White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1863-02-12
TO TAX PAYERS.
IDIToRIAI CoRREsPoHDEICR.
vr.u. the Capital.

TorrKA. February 5. 1863.
The great contested case Of Thorp .
Beam. hss at length come to focus. !
was decided on Wednesday morning
Thorp ousting Beam. the incumbent, b!
avo.s Of l6 to 6. Some Of Beams warm
ct advocates. originally. were compelled
BY the overwhelming evidence, to vote TO
his opponent.
Some novel testimony was elected IL
the sboys.named case. One person testi
6ed that hs wss born in 1912. and VA
twenty mine years Of age. But this in
consistency may be accounted for BY On.
other portion Of his evidence. to the effect
that he could not read or write. Anoth.
or individual swore that he was good
judge of psraons' sges. and that . certain
person who voted was only fifteen years ol
age. How be judges Of persons age.
we are unable TO say, unless it be BY ex.
amining the teeth, after tie style Of horse.
dealers.
The Railroad question has not yet been
brought before the Legislature; but from
oil accounts, the number Of private eau
cuses held to discuss the matter have been
almost innumerable, but none terminating
satisfactorily. 1t is understood that re-
psated attempts have been made to form
combinations embracing . majority of
the Legislature. but without success. The
matters of State University and Agricul-
tural College are entering into the Rail-
road schemes. The friends of two locali-
ties have decided, to the satisfaction Of
themselves. that one place shall have the
State University. and the other place the
Agricultural College; and conformity, they
arc now endesvoring to come to an I'M.
derstanding with the friends Of such Rail-
road plan a. will bring them the greatest
number of votes. It is said some of these
smooth-tongued fellows have already be-
come entangled in their own wires. and
are likely to damage their cause.
The bill for the assumption Of the Ter
ritorial debt by the State. is still in the
mill, and is having . hsrd time of it
The prospect is, that it will be consigned
to the shades. The champions of the
measure in the House, who at first rushed
to the work with the cry of no quarter.
have become exceedingly humble. and are
now willing to make any compromise to
save even q portion of the bill. They
agree to throw out the accounts of the
Lscompton Convention. and that the bill |
shall allow holders of Territorial War
rants but City cents on the dollar. We
cannot SEQ that this will obviate the OBJ
lection of unconstitutionality. and think
that the days of the bill are numbered.
A mania for economy on . small scale
appears to have seized upon some mem.
bsrs Of the House. which might entitle
them to some credit. were it not for the
fact that large majority of their moves
consist Of mean and petty warefare up.
on the interests of q single profession.
The worthless who are engaged in it. seem
to have an especial spite against the poor.
half.starved printers Of Kansas. and have
their established fees in every
case where law can reach them. The
rates fixed BY law are now lower than the
usual newspaper. rates. yet it is sought to
bring them down 90 low that the fees will
scarcely more than pay the cost of type
sitting. A lawsuit in Kansas is almost
intsrminable. and every legal measure or
process has to undergo so many twists
and turns. that it costs fortune to come
out of them. Yet set of one horss law.
yers in the Legislature seek to make the
printer bear all the loss and blame, and
10 deprive him Of his Just wages. Why
10 they not enact law regulating law
yers fees, to prevent every chueele- head
Who sees proper to call himself lawyer,
rom picking the pockets Of unfortunates
Who are so uulucky as to fall into their
clutches 1t would be just as fair to pass
\ law establishing lawyers fees. as one
6xing printers prices. L
The leader in this petty warfare is one
hailing from Lecompton. Yet
Who would think that this sprig of econ .
,my is the same Mitchell who is the author
IF blurred and bedsubed concern called I
he Map Of Kansas. worth about 12} cents I
It retail. which he every Winter causes |
o Be thrust upon the attention Of the Leg. =
stature. and WHOLESALERS from one to two Z
hundred copies to that body. at one dol {
ar each? It is even so. He held on to 6
be tail of Lecompton as long - there Z
Tss hair LEFT in it. and then managed to
'orm himself into the Republican party.
y which mssns be has been several times Z
stunned to the Legislature. where be {
penda his time in getting up bills having d
special bearing upon msttsrs Of interest q
himself. whereby Be may avoid paying I