Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-06
Accommodation at Chicago.

/ Accommodations at Chicago.
The hotel-keepers of Chicago have author
lied the papers Of that city to announce tina
the prices of board and lodging will remain
unchanged during the sitting of the Repub
lican Convention. The fremont and Briggs
Houses have each accommodations for 40C
guests, and the Richmond House for 275
The price of board at each Of these is $25O
per day. The Metropolitan Hotel, Matteson
and Adams Houses have accommodations for
200 each, at 81 per day; and the Revere
House and City Hotel have rooms for $50
each, at $3.50 per day. Beside these, there
are numerous smaller houses, having room fer
from 80 to 100 guests each. The fremont
and Briggs Houses have made arrangements
to colonize 500 persons each, and doubtless
most of the others will make like arrange.
ments. Probably, a large number of delegates
will be quartered at private houses in the city;
but, no matter how large the crowd, the
people need have no fears but what they will
be accommodated. Extensive arrangements
are being made for the reception of delegates,
meetings having been held by former residents
of most of the Eastern States for the purpose
Of publicly noticing the delegates from their
several States. A large hall is to be built,
capable of holding from eight to ten thousand
people, to be used during the session of the
Convention, and afterward through the cam
paign of $780, but it has not yet been decided
whether the Convention will hold its meetings
there or in Metropolitan Hall. The latter
place has standing-room for over 4, 900 people,
is centrally located, well ventilated, and in
every way calculated for such purpose, and
has, in fact, been engaged at 500 per day;
but it may, perhaps, not be used, in case the
large building is erected for admission into
which it is proposed to charge fee, but not
yet definitely settled.
Quite contrast is here presented between
Charleston, with its two hotels at IS per day,
and hall at $3.50 per day, and Chicago, with
thirty five hotels, with board at from 81 to
$3.50 per day, and hall at 800. But the
former is where the office holders assemble,
while the latter is where the people meet in
Convention; and the former can afford to pay
the prices, as the money comes from the
United States Treasury, while the latter have
to earn theirs.
EXTRAORDINARY DocUMENr.-On the 10Th
i ST., President Buchanan sent message to
the House of Representatives, protesting
against the proposed inquiry of that body
whether he (Buchanan), or any other Exec
utive officer, used the patronage of the
Government to buy votes for the LecomptJn
bill in the last Congress. The document is
about two columns long, and though its tone
is that of "injured innocence it is plainly
apparent that tour venerable President fears
some damaging revelations may be made
He objects to the proposed inquiry because
he thinks the mode of trial is unfair, Mr..
Covode, who is one of his accusers, being
also one Of the judges-because it would be
a disgrace to the nation to convict and remove
a President from Office - because it would
foster band of parasites and informers-
because it would destroy harmonious action
between coordinate branches of the govern
ment-because the precedent would be dan
gerous and embarrassing to succeeding
Presidents-and, because, in substance, he
don't like it !! Let the inquiry be made by
all means, say wei
The PRESIDENTS "PRoTEsr' IN THE HOUSE.
The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette telegraphed on Thursday
evening (29th ult):
The message OF the President, sent into the
House, to-day, denying the right of a Com
mittee of that body to make the inquiries
contemplated by the Covode Committee, is
agog. 1t is pronounced the most extaaordi
nary document ever laid before a legislative |
body By an Executive officer, and is the
assertion Of kingly prerogative, and must
arouse the indignation CT the country. 1t is
furthermore regarded, and think with great
propriety, as stroag presumptive evidence of
the Presidents completely in the gross cor
ruption with which it has been charged that
he was connected. A strong discussion is
going on in the House, as l write, on the
motion to refer the message to the Judiciary
Committee, which will probably be done
The message was entirely unexpected, and is
supposed to have originated with the President
himself"