The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-02-22
Capital Corresponacnce.
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Capital Corresponacnce.
DIS Mo1Sns, Feb. is.
EprToRs GATE Crrr: The Legislature has
determined to send joint committee Of the
two houses to investigate the condition OF
affairs OF the Penitentiary and the Insane
Asylum.
The joint committee Of the two houses on
the judiciary are busily engaged on the Code,
| and tomorrow they will be prepared TO
lay portion of 1t before the Legislature for
it's action.
Tho appropriation bills for the Peniten-
tiary, the Insane Asylum, the Blind Asylum,
and the University, meet with very little IA.
vor from majority Of the Legislature, and
! am really apprehensive that there il but
little hope for any OF them. suppose,
however, that the Legislature cannot avoid
giving something to the penitentiary to keep
the convicts from being turned loose upon
community.
The House is as uproarious as ever, and
among the most outrageous stands the rep
resentasive from Lee, Mr.. Clagett. His
finger must be in every mans pie. All
measures, whether local or general, come in
for share of his usual oficiousness. II I
am not greatly mistaken, the members gen
orally regard him, IL not with disgust, at
least with indifference. He regards himself
as the great defender Of the peculiar insti-
tuition. and when charged with favorinc the
Wilmot Proviso, in times gone by, be be-
comes severely indignant and threatens to
hang the aboltionists OF the North and the
fre-eaters of the South on the same tree.
fni your Senator, Mr.. Rankin, very
agreeable gentleman and most efficient
worker, both 40 chairman of the judiciary
Committee and as Senator on tho floor
His colleague in the Senate, Mr.. Bueche, is
very retiring, modest man, and were it not
for the ties that bind him to the Democratic
party, would, il these ties were sundered,
make very decent Republican.
Mr.. Price, your representative, / regard
very favorably. am sorry, however, to
learn that, like many others, he is involved
as security for that abandoned man, Eads,
and if any thing can be done by the Legis-
lature for the relief of those sureties, with
out injury to the State, would most gladly
see il accomplished, could it be done.
1t is enough to make every just and honest
man feel indignant to hear the Democracy
talk about Republican extravaganza and cor
ruptiou, when he looks over the long cata-
logue Of names to whom that wretched man
loaned more than one hundred and ffty
thousand dollars of the school fund, the pro.
Deeds OF which should now be distributed to
educate the children OF the State. As it
now stands there is no hope that the State
will ever realize more than one:third of this
fund, either from the loanees or the sureties.
On this money thus loaned there is now due
and unpaid more than twenty-six thousand
dollars interest. And Notwithstanding the
Democratic party were told before the cleo
ton of Eads that he was unworthy and would
disgrace the State, they paid no attention TO
these admonitions, and, through party drill,
carried his election over one among the most
honest men of the State. And after it was
known that he had robbed the school fund
Of mere thaH oae hundred and f Fifty thousand
dollars, and loaned ID out to party favorites,
there were not wanting apologists for this
robbery and theft among the Democratic
party; bat when the grand jury of johnson
county sought to indct him for this offence,
there were enough of them on the jury to de-
feat the indictment. The defence OF criminals
and the abuse of honest men seems now to
be one OF the cardinal principles OF the
Democratic party, hoping thereby to foist
themselves upon the public confidence, and
to secure the spoils of office. Will they sue
ceedf HAWKFYE