Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1855-08-01

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4 AIls1 N ormatiDa hish.rto wish rsfsrd
to the essanira:iDs ~ ia- Kansas Lsggis.a-
stuss hsying come ss,roAy,i pro- siavrfy usa-
diuns, i h1ikeIy that II ene Pom: ~ hasrs
done injostiee to Gov. Reeder. Aeecr singtu
the st ,iemeats confined in the following ist-
ter, be presented papers 10 show the Ilrgasi-
- Of the election Of some Of tis ms1nbers,
Paw FL, Kansas Territory,
July 18th, 1855.
Nix xxs. Ep.roks. - You will, no doubr, be
as onished VI the new light thrown upon leg
isiation. constitutional law, aud tie powers
of Congress, by the Legislature Of Kansas,
which adjourned from this place yesterday,
after session of Eve DAYS. The FIRST bill
introduced after the House was organized,
Was TO adjourn the Legislature from this
place to the Shawnee Mission, or Manual La
Dor School, located about two miles from
Missouri, near WesIpori.
Mr.. Husehison, a free State member, made
| speech against It, arguing that the organic
act authorised the Governor to locate the
first Legislature, and determine the place Of
its holding sessions-that they had no power
TO order ibe Governor to move his Office and
locate it permanently at the Indian School,
that :he Government had been at the expense
Of fitting up a large two-story stone build
| ing, sixty feet long by thirty wide, with suit
able desks, &C., and the citizans had been at
much expense in preparing for their accom-
modations-and the officers at Fort Riley had
| generously offered them whatever aeeommo-
| dations they should lack in the town, with q
carriage at their service. free Of expense, to
| take them to and from their place OF meet
| ing-he thought it unwise, unnecessary and
contrary to the organic act making it ter
ritory, &c. The Speaker, Mr.. Stlingfellow,
said there was no use in spending time to
discuss the bill. They had Diet rmined what
course to pursue two months ago. They had
told Gov. Reedcr what to expect, &c. The
bill finally passed by a two-thirl majority
A committee was appointed to wait on the
/ Governor and tell him the result. He re-
! piled that by that act they had dissolved
themselves, that he should not follow them
nor take any further notice of their proceed.
ings. They were no longer Legislature.
EARLY the first or second day of the SEES
sion, resolution was introduced appointing
. committee on contested elections, with in
struciions to examine persons and papers
No seat was contested. No person sent for
But on the second day after heir appoint.
nent, the committee reported that they had q
bundle of papers put into their hands by The
Governor, concerning election frauds, &C..
but they had not opened them. They had
also Concluded not {, examine the person.
elected ut the May election, and hold ne
seats by the authority of the Governors Ger.
tificates, as they had determined before they
came here how to dispose of. this matter
They would therefore recommend that al
persons elected at the first election of Marcel
3lst, in Kansas, whether in the opinion Of
the Governor they were elected legally or il.
legally, should be entitled to their seats, and
TINT all those elected at the second election
should retire. This report was adopted
And the members holding free State princi
pies were expelled without trial or examina
ton. f5a
One of them (Mr. Jessee) snid, as he hat
not been heard before the committee, h,
would state to the House that he was clerl
OF the FIRST election, hald in the third repre-
sentative district. That early on the day
the election, before many of the settlers hat
come in, body of armed men from Nilsson
ri, numbering about three hundred, came I,
the polls, and took violent possession of tn
balot-box. They drove away the officer
appointed by the Governor, and put in som
Of their own number. >a
They then proceeded to vote in q pro 81.
very delegation from the district. The peo
pie repudiated it, and the Governor set tn
election aside as illegal, and ordered ne,
one. The result was, that the next election
the freesoil ticket was elected by an over
, towering majority. Ard lie had no doub
but that three fourths Of the voters in Kan
sas We're for making it free State.
Mr.. Wattles said that as his days of legis
lation were drawing to close, he must *
press his admiration to the House for tn
frankness and opcnness which had character
" lied all their proceedings. He thanked tn
Chairman of the Committed on CONTESTED
Elections for his frankness in disclosing t,
the House and the North, this new and un
heard of method Of dealing with person
holding contested seats. He also thanked
the Speaker for his candor in stating tina
discussion on these questions was of 10 use
as they were determined on by the pro- slave
~ party two months ago, and they told Gov
Keeder so. He also thanked the House 70,
expelling him fromit asa member The,
had fairly come out and made the issue. ii,
was ready to take it up as they had laid i
down, untrammeled and uncmbarrassed b,
any other question. Shall Kansas be n frs'
State or slave State? Let. the sovereign
squatters Of Kansas determine this.
1t is to such n place as this that they wan
to 20, where they can int,rnidate and ovel
awe by violence the legislation Of the eoun
try.
g..,. q. The Kansas Legislature. ...+t
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