The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-02-19
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The Illinois Legislature Adjourned
UniOniSm Safe 4gain---The Copper
heads Defeated---Cl0Sing Acts and
Scenes of the Session.
SPRINGFIELD, Feb.

SPRINGFIELD, Feb. IA
The Legislature has finally adjourned.
! Had the body been Republican the Union
men could scarcely have been better
satisfied with the results of its delibera-
tions. All the pet measures of the De-
mocracy have been defeated, while the
Republicans have carried nearly all they
could have possibly expected
The attacks upon the Governor, like
| those made npon him in the Constitu-
tional Convention, fell still-born, the
! Committees of Investigation not even
daring to make reports. He was ac-
cused by the Chicago Times of having, in
collusion with the State Treasurer,
robbed the State of over $4,000. The.
Senate Committee on this subject have
pronounced the charge utterly without
foundation.
The Committee of Investigation into
his expenditure of the war fund, have
been discharged by an almost unanimous
vote of the Senate, the two leading Demo
Gratis in that body speaking in favor CT
such discharge.
The foiling of the Democracy in their
attempt to override the Constitution and
wrest the. legitimate power conferred
upon the Governor from him, is mainly
due to the frmness of the Executive
himself, and also to his-tact and skill in
out-maneuvering the Copperhead faction;
he was assisted, however, by Lieut. Gov
Hoffman and Senator Mack of Kankakee
the latter was the chief manager in the
Senate Much credit is also due to
Senators j. D. Ward and Bushnell
In the House Messrs. f. A. Eastman
and Brentano took leading part, and
seconded the able efforts of the other
gentlemen spoken of In fact, the result
of the session has fully proved that an
intelligent and skilful minority can easily
control an ignorant majority. The ma
iority feel terribly cut up at their defeat
/ They confess it to be Waterloo one
/ They are now bitterly abusing each other
the Egyptians say they have been sold.
The history of this Legislature, were
| it written in its details, would display a
state of things unparalleled in the his
tory of the country. Every one gives
! great credit to the Governor, surrounded
as he was by such untoward circumstan-
! ces, for the manner in which he has
foiled and defeated the Vaccinations of
his foes, and the foes of the country.
! The people will breathe with more free
! dom now that the Legislature has ad-
i journed. 1t was Matching nothing but
| treason and mischief while in session.
Happily the eggs are added. The re-
suits of to-day's legislation, besides an
! innumerable number of private bills, are
| about as follows:
The lien laws offered by Ginther and
Cook were respectively passed in both
Houses. Mr.. Cook promptly handed
them to the Governor, who Immediately
signed them.
The Congressional apportionment bill
passed. The general State appropri-
alton bill, with $50, 900 contingent fund
for the Governor, also passed.
Some Democrats entered a protest
against this, but the protest cannot now
be found, and was not entered on the
Journal so that it has no legal existence.
The speaker contended for the correct
ness of the journal as it stands. Some
who signed the protest understood fully
that the contingent fund sum was in the
appropriation bill
The Army Auditing Board, which pro-
posed to take the military power from
the hands of the Governor, as far as the
disposal of funds was concerned, failed
in the Senate
The resolution, providing that the COM
mittee to investigate into the expendit-
ures of the Governors contingent fund,
should meet during the recess, was unan-
imously voted down in the Senate
The bill making appropriations for
State Benevolent Institutions, passed
All the military laws passed by the
special session of 1861, were repealed,
and the bills repeating are already ap-
proved by the Governor.