Legislative notes and local public notices
The past week in the Senate and Assembly included a dropped assessment bill, memorials to Congress for Fox River channel improvement at Green Bay and a land grant for Green Bay and Lake Pepin Rail road construction. Other actions covered wool tariff, naval families aid, Menomonee Navigation Company, tax exemptions, and railroad tariff debates. An insurance crisis warned by Wall Street telegrams followed by a North-Western road accident near Mepere where a crowded rear coach derailed after a broken rail with no serious injuries reported.
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Green Bay
Lake Pepin
Tulutien
Puleifer
Menomonee Navigation Company
Johnson
Illinois
Rainoan
Mepere
Washington News Letter on Reconstruction and Bills
Daily Meconstruction sessions plan a new plan for recon struction of rebel states. President in talks with Southern leaders and conservative Republicans on amnesty and suffrage. Impeachment inquiry and tariff debate loom. Senate passed a bill restricting roll call to current reps. St Louis arsenal expansion bill introduced. Bankrupt bill under consideration, likely to pass. Gen Fullerton named Postmaster at St Louis. Judiciary probes attack on freedmen camp. whisky fraud repeal discussed. Ways and Means to add cheese and butter to free list. New Orleans riot inquiry nearing report, due days. Counterfeiter Martin arrested at Delevan with $600 counterfeit greenbacks found.
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Arsenal
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New Orleans
A Visit to the Waupun Prison by Wisconsin Legislators
Milwaukee Sentinel correspondence reports the Wisconsin Legislative Committee visit to Waupun Prison in late January 1867. They audit accounts, praise Dr Cordier as commissioner, note improved discipline and a near self supporting institution, urge reform for juvenile convicts and a proper prison library, and describe staff, inmate totals, mortality, and notable cases while detailing ongoing educational and religious efforts.
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Wacrty
Legislative Committee
Starks
Fulton
Orson Reed
Proctor
Whiting
Pulcifer
Norn
Seeley
Cordier
Waupua
N. Palmer
John Wingender
Red. Scholz
Dodge County
Geo
Love
Dunby
Enlargement of the Milwaukee Sentinel 1867
News Volume for 1867 announces the enlargement of The Milwaukee Sentinel with no price increase. The Tribune urges readers to believe in fairness, peace, liberty, and progress while detailing costly global correspondence, editorial staff, and planned essays from renowned foreign authors. Subscription rates, clubs, and payment methods are listed for the Tribune and related publications.
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Milwaukee Sentinel
Tuk Sentinel
Friends of the Sentinel
Universal Brotherhood of Man
Colomns
Tin Tripest
Friends of
Tr Tirpene
Republic
New York Tribune looks to 1867 growth and reconstruction
The New York Tribune proclaims a prosperous start to 1867 with larger pages and rising circulation. It insists on rugged policy choices in Washington, backing hard currency, labor protections, and broad suffrage for Blacks while criticizing President Johnson and noting Congress support for Civil Rights and the Freedmen’s Bureau amid ongoing Reconstruction debates.
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Washington
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West
Congress
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