The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1849-03-08

cratic vote. The session has been length
encd ont TO forty three days. Aud now
you will ask. ns Won should do, for Whist
purpose? We nre compelled to answer for
no good one. We wish fellow citizens, you
would take tho action Of the Democratic
majority iuio careful consideration, SO far
5, tho prolonging Of the session is concern
cd We have managed for several years
TO get along ander our present laws--it
was known that the Committee would be
ready TO report certainly by the next scs-
sion--iror their known ability i, was ex-
pccied with confidence that thew would
bring order ont Of the confusion TINT now
exists. The people had at last 90, 10 un-
ders,and to some extent our present code.
TO hope to better in my mntcrial degree
our general laws, by mendmcnt WAS vain
and idle. Every day added hundreds Of
dollars 10 orr State debt; every day added
TO the enormous profits Of the printer in
the way a large journals aud mass Of
local laws; for oil these reasons and others
that might he mentioned, we were clearly
OF opinion il wns worse than useless TO
stay here--yca, even an absolute injury !;
fearing as We did iha, vel! enough ior the
presen; would not be let nlouc. Suisse
queE. action has justified our fears The
expenses of this Session will. we predict,
be larger. than either one we have vet had
under the State government, and l we
add tbs proiiiga;e allowances ihst have
beea made, which should liz properly nd
aed to expenses per OF the session, they
will lie found 10 lie almost tloible. For
what end then was the session continued?
To pass School Bill it NAV lie said. This
is not true. Our School law j, is true was
The subject of complaint. Its defects. how
ever. we've generally understood, mud il was
ccriainly better To- amend ihe most clnrinc
defects, aud ,ef the law which mrsi of the
school officers had got to understand, stand
Tor two years, than To pass an entire new
law. The revising Committee will report
an entire School System. A school law
has been passed almost every winter for
i've or six years past, another has heen
passed this Session, and before il is circu-
lated or half understood, another one will
comc from the Committee What non
sense then try or attempt to do anything
on this subject, and this is clearly SO when
you find ont, as NO fear you will, that the
new law, Is more exceptioaah'e in many
particulars than the old one. But this was
not the cause Of protrnciing the session.
After il was introduced il passed both
branches in less than ten dnss, md could
Just rs well have passed in five. So that
in no view of il, was the passage Of
School law, n just cause for keeping us to-
eether.
There was only one law tina, We were
hound to pass under the constitution. and
that was the apportionmcnt Bill. This
need not have taken over one or two DAYS.
and indeed did not when il canc Ia be con.
sidered. Besides some Sigh, action on The
School law and the passage Of The nppor-
tionment act there was nothing actually
necessary to he done. We can then trace
the length Of the session 10 nothing Of this
kind. and hence We ere compelled 10 look
to something else. Perhaps 10 two causes
can il he traced. First TO the strong de-
sire OF the minority TO receive from tho
State their per diem and Ia mike show
Of their names upon the journals. But the
strongest cause Of its continuance, was the
desire TO hear from Washington. and to
elect another Senator in the place ef the
one who might draw the short term. Gen.
Dodge drew the short term aud was re-
elected on Wednesday last How dear do
you suppose you have paid Tor The cxquis-
iie pleasure Of re-clcctinr this nan? We
venture to say not less than from eight 10
ten thousand dollars, TO say no,hing OF the
extra au! useless printing and other Bills
created thereby. Now this may seem rath-
or dear for the whistle, bu, upon cxamina-
ton of all the items We venture to predict
il will be more than this. rather ihan less
We frequently charged upon the majority
that this was the cause OF their remaining
here; but il was no, un, a few DAYS since,
when another proposition was made 10 ad-
journ on the 10th inst, TINT the reason was
avowcd, that 20 time for adjournment
should be fixed upon until this news was
received from Washington. Citizens Of
Town, are you willing to sustain such ex-
penditure Of the public money. at time
when you arc involved in debt of slmosl
one hundred thousand dollars, and for snch
n purpose? Where was the necessity of
depending this amount Of money for the
purpose Of again giving Office TO one AREA
dy grown wealthy from official spoil! By
what right divine do some men lay claim
10 public favor. that you must be taxed 10
the tune Of ten thousand dollars. TO CRAFTY
their wishes? The answer we leave to
YOU. The remedy is in your hands. So
long rs your public servants think more Of
beneliting some party favoriic. and filling
their own pockets with your money. than