The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1864-03-26


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seemed Nisk dsAWA from tlss SsaAts
laasuber, ard The Lobby filed with Sem
ksors and outsidsrs. wstchIng With he
dsspsss inssfd st 3lis inksilsetah fght as
II ragged in oil IL fury
The cham pions Of Unconditional Re-
suisa rti8n, aims. De- loihes = svis atipn
Company ore Rsrsmansof Henry Russen
q, W ashingson, stiles. AZ Wapello. Welt
OF CEDAR, Hale, u Mills. and BuokhAaa.
OK Frenaons --who ostsn brings dorm tho
House BIZ his sssing pint
NE Norshlpsr u RailroAds even =
.idolasry, i Richards, &c Dnbuqas. He =
o smooth orator. and 10 sharp enough 70
Be satisfied With hslf ! loaf when fall r.
lions caunot be obtainsd for bis object Of
araorssion.
The ohampions 81 the measure % 81
tend the tims for compilation Of the Rail
road By thar releasing the claim o. right
they may have obtained % the odd nuszl-
barred sections within The line Of land
grants to actual settlers, are MagiiI, Of
Clinton, Bell. Of Pottawattanlie, Oliver
of Monona, Moir, Of Hardin, Hoidridge,
of buchanan, Burke, Of Bremen, and
Finkbine, Of johnson; 80 you see they
haye become fully aroused, and yesterday
afternoon witnessed the Gloss OF the bat
tie--ss least 50 il appeared as Old Re-
sumption, alias sDes Moines Navigation
Co, left the Han feeling j. little crest
fallen. In fact the mere sham CRY for
the poor settlers seems to yanish like the
morning naist-the resl cause Of the cry
being for the Navigation Company, and
! predict there will be no Legislation on
the Railroad question, although the Con.
ditional R.sump tion bin has been ordered
engressed, and before this reaches you,
win be acted on as a special order, and
if the settler in his Western Cabin Home
receives no relief by this Legislature he
may truly thank Old Resumption, alias
Navigation Co, for all his disappoint.
msnts.
There can be no reasonable room for
doubling that if the policy of Magill and
your own Representative, and those who
acted with them could have been adopted
year settler would have been protected,
and the Railroad interest not seriously
impeded but when the leaders of Old
Resumption declared that they would
have absolute and unconditional resump-
ton or nothing, and such positions being
taken by some prominent men, such as
Hale, Of Mills, and after his plaintive
cries for the settler it was ruinous, ard
although Jour own Representative used
all his influence and energy on one main
point--pnoteetion to the settler on odd
numbered sections, as q condition prece.
dent in any settlement with the Railroad,
and that point Railroad men. did not OBJ,
ject to. 1t is great pity the Western
men could not have united on this true
and statesmanfike proposition and Of
fered protection to the settler. AS it is,
I fear that hitter, narrow, selfish policy
will be pursued, ruinous to the settler,
and not for the best interest of the
State, .t ... .r &c.: ... =.
That Bell of yours is what might be
called fiery man, hard to manage when
aroused; and yesterday, when Hale, oil
Mills, made q personal attack at him, he
rstorted with bitter sarcasms, and there
was evidently fight in his eye if provoked
beyond q certain point, and it locked as
if that point came very near being reached
by the gentleman from Mills. I think
he will be . little more careful in the FL.
tRre on that psint. Il ... r. -. =. 81.
As the war on the Railroad question
will now be transferred 10 the Senate,
your correspondent will abandon the
Lobby Of the House, and quietly repair
to ths Senate, 30 as 70 post sou up in
this momentous question, and should II
reach ''pistola aud coffee, !" your humble
servant will be on hand and report pro