The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-01-30
Legislative.

The following interesting items con-
corning the doings of the Solons now
assembled at the State Capitol we find
in the indianapolis Journal:
Our Legislature is about the most
amusing geological collection in exist
ence. 1t certainly has the faculty of
doing the siliest things in the most pre-
tentious way, in the highest develop
ment Yesterday the House adopted a
resolution appointing a committee to
prepare reply to the message of Gov.
Morton in which he gave his reasons for
declining to send in his previous message
again. And, to make the folly of the
thing complete, it put on the committee
Packard, Brown, and Bayless Hanna,
neither of whom could write a report on
a resolution to buy bunch of matches
without making enough blunders in
spelling and grammar to keep them in
a state of posterior Inflammation for
month, if they were still at school, where
they ought TO be. Any assembly of men
of average brains would have seen in
the Governors last message conclusive
proofs of the wisdom of silence on their
part thereafter, to the end; of time, for it
placed the House Just where no reply or
| explanation was possible without an adj
mission of factious or foolish conduct in
refusing to receive the former message.
They were caught in trap of their own
| setting, and the wisest thing they could
do, when they felt their tails cut off, was
to let the stumps bleed and hair over
without a whimper. But they are not
content TO do what is wisess They are
determined to do what is silliest, and,
with propriety that half redeems it, to
will furnish the committee with the
means to make an approach to a report,
for they can't do it themselves
In the Senate, on a resolution instruct
ing Congress to reduce the pay of officers
in the army, fiery little debate on the
address and resolutions of the Indiana
officers at Murfreesboro sprung up. in
which Mr.. Shields, of jackson, who has
the merit of being disloyal without being
hypocrite enough to pretend that he is
not, denounced Col. Gooding of the ODD
regiment with great and most improper
bitterness as coward, cheat and domestic
tyrant Such language was clearly un-
| parliamentary, and ought to have been
stopped Other Senators denounced the
officers and army savagely They in
sisted that it was none of the army
business to suggest Legislative policy or
measures to them. They forgot that the
army is composed of citizens, or did they
mean that man disfranchised himself by
entering the army? They maintained
that those who remain at home were
alone competent to determine what
should be Legislated about or how it
should be done; as if man in the army
could not know as much of the duties of
the State to the country as the weak.
ignorant and corrupt men who remained
at home to get into Office by the absence
of better men. They placed themselves
squarely at issue with the right of our
volunteers to say or do anything that they
didn't like. Their record yesterday will
interest some of them one of these DAYS,
when the soldiers come home
In the House a measure is pending
which, if passed, will make the biggest
stealing Job ever carried on since Sto-
vers day. We noticed one yesterday to
spend $4,000 or $4,000 in a visit to
Louisville to hatch or help schemes for
North Western secession. The one we
allude to to-day is to create a committee
of five, with a clerk, each to re-
ceive regular legislative wages, mile
age, ana stealaGe, To sit permanently,
for the purpose of enrolling the names
of the soldiers of this State who have
died To do this they will travel at So
day wages, and $50 a day expenses,
from the Texas boundary to Hatteras.
and from Hatteras to Brashear CITY.
They will take year to do it, and can't
then do it any better than the surgeons
and hospital stewards who now furnish
those names to the papers for nothing
The job will cost the State $4,000 and
a great part of all that can be done is
already done, without costing anything,
We have published the names of every
Indiana soldier who has died since the
war broke out, either in battle or hospi-
tai, with rare exceptions (and they
can be supplied without expense to the
State) from lists made by the officers,
and this committee can't get better ones,
and in many cases can't get any at all,
except from oar columns, or the Adiu-
tant Generals Office These names are
open to the State free of cost. If the
purpose of the scheme were only to get
the names of our dead for honorable
record, it would simply authorize care
full man to use our files and the Adiu-
tant Generals lists, and save $4,000.
But the purpose is to provide pleasant
lazy business for six or seven partisans
who will swindle the State, (see testi-
m6ny of witnesses in Northern Peniten-
tia Report, make good thing of it for
themselves, and then collect their lists
from the Adiutant or our files