Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-01-25

Iowa CRY, Jan. 81, 1913.
NJ. CAzs~Is:

cclVe no new bills after INC iPtt'' p''h
Houses are uow at work in earnest; com
mi.tecs busy at every hour duting ADJOURN
msn,. The Swamp Land bin has retarded
lae Senate some time, and is not yet dis
posea Of. although it has now been referred
to committee The difficulty seems to be-
that the friends OF the bill claim the Swamp
Lands as State property. at least those
lands that are situated in counties not organ
lied. and they wish to use the proceeds,
after reclaiming the lands, Us fund Tor the
Deaf and Dumb, and Blind Asyluns =
Others contend that these lands hasing been
Irelnqu:shed TO certain counties by The last
Legislature, now belong to those counties,
and that the lands now in unergen;zed coan-
ties should also belong to those counties
after being organized.
The Sealta bill to amend your City Char
Ter has passed both Houses and is now in the
hands of the Enrolling Clerk. This Is the
lonly local bill Of the session that has met
with opposition in both branches from mem
bers who we're located at distance aud
Who had no interest whatever in the bill a
individuals or representatives,.
An act has been passed to separate the
printing aud binding Of the laws and jour
nals Of the General Assembly.
| presums you have ere this received the
intelligence Of the passage Of an aet sub
| ..*..., =. a.,n Is ti.a nuasttan nf eafIfuo
Convention to amend the Constitution.
The Ant, IN abraska party had caucus
and nominated Peter Moriarty. OF Jackson
county. as State Printer, and Fraucis Bark
or. al Marion, as Warden Of the Peniten-
tiary. An act had previously passed the
Senate requiring the State Printer to estab-
tlish himself at the Capital.
In accordance with previous notice the
Legislature met in Joint convention 10
o'elk. Friday morning to elect a Warden OF
Penitentiary AMI State Printer. Francis
Barker and the present incumbent, Mr..
Grigsby, were put in nomination. M
Grigsby received 81 and Francis Barker >
votes, whereupon Mr. Barker was proclaim
ed duly elected Warden, The Joint con-
yeation then proceeded to elect q State
Printer. III. Sylvester, or Iowa City, and
Peter Moriartr. of Jackson county, were
nominated AIr. Sylvester received ioI
and 3Ir Moriarity - votes. when the latter
was announced as State Printer for the en-
suing two years.
An act has passed both branches Of the
Legislature increasing the pyice of State
printing; this act strikes a difference be-
'ltween The bill introduced in the Senate at
the early part Of the session, and the former
established rates.
! 4 memorial to Congress has passed the
House and is now under consideration in
the Senate, tie object Of which is to re-
quest the General Government to grant to
the State Of iowa a presumption right to all
lands within six miles Of certain proposed
Railroads and for twelve miles distant from
said proposed Roads, when it becomes nee
essary to extend the presumption 10 that dis
lance toreplace lands that may have been
entered within the six miles above referred
to- Those Roads are set forth in the me
m rial as running from Dubuque, McGreg-
or's I.aGding, Cedar Rapids, iowa City and
Oskalposa 10 tie Missouri river. Should
this bill pass II would take out OF marker
.over lhree-i9urlhs OF all Tue government
lands within the entire State ana would
Icoscr upwards OF thirteen millions Of acres /
The object ot the movers ~ tins measure