The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-11-12

at some length in opposition to the reso
luton offered by the committee. A full
report of his remarks may be seen in an
other column.
Mr. BOX. as one of the committee, fel
it a duty to spe ak. He said he came tt
the Legislature destitute Of party spiri
and with the intention of dividing tn,
printing. 1t was not his intention to give
Mr. McKenny all the printing, but wher
he went to the printing office and heart
one whom he inferred was the agent o
Mr. Edwards, say that he did not eXpec
Mr. E. would get the printing of the House
and that he thought it would be better fol
the establishment if he did not, he, Nj
Box, out of regard to MIR Edwards should
90 against him! Here an alteration took
place between Mr. B. and his colleague,
Mr. Miller, about the votes given on Mr.
Ms resolution to give McKenny the print
ing, spoken Of in the first part of this ar
ticle, when Mr. Box excused himself by
saying that he was very unfortunate, on
the day that resolution was under discus
sion, as he had to run out very often and
was not aware Of all that was going on:
for, said he, Mr. Speaker, I had Bowel
complaint Qaughter.)
Mr. SUMMERS said that McKenny
had done the printing for them hitherto,
and as he had done it well, he would 90
for the resolution.
Mr. LASH said he voted for laying
Mr. Miller's resolution on the table for
the purpose of seeing who would do the
printing the cheapest, but since no inter-
view could be had with Mr. Edwards, he
felt bound to make the report as Chair
man of the Committee, and support the
resolution giving the printing to Mr. Nc
Kenny.
Mr. PORTER said he handed the pro.
posals Of Mr. Edwards to the Chairman
of the committee (Mr Lash) as soon as
he came in the House this morning. He
asked him to embody MIR Els bid in the
report, and he was a little surprised TO
find that the chairman had not done it.
He contended that the resolution and re.
port of that gentleman were precisely the
same in principle with supporting Mr.
Mlller's resolution, which the same gen.
leman was instrumental in defeating by
voting as he did to lie it on the table. |
TO say the least of it, said Mr. Porter,
he conduct of my colleague seems very
Inconsistent. Mr. P. contended that our
proposals were handed in in sufficient
season to be attached to the report, and
Is Mr. Els bid was the only real bid be-
ore the House, he should oppose the
adoption Of the resolution recommended
~ the Committee on Expenditures.
Mr. LEWIS opposed the motion of
he committee and deprecated the exclu-
i've party course that had already been
pursued in the House. He did not con-
ider the proposition of McKenney as
tated in the report of the committee as
elng legitimate bid. He said that
here were two parties and that each {
arty had its respective organ in this
lace, and as the incidental printing had
eretofore been divided, the giving it all
, one of those presses was unfair and :
ngenerous.
Mr. HENDERsHOTT said the gen. I
eman from Lee, (Mr Miller) had borne {
cry hard on us of the committee, but as {
, himself he had come into this House a
nth pure heart and clean hands. In v
,gard to the resolution giving McKen- a
ey all the incidental printing, he would f
o decidedly for it. He felt bound to o
0 against the Hawkeye on account of il
lie course it had pursued, and with the v
cave of the House he would show the v
curse it had pursued. Leave having $
cen granted, he took from his pocket Il
tile book, ON the leaves of which he had t
asted quite number of interesting ex- h
acts from the Hawkeye, which he read t
nd which appeared to amuse and edify a n
.rge portion of his hearers. We were c
ertainly proud of every thing he read. Il
lie found no difficulty in commenting
n any of the articles, except that which v
aded with Observation-Disclosures AS he Il
xpressed himself at a loss how to ex- a
lain that, member sent a resolution a
} the clerks desk which was read and Il
as follows - a
Resolved, That the editor of the Hawk u
We be permitted to come within the bar il