Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-04-03
SATURDAY, MARCH 81. 1858.

Ap'oohNMENI VI THE WE'VE ASSEMBLE
Hon. A. o. Patterson, Senator from th
county, arrived from Desmoines last night
He came by way Of the Desmoines river, o
the steamer skipper, and by railroad fror
, Bentonsport to Keokuk, and thence b
steamb oat to this place. He informs us tha
the Legislature adjourned sine die on tn
morning of the 23d, after being in session al
the previous night. A great many bills wer
passed during the last few hours Of the ses
sion. The State and Free Bank bills will
each be submitted to vote of the people Of
the 2Sth of June. We will cndeavor to fin,
room in our paper for these important bills
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AcrIoN OF TIE NATIONAL KANSAS COMMIT
TEE. The Kansas National Committee ha
issued call requesting all State, Count.
and Town Kansas Committees and Societies
to meet Immediately after the passage of th'
Lecompton Constitution by the House, shoult
that event occur, and put themselves a
once in communication with the National
Committee. The people of Kansas will
need the sympathy, the encouragement, and
perhaps, the material aid of their friends il
the contingency mentioned in the call, ane
the course proposed by the National Com
mittee will put the latter in communication
with each other and insure concert Of action
when the time for it arrives.
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TIE New Pacific RAILROAD Bill IN CoN>
snsss.-Mr. Phelps, of Missouri, chairman
of the special committee to whom the subject
was referred, last week reported bill to aid
in the construction of railroad to the Pa
cifc-from St. Louis to San Francisco. The
bill provides that one-half of the road shall
be built by the State Of California, and the
other half by the State of Missouri, the Uni
ted States to grant money and lands to aid
in building it, after twenty miles are built ;
FIVE per cent. United States thirty year bonds
to be issued to the States building it, at the
rate of $500 per mile, and so on for two
hundred miles west from st. Louis and east
from San Francisco No bonds to be issued
until each section of twenty miles is built,
and the whole amount of bonds not to exceed
$50 100000. TWENTY five miles of the road
to be built and equipped the first year by
each State, and thereafter no less than one
hundred miles each per year. The road to
be finished in ten years. The United States
is to have, as a consideration for its aid, a
legal right to priority of use for all gov
ernment purposes. If, when the first bonds
are due, any Indebtedness remains, Califor-
MIA and Missouri are severally to pay the
balance. Missouri is to begin building at
St. Louis, and California at San Francisco,
and proceed continuously. There are to be
four bbranches-two north and two south.
TIE VOLUNTEER Bill IN CoNGREsS-The
bill which passed the House of Representa-
tives, last week, provides for regiment of
mounted volunteers for the defence of the
Texas frontier, and four additional regi-
ments Of mounted volunteers, whose services
the President is authorized to accept or not,
as he may deem necessary. They will, if
called out, not be sent to Utah, though regi
ments are offered in several States for cru
sade against the Mormons, but they will be
employed in killing Indians on the northern
and northwestern frontier, and for the pro-
lection of supply and emigrant trains on the
western plains. The volunteers are not to
be accepted in bodies of less that one regi-
ment, whose officers shall be appointed in
the manner prescribed by law, in the several
States and Territories to which said regi
ments shall respectively belong
1t is believed that the bill will pass the
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