Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-03-04

AUo11U % Tno OSpltol.
Du Mousrs, March I, 1858.
The Legislature passed the joint rssolu-
ton for adjournment on the 18th inst
The Bank Bills have both passed through
the committee Of the whole of the respec
tive houses, in which they adjourned. sub
stAntially as first reported. and viii probs.
bly, be passed 10 proper session during the
coming week. There is chance for disa-
greement between the two houses in refer
erence to these two several feline bills.
The House passed the bill creating q
Board Of County Commissioners in lieu of
the County Judge system, but on last satur-
day the Senate voted down the House bill
There lie a proposition before the Senate APP
pointing two Commissioners to act with the
Judge
The House has had before it, the memo
rial Of citizens of Des Moines, charging
fraud and corruption upon the commission
ers who located the capitol building in its
present position. Specifications that some
received $1,000, others as high as $4,000
from the Capitol Building Association for
locating it. The location itself, is prin,a ia
| Gle evidence Of fraud 1t is a mile from
town, and across a bottom that annually
| overfows to a depth of from one to fifteen
feet. A channel runs about half way from
the river to the foot of the Capitol Hill.
| equal in all its force to the main channel of
the river. at these periodical overhows-
| Tie State, besides. has no interest in the
building or grounds. But an association Of
speculaters bought tract of land. to make
it sell, they bribed the commissioners, and
the location was made in defiance Of the
liberal offer of 100000 by the people of the
west side of the river. The association have
now petitioned the Legislature for relief,
the crisis and the heavy sums paid the com
missioners for locating, have broke them
fiat They plead patriotic service to the
State, and offer to sell out dirt cheap
There is little hope for them. The Legisla-
ture can show no tears of sympathy for men
who have made them walk mile through
the mud, three times day. and by SO do
ing strapped" themselves.
! The committee of the whole have report
ed to the Senate, with o recommendation
that 1t be passed, the Educational Bill 1t
will pass. The Board of Trustees provided
for, are as follows:
Lauren Dewey, of Henry; Z. Wright, Of
Cedar; W. Barris, Of Scott; w. f. Bran
any, of Muscatine; E. C. Lyon, NJ. Reno, II.
ID. Downey, and W. Ii. Barris, of johnson
Lincoln Clark, of Dubuque; J. b. Grinnell
of Poweshiek; G. W. Drake, of Mahaska,
| and W. p. Davis, of Polk
The House has refused to take further ac-
ton upon the Temperance question by a
vote Of 35 to 80, and lager beer is prohib-
tied article, and Senator Rusch an excited
| Dutchman, refusing to be comforted lie is
great source Of amusement to members,
and forms the relief fund in all tiresome sit.
tings. lie is remarkably excitable, and gets
off about as much unintelgible gibberish as
any one Dutchman could be expected to
throw off, especially about der lager bier,
und guten wine, he having introduced a
bill for the special benefit of these bever-
| ages, and sought to tack "der bier" Klause
to the bill for an agricultural college and
experimental farm, stating it as his belief,
that the State could bring the lager manu-
facture to such sta. of perfection. as to sell
"swei gloss for five cent" and then make a
clear profit Of swei und half cents on every
| glass sold. He is the butt, at which all fee
especially privileged to laugh. 1t is not
looked upon as indecorous to laugh at Rusch
-and on the School Bill after protracted
and laborious sitting, when all seemed wea-
ried, he arose, and there was general re.
Taxation Of coeLtenances, and relief from
thought while he spoke. No one pretends
to answer him, or take any notice to what
he says. A man who has as little force,
never before had a seat in Senate
The House has passed bill for the pun
ishment of fpticide 1t is remarkable fact
that no law has ever existed, as statute, in
this State, for the punishment of this Of.
fence. There probably is not another State
in the Union whore the crime of fntcde is
not severely punished by Imprisonment in
the Penitentiary; but in Iowa it is no offence
at all. There is another remarkable omis-
sion which a bill has been reported to sup
| ply, to wit; the intermarrage Of blood re-
lations | have carefully read most of the
statutes Of the State, but do not recollect
finding law under which it would be lille
gal for q man to marry his own sister, either
of the whole or half blood, and no other de-
gree Of consanguinity is Prohibited, to my
knowledge. This bill establishes the usual
degrees, but it would be much better bill
If it prohibited and declared incestuous, all
marriages between first cousins
There is little progress made by the Com
mittee appointed by the Legislature to con-
fer with the Des Moines River Improvement
Company. have not the slightest expec-
tation that anything satisfactory will come
of it; they plead vested rights, and will
probably hold to the dam system perfected,
which can be Of no possible utility to any
one, but will be money thrown away Re
monstrances against diversion of the grant
to the KeOkuk, Des Moines d Minnesota r.
R., continue to come IN from towns and To-
calities upon the river, which would be left
off the route, the Road following the main
Divide instead Of the River. The Commits
sioner in his report renders it plain to all
that slack water navigation will be utterly