Hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1843-1845, 1843-12-07
what will the Legislature do
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What will the Legislature do
about it?
We remember to have seen n sue qestion
in the Gazette of this place a few weeks
since, recommending the members Of the
Legislature to curtail their present session
to about one half Of the time allowed bv the
Organic Law, which is seventy-fvc days
Ihs recommendation, If we remem Der
right-for we have not The Gazette before
us-was made for the purpose OF enabling
the Legislature to make an appropriation to
cover The deficiency of last year, which de
prived Messrs. HUGHEs aud WILLIAMS Of re.
ceiving their pay for printing the Laws
The appropriations Of the Legislature last
year exceeded the appropriation made by
Congress for the use of the Legislature
about 5000 dollars.
Most, if not all Of this sum is due Mcssrs
HUGHEs and WILLIAMS for printing the laws.
How they are to obtain their pay in any 9TH
er way, except by an additional tax on the
people, we cannot see; as Congress has, by
law, positively warned the Legislature not
to 60 beyond the Congressional approp.a
ton. With this warning staring them in
the lace. the members of the last Legsa-
ture, did go beyond their annual allowance
to the amount of the sum specified above.
The question now arises, how shall this
excess be met A.? 1t will not help the matter
by saying that the book which was printc d
and which occasioned this additional cx-
pense, is bungling concern and that it doe $
not answer the purpose of Il correct code
OF laws. The printers are not blameworthy !,
that we know Of, for the many palpablc an d
absurd errors which abound in the work !,
and which makes it almost useless. The v
have printed the work and we have heard
no complaints in relation to it's incorrect
Typography. They are therefore entitled to
their pay.
All know that these editors. are bitterly
opposed tou s but that shall not prevent us
from doing as we would wish to be done by
under like circumstances We, as we'll as
most Of the editors in this Territory,
know full we'll by sad experience the al.
most ruinous perplexty Of having govern
ment for a debtor FOR work done and per-
formed; and on this account, we most cor
daily second the suggestion Of our cotcm :
porary, and hope that such curtailment as
he proposes may be carried into effect.
Such an act Of self denial on the part Of
the Legislature would be highly prasewor-
thy, and, with the other consequent de-
crease of expenditures wonld about make
up the deficiency, or come so near it as to
satisfy Messrs. Hughes and Williams We
believe the business of the Legislature could
as well be performed in forty as in seventy
five days, and we hope no whig will oppose
the proposition. If it is carried out, it will
be one Of the rarest illustrations Of Legis.
lativc magnanimity that could be conceiv-
ed of in these days Of political degeneracy.
and would entail upon the present Legis-
lature character for Patriotism which
would throw all the hollow professions of
economy of their predecessors entirely into
the shade.
The Hon. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, on his late
visit to Cincinnati to lay the corner stone
of the Observatory, was obliged to decline
pressing invitations to visit St. Louis, Louis
vile, Frankfort. Mr. Clay at Ashland and
several other places. Wherever he stop ped
he was appropriately and enthusiastically
welcomed. He seemed almost overwhelm.
ed at the spontaneous demonstrations of at
lection that greeted him wherever he went
He addressed the people in all the principal
towns along his route from Cleveland to
Gin cinnati, and on his return up the Ohio,
he visited Covingtor and Maysville, KY
A: the last accounts he had just left Pitts
burgh.
An account Of the Mormon Spiritual
wife system, by Gen. Bennett, and another
number on the "three year tract" may be
found on our first page.
Capt. Marryatt's new book, entitled
sTravels and adventures Of Monsieur Vio-
let," is said to be a complete plagiarism,
made up principally out of Kendall's sketch.
es, which have been published in the New
Orleans Picayune.