Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1846-12-03
Editors Correspondencc.
"Crnmmey House iowa CRY :,
Monday morning, Nov. 80, 1916.

tel, called the "Crummey House," and
never have | seen more attention TO the
wants or stronger desire to please their
customers, than is displayed by Mr. Crum
mey, his amiable lady and his employees.
generally. The house is not near so large
as Swans" and of course there are not
so many inmates. But we have ''good-
lie companie,' among whom are num-
Der of our Des Moines delegation, who
will compare for Legislative capacity with
any other tia. clay here assemble. They
are r9ther 81 the curiosity order, and am
not positively certain that the great num-
bers of loco focos now here from differ.
ent parts Of the Territory. have not come
as people come to show, TO behold the
astonishing sight of an entire Wing dele
CATION of six members from the hitherto
stronghold Of locofocoism, Old Des Moines
county. This is the most charitable con-
siruction that can be offered in accounting
for the presence of such multitude Of 10.
co foco strangers. Many think | am mis-
taken, and insist that their sole object is
to catch the crumbs as they may fall from
the Secretary's table of the loco foco Sen,
ate. for surely they can look for nothing
from the Wing House of Representatives
of Iowa.
OF course, can give the readers of the
Hawk-Eye, as yet, no intelligence of the
doings of the Legislature, as it is no, yet
organized, and for that reason my first let
Ter must be necessarily dry, uninteres,ng
and unsatisfactory. The members are
nearly all in. Several important ques-
lions have already been agitated. Among
these mention the opinion, entertained
by several, tina, the Territorial Legislature
is by no means extinct and that there is a
probability. if a quorum can be scared up
in the city Of members of that body. they
will organize under the Territorial law,
and will claim their mileage and per diem
out of the ten or eleven thousand dollars
appropriated to pay The Territorial LIE,
gisla,ive expenses at The last session of
Congress. You will remember, how We.
ry knowing the gentlemen Of the press
appeared TO be when l suggested the idea,
Immediately after the Constitution was
adopted, that there might be some fun to
be seen in Iowa city the coming winter
from the circumstance Of holding Ter
ritorial and State Legislature in session
at the same time. They repudiated the idea
with great amount of self complacency
in their own supposed better knowledge
Of the matter. Blu, we shall not be sur.
prised If quorum at least do not assem-
BILE within few days under the title of
the Legislative Assembly of Iowa Terri.
tory for the purpose Of doing up the I'M.
finished business of the Territory. and as
a compensation for their services draw on
the fund appropriated by Congress. We
hope they mav,if they will make i, one of
their principal objects 10 pay the debts Of
Territory that might otherwise have to be
drawn from the peoples pockets out of
the State Treasury.
The loco focos are endeavoring to post
pone the organization of the State Legis-
lature for a day or two a, least. on the
ground that all the official returns have
not yet come into the hands Of the Secre-
larry so as 10 authorize the installation of
the new Governor and the other Stale Of
6cers. | think, however, that their main
object in wishing to postpone is TO give
OLMsTEAD, Of Du Buque, time to come to
the city. He is detained at home by sick
ness, and they see, as all must, that one
loco foco vote is very important to them
at the present crisis of their affairs.
| learn that DouD, whig, from Polk,
Dallas, Marion and Jasper district will be
here to claim his seat in the House. |
also learn that there is another contested
ed seat in the House. ANDERSON. whie,
from one Of the new counties, was clear
ly elected, but because he held some pet.
'y county office, his opponent claims his
seat on the ground Of ineligibli,y! But
he will be disappointed. The wings in
The House will be firm in discounenanc
ing ali such attempts at usurpation and
loco foco chicanery.
The great and absorbing question here
and elsewhere a. the present time is who
shall be Senator's? But it is impossible
10 decide yet. The poor locos are in grea,
trouble. Their oracle, the Reporter at
this place. has. by his ingraIitude in
throwing off Gen. Dodge, encouraged a
hos! of aspiran,s TO rise up from all parts
of the Territory, so that now there are
about thirty or ,hir,y-6ve candidates for