The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-02-26
KEOKUKs

FklDAIy chOnU
-.
message u sae 1asvsshe q sAe
Lep&4es 49,
We publish below such phi of The
message Of the Governor Of sA6bby y
rslatas only to Stata afain:
GxsrLxxxs OF 4Hs LoBBY: Since the
date u my last ol6sial communication 70 |
you "Thisgs' hsve got into AAssasi1ssar
bic Of . muss," and the causes thereof |
may be Get down numerically - follows i
Firstly, The natural scussednes" of
The human family, and their pssdisposi-
lion to 60 astray, when mot undSf the
Of wholesome moral influence.
Secondly, the Lobby has not been in ses-
ZION for the past foar years, and conss-
quently the wholesome moral influence
aforesaid has been wanting. Thifdiy, The
contingent fund Of the Executive has been
entirely exhausted. and virtue has been
without her reward. and vice has been
permitted to tamper with the American
Eagle.
Your opportune meeting will 1t once
restore public confidence "crisis"
may be passed by you as an enactment;
an exhausted Executive may be replen-
ished and the functions Of government
entirely restored. But before calling your
attention to the awful wickedness of some
of "Our Federal" relations | must ask
your attention to few domestic recon-
mendations; for would have you do a.
charity does, begin at home, and frst
take the beams out Of your own eyes so
that you may use them as weapons Of
warfare wherewith to punch out the eyes
of your enemies.
FSAxcEs-The public debt il not due
for number Of years, and as long as the
creditors Of the State prefer its bonds to
the money, it will not accommodate any
BODY for you to levy and collect taxes for
its payment-should any of our creditors
at any time conceive the unreasonable
idea of wanting their pay have made ar
rangements whereby I can buy sufficient
Confederate Scrip with the gold now in
the Treasury, to pay off the entire State
debt, and then have more money left than
we now have on hands.
IHE WEATHER, &c.-Since the last
session Of the Lobby the weather and
Thanksgiving Day have come around reg
ularly and comfortably until about the
last days of December, 1868, when the
mercury went down out of sight, aphe.
nomenon which can only be accounted for
by the fact that the appropriations for the
State government had become exhausted,
and the prices Of wood and coal advanced
considerably faster than the Army Of the
Potomac.
The last General Assembly adopted .
system of County government, known al
the Supervisor system. Some complaints
have come to my ears of the practical
workings OF this system. Should the Lob
By in it's wisdom see fit to adopt instead
of the Supervisor system system of Coun
ty government existing in some of thu
Older States, known as the Commissioners
system, | feel suts in saying that III
change would result in making ''things'
either great deal worse or great dea
better. really can't say which. / com
mend the subject to the wisdom of tn,
Lobby, and desirs that you will refer th'
whole matter to guessing committee O
your honorable body, composed entirel.
of members who have gone STONE blind.
ANOTHER JuDGk OF SUPREME CouRf
The next subject to which | call YOU
attention is'the necessity of creating va
cancy. on the Supreme bench of the State
1t has been supposed that the Constitu
ton authorizes only the creation of IN ad
ditional Judge of the Supreme Court
but it appears to me conclusive that the
Constitution could never have intended
the creation Of an additional Judge, un.
less there was frat rlace created on the
bench to put him. have referred this
intricate question to the Professor of Nat.
ural Philosophy of the State University
and have his written opinion in the prem.
ises, containing much valuable learning
and setting out in order the following
philosophical conclusions:
LIST. That where one body is, there an.
other cannot be.
2nd. That where q vacuum has beer
created the atmospheric or outside press
ure amounts to Is lbs. to the square inch
Bird. That the principles of Natural Sci
ence are applicable to vacant Offices, an,
that where vacuum exists in q govern
mental position, the atmospheric or out
side pressure will be equal TO the pay +
be received by the person who can fore
himself into the position. S
confess that had some doubts upo
the third proposition of the Professor
but the truth thereof hassince been full
demonstrated to my mind, by certain ez
periments lately made upon my oficil
parsonage by those who have desired th
position Of vacancy on the Suprem
bench, in the which experiments hav
been operated on BY means of double
geared force pump.
The SEAT or GovERNMENT.-The nez
matter requiring your attention il til
passage Of law requiring the future e.
ecuiive OF the State to live at the Seat {
Government,
The Constitution of the State locate
and fixes the Seat of the State Govern
ment within two miles Of the Raccoo
Fork Of the Des MONIES River.