Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-09-19
Doimys Of The Special Session.


DoimSs Of The Special Session.
The special session of the Ninth Gcncr,
Assembly adjourned yesterday morning at l,
O'Clock, after sitting eight days. The business
for which the session was called was dispatch
cd with commcndable promptness--the mem
bers, for the most part, laying aside persona
and political considerations and addressing
themselves to their duties
Among the more important matters enacted
by the Legislature, were
l. The passage of a law accepting the 240,
900 acres of land donated by Congress to the
State for agricultural purposes, and authoriz
ing the Governor to appoin; Commissioner
at salary Of four dollars per day, to make
the selections immediately, before other States
come in and get their lands ahead of us 1t
IS proper to state that said Commissioner
bears his own expenses out of said four dol
lars per day.
.. The passage of law authorizing the
electors of this State now in the military SER
vice of the State or United States to VOTE
The law provides that all Iowa regiments and
detached companies shall have the privilege of
voting at the next general election in October,
and that the Governor shall appoint one Com
missioner for each regiment to visit them in
the field and canvass the vote. Said Com
missioners receive no compensation except
ten cents mileage going and coming. This
law in all its bearings, is one of the most i'm
portant character, ard will be received by our
soldiers as proper appreciation of their rights
and'services. ..
3. the passage of law legalizing the coun-
ty bountirs voted by County Supervisors to
men enlistihg in their respective counties, and
authorizing the levy of special tax to meet
the same
T. The amendment of the law enacted
at the last regular session, which provided
that the property of all Iowa volunteers not
above the rank of Captain, should be exempt
from levy and sale during the time they re-
mained ia service. The law is made Row to
apply to all our soldiers, Of whatever rank.
5. The passage Of law authorizing the
Governor to appoint an Assistant Adjutant
General at salary Of $500 per annum. This
of the Adjutant Generals Office has increased
three:fod in the past six months.
6. The passage of a law placing ten thou
sand dollars at the Governors disposal, to be
used for the benefit Of our sick and wounded
soldiers, and placing twenty thousand dollars
more in the hands of the Census Board, to be
drawn upon by the Governor whenever
they shall deem it necessary for the public
good.
T. The passage of a law authorizing the
Governor to equip force of not less than five
hundred mounted men to operate on the nor
thern frontier against the Indians-said force
to be paid as regular soldiers, and be kept in
the service as long as .the public exigeneies
may require.
Also, the passage of law organizing one
company Of mounted MEN in each county on
the southern border, part of which shall keep
continual scout along the line, and prevent
any guerrilla incursions- only being
paid who do service.
8. The repeal Of the dog law, and providing
that those who have registered their dogs shall
be credited eighty cents of the one dollar, on
their school tax. .....-- ..
The Assembly indefinitely postponed a
proposition to exempt from military duty Qua.
kers and others conscientiously opposed to
bearing arms They found that they could
not open the door and exempt one class of cit
liens, without extending the same principle
70 all who claimed exemption for the same
reasons, and that number began to be rather
unpatrioticaly large toward the close; the
consequence of which was, as has been sta
ted, that no exemption was granted TO any.
Vox PoPUL1, Vox DEI.--There is inspira
ton in the instinct of a free people. Passion
NAV lash the surface into phrenzy of dis
cordant ideas prejudice may blind for th'
moment as whim may pervert the palate
but deep down in the heart of the people il
the instinct, forever right. -...-. r.
Opinion has been fast educating concerning
this war, and has made great progress in arts
military and science political. 1t has watchef
the progress of events narrowly, jotted dow
facts as presented, put this and that together
drawn conclusions therefrom and earnestl
desires to act thereon. 1t would use the lam
r tl>o nf f}a f;1i,
It has found voice and speaks in terms ur
mistakable and unequivocal. From the stumI
the lecture-room, the pulpit and the press,
speaks-and its words are for the healing {
the Nation. ,~, sei e,s.a. r.ss 1.
That it will dc to''love your enemies in peac
times, but unless you can love them to deat
you must deal out sterner stuff to rebels an
traitors; that billet-doux and bon-bon are
missiles with which to combat mortar, pal:
han and petard; that strategy is mob
thing in its place, but appears to poor adval
tage when mole-like it digs, blindfold, snai
hike it stands still, and crab-like it craw
backward; and it AYERS that dash is a Who'll
,onc. eles,e ept in reasonable doses and at pro
or .;n,os .ssat respectfully suggests, whether
,,,,d M ho ,seii to combine some grains
".n.. 9TH e even. though strategy mislik
you. = It believes in its heas' MaI we ha
the men, the money, can ha, si'ne '1ins .
discipline, and that this rebellion dsai' a'la
right ought to be put down, and that Sose
ly. It is sick to nausea Of the murdero