Demoine courier., 1856-12-18

PupLrc LaSps.-price, Barner, Van valkenburg,
Lewis and Wyatt.
LipRlRr.-Jones ROdman, Thomas, scoviile and
Sawyer.
RslLRoAps.-Cloua, Barker, Sullivan, Holmes and
Rand.
Bigelow and Toll added to Committee on
Railroads. Motion to reconsider resolutions
furnishing stationary TO Reporters lost. Mo-
ton carried to print Committees and Mem
bers names with Rules. Motion requesting
Gov. to furnish c0p,es Of correspondence with
State Department, laid on the table. Adjourn
ca to
2 O'Clock, p. M. Notices of bills to abol-
ish Death Penalty in Iowa, for the Incorpora-
ton of Centreville, and TO regulate fees Of
Justices. Also Of Joint Resolution to admit
Kansas, Resolution referring Geological por-
ton of Message to Committee on Agriculture,
sundry other notices Of bills, one separating
offices of county Auditor and Recorder, where's
upon House az adjourned.
FRIDAY. 10 O'clock A M.
HousE.-Prayer by TIE Chaplain, and read
iEg of the Journal by the Clerk.
Mr.. franklin offered a resolution of inquiry,
whether the State Printer has means to do the
work of the House-substitnte, 20 have the
printing done by the State Printer passed.
Joint resolution for the admission of Kansas
as a free State passed to second reading.
Notice of BiHs.-For a State Road from ST.
Courtney to Ottumwa; for raising of county,
State ard School revenue; relating to county
collection OF School Taxes; to define bounda
ries of the 9th judicial District.
Bills Introduced.-To amend the law relating
to the School Lands and Funds; payment OF
the State Bonds at the Bank of Philadelphia
out of the d per cent fund due at Washington;
or S575, coo loan from it for FIVE years; for
borrowing, by Mahaska county Judge; 50 900
of Railroad interest money. for one year. TO
build a Court House; for defining bounds of the
18th Judicial District, authorizing The trans
Crypt Of Justices Of the Peace, to be used in
any county and State; for a State Road from
Dennison, TO Monona City, Menona county, al
so, one from Council Bluffs to Sioux City; to
repeal the law making road certificates receiv-
able for county taxes; for the Survey of reads
in Chickasaw county, to increase voting pla-
ces in the counties, for organizing School Dis
tricts.
Bills Passed TO amend the law OF School
Lands and Funds, so as TO place them in the
custody Of the State Treasurer. also the bill for
paying the State Bones at the Bank of Phila-
deiphia, bv the State Treasurer, out of the five
for his expenses.
Adjourned till 2 O'Clock P. NJ.
FRIpAy, Dec. 5P. M.
HousE-The Speaker appointed Messrs.
Barker. Mills and Moor, of Mills, committee
on printil.g &.
Notice Of Biils.-To restrict the duties OF
county Judges; to require the county Treasur-
ers 20 meet citizens at certain places, to receive
taxes; to Authorize subdivisions of lard o;her
than those legliize' BY the United States SUR
vey<; for a STATE Road from Independence to
New Hampton; to repeat chapter 154 and l6i
of the Code; TO regulate costs In District
Courts; for legalizing the organization OF Ring
gold county.
Moved that the House committee to act in
conjunction with the Senate committee on the
Demoine River Improvement. Senate bill ex-
enpting certain lots in Dubuque from taxes,
passed
Mr.. Bowen bad leave to introduce a bill 10
alter ire boundaries of the 9th Judicial Dis
tric:; referred 70 a select committee OF delega-
tons from that district.
Report of the Trustees Of the Deaf and
Dumb Asylum for 1855; one thousand cop
les ordered TO be printed.
Dir. Hardie, colled up the resolution for The
Governors Kansas correspondence.
Mr.. Woodin moved to amend, which was
discussed
Bill to repeal Chap. 81 laws Of 4h General
Assembly, relating to interest on money pass-
eel 70 second reading.
Bin for a State roadfrom Wsterloo to Fort
Delnoine; TO require nonresident counties TO
Give bonds for cost before ] dstices of Peace, in
trodacel.
Mr.. Mordan, of Jackson county, was ex-
cused from attendance.
Adjourned til 10 o'clock A N. to-ipor-
SATURDAY, Dec. 9th A. M.
HousE-Speaker too Ill to attend to his du-
in the House. Mr.. Dorland called to the
Dr,yar he tho Tbaplain and reafin-
Of the Journal. Petitions Of sundry PERSONS,
praying that nurseries and horticultural
grounds be taxed. Notice of a bill to suppress
intemperance. Resolution TO print copies Of
reports of the State Register, Treasurer ami
of the Blind Asylum, passed. Notice
of sundry bills for further protecting the rig t
of suffrage, and others.
Mr.. Cloud called up his joint Resolutions,
which are as follows:
WHEREAS, Under the Constitution OF the United
States, freedom is national and slavery sectional, and
believing that the peace, welfare and honor ofthe coun.
try imperiously require that our national domain shall
be preserved free, for free homes and for free men; and
believing il to have been the policy OF our fathers, die
tated by reason and exalted patriotism, TO prohibit the
extension Of slavery and make freedom the law Of our
national progress.
Therefore be. it resolved by the General Assembly Of
the State of Iowa. That we are unquaiifedly opposed
TO the further extension Of Slavery within the jurisdic-
ton, or by the sanction, Of the General Government,
and insist that Congress shall exert all constitutional
power TO preserve our national territory free.
RESOLVED. That our Senator'S in Congress be instruct
ed, and our Representatives requested to exert their
influence and vote for the admissinn o. Kansas into the
Union as a Free State, and to oppose its admission with
a constitution establishing or tolerating slavery. .
RESOLVED, That the Governor be, and 10 hereby re.
auested to transmit a copy Of the above preamble and
resolutions to each of our Senators and Repre- ~entat.ves
in Congress.
A protracted DE- bate followed, on the mo-
ton of Mr.. Hardie, Of Dubuque, to refer to
the Committe on Federal Relations, in which
Messrs. Cloud, Franklin an Sullivan warmly
engaged.
Adjourned till 2 o'clock p. M.
Saturday, p. NJ.
HousE.-Mr. Cloud called up the joint res
~oluiions which was followed by 3 spirited de-
bate, and an attempt on the part Of the oppo-
to S ave of by motions to refer, for a
call of the House &C., which consumed the
balance of the day, the resolutions finally be-
ing ordered to ne engrossed and read the Sd
tomorrow by vote Of 81 to ~, when the
House adjourned.
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