Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-03-07
Reverdy j Johnson Elected Senator
from Maryland.
Interesting Washington News.
All Quiet at Columbus and Cairo.
The Rebels Still Retreating into
d.. t.p .- alabama. aW
IOWA LEGISLATURE.
Especial Dispatch to the Muscatine Daily Journal

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DEsMoINEs, March 3, 1852.
HoUsE-The House had under considera-
ton tho Salary and Tax bill ,-
SsNATE.-Thc Senate passed the two mill
tax bill. 1t is now law ..,..1..'
The bill providing for the issuing of Audi.
tors Warrants on the War and Defence
Fund in two, three and five dollars receivable
for all taxes, passed, ard is now a law.
Since 10 o'clock A NJ, the Senate has dis
cussed the bill throwing n,w Safeguards
around the Prohibitory Liquor law. By this
law no privilege granted u"Gcr the provis ons
of chapter 157 of the act Of the Sixth Gen
eral Assembly are to continue more that six
ty days after the passage; that all permits
hereafter issued shall specify the house in
With liquors may be sold-the time to be in
force not to exceed one year. Complaints
may be laid in the County Courts-one cred
IDLE witness instead of three with :sscs, can
file information.
~ An amendment by Mr.. Burdick to strike
out the beer and wine clause of the pres
ent law, was lost yeas II, nays 22-9 Dem
ocrats and S Republicans voting in favor and
20 Republicans and Democrats against the
amendment
! The Bill passed-yeas 26, nays Is.
". ID.
--. DEsMoINEs, March 4
| HoUsE-Is under consideration of the Bill
| taxing the incomes and mileage Of the men,
| bers. go &. .
SENATE-Passed to the third reading of
Smiths Liquor Bill, heretofore mentioned.
Passed the following Bills: To enable the
State or County to acquire real estate, hold,
control and dispose Of the same; to define
| further the duties of the county supervisors
and their clerks; restoring the old code law
relating to do*ers; to prevent fraud in ware
house men, wharfingers and others; restor-
| ing the provisions Of the old code relating to
the proof Of written instruments in actions,
and repeating section two thousand nine hum
! dred land sixty of the revision, for an
act IN relation to the county courts probate
record; bill providing for the publication of
sherif's notices, requiring the plaintiff to des-
ignate the newspaper instead of the sheriff
| W. F. D.
t DEsMorNEs, March 5.
HoUsE.-The House passed the bill regu.
lating written evidence
Mr.. Stanton's Railroad bill was severally
| amended and passed. =
The bill defining the duties of the Peniten-
tiary Surgeon, and fixing his salary at 1896,
| also passed
Many bills of local nature passed.
Tire House resolved to meet at o'clock A.
NJ, and r.. NJ.
The Printing Committee reported bill
providing fer the annual report of the Adju-
| tant General; five thousand copies to be
printed at the close of the war
SENATE.-Mr. Duncombe, of Webster, in
troduced bill requiring Land Grant Rail-
| roads to release swamp, school, and Des-
moincs river lands on the. lines Of the sew
eral roads, and providing for the compensa-
ton therefor by extension of time of build
| ing said roads.
Mr.. Cue, of Scott. introduced bill pro-
| vidiDg for taking up estray ANIMALS. 1t was
ordered printed. --..ts.' . I'd a..s Al
The Agricultural Committee reported a
substitute for the bill consolidating Secreta-
~ of the Agricultural Society and Secreta-
~ of the College and Farm. 1t strikes out
1.-TWO hundred in Sec. 1904 of Revision, and
inserts lone hundred" and omits consolida-
ton. ea.- -..t ~
The bill permanently locating the Deaf and
Dumb Asylum ut Desmoines passed. 1t is
to be removed from Iowa City on or before
August 1st
The following bills passed ..'
Meals bill, requiring the county Treasurer,
when applied to by letter, enclosing thirty
cents in postage stamps, for information of
taxes due, to answer same COZ rectly by mai,
disappears by his tax books; if the tract in
quired about exceeds 800 acres, the Treasurer
is not bound to answer unless the inquiring |
letter contains 10 cents in stamps for every |
extra hundred and sixty acres the entire |
compensation not to exceed fifty cents. |,
SO 'Woodward's bill, authorizing the Governor
to settle the excess over five hundred thous- !
and acres selected by the State of Iowa, I'M
der the act of Congress Of September 4th,
1S41. ..
Jennings bill relating to levying executions,
passed before, referred. WE'D.