The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-06-03
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submit ton vote OF the people proposition
to subscribe in corporate capacity for $780,
900 of stock in each Of the railroads in the
county. The petition will be found below.
We presume no man will withhold his sig
nature to this petition, as it can be hardly
possible to hunt up any reasonable objection
to so doing. We are left wholly upon our
own resources in respect of our RAILROADS.
| Had all tho rest Of the roads of Iowa been
left in the same condition, that fact would have
been comparatively unimportant:">But i'm
mense aid having been afforded to other prom
inent lines, ours are thereby thrown into COM
petition with companies who have had their
hands 80 strengthened that they have become
far more formidable as competitors than they
would otherwise have been, and the points at
which they will concentrate their influence
will also enjoy, under ordinary circumstan-
ces, the same degree of advantage in compc-
tition over the points made by our roads
This is sufficient, we should presume, to con-
vince any one whose interests are connected
with this region, that more than ordinary
effort must be made in behalf Of our roads,
and all public and private means which can
be rendered available should be turnedto ac-
cess to them. Besides this, the propo-
sition could hardly be more just and fair as
between the parties. Allparts and oil inter-
ests of the. county ore served alike, and we
believe that the friends of each road are
equally satisfied, Let the petition be numer-
ously signed, and, under existing and pecu-
liar circumstances, we have no debut but
that the County Judge will submit the ques-
ton to vote, or that the proposition will be
heartily responded to by the people.
The petition is as follows:
To the Honorable the County Judge Of Lee
County, Iora:
We, the undersigned, Citizens and Voters
of Lee County, would respectfully represent
that the interests Of said county require that
Railroads should be built throughit, and that
said County should aid in their construction !;
and therefore respectfully petition your Hon.
or 20 have vote taken at the earliest prac-
ticable day. upon the following propositions,
to be voted for separately, at the same time
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and places. to wit:
Shall the County Of Lee subscribe One
Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars to the
capital stock of the keokuk. Fort Des Moines
and Minnesota Railroad Company?
| Shall the County Of Lee subscribe One
Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars to the
capital stock Of the Keokuk, Mt. Pleasant
and Muscatinc Railroad Company?
Shall the County Of Lee subscribe One
Hundred and Fifty. Thousand Dollars to the
capital stock Of the Fort Madison. West
Point. kcosauuua ana Bloomfield Railroad
Company
The said stock to be paid in twenty wear
eight per cent. County Bonds, the principal
and interest payable in the City Of New
York, the interest semi-annually: and that
an annual tax may be levied sufficient with
the dividends arising from the stock so sub
scribcd to pay sand interests and ask that
your Honor's proclamation, submitting said
vote, may contain a condition that the said
subscription shall not be made TO either Of
SAID Companies unless the vote shall be car
ried in favor of each and all of them: and
also, that the keokuk, Fort Des Moines and
Minnesota Railroad Company, and the Fort
Madison, West Point, keosauqua and Bloom
field Railroad Company, and all persons
claiming the County Bonds on the old eoun-
ty subscription under them or either of them,
shall, upon receiving the Bonds under the
vote proposed 10 be taken, release to the
County all claim to the said subscription
heretofore voted them.
German View OF Kansas a ffnir..
The subjoined passage, which we take
from The Stats Zeitung, the German Or
gan Of the Administration party. published
in New York, tells some home truths. II
evinces, lndeed, degree Of good feeling and
good sense on the subject Of the affairs of
Kansas, such as may be looked for in vain in
the generality Of the Administration prints
"The recent news from Kansas exhibits
the events which have taken place there. in a
more gloomy light even than we stated a few
days ago, and we should be guilty of follv
did we not appreciate their consequences to
the Democratic party, as well as those of
other occurrences of the last few days. We
are compelled TO confess that nj The NEXT
Presidential election they will cost us thou
sands and thousands Of votes. We NAV
prove as clearly as possible that what has hap
pened in Kansas is not necessary result Of
the Nebraska bill: the reply will surely be
that the Administration might have prevent
ed it oil. and that this Administration il a
Democratic one. The prosecution and arrest
OF the Free State men was the greatest folly
that could have been perpetrated on the part
OF the friends Of the Administration. We
may hold the notorious Legislature as legal
or not, but 80 much is sure, namely: that a
part ct its acts arc mockery Of the Ne
| braska bill itself and ono desired to be 81
lently despised and ignored. Even if we're
gard the Legislature as legally elected, it
docs not follow that its DEGREES are in har
mony with the spirit Of the Constitution and
the act OF Congress, to which that very Leg
islatare owes its existence. Suppose It had
passed the same laws with reference to bica-