Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-04-10

The Desmoines correspondent of the Bur
lington Hawkeye summarizes in the follow
ing brief and Ineligible manner the most
important laws passed at tho late session Of
the General Assembly:
Very important laws have been enacted,
to wit: A Free Bank Act and State Bank
Law; acts for compromises with the Des-
MONIES River Company, and for the diver
sion of the remaining lands to the Keokuk,
Fort Desmoines Il Minnesota Railroad Com
pany, after paying off the outstanding liza
bilities of the improvement, (including the
sixty-one thousand acres made over to the
River Company in consideration of their
past claims and of their paying twenty thou
sand dollars, debts, sc y a general Bridge
Law, general Road Law, new School Law,
Revenue Law for June, 1853, and every
two years thereafter; laws districtiug the
State for both Judicial and Legislative pur-
poses, law extending mechanics liens to
ninety days, an act repeating the Code Law
OF Attachment, except for fraud, and for
the foreclosure of mortgages in chancery
and not by the Sheriff Also, law post
poning civil suits one term of court, or ma
king the first term the appearance term,-
a sort of Stay Law without the name. But
no Stay Law proper was enacted, nor any
Valuation Law.
About one hundred bills out of three hum
dred in the House, and near two hundred in
the Senate, finally passed, there being great
havoc made of bills either as killed on their
passage or not reached before adjournment.
Among the items of the Appropriation bill
were :: One hundred thousand dollars to the
Insane Asylum, forty-two thousand and
three hundred to the State Penitentiarv,
thirteen thousand to the State University at
Iowa City, ten thousand for an A gricutural
College, with one thousand additional for
the Secretary of the Agricultural Board and
Bureau VIM. Duane Wilson is the Secre-
tary of the Board. already appointed by the
Governor, formerly publisher of the Io,oa
Farmer, at Fairfield, but now removed with
his weekly paper to Desmoines Also,
twenty thousand dollars for Blind Asylum
at Ninton, in Benton county, on condition of
gift there of forty acres of land and sub
cription of live thousand dollars by the
people.
Add to all these the expenses of the Leg
islatuIe, the yearly salaries and contingent
expenses of the State Officers and Judges,
and the Appropriation bill will foot up a
pretty round sum for young State like To-
wa, and yet within the revenue now due and
estimated for the future.
The action and temper Of both Houses
were, on the whole, most harmonious.
There was scarcely an angry or bitter word
dropped in debate during the whole session.
The Republican majority and Democratic
minority often acting without any partizan
~ hi al
but exercising much candor and
citing questions of the day-Kansas, the
purity of elections, and so on. This was the
more remarkable as so many of the Lower
House were young and inexperienced in leg
islatiye affairs and public bodies.
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MORE ANTI-LEcoMPToN VICTORIES AT
the State cleo ton in Connecticut, onMond,y,
the Republican candidate for
Governor, was elected by from 5000 to
5 200 maj,rity over Pratt, Dem, So far as
heard from, the Republicans have So and
the Democrats IS Representatives in the
House. The Republicans gain ? to 4 Sena-
tors, and are sure of both houses by large
majority.
The Cincinnati municipal election on Mon
day resulted in the election of the entire
Anti Lecompton ticket by majorities varying
from 2 200 to 5000; IL out of II counclmen.
Incomplete returns of the St. Louis mu
nicipal election ensure the election of the
entire Free Democratic ticket by an average
majority of ], 600 to 1900,