The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-04-10
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HALL OF TnE HOUSE OF REPR's, !
Top-Es April 1881

Caucusing all night, and working all day,
you may well imagine that we have little
appetite for letter writing. Topeka is liter
ally flooded with strangers. There are at
least six hundred lobby members and quite
a number who have come merely from Curl
osity. The contest for Speaker of the House
was quite severe, and, although there are
only eleven Democrats out of seventy-fve
members, the feeling engendered was most
bitter. The Secretary of State, Robinson,
q. W., the one that was cowhided at Man
haitian for insulting a LADY,, assumed the
power of calling the House together, and in
calling the roll, omitted the names Of two of
the members. The members went forward
and insisted on being sworn. Robinson re-
fused to recognize them, and the most in
tense excitement prevailed. DR.. Updegraff
insisted on being recognized as a member.
Mr.. Stewart showed his certificate, and al
so insisted on being recognized. But Rob
inson would not consent to it. DR.. Upde-
graft has since been elected Speaker of the
House, and Mr.. Stewart will be admitted to
his seat to-day.
The Anti-Lane faction died hard. They
had the Democrats to assist them in every
important move, but in spite of their assist
ance we succeeded in electing entire Lane
ticket-from Speaker down to Messenger,
and that, too, with two of our men unjustly
deprived of their seals. After we had fully
organized, the Democrats raised the ques-
ton as to whether the Secretary of State
had the legal power to swear in the mem
bers, and contended that the House was NOT
organized in legal manner. The fac
tionists sided with them, and the utmost
confusion ensued. After considerable fill
clustering on their part, we succeeded in
getting resolution through requesting
Judge Kingman, of the Supreme Court to
come forward and administer the oath again
to the members, which they took and sub
scribed to after which resolution was in
troduced declaring officers previously elect
ed, reelected to their various positions, &c.
We were satisfied that we were right in the
first place, and would not have consented to
the matter, but we knew we had the
strength, and could re-elect at any moment,
and thought it would be the best way to
calm the troubled waters.
think the Senatorial question will come
up about Wednesday. Gen'l Lane viii be
elected on the first ballot. And yet he has
more to contend against than all the others
| together. In the first place he has the
whole State Government to fight. Second
ly, be has all the money that the bond
swindle thieves can bring to bear on the
matter. Thirdly, Gov Pomeroy is report
ed to have one hundred thousand dollars to
dispose of, and it is charged that it is relief
money. At any rate we know that money
has been flowing around like water, and that
members have been offered two thousand
five hundred dollars for their votes. And
fourthly, Gen. Lane has barely enough
money to pay his board. When you take
into consideration the poverty-stricken con-
dition of our young State, think you will
| accord US some credit for honesty at least.
1t is difficult to tell who will be the second
one, Marcus J. Parrot stands the best
chance; and the fact that Gen'l Lane favors
his election will assist him materially. The
House stands about in this wise: Lane has
As friends, Parrot has 80, Pomeroy "a,
Stanton TO- Democrats IL. Lane and Par
rott generally run on the same ticket though
some of Lanes friends drop Parrot and
take Pomeroy. Pomeroy and Stanton also
run on the same ticket. The Democrats, it
is thought, will attempt to prevent an cleo
ton, but they cannot succeed. Lane and
PARROT have the Senate.
Gen. Lane has not been ont of his hotel
since he has been here, and scarcely out of
his room. Friday night he made powerful
speech to his friends, and sent home the
ISLANDERS which his enemies have been cir
culating against him. His "reminiscences
| of old times brought the tears in more eyes
! than one. 1t is astonishing what hold
| Lane has on the hearts of the people.
| We had quite tragedy, or rather a sue
eession oftragedies, last week. A notorious
| character by the name of Ike Edwards, got
| upon a spree, made disturbance in a liquor
| saloon, and was severely maued After
| wards, he was seen riding behind an Indian
on pony. The Indian was found a short
| time afterwards, with several severe wounds
on his person. F-.-.'--. .
| A party started after Edwards and found
! him on the Indians pony. He was taken
| to Jail, and heavily ironed. The Indian died
| the next morning. The next night a party
of men in disguise, went down to the Jail,
called the jailor out on some pretended bns-
| mess, tied his hands behind him, and sent
| him adrift. He went up town shouting
L" murder" but the people took no notice of
| the matter, as they readily guessed what
was going on. The party in disguise went
| into the jail, locked themselves in, tied the
t guard hand and foot, and also tied a sack
! over his head. The next morning, Edwards
was found hung by the neck in the Jail.
went down to see him. 1t was q most hor-
rible sight. One of his feet was resting on
the floor, and he had evidently been long
! in dying. The universal verdict is, q served
him right" but it is an awful commentary
on our laws.
The Senate this morning took a ballot
for Senator south of the Raw river. Rather
an origional idea, and one that took the
Lane men by surprise. 1t vas done to
draw off the PARROT vote from Lane and
prevent combination. They are shrewd
enough to know shat PARROTS friends
would not vote for Lane unless they were
satisfied that that was the only way to elect
Parrott
The vote stood-Stanton 10; Lane 7;
Parrot 5; and Isaacs (border rufian) 3.
| The FIVE Parrot votes are strong Lane men,
and their object in voting for Parrot was
to keep four of PARROTS friends from voting
for Stanton, but they did not succeed. The
three democrats who voted for Isaacs
changed to Stanton, giving him majority.
Four of PARROTS strongest friends voted for
Stanton. So you will see it really stands