Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-01-14

DEs MoNes, Jsn. IL.
DEAR SrRs Tho House completed its or
gsnisatisn yesterday. By slscting Joha I'd
wards Of Lucas Speaker. and Charles lAldrich
of the Hamilton Freemon Chief Clerk. In tue
Senate s. G. Sanders Of the Boonsboro NeUs
vas elected Secretary and J. B. Parker O
Mitchell County Repubiiee~-ssaistant.
Thus you see the leaders are beginning to
pay up their indebtsdness incurred during the
campaign. and begin appropriately with Al
drich.
He vas the most abusive end reckless of the
pack believing with Charles Lamb that truth
was precious and not to be wasted. at oil
times. and If four dollars per day will psy him
for the lying he did during the campaign-no
common man can hope to earn IN honeh liv>
Ing in that line of bssiness.
The 6pht is on retreachmsnt Of expenses.
and the form ofabusss that have crept into
Legislation.
Yesterday in the Senate, Mr. Neal introduc-
ed resolution reducing the compensation Of
Secretory. from six 70 four dollars per day
This was voted doan BY strict party vote.
and on an IN endnent to resolution of Drum-
mond to reduce the pay Of assistant Secretary
from six to three dollars per day, eight Repnb.
licans voted in the negative.
On motion of Bennett [Dem. in the House,
the office Of second assistant Clerk was abol-
ished-and in the Senate that ct the assist ant
Sergeant at arms
Both of these are in reality sinecures. and
thus some little expense to tho State is
saved
Quite an amusing episode took place in re-
gard to Chaplain in the House.
Dennison Of Crawford. moved to invite the
various clergymen Of the citv to ofiiciate alter
nate.y as chaplain to the House-to which
Mr.. Kellogg. [Dem. moved an amendment to
the effect that they should have no pay from
the State Treasury.
To the support of this motion Mr.. LIE
Lscheur, Of Delaware county, arose and in .
speech of about ten minutes brought down the
House - many times. He believed in the eff
cacy of prayer. but did not believe the right
place for it was in political conventions. Wa
ter and oil would not mix, neither would reli-
gion and politics; and although he was
prayer>loving man, he did it in private and
nc. ostentatiously in public. He said that
many a prayer had been offered by the Arch
bishops of England when the news had been
received of British arms triumphing in savage
hands in the Revolutionary war. He would
not invite them to come, but if they came vol
UNFAIRLY he would put his hands in his o,cn
pockets and not the pockets Of the State,
whereby to remunerate them.
Mr. LIE Lacheur is Democrat, and formerly
q member of the Provincial Parliament Of the
Colony Of Prince Edwards, where. for resist
ing tie influence Of the Church cHe The State
he was tried for high treason. and. after long
trial. was believe. acquitted. He is hard
man to row against as are many Of our men
here, and if legislation does not speed it will
not be the fault Of the minority.
The Governors message is in. 1t is long
and extremely odorous' document 10 com-
parisons, and will only serve to furnish pabu-
lum for the numerous country papers Of the
State whose editors believe in the Republican
party and the hurtfulness Of hard thinning
After the people have read the various mesa.
ges. National and State. together with . ac-
companying documents. they will be little in
clined to wade through the inaugural which
10 90 closely to follow.
The defeated candidates look pretty blue
The only idea that worries man is that tn ere
are so many to follow in the footsteps Of
their illustrious predecessors. Yours,
VIDoC