraseology of the original " And all bills appropriating money out of the State Treasury, or any State fund, shall expressly recite the fact in the title."
13 .- The title of all bills for repealing any act, chapter or section, and which have no other object shall be as follows:
" A bill to repeal section - of chapter - of the - relating to -," filling the blanks with the proper section and chapter of the revised statutes or laws, designat- ing the same, and also the subject, object or purpose of the section or chapter repealed. And in the body of every such bill the full title of the act repealed shall be recited at length.
RETURN OF BILLS.
14 .- Either House shall return any bill called for, by a resolution of the other House, if the bill is yet in the possession of the House then called upon, providing this rule shall not be operative after the time of transacting business, other than that of receiving executive messages and communications from one House to the other, shall have expired.
EACH HOUSE MAY AMEND.
15 .- It shall be in the power of each House to amend any amendment made by the other to any bill, memorial, or resolution; but no standing or select committee, nor any member thereof, nor any committee of the whole, shall report any "substitute," or any "amend- ment," for any bill or bills. or resolutions, referred to such committee, which substitute or amendment relates to a different subject, or is intended to accomplish a different purpose from that of the original bill or resolution for which it is reported, or which, if adopted and passed, would require a title essentially different from the title of the original bill or reso- lution; and any substitute, bill or resolution, so reported, shall be rejected whenever it appears that the same is in violation of this rule, and this rule shall not be suspended with- out the unanimous consent of the Senate and Assembly.
Of Bills Passed.
ENROLLMENT OF BILLS.
· 16 .- After a bill has passed both Houses, it shall be duly enrolled by or under the direction of the Chief Clerk of the House in which the same originated, before it shall be presented to the Governor for his approval.
EXAMINATION OF ENROLLED BILLS.
17 .- When a bill is duly enrolled, it shall be examined by the committee of the two Houses on Enrolled Bills, acting jointly, who shall carefully compare the enrolled bill with the engrossed bill as passed in the two Houses. Said committee shall correct any errors that may be discovered in the enrolled bill, and make their report forthwith to the House in which the bill originated.
SIGNING OF BILLS. .
18 .- When a bill shall have been duly reported as correctly enrolled, it shall be the duty of the Chief Clerk of the House in which it originated, to present the bill first to the presid- ing officer of the House in which it originated, and next to the presiding officer of the other branch of the legislature, for signature, which duty shall be performed at as early an hour as possible, consistent with the proper discharge of his other duties as Chief Clerk.
PRESENTATION OF BILLS TO THE GOVERNOR.
19 .- After a bill shall have been signed by the respective presiding officers of the two Houses, it shall be presented by the Chief Clerk of the House in which it originated to the Governor, in the Executive Chamber, for his approval, it being first indorsed on the back of the roll, certifying in which House the same originated, which certificate shall be signed by the Chief Clerk of such House. In case the bill was passed by the ayes and noes being taken thereon, the nuumber of affirmative and negative votes in each House shall be indorsed on the back of the bill.
RESOLUTIONS TO TAKE THE SAME COURSE AS BILLS.
90 .- All orders, resolutions and votes, which are to be presented to the Governor for his approval, shall, also, in the same manner be previously examined, enrolled, and signed, and then presented in the same manner as is provided in the case of bills.
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A BOOK FOR ENROLLED BILLS TO BE KEPT BY EACH HOUSE.
81. - It shall be the duty of the Chief Clerk of each House to keep a Senate and Assem- bly book of enrolled bills in which shall be accurately minuted the exact time at which each bill or resolution (indicating it by its number) was presented to the presiding officer of each House for signature, and to the Governor for his approval. Such books shall always be open for inspection, and shall be deposited with the Secretary of State, to be preserved by him, at the close of the session. The books shall be substantially in the following form:
SENATE BILLS PRESENTED FOR SIGNATURE AND APPROVAL.
Presented to Presi- dent.
Presented to Speaker.
Presented to Gover- nor:
No. of Bill.
Date.
Hour.
Date.
Hour.
Date.
Hour.
No. 1, S.
Feb. 14.
9, A. M.
Feb. 15.
10, A. M.
Feb. 15.
2, P. X.
And & like book for bills originating in the Assembly shall be kept by the Chief Clerk thereof.
Of Claims.
ACCOUNTS TO BE VERIFIED.
22 .- No account presented shall be acted upon, unless verified by affidavit of the person in whose favor the same may be.
ALL PAPERS CLAIMING MONEY TO BE PRESERVED.
.- All petitions, claims. bills, accounts, or demands asking for an appropriation of money, shall be preserved by the committee to whom the same may be referred ; and such committee shall indorse on every such petition, claim, bill, account or demand, whether they report in favor of allowing or disallowing the same; and if in favor of allowing a part thereof, only, then the sun. so reported. After such committee shall have reported upon the same, such petition, claim, bill, account or demand. and every one of them shall be delivered to the Chief Clerk of the House to which the same was first presented, to be filled by such clerk, and delivered, at the close of the session, to the Secretary of State.
CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES.
23 .- In Joint Conquittees, standing or select, the chairman of the Senate Committee shall be chairman of the Joint Committee.
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Joint Convention.
24 .- Whenever there shall be a Joint Convention of the two Houses, the proceedings shall be entered at length upon the journal of each House. The Lieutenant-Governor or President of the Senate shall preside over such Joint Convention, and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly shall act as Clerk thereof, assisted by the Chief Clerk of the Senate; provided, that the Lieutenant-Governor shall not act in said convention except as the presiding officer, and in no case shali have the right to give the casting vote.
CHANGING OR SUSPENDING RULES.
25 .- No joint rules of the two Houses shall be repealed, amended or suspended, except by a vote of at least two-thirds of each House.
26 .- The rules of parliamentary practice, comprised in Jefferson's Manual, shall govern the Joint Convention of the Senate and Assembly in all cases to which they are applicable, and in which they are not inconsistent with these rules and orders of the Senate and Assembly.
ADJOURNMENT.
97 .- Neither House shall adjourn during any session thereof, without the consent of the other, for a longer period than three days.
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ELECTION OF UNITED STATES SENATORS.
ELECTION OF UNITED STATES SENATORS.
Chapter VIII, R. S. 1878
SECTION 90. Senators in Congress shall hereafter be elected as provided by the statutes of the United States. The meeting of the Senate and Assembly in joint convention shall be held in the hall of the Assembly. Each member shall vote viva voce upon a call of the roll, and such votes shall be entered upon the journal of the convention. The President of the Senate and Speaker of the Assembly shall cause a statement in duplicate of the result of such election to be made under their hands, certifying who has been chosen such Sena- tor: one of which statements they shall deliver to the Governor, to be filed and recorded in the executive office, and the other they shall deliver to the Secretary of State, who shall file and record the same in his office. In case the President of the Senate and Speaker of the Assembly, or either of them, shall neglect or refuse to execute and deliver such state- ment, the Chief Clerk of the Senate or of the Assembly, respectively, shall make and deliver, as aforesaid, such statement in duplicate, setting forth the whole number of votes given on the final ballot and the number thereof received by each person then voted for.
SECTION 91. Immediately thereafter, the Governor shall certify the election of such Sena- tor under the Great Seal to the President of the Senate of the United States, and the Secre- tary of State shall countersign such certificate.
STATUTES OF THE UNITED STATES RELATIVE TO ELECTION OF SENATORS.
(Title II, Chapter 1, Rev. Stat. U. S.)
SECTION 14. The Legislature of each State which is chosen next preceding the expira- tion of the time for which any Senator was elected to represent such State in Congress shall, on the second Tuesday after the meeting and organization thereof, proceed to elect a Senator in Congress.
SECTION 15. Such election shall be conducted in the following manner: Each House shall openly, by a viva voce vote of each member present, name one person for Senator in Congress from such State, and the name of the person so voted for, who receives a majority of the whole number of votes cast in each House, shall be entered on the journal of that House by the Clerk or Secretary thereof; or if either House fails to give such majority to any person on that day, the fact shall be entered on the journal. At twelve o'clock meridian of the day following that on which proceedings are required to take place as aforesaid, the members of the two Houses shall convene in joint assembly, and the journal of each House shall then be read, and if the same person has received a majority of all the votes in each House, he shall be declared duly elected Senator. But if the same person has not received a majority of the votes in each House, or if either House has failed to take proceedings as required by this section, the joint assembly shall then proceed to choose, by a viva voce vote of each member present, a person for Senator; and the person who receives a majority of all the votes of the joint assembly, a majority of all the members elected to both Houses being present and voting, shall be declared duly elected. If no person receives such majority on the first day, the joint assembly shall meet at twelve o'clock meridian of each succeeding day during the session of the Legislature, and shall take at least one vote until a Senator is elected.
SECTION 16.' Whenever, on the meeting of the Legislature of any State, a vacancy exists in the representation of such state in the Senate, the Legislature shall proceed, on the second Tuesday after meeting and organization, to elect a person to fill such vacancy, in the manner prescribed in the preceding section for the election of a Senator for a full term.
SECTION 17. Whenever, during the session of the Legislature of any State, a vacancy occurs In the representation of such State in the Senate, similar proceedings to fill such vacancy shall be had on the second Tuesday after the Legislature is organized and has had notice of such vacancy.
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SECTION 18. It shall be the duty of the Executive of the State from which any Senator has been chosen, to certify his election, under the seal of the State, to the President of the Renate of the United States.
SECTION 19. The certificate mentioned in the preceding section shall be countersigned by the Secretary of State of the State.
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PART II
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HISTORICAL
AN OUTLINE HISTORY OF WISCONSIN.
The state of Wisconsin is situated between latitude 42 degrees 27 minutes and 47 degrees 08 minutes north, and between longitude $6 degrees 53 minutes and 92 degrees 53 minutes west of Greenwich, near London, England. It is bounded on the north.by Lake Superior, on the east by Michigan and Lake Michigan, on the south by Illinois, and on the west by Iowa and Minnesota. It has an average length of about 260 miles, breadth 215 miles, and an area of 56,000 square miles, or 35,840,000 acres. Deducting from this the surface occu- pied by lakes and rivers, there remain 53,924 square miles, or 34,511,360 acres of land.
The tract of country from which Wisconsin was taken, was first claimed by the French, who exercised protectorate power over it until the close of the French and Indian war, after which, by the treaty of Paris, in 1763, it went formally and absolutely to Great Britain, It became part of the United States territory at the close of the revolutionary war, by the treaty of 1783, confirmed by the treaty of 1795. In the meantime Virginia and other states ceded to the government their claims to the territory northwest of the Ohio river; and con- gress, by the "ordinance of 1787," provided for its government. It was enacted that "there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory," and that there should be formed from such territory, as the population should justify, "not less than three nor more than five states."
Nearly all of what is now Wisconsin, was afterwards included in Indiana territory, which was organized in 1800; then the Illinois territory, organized in 1809; and in 1818, when Illinois was admitted into the Union as a state, it was attached to the territory of Michigan. In 1823, Wisconsin was made part of a separate judicial circuit, and in 1836 was organized as a territory, with Henry Dodge as governor. The first legislature met at Bel- mont, now in La Fayette county, October 25, IS36, and the next session was convened at Burlington, now in the state of Iowa, . November 6, 1837. In 1836, the seat of govern- ment was permanently located at Madison, where the legislature met for the first time No- vember 26, 1838.
In April, 1846, the people voted in favor of a state government. On the 16th of December, a constitution was adopted in convention, which was rejected by a vote of the people. February 4, 1848, a second constitution was adopted in convention, which was ratified by the people on the 13th of March, in that year, and on the 20th day of May Wisconsin be- came a state in the Union, being the seventeenth admitted, and the thirtieth in the list of states.
Following are salient features of Wisconsin history briefly stated in chronological order: 1634. The country was explored by Jean Nicolet, from Lake Michigan for a considerable distance up the Fox river.
1658. Sieur Radisson and Sieur des Groseilliers, two French fur-traders, visited the Green Bay region and wintered among the Pottawattomies.
1659. Radisson and Groseilliers went up Fox river, in the spring, and spent four months in explorations along Wisconsin streams. It is thought that they descended the Wisconsin river and saw the Mississippi.
1661. Radisson and Groseilliers arrived at Chequamegon bay in the early winter and built a stockade near where Ashland now is. They spent the winter in wandering through northwest Wisconsin and northeastern Minnesota. In the spring of 1602 they built another fort on Oak Point, ou Chequamegon bay.
1665. Claude Allouez, an eminent pioneer missionary, established a mission at La Pointe, on Lake Superior.
1669. Father Allouez established a mission on the shores of Green Bay, locating at De Pere, in 1671.
1670. Father Allouez made a voyage up the Fox river to the present limits of Green Lake county.
1671. In this year, the French took formal possession of the whole North west, confirmed In 1689.
1678. Louis Joliet, accompanied by Father James Marquette, discovered the upper Wasis- sippi, at Prairie du Chien.
AN OUTLINE HISTORY OF WISCONSIN.
The state of Wisconsin is situated between latitude 42 degrees 27 minutes and 47 degrees 08 minutes north, and between longitude $6 degrees 53 minutes and 92 degrees 53 minutes west of Greenwich, near London, England. It is bounded on the north-by Lake Superior, on the east by Michigan and Lake Michigan, on the south by Illinois, and on the west by Iowa and Minnesota. It has an average length of about 260 miles, breadth 215 miles, and an area of 56,000 square miles, or 35,840,000 acres. Deducting from this the surface occu- pied by lakes and rivers, there remain 53,924 square miles, or 34,511,360 acres of land.
The tract of country from which Wisconsin was taken, was first claimed by the French, who exercised protectorate power over it until the close of the French and Indian war, after which, by the treaty of Paris, in 1763, it went formally and absolutely to Great Britain, It became part of the United States territory at the close of the revolutionary war, by the treaty of 1783, confirmed by the treaty of 1795. In the meantime Virginia and other states ceded to the government their claims to the territory northwest of the Ohio river; and con- gress, by the "ordinance of 1787," provided for its government. It was enacted that "there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory," and that there should be formed from such territory, as the population should justify, "not less than three nor more than five states."
Nearly all of what is now Wisconsin, was afterwards included in Indiana territory, which was organized in 1800; then the Illinois territory, organized in 1809; and in 1818, when Illinois was admitted into the Union as a state, it was attached to the territory of Michigan. In 1823, Wisconsin was made part of a separate judicial circuit, and in 1836 was organized as a territory, with Henry Dodge as governor. The first legislature met at Bel- mont, now in La Fayette county, October 25, IS36, and the next session was convened at Burlington, now in the state of Iowa, . November 6, 1837. In 1836, the seat of govern- ment was permanently located at Madison, where the legislature met for the first time No- vember 26, 1838.
In April, 1846, the people voted in favor of a state government. On the 16th of December, & constitution was adopted in convention, which was rejected by a vote of the people. February 4, 1848, a second constitution was adopted in convention, which was ratified by the people on the 13th of March, in that year, and on the 29th day of May Wisconsin be- came a state in the Union, being the seventeenth admitted, and the thirtieth in the list of states.
Following are salient features of Wisconsin history briefly stated in chronological order: 1634. The country was explored by Jean Nicolet, from Lake Michigan for a considerable distance up the Fox river.
1658. Sieur Radisson and Sieur des Groseilliers, two French fur-traders, visited the Green Bay region and wintered among the Pottawattomies.
1659. Radisson and Groseilliers went up Fox river, in the spring, and spent four months in explorations along Wisconsin streams. It is thought that they descended the Wisconsin river and saw the Mississippi.
1661. Radisson and Groseilliers arrived at Chequamegon bay in the early winter and built a stockade near where Ashland now is. They spent the winter in wandering through northwest Wisconsin and northeastern Minnesota. In the spring of 1602, they built another fort on Oak Point, on Chequamegon bay.
1665. Claude Allouez, an eminent pioneer missionary, established a mission at La Pointe, on Lake Superior.
1669. Father Allouez established a mission on the shores of Green Bay, locating at De Pera in 1671.
1670. Father Allouez made a voyage up the Fox river to the present limits of Green Lake county.
1671. In this year, the French took formal possession of the whole Northwest, confirmed to 1689.
1678. Louis Joliet, accompanied by Father James Marquette, discovered the upper Missis- sippi, at Prairie du Chien.
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Sicur Raudin, representing La Salle, visited the western extremity of Lake Superior, to open the fur trade.
1674. Father Marquette coasted Lake Michigan, from Green Bay, by Milwaukee, to the site of the present city of Chicago.
1679. "The Griffin," a schooner built by La Salle, and the first to make a voyage of the lakes above Niagara, arrived at the mouth of Green Bay. La Salle made a canoe voyage along the Wisconsin shore of Lake Michigan, from Green Bay to Chicago, via the Sturgeon Bay portage.
1679. Daniel Grayson du Lhut (Duluth) ascended St. Louis river, held a council, and con- cluded a peace with the natives west of Lake Superior.
1680. Du Lhut voyaged from Lake Superior, to the Mississippi river, by ascending the Bois Brulé and descending the St. Croix.
1680. Father Louis Hennepin ascended the Mississippi to the Falls of St. Anthony, return- ing, in company with Du Lhut, over the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, to Green Bay.
1681. Marquette's journal and map of his travels and explorations in the Northwest were published in France.
1683. Le Sueur made a voyage of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers to the Mississippi.
1685. Nicholas Perrot, who had been at Green Bay as early as 1609, was appointed "com- mandant of the West." He proceeded over the Fox-Wisconsin-rivers route to the . Upper Mississippi, spending the winter at a point near the present village of Trem- pealeau. In 1686 and in later years he established posts on Lake Pepin and at the mouth of the Wisconsin.
1689. Baron la Hontan claimed to have penetrated the Wisconsin wilds, this year, by the Fox-Wisconsin route, and to have made extensive discoveries on the upper Missis- sippi.
1692. A military post was established at La Pointe by Le Sueur.
1695. Le Sueur built a fort on an island in the Mississippi, below the St. Croix.
1699. Father St. Cosme voyaged along the Wisconsin shore of Lake Michigan. He visited the site of Milwaukee, Oct. 7.
1716. Le Louvigny's battle with the Fox Indians at Butte des Morts.
1719. Francis Renalt explored the upper Mississippi with two hundred miners.
1721. Previous to this date a French fort had been established at Green Bay, on the present site of Fort Howard.
1727. A trading post, called Fort Beauharnois, was established on the north side of Lake Pepin.
1727. The French established a fort on Lake Pepin, with Sieur de Laperriere commandant. 1728. There was a great flood in the Mississippi, and Fort Beauharnois was submerged.
1728. A French expedition under De Lignery, from Michilimackinac, punished the Sacs and Foxes.
1784. A battle took place between the French, and the Sacs and Foxes.
1754. Sieur Marin, in command at Green Bay, made a peace with the Indians.
1761. Capt. Belfour and Lieut. Gorrell, with English troops, took possession of Green Bay. 1763. The English, under Lieut Gorrell, abandoned Green Bay in consequence of the In. dian war under Pontiac.
1763. Treaty of Paris, by which all the territory of New France, including Wisconsin, was surrendered to the English.
1766. By this year white traders and others settled permanently at Green Bay -first per- manent settlement in Wisconsin.
1774. A civil government was established over Canada and the Northwest by the celebrated "Quebec Act."
1777. Indians from Wisconsin, under Langlade and Gautier, join the British against the Americans.
1779. Capt. Robertson, of the British sloop, Felicity, made a voyage of reconnoissance around Lake Michigan, inducing traders and Indians to support the English.
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