Weekly miners' express. (DuBuque, Iowa) 184?-1849, 1848-12-12
THE LEGISLATURE.

Legislature Of Iowa met al the capitol il
Iowa City, and effected temporary or
ganization Of the two House.
On the evening Of that day, a secre
Caucus was held for the selection Of thu
permanent officers, and on the succeed
ing day, -.s
TUESDAY 9Th. they were elected. TIL.
following are the officers of the Senate
President, John J. Selman Of Davis coun
ty; Secretary J. NJ. Perry, Of Polk; As
sistant Secretary, C. G. Rockwell, OIL
Jones; Sergeant at Arms Geo. w. War,
rick Of Lee; Messenger, John J. Stout Of
Jefferson; Fireman, A. w. Russell of Du.
buque.
The HOUSE choose the following off,
GERS: Speaker S. Il. Bonham Of Johnson
Chief Clerk, Walker Of keokuk; FRS,
Assistant Clerk John Foley Jr., Of Du.
buque; Cd Assistant Clerk w. Sanders
Sergeant at Arms, Lampson Of Lee; Mes
senger, J. N. Bell; Fireman, Geo. Will
liams.
A Secret Caucus was held by the Dem
ocratic members Of the two Houses, on
Tuesday evening for the selection Of can
didates for the u. S. Senate, which result
ed in the choice of Hon. A. G. Dodge Of
Burlington and Gen. Geo. w. Jones Of
Dubuque.
WEDNESDAY Glh-but little business of
Importance was transacted. A Caucus
was held in the evening, for the selection
Of Candidates for Supreme Judges, and
the Hon. Joseph Williams Of Blooming
ton, was selected as Chief Justice; Hons.
George Greene ofDubuque and -Kin-
ney Of Lee, as associate Justices.
THURSDAY 7ih was fixed upon as the
day, and g o'clock P. NJ. as the hour, for
the election Of the above officers by
Joint convention of the two Houses: con-
sequently, at that hour, the two Houses
met in the Representative Hall, the Pres
ident ofthe Senate presiding, and proceed
ed to that duty.
Mr. Bradley Senator from Jackson,
nominated A. c. Dodge as one Of the U.
S. Senators, from the State of Iowa, Col.
Wallace Of Hsnry county, was also put
in nomination. Upon the call of tho con-
vention the vote stood as follows:
FoR DoDGE.--Alex andcr, Alger, Rabbit,
Baker, Belts, Bonham, Bradley, Casa
day, Collins, Corse. Crawford, Dawson,
Elmar, Espy, Evans, Fear, Flint, Gic.
ford, Griffith, Harrison, Harbour, How
ell, Jacobs, Langton, Mahony, Mcfarland,
Norton, Penny, Read, Riggs, Royston,
Sales, Sergent, Shields, Walker, Wey-
and, Wood, and Mr.. President-38.
For WALLAcE-Messrs. Allison, Bourne
Browning, Burroughs, Cook, Goodrich,
Jay, McCrarv, McManaman, Sanford,
Springer, spratt, Stephenson, Timmons,
Thompson, Wheeler, Williams, Wood.
worth, and Wright--19.
A.C. DODGE having received the great
est number Of votes, was declared duly
elected one of the Senators
Mr.. Griffith, of Lee county, nominated
GEORGE w. JONES, Of Dubuque, as one of
the Senators. R. P. LOWE was also no.
minated. Upon the names being called,
JONES received SO and Lowe 10 votes.-
The vote being the same as in the first
election, G. w. JONES was declared duly
elected one Oft the Senators from the State
Of Iowa.
JOSEPH WILLIAMS was nominated as
Chief Justice Of the State Of Iowa.
WHITcHER was also nominated Upon
the vote being taken, it was found that
Williams had received 80 votes, and
WHITcHER Is. Mr.. Spro.t. of Lee co.,
having voted for Williams. Joseph Will
liams was therefore declared duly elect
ed Chlef Juetlce.
George Greene, of Dubuque, was nomi-
mated as one Of the Associate Justices
Timothy Davis was also nominated. The
vote stood 80 to 18--the same as for Chief
Justice. ..
Kenny Of Henry county, was
nominated as one Of the Associate Justi-
ces; Howell, was also nominated.
The vote stood 80 to 10; the same as for
Chief Justice; and George Greene and
Kinny were declared duly elected
Associate Justices Of the State Of Iowa.
GIVE call the attention Of our read
ors to the advertisement Of Messrs. Eel
Lows d YoUNG, which will be found in
our columns to-day. They have purchas-
ed from Curtis g. Waite their large and
we'll selected stock Of Goods, and are de-
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