The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-12-17


There are many matters upon which
should like to write In the Gate City, bat
hare writton one or more letters every d
since the spsaing Of the Lsgiulasurs, md
find BY he Gate of Monday that nothing hat
reached you up 70 that date. Your columns
must, therefore, be overcrowded when the
mails thaw out and all this accumulation OF
. matter flows in upon you al once. Neverthe.
less will continue 30 write and you can pub
lish or omit my letters as may best suit your
convenience.
In a letter few days since, commenting
upon the financial exhibit of the Superintcn-
dents Report, gave yon aIist Of pcrsonSin
our county who had received loans from the
Superintendent, and put down A. I. Mailing
at near 81 10000. Since then have had
an ocular inspection Of that Report, and dis
cover that omitted another loan to Walling
Of s., 100 90, which makes the whole amount
loaned to Walling Of the Times by the Sn-
perintendent, $l2,000.00.
| also looked over the list of loans to citi-
xens of IT. Des Moincs, and discover that
the amount is $5G,555.0O. Thus it will be
seen that more than one-fourth Of the entire
amount loaned to individuals was loaned to
citixcns OF Fl. Des Moines. 1t is presume
BILE that Eads takes very special interest in
that locality.
A meeting OF the members of the Bar
here, the other evening, under the advocacy
of ]. c. Hall and Judge Love, resolved to
memorialise the present Legislature in favor
Of increasing the salaries Of the Supreme
Judges to $4,000 annually, and of the Dis
trict Judges to $4,000.
think trebling the salaries Of our Judges
at one jump is rather too rapid an advance,
and win not be sanctioned by the people,
Should the present Legislature grant the
prayer OF the memorialists, it cannot fail TO
damage the Republican party, and will have
the further result to attract the attention of
the people and lead them to instruct the
OF the Constitutional Convention
to restrict the salaries in the Constitution
The salaries should be advanced moderately,
but the amounts indicated by these memoir.
alists are higher than is common in the
western states and higher than is necessary
or than will be palatable to the people.
A vote was taken yesterday in the Senate
which indicates that q majority of that body
is in favor of repeating the usary law. Such
repeal will prove decidedly unpopular,
think, with the masses of the people. They
have not asked for it, and they will suspect
that it has been instigated by capitalists and
bankers for the promotion Of their own in
terests. Il is known that the people Of the
state are in debt, and experience shows that
the repeal Of usury laws leaves the rate Of
interes. to be regulated by capitalists, and
that the people mus, conform to the custom
which these interested parties will establish,
by which the rate of interest which the peo-
pie have to pay on their debts will be greatly
enhanced, probably doubled. tits certainly
bad policy to double the rate of interest in
n debtor state.
Ing the bills to repeal the Temperance Law
on the table. These votes are no test, how
ever, OF what may be the ultimate action Of
on the subject. They simply vote
to lay on the table till they are ready for ac-
ton upon the matter, and will unqaestiona-
bly, take decided action during the session,
think, by amending, though it may be by
repeating the law.
Without special reference to these matters,
| ara sorry to see such a universal mania for
legislation prevailing in the General Assem-
bly,. trust it may be checked. II tits not,
fear it will prove the rock upon which the
Legislature will split.
The Republican majority is comparatively
large in Iowa, but no majority can maintain
itself against such masses OF legislative en-
actments as are likely to emanate from tho
present Legislature II they proceed to the
end of the session in the same spirit that they
have commenced it.
have taken great pleasure in tho contem-
plation of the fact thatt the Supreme Judges,
now in session at the Capitol, and all the
state officers, with one exception, are Re-
publicans. This is a very great as we'll as
very pleasant change to a Republican editor
who has been accustomed TO visit the Capt.
toll for the last fifteen years, and always
found the Offices filled by Locofocos. | am
proud to number amongst my personal as
well rs political friends so able and honora-
BILE corps Of gentlemen as that which oc-
cupies the high places in the state OF Iowa.
And all the more SO when contrast them
with That last remnant Of Locofocoism which
dissraces the Office Of Superintendent OF
Public Instruction.
To PosrAAsTERs.-One Of our subscribers
at Charlton, Lucas CO., wishes us to call the
attention Of Post Masters 70 the fact. that
the keokuk papers frequently reach Charlton
by the way Of the weekly cross mail, through