White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1863-02-19


The bill assuming the payment of th
Territorial debt. Lecompton and oil
passed the Committee of the Whole il
the House: but from some cause. mum
ber Of members who favored it. change,
their mind before the bill came to thir'
reading. and its friends are afraid to ttus
it upon its final. passage. They viii
probably keep it back until week-kuee'
members can be manipulated into its sup
port.
Mr.. CLARK. of Doniphan, hss introdu
ced bill in the House for funding oul
County debt. 1t is to be hoped this bill
may pass in good shape, for we see ne
other way to get the County out Of deb
for some years to come.
About q cart load of bills are bsfor,
the House for the purpose of changing the
tax law. amending fee bills. and abolish
ing or consolidating County Offices. W.
predict that they will all fail. This eter'
nal changing of fee bills, tax laws. and
County Offices. produces more bother and
confusion than good results.
The Interest bill is still before the SEN
ate. The money Lenders and their friends
are trying hard to kill it; and they may
be able to establish 7 per cent. as the le-
gal rate of interest, allowing IL per cent.
on contract. in place of 6 and 10 as the
House bill provides.
The Conway resolutions are having a
happy time. The Senate adopted q
"mild and lovely" resolution. in place ol
the original series: the House substituted
the original Senate resolutions. aud upon
their return to the Senate, they were in.
definitely postponed. The general feel
ing seems to be that Conway is "dead
and stinketh," and Senators don't want
to hurt his feelings by expressing theirs.
We must not close without q good
word for the Representative from the
First District. Mr.. johnson is q faithful
worker for the interests of his constitu.
ents, and of the State. He is down on
all schemes Of speculation, and skull
duggery; and those who prophesied that
he would have an eye single to bis
own interests. in his legislative acts did
not prophesy truly, for be has on several
occasions voted against bills which would
have secured him important advantages.
because be thought them detrimental to
the public good.
The State Record. Of this place. has
changed hands. F. G.. Adams has re-
tired from the editorial department, and
is succeeded BY F. P. Baker, Representa-
tive from Nemaha in the last Legislature.
and more recently Deputy United States
Assessor, under the Revenue Law. It is
to be hoped that the Record will now at
least do the northern part of the State
justice. The northern tier do not seek .
newspaper organ at the Capital. but they
have q right to demand that the truth be
told. The late editor was monomaniac
in his opposition to the Henderson
Amendment; and week after week he
published statements concerning that
Amendment. and the northern tier, which
he could not but have known to be utter
ly false. His last grosn was against the
Henderson Amendment. in which he re.
peated for the one thousandth time, that
the object Was to ron it through one cor
ner of Doniphsn County into Nebraska,
when he knows that the object is to run
it through the centre of the entire northern
tier. It looks extremely reasonable that
members froro Brown. Nemaha, Marshall
and Washington should take so much in.
terest in the 6ght, If the road is merely to
run through corner of Doniphan into
Nebraska. The charge bears fslsehood
upon its face.
The traitor Lsavenworth Inquirer is
squelched at last. The editor and pub
fishers should have been squelched long
since, Traitors had grown too impudent
in Kansas. The sudden death Of the In
quirsr should be . warning to persons
similarly inclined. that Copper-hsadism
cannot flourish upon Kansas soil.
We have just learned that the Terrific.
rial debt bill has passed the House. We
also learn that all claims prior to Decem.
Der 1857. have been debarred. which will
cut out Lecompton. Another bill hsv-
ing some bearing upon the sbove. re-
quirss oil the Counties to pay their de-
liuquent Territorial tax. This will al
most pay the Territorial debt. We be-
lisvs that Doniph.n County is delinquent
to considerable amount.
The HoLT CouHrY PslsoHERs.-The
trial ofthe Holt County. { No. prisoners
regarding the affair Of which We published
the particulars last week. has come to .
focus. Joseph 81. Thornton and Hinton
Liveupood, found guilty Of violating the