Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-02-12
SASH AND DOOM,
Correspondence Of the Gazette.
FROM THE CAPITOL,

your sptness for gathering up items Of news,
it is probable column each week might 30
filed proftably with gossip from the me.
tropolis Of Iowa.
Des Io!nes has not yet been very gay Or
lively. Shortly after the commencement Of
the Session Of the Legislature, the streets OF
the city became impossible for pedestrians;
and for several days ithas been impossible for
omnibuses to run from the hotels to the Capt..
toll. And from the state Of the roads, very
few persons, excep, the memb srs, have ye,
come here.
Thus far, the hotels have made but poor
speculations. The Sarery Houss, fine large
building, was opened at great expense, just
about the LIST Of January, with the sxpec.
tation Of receiving large patronage from
the Legislators. 1t is said they have ample
room to accommodate 100 regular boarders,
and the transient travel, besides. But they
put their figures too high,-s2 per day not
agreeing with the salaries Of members Of the
Legislature. Only one member, Mr.. Butler,
of Musca,ine, patronizes the Slavery. He is
the Speaker Of The House, and gets double
pay. In fact, since the arrival Of the mem.
bers here, there has been general rumps.s
about beard. BY general arrangement, the
most common board, at private houses, was
81 90 per week. Not more than half Of those
who wanted boarders at that rate, had any.
Under bidding commenced. The boardsrs
already engaged, made strike for lower
terms, and landlords had to yield
The Slavery has not come 10 terms, nor
have the members comr to ii. 1t is likely to
be bad investment, as at presen, arranged.
There is likely to be triangular Hght
over the grant Of land to the Agricultural
College. Those who have lsbored for years
for this College, when the clouds wero dark,
demand an independent Institution. The
friends Of the University want it attached to
that Institution as an Agricultural depart
ment. This class are neither few nor feeble.
And there is another party, who are in favor
Of buying out the Presbyterian College, At
Grinnoll, and make it the College and Farm.
With all the plottings Of learned and adrois
managers, it is likely that cliques and local
interests will enter largely into the question,
and will finally be determined as the various
influences preponderats. The object Of tho
College IS noble ons, end has magnificent
endowment, and Iowa's best men should
concentrate their wisdom in having it com.
menced right.
During the past week there has been .
very determined effort put forth to repeal all
apprasement laws. The warnest debate Of
the Session, was on this subject. Itappeared
to be the old war between capital and the Ia.
boring men. 1t is evident that several i'm.
provemeks are needed in the law, but it can
hardly be claimed by any one that we can
safely sweep all appraissment laws from cur
Statutes. All, or nearly all, Of the free States
have such laws; and in the slave States,
where they have none, they make debt
crime, and imprison the poor man who is 70
unfortunate as TO be in debt.
There is bill besssre the Senate to make
the County Court, Court of Common Pleas,
with concurrent jurisdiction with Justices of
the Peace, and with the District Court, in
all sums under $500. This will give the
County Court the larger portion Of tho bust
ness. 1t is contended by some to make it .
Court always open, like that of Justice Of
the Peace. This arrangement would be ad-
vantageous to those counties where they have
only promise Of one Court year. And il
would have been a splendid thing in your
Judicial District, Mr. Editor, q few years
since, when you had Judge who thought
more Of shooting prairie chickens than Of
attending to the business of the people, for
which they paid him $500 per year.
Or, if we got up something Of this kind,
will it not obviate some Of the difficulties that
Black Hawk and Grundy counties labor un.
der, from being a sort Of neglected territorial
dependence to Dubuque. But it is hard to tell
what the Legislature will do. correspond.
emit who pretends to foreshadow the future,
will soon have about as poor character asa
weather prophet.
Since my last letter, the bill creating a new
Supreme Judge, has passed both Houses,
and in all probability before this sees the
light, C. C. Cole will wear the Judicial en-
mine.
IT might bowel for your wise Legislators,
just at this time, to repeat, at their evening
and morning devotions, one portion Of the
Lords prayer, with more than usual earnest.
ness lead US not into temptstion."--
There is now about $4,000 in gold in tho
State Treasury. 1t will have to be paid out
on warrants to somebody, or sold, and the
premium put in the Treasury. In view Of
the fact that the per diem of the members Of
Legislature will but little more than pay their
board, and they cannot increase their own
pay, some conclude that it would be no more
than justice that they pass joint resolut;en
directing the Treasurer to pay the members
in coin. This would add to each mans pile
about $780, Do not understand your cor
as savoring any such movement,
yet ii would be some satisfaction to see the
Devil and DR.. Foster who congregated at
Iowa City some years since to frame 4 con.
stitution, headed in some way. There are
several littso, mean traits, cropping out in the
Constitution, which establish forever that
some OF ita trainers were great in 2ittle1Aes