Des Arc citizen., 1859-03-11
THE LATE LEGISLATURE OF AR
 KANSAS, sc.

KANSAS, sc.
 For the Citizen
 Ma. EpIroR: believe 1t is conceded on all hands, and has become fixed faat'' that our State Legislature has adjourned. The la bors of the session are closed, and the Legisla. ture having laborcd for several months it is natural that there should be some enquiry as to the result of the session. What did they do2 What laws are passed? Are enquiries we hear on all liauds. The people of Des Arc, too, seem to be particularly interested, to know what has been done, and if anything was done favorable to Des Are. Why we lost the "Rchmond and Des Arc Turnpike Road?'' Why the "Des Arc. Dardanelle and Fort Smith Road?'' Why we did not get the new charter for Des Arc, and why the Legis-- lature did not give us the Capitol? By con sHlting the "True Democrat" of the 2nd inst, we find the caption of all the bills passed by the Legislature and an outline of their charac- ter. By an examination of the caption of these acts, find that by far the greater portion of the Legislation of this session has been devo- ted, to passing acts for the ''reliefn of some- body, and 'sto change the name of' somebody and s'to constituten somebody Ca lawful her'' of somebody, and ssto authorize, somebody to convey some woman's dover and to authorize somebody else, administrator of somebody, to convey lands, &c. This is the general charac- ter of the legislation of our last Legislature It is true some FEW other things were done, in the way of killing off and murderng projects of interest and importance, but the greater part of the session was consumed in legislation of no importance to the people of the State. Among the first things done after the two hou- ses were organized was to get up Sebastian furor, and to insure hisreturn to the United States Senate, q fsmaiatlo'' convention was gotten up composed of Know Nothings, dis organizers and softs, whom the friends of Mr. Sebastian found absolutely necessary to snug gle into Democratic caucus for the purpose of securing his reelection. There were some good Democrats in the caucus, but the publish ed proceedings of the caucus show that the Democrats were in the minority were out voted-or in other words voted down in the caucus by Sebastian's friends, and the new born mongrel babes of Democracy who were born in Know-Nothing's room, on Sunday night, before the caucus was held on Monday evening, MT. Sebastian himself being the ac- concher, they were rocked, hugged and cared for that night and next day by Mir Sebastian. who was in very .sfriendy" way with "a brick in his hat,o and was so much in favor of levelling distinctions and titles that he actu- " ok toJ fn hof, iaJ Af aLa tian," Judge Sebastian," or ''Mr. Sebastian" :" but in fit of sociability when his SPIRITS were being turned in the wrong direction, and had downward, instead of an upward ten- dency, called ont to tho boys to call him ''Simple Bill Sebastian" By this means 'ESimple Bill Sebastian" was reelected to the U. s. Senate, the Democracy cheated and swindled, aud the State again represented by her dumb oracle that speaks once in ten years. That was one point made. Among other things they did, was to re-eect Judge Scott one of the Supreme Judges, and Batson to fill the va cancy occasioned by the resignation of Judge Hanly. Both were good selections; Scott died
 Rector was elected to fill the vacancy. Mir. Rector is very clever man and shrewd poi- tician, but as have been informed, was never known much as lawyer, has never gwen much of his time or attention to the law. and of course is not the most SUITABLE person to fill that place. It is conectured that his name was put forward for the purpose of getting him out of the way of a certain editor who is very desirous of making an experiment, at the next election, for the office of Governor. Rec tor may make good Judge, at any rate, being a man of considerable ability, Iprefer him for Governor, to the aforesaid editor, who wants him out of the way. The legislature, also, re- elected John C.. o Smith, Land Agent at Helena. It has been said, published, and sent abroad to the people of the State that he was swindler and had defrauded the State, and that the charges of fraud and swindling were pro- ven before the committee of investigation ap- pointed by the Legislature for the purpose of investigating such charges, and notwithstand- ing all this he was reelected. am unpre- pared to say whether the charges be true or false, but it does look like, where there was so much smoke, there might be some fire.
 The Legislature. also, elected new treas uteF. He oJu treasurer, MT. crease, made about the best treasurerthe State ever had. 1 heard nothing alleged against his honesty, fidelity or capacity. Yet the Legislature beat him, and elected man, of whom l heard a Senator in the Senate chamber say, he couldn't count thirty" nor s'spell the wordrevenue." The Legislature took recess until after the Christmas holidays, that is, Gov. Conway told them to go home, and to come back by cer- .ain time. Both houses obeyed. When the two houses re-assembled, many members being a little short of pocket change, l suppose' thought it would not be wrong to ask the State for pay, for services rendered during the and while they were at home. No doubt they were honest in asking it, and believed that they had rendered the State a greater service by being at home, than they possibly could in their capacity as legislators, Mir. Oates the speaker of the house, and MT. Fletcher the speaker of the Senate refused to audit their accounts, for services not render
 State The members of the Senate did
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