STATE OF WISCONSIN.

SENATE JOURNAL.

FORTY-FIRST SESSION.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11th, 1893.

The forty-first session of the legislature of the state of Wisconsin began at Madison, the capital city of said state, the second Wednesday, being the 11th day of January, 1893. Pursuant to law, at 12 o'clock M., of said day, the senate was called to order by the Hon. Charles Jonas, lieutenant governor and president of the senate, who addressed the senate as follows:

SENATORS:

We are entering upon a new session of the legislature of our beloved state of Wisconsin. It happens under peculiarly auspicious circumstances. The cause of right, the cause of the people, has just gained a signal victory in the highest judicial tribunal of our state. It is an event which does not call forth simply a passing notice; this triumph of justice challenges the attention of the whole American nation, and is destined to be a landmark in the history of our judiciary.

Senators, to make laws for the government of our fellow men, to enact statutes for the regulation of a great commonwealth, is one of the highest and most exalted functions to the performance of which a citizen may be called. You are doubtless impressed with the great responsibility of your public station and the importance of the duties devolving upon you. I am sure you have taken your places in this chamber, hallowed by many affecting memories of the past, with a firm determination to serve the people faithfully and well, to pass only such measures as may be demanded by the public interest, and to promote, as far as may be in your power, the intellectual and moral

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