The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-04-06

i. NINETEENTH YEAF
Kson Onr Capital City Cevrcspendsne.
Rs RovrE vaoM DEs NoixEs, March 9s.
Ma DunnAA - ea
In taking leave Of The Legislature and the dry
details Of their. doings. already ssnt - you By
the daily jet dilatory mails. vill add that y
vas, on the whole, the most important ssssieo
Of our Gensral Assembly that Ne have had the
privilege Of attending. il being tho first under
our new Consultation.
nILIS PAST. ~
Very important laws have been enacted, to
4 vit: A Free Bank Act and State Bank Law;
acts for compromises With the Des Moines River
| Company, and for the diversion Of the remaining
lasds 70 the Keokuk, Fort Des Noinss 1 Ninne-
ssta Railroad Company, after paying OF the out
standing liabilities Of the Improvement, (nclu-
ding the sixty one thousand acres made over
70 the River Company in consideration Of their
past claims and Of their paying twenty thousand
dollars. debts, &c. y general Bridge Law. .
general Road Law, . new School Law, Reve.
nue. Las for juno 1853, aud every two years
thereafter; laws distric.ins the State for both
judicial and Legislative purposes, law extend.
Ing mechanics liens to ninety days, an act re-
psaling the Code Law Of Attachment, except for
fraud, and for the foreclosure Of mortgages in
shancery and not BY the sheriff. Also, law
possponing civil suits ons term Of court, or ma
king the Hrst term the appearance term,-a sor :
Of Stay Law without the name. But NO Stay
Law proper vas enacted, ,--nor any Valuation
Law.
Ia the House, and near two hundred in the Ssn-
ate, finally passed, there being great havoc
made Of bills either 40 killed on their passage Or
not reached before adjournment.
APPROPRIATIONS.
Among the items Of the Appropriation Bill
we're :-Ons hundred thousand dollars TO the
Insane Asylum, forty two thousand and three
hundred to the State Penisentiary, thirteen thou
sand to the State University, At Iowa City, ten
thousand for An Agricultural College, with one
thousand additional for the Secretary Of the Ag-
rcultural Board and Bureau. VIM. Duane Viii
son 10 the Secretary Of the Board, already ap-
pointed by the Governor, formerly publisher Of
the Iowa Farmer, at Fairfield, but now removed
With his weekly paper, to Des Moines. A'so,
twenty thousand dollars for Blind Asylum, at
Vinton, in Benton County, on condition Of a gift
there Of forty acres Of land and subscription Of
ave thousand dollars by the people.
Add to all these the expenses Of the Legisla.
ture, the yearly salaries aud contingent expenses
Of the State Officers aud Judges, and the APP
preparation Bill will foot up pretty round sum
revenue now due and estimated for the future.
." HARMONY OF THE ASSEMBLY.
The action and temper of both Houses were,
on the whole, most harmonious. There was
scarcely an angry or bitter word dropped in de.
bate during the whole session. The Republican
majority and Democratic minority often acting
without any partlzan feeling, and never exhibi-
ting any violent animosity, but exercising much
candor and courtesy toward each other even on
the exciting questions Of the day,-Kansas, the
purity Of elections, and so on. This was the
more remarkable as SO many Of the Lower House
we're young and inexperienced in legislative af.
fairs and public bodies.
LAGER BEER, WINE AND CIDER EXEMPTION.
At the close of the session Mr.. Ruschs bill,
exempting lager beer, wine and cider, (made OF
grains or fruits grown in this Ssate,) from the
pains aud penalties of the Prohbitory Liquor
Law, was passed. will, "a severe penalty on SELL
ing or mixing alcohol with these drinks, or any
mixture under their name containing alcohol
and also releasing from prison those committed
for drunk auness on condition Of their testifying
where, when and Of whom they got their liquor.
This bill passed the Senate by the change Of the
vote Of Nj. Mccoy, which, lie said, was given
under msapprehcnsion ; and he afterwards, in
vain mos ed reconsideration. Mr.. Drummond,
in the House, gave the casting note, and that
night received numerous petitions against any
! alteration Of the Liquor Law lie too, in vain,
attempted, the next day, to get n reconsidera-
| tion.
The vote in either House was not strict par.
ty vote, though the majority Of the votes for the
| exemption Of these lesser drinks was on the Re-
publican side. Aud this Legislature may we'll
be termed the Lager Beer Assembly. So term
it, on my own responsibility, not making your
paper or yourselves liable to any imputation on
this account.
THE SCHOOL BILL.
It 10 going the rounds Of the papers that Hor
ace Mann drafted it-which is grand mistake
had it from Prof. James Hail. State Geologist
that Mr.. Mann had almost nothing to do with
the original bill. only writing letter to Amoi
Dean, Chancellor Of the State University o
Iowa, who. himself alone, was the real author ol
the first bill of the Commissioners to revise the
School Laws, appointed by Governor Grimes
Besides, Maturin L. Fisher, Superintendent o.
Instruction, revised the bill oflast year. Ther
the School Committee, consisting Of Messrs
Grinnell, Cattell, and others, Of the Senate
amended It, in conjunction with the Superinten
dent of Instruction. desire this correction u
be made, shat honor be given to whom it is due
and that We may hear no more Of Horace NAM
in this connection.
Having forborn comments until now, here
leave the Legislature and all concerned, ana SUI
render my position - correspondent from tn
' Capital H.
(P. S.)-Did you ever come down the d.
Moines River in "Skipper" about ~ big as q
!. enlarged Erie canal boat! How could over OF
hundred passengers be slowed away Mem
;. bers Of the Assembly and their wives,-some
:. bsrths, some men stretched on the door to sles
:. at night, others nodding in chairs? Down 60
the berth boards and ose turns . man 10 mad
March hare, into the cabin. Then the feelin
. at the grey Of the morning, for ones legs,
Ollipod said Of the crowded n. Y. canal boz
ID travelling and getting hold Of neighber's le
% instead Of your own, 90 thick we're they!
IN Now run ashore, in the mud, with brok
ar wheel, and then tying up on shore till the clou
and fog disappear with the daylight and an
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