The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1862-01-24
Filed since army aud's report,
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To which NAV be added, a, least, accounts
which will bring the sum total up to five mil
lion.
The appropriations put at the commaEd OF
the state authorities AT the special session
we're -, $50 600. The government has ad
yanced 81 400 900, in the way Of reimburse.
ment Added together these sums amount
SO 100000; leaving an excess Of unauthoriz.
eli burthen upon the state Of over two mil
lions
The Illinois Stat, Register, in an able ar.
ticle relating to the bad management Of our
state affairs says:
The inquiries which elected these facts in
official shape, have made the Illinois Journal
furious For more THAI two weeks the bur.
then Of it's song has been alleged assumption
of power ON the part Of the convention. 1t
has essayed to forestall public opinion and to
discredit the representatives Of the peoples
sovereignty by bugabJJ stories OF prospective
"Lecomptonism uSurpatlOns Of power
not confided to them, but III no instance spec.
living in what such usurpatiOn consists, Sew
enty five of the most able and reliable men
in the state, deputed to frame Il new tunda.
mental law, entrusted by the people 30 exer-
else their sovereignty, and by the Journals
supreme law, 1.-THE act OF the last legislature
calling the cOnyeutlOnl authorized to call up
on the state officials for my and all lnfOrma-
ton necessary Tor the proper discharge q. their
duties this body is deemed impertIncnt and
indecent for essayiug to learn what it is the
sn' .e - i:'t,
now 'neIr puDI,c servants nave uISen1fseu
I''e'i u".'e' ~ u'ui pawn io' ~. W. ''n
,eH'lo" 70 sPieau pe'ore 'ae pe'P.e '"e Ion
NI''oi' VI 'l'e'i n"""' 80. .t.; 49,
ocfa'c ic.o,ut'''n.! 'p'tn VIZ n"'
conn NJ Wv ",';,' "''n wy nU',,,y "
Tue s'"s' u'',C.,o' na' u - ''tt p''p
CT ioF ny ave- ""a Az rap" r W V "r
ANe inl.t'onI pm ,n,
feao., .r'r ho o., avnana w., ha1r
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s"t su,r, &c n,rnrnd aacron, ,hnss
-f' "1sEn' p,,ot - Il Gor Va,as n;I,
VI pun ~ ,;.',os n,,,,,on;a, -i'a
W a &c ,,;Il;I.,' ,,I,,,. ,,,
;,,;s Irna ", A., p,ti.n D,,,;,,,a,
y '"' ~. NJ, ~ 80
nue.. "u,"olty " tssuo wen 'nI'I'o"' "a
""' ,I' " 49, ~ ~ 20 CIV"
hssuI'uiS to HAS w. VIC INV "e'c'"'o'r
stateu' 'ile ou.vly s'"r'eu mere W tle ,?"'""
tnat TIE convention lh'ehueu 'oeAceea ltS nu-
thorl'y, or'h'1HIeN "' " counter movement
W iolest"il puppy oPihion' W o'Sc[co'' VIC
coh'eh'ion' anu pfl"s !, in'o pau ou9r WIN
the puplic, 'li"' a'y plop'hs YoLty wn'ch II
migh. auoP' "ou'I "e Iteel'eu wv o'Str ~
pu' ''io ~" '' ~ ."I ny: VIZ ~
, ures "on ~ r Any ta,', pup-.t WIN ~, W
piinu' ,i"'c"' II '"eS O""'i'' NV "''e'' WV
usurp"'i0n H. -
n "eeh mas neaiiy eI"rseu o,ncH 'nt go'
efhoi "a1 oI'eu Il''n ~ a.a1' "'''.n.1 Nv 1u
peen no.ineu ~ 'no 80. o.. 81. hnlu"' W
eease "uA'nS .on'I avs ioi NV 0'o.'','.s Ai'
equipment VI 'ne i'liiio's 'foop'' anu ''ia' IL
was ieaus " pofioim ..a. uuy a. Wv Nv
,eepohSe' ino o''', 2t"'e on'I ia'' h"'e Io'
been thus reticent. We know that the exec
u'Se vas 80 oinc'a'ly i'otineu nioi''h ago
ana everybody knows that Z. .. quarter
master has been here over two months to
TAKE the WORK OF his hands, yet during that
time ms contracts Tor clothing alone exceed
million when on the very spot where it
was contracted for, he could have procured it.,
II necessary Tor him to procure it at all, from
the government warehouses There is no
usurpation in this and is indecent for the
peoples representatives to be calling on him
for information as TO the states transactions
in the clothing line,
Then again, the Journal would have the
public believe that the inquiries in question,
and the remarks in the convention in connec-
ton Herewith, have been inspired by parti
san feeling If anyl charges have been--if
surprise and indignation has been expressed