STATE OF WISCONSIN.

SENATE JOURNAL.

FORTY-SECOND SESSION.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1895.

The forty-second session of the legislature of the state of Wisconsin began at Madison, the capital city of said state, on the second Wednesday, being the 9th day of January 1895. Pursuant to law, at 12 o'clock M. of said day, the senate was. called to order by the Hon. Emil Baensch, and president of the senate, who addressed the senate as follows:

SEN ATORS:

The hour has arrived for the convening of the Wisconsin legislature in regular session, and we are about to enter upon the performance of duties affecting, for weal or woe, the development of our commonwealth, as well as the business and social relations of its people. Loyalty to the state, second only in degree to that we entertain towards the nation, will urge upon us a practiical exemplification of the motto of our state. Yet ought we to remember that steps have often been taken, intended to be "forward," but which veered from the lines of progress and led to retrogression or inertness. Hence legislation can have no better regulation, no better safe conduct, than a conservatism that will demand of every so-called reform to submit to the rigid test of actual and recorded experience, and give way to natural growth and expansion. And thus, within the r strictions placed upon us by the constitution, and within