Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-01-26
T,he (seher..i 4 sscribly.

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seen that this body adjourned on yester-
aav. the 25.h inst, having been in session
,wenty-three days. We4expect TO be in
possession Of the Senate journal in short
time, when we will be able to give more
s.tisfsctory'history Of the proceedings. At
were in vain to attempt report OF the
proceeding. Of the lower House on the day
Of the adjournment. The confusion which
reiened there beggred all description
Few and hollow were the words spoken, as
the valedictory oftheir iRustr1ous federal
Speaker, that reckless and sin hardened
party tool and ,yrant, Browne, who was
selected for that station BY his party, or
aceount Of his knewn contempt, for law
usage, order and courtesy, a"d his s'''lo
disregard for parliamentary rules and con
siitutional rights. No democrat could be
prevailed upon this Time, as.aslast session.
to propose vote Of thanks TO the Speaker;
though .Loy were nov, as then, urgently
solicited so to do. Mr.. Morton, after
,exhansting every effort, was compelled 10
propose the vote ofthaaks himself; and 1t
met with such ahollow response from the
federal side of the House rs eyinced a
weighty consciousness Of guilt; and Mf.
,Goodrel, who was in The chair al Tie
time, declined TO pat the negative OF the
question, for fear Of an overwhelming
negative voice from the outraged and in
dignai,. democratic minority. Thus tie
vote .f thanks was declared passed, ri'tu.
ally without putting the question.
The House journal was spirited away
to s'the Dssmoinss Republic for the two
fold purpose Of feeding up federal print
Che Drsmoines Valley Whig) which,
without such support, would soon have
expired by lis own Limitation, and Of con,
cealing IS long as possible from the public
view, the rank pollution and damning ini-
luily of"rampan., unrsstrainea federal
ism inthat body. Being by this means
deprived Of access TO the journal oi,he
lower House, until il suits the purposes
Of whiggery 70 publish tito the world, re-
,ised and corrected, cur only reliance for
full history OF their iniquiious proceed
ings, meantime, is the notes which We
have taken during lie session.
The will of tie people Of Ioya has been
again ruthlessly Inverted BY the federal
unsjoriy il the I,wer ht,isc Il. every leg;t
innate object Of the session, save one, Oh
these objects, the three leading ones were:
the election Of Z. States Senas crs and Su-
prene Judges, the enactment Of judi
cious and effective SchoJl law, aud res
vision Of the Statutes. The las! named
is the only ono &C ,omplishcd, and thai.
would have been defeated bu, for IN acct
dent Or oversight on the par! Of the ieder-
alistssb BY which they put ii beyond their
power TO do 50; and they bitterly lament,
ed that they had permitted this solitary
object to be accomplished. 81
Our opponents all along nrofrssed a
Willingness to go into joint convention SO
soon as the contested seats should he dis
posed Of At one time they passed a
Buucombe resolution through the House
TO adjourn ct an early day, in which they
further resolved to go into joint conven-
ton 10 elect Senators ard Judges so soon
as said contests should be disposed Of
This resolution being only fer Buncombe,
and its obvious effect and design being to
defea. the school and revision laws, the
Senate very properly refused to concur.
They afterwards, as part Of their pc
ihical legerdemaii., and for the purpose Of
binding the people to their real designs,
permitted the passage Of resolution pro-
posed BY Mr.. Montague, to go into con-
venlion SO soon as the contested seats
were disposed of, without any further con-
dl'ion; but, no sooner were all those cases
disposed of and Mr.. Kinsman turned ont
oy this s llawiess and dastardly majority,
than they rescinded that resolution and
refused to 60 into convention at all This
resolution they rescinded on the second
gay alter its passage; whereas, the rules
81 the House declare that reconsider,
t'on or resembling Of a vote or resolution
cannot be had, except on the day Of It,
passage or the next day. They have thus
unmaslked themselves, aud stand forth be- 4
lore the world in all their cknowledged
gai!'and hedious delsrni'y.
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