Nebraska advertiser., 1861-12-26
EDIT0RIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Inc Legislature is under way
Thus far, the question has been imme-
date adjournment or not. A joint res
olution and preamble was introduced in
both Houses, providing for an adjourn
ment, and praying Congress to divert
the appropriation for Legislative expen-
ses to the payment of our wal tax.
The question was thoroughly examined
and discussed, and the general opinion
was that it was not only utterly impracti-
cable but would fail in accomplishing
the desired object. The act appropriat-
ing twenty thousand dollars for the pur-
pose of d~efraying Legislative expenses,
~appropriates that sum, Form the Ian
guage of the act-''so much thereof as
may be necessary to defray the expenses
Of the Legislature !" consequently, had
the Legislature adjourned Immediately
the %unexpended portion of the a%ppropri-
alton would have reverted to the Nation
al Treasury, or be placed to the creditof
the Territory in favor of the next Legs
lative Assembly. Should the Legislature
remain in Session during the entire forty
days, the appropriation viii be very well
circulated throughout the Territory, and
will thus be of material benefit. Nema-
ha county through its Representative will
receive about $4,000. The members
are much more economical this Session
than ever before, and instead of leaving
all, or nearly so, OF their earnings in O.
maha as heretofor, they will take the
greater portion home with them.
The question of adjournment assumed
the shape of an "electioneering hobby
merely, and the action upon it by the
Legislature is, perhaps, just what its adj
vocates desired. "We shall see" 1t
vas defeated in the Council by a very
decisive vote: 9 to 4, and in the House
by a vote of &c to IL. The future cry of
its advocates and aspirants will no doubt
be "Itold you So"
The fact is, the passage of the me
mortal, and adjournment under all the
circumstances, would have resulted both
injurious to the Terri tory and detriment-
al to emigration. The Memorial and
Report of the Select Committee thereon
were an outrage and SANDER upon the
whole Territory. They showed Nebras-
ka as to resources almost entirely desti-
tute of "~eUerything which civilized man
consumes" and the Territory itself help
lessly bankrupt, and evincing, if not a
desire, a willingness to evade the Jay
ment of the tax for the preservation Of
the Union.
A Memorial to Congress has passed
the Council praying Congress to pass an
act confscating the real estate owned in
this Territory by rebel States and indi-
viduals, and allowing the proceeds to be
used in completing the Capitol, erecting
a penitentiary, and for school purposes.
This would be a righteous act on the part
of the General Government. The me-
mortal will pass the House without doubt.
There is just now considerable discus
sion both in and out of the Legislature
as to the passage of an act for the en-
enlargement of wool growing in Ne
braska. This I consider the most i'm
portant measure, when considered in ali
its bearings, of any heretofore before
the Legislative Assembly, either at this
or any proceeding Session. An act,
properly drawn up, can be made to aet as
a stimulOus to those Of our X citizens
who are financially Frustrated as an IN
ducement for capitalists to come into the
Territory; afford a home market for
grain; and add more to our wealth in the
shortest time than almost anything else
imaginable,
Our high, dry, rolling prairie country
is admirably adapted to sheep growing.
There are millions of acres of idle lands
upon which they can be herded for years
to come without the cost of fencing or
ever the purchase of the land. All the
outlay requisite beside the purchase of
stock sheep. will be to provide winter
quarters which can be done very cheap
indeed.
Should a bill, as is contemplated, pro-
vide that a certain number of sheep
should be exempt from both execution
and taxation-not exempting the wool
either-great inducements will be
held out to sheep raisers in the States to
come into the Territory and engage in
that lucrative branch of business. 1t
would also afford an opportunity to those
in the Territory who have been unfOrtu-