The Davenport gazette., 1850-12-26
IOWA CITY CORRESPONDENCE
Iowa ClrY, Dec. 18th, 1850.

GAxErTE:-
Asa Lobby member from Scott. por"i
ms to lay before your readers few stub
born facts 10 be diges,ed hereafter.
OF course il is understood that Scot
County has moro in,sres, in Rail Road pro
iec,s than any o,hor subject, and 4 wou't
seem that she might confidently expect hc'
representatives in the Legislature To adso
cate all Legislative enactments calculated
10 advance her interest, aud particular.
when majority Of 100 Of iss inhab',ass'
hsd indirectly instructed their Represents
lives upon a particular matter ot 'egs'a
iion.
A, On early day 10 The Session Bill wa'
introduced in The Scna,e authorising tbs
Board Of Commissioners Of your County I
SO, spar. annually sufficient Of her revenue
10 pay tho in,eres, upon S2O,OOo OF stock
in the Rock Island aud Lasallc R,ilroa.
Company. This Bill was referred 10 q
committee, reported back and passed the
Senate BY decided majority, no one oppos
ing il, or voting ugsins, texcep, those VIII
are the enemies Of tho Davenport and
Council Bluffs Road, or the Dubuque and
Keokuk Railroad, The prominent opposi'
,ion Of course coming from that notorious
key Of every movo in Iowa, the "Ci,y ol
Burlington" The Delegation from Des.
moincs County aud such others as the. can
contrib, hive, and will vote against "Il
Railroad projects. The Scot, County Dl'
having passed The Senate was reported Ia
tho House las. week and from that time up
to this present writing i,s enemies have
been slowly, bu, surely increasing, until &
grieve to say ,) there is no longer any hopes
nf its becoming law.
D. your readers ask Why il IL, ,h,t a
mat,er nf this kind, purely local in its na.
,ure, proposition submitted TO The penp'e
i Scott, deliberately acted upon at the 3 j.
10, Box. adopted BY l60 maj jar,! should be
killed nHrby The General Assembly, aud
To the tomb Of oblivionf II the
inquiry arise in The mind of any one, re.
member WIN, now tell you; Remember
,ha, your immediate representative in the
person 1t Laurel Summers, has betrayed
xon, remember that he, who with mouth
stretched from ear 10 ear, bis eyes as big as
horse chesnu,s who was wont 10 bray abon,
Democracy, abnut 1.-THE gre siest good TO the
greatest number" about the majority ru!.
ing in all things, bolll, walks into your
Legislative Hall with Democracy upon his
lips, your destiny in his hands, aud cooliy,
ba.eiy, pockets his principles, "nd be,rass
his constituents, aud The confidence of those
who have ever vouched for his fidelity 10 n
principle tba, both Dem,cra, and Wing hold
sacred.
Why Sir, he has so indoc,rina,ed the
members Of the House with his various ex-
cuses ia the shape Of dogmas, some think.
ing il Unconstitutional, others that j, would
be making the minority members Of a cor-
poration contrary 10 their wishes, ihs, he
has actually made an ass Of himself as well
Of some others. Judge Grant proposed tn
him 10 exclude the two townships in the
county objcc,ing to il, from the provision
of the Bill, but all would not do, nothing
short of death to the whole matter will sui
this sprig Of bastard De mocracy.
The Bill IL now in the hands Of com.
mit,ee but its fate is understood 10 be seal
ed, Summers will endeavor to rid himself
M The odium by getting the committee to
report in such way as to take the Tespon-
sibiliy If of his shoulders; but he 'can,
come il" the stakes are set and he is bound
to face the music.
Had Summers acted consis,en n,ly, had he
acted in good faith with his constituents,
a> Letting well did n the Senate, this Bill
would now have been law. Il remains
- be seen whether tho people Of Scott
Count, will tolerate this petty tyrant or
not. whether our Representatives are sen,
TO represent the will of the mijnrty, aud
the interest oftheir constituents. or by their
action strike al the very life blood of the in.
,erest ofa county.
Tho Bill extending Wilson's Ferry Char.
ter has passed the Senate, but will not pass
the House. think this General Assembly
will pass general law tho present session
authorising the County Commissioners Of
each county To license and regulate Ferries
and that no Ferry Charter will be given
any one this session.
Yo,, will hear from n,e aoair sbo,,l,,