The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1864-03-19


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The ~ Issue bel which Of ~
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/ basis for sstslelnsnt with me iAiiroAti
companies. and Yst project The settler on
the odd numbered sections within The
lineaaf those Failroads. The frisnds RI
Old resumptisn unconditional, who have
bean 40 sympathetic for ths poor sstlaer
in his Western Cabin, and who IN the
,sssrly part Of tho debate Ensnsssts Is IN
much sorrow. and appealed 70 the
zasHhars of the HoAse in such plaintaye
terms, now change their tactics, and the
gentleman from Mills declared r. . Rep
sesentative that if he could not haze
unconditional resumption, be wanted bis
iinefof railroad left out. This one ex-
preston has ruined his influence en this
question, at least it looks 50 10 an out.
slider, your correspondent not being in
the ring, may be mistaken. s
The bill reported from the committee
on Railroads proposes absolute and GER
tain protection to the actual settlers or
occupiers of lands within said lines of
Railroads ia the State. -.
The other simply proposes uncondi
tional resumption, and its friends Say
they propose to re-grant, leaving out dis
,puted lands, and this would give the rot
ten old Navigation Company an immense
tract of land, the very garden Of Iowa,
and by which in the opinion ofyour hum
BILE correspondent, ''hangs tai" ':'
( The friends of HaIe's bill are now try
ing to make the bill of the Railroad COM
nittee odious. and thus leave our settlers
unprotected, and all because the Des
MONIES Navigation Company cannot be
cared for. Those amendments brought
out much debate, bat as the House adopt
ed rule to allow onIyy Is minute speeches
there is not much time for buneombe
speeches. Stiles, of WapelTo, led OF as
the champion against the substitute, and
his remarks sounded strangely in oppo-
sition to his pleading for the poor settler
on one position, and his amendments are
watched as those from an enemy, and
not the friend OF the actual settler, but
the champion of the Des Moines Naviga'
ton Company.
On this amendment the speaker OF the
House went into the debate, and his Ian
guage 10 say the least was very impru-
dent and not calculated to advance the
cause he sought to benefit, Wig: the grants
of the Navigation Company. He is an
earnest speaker, and I am sorry he thinks
lit his duty to direct the House how to
vote, for that body has look of indepen-
dence about them that tells me dictatiou
will not win. 49,
This earnest debate brought that tai
ented gentleman. Mr.. Burke, of Bremen,
out in his gayest dress his voice full,
manly and firm, his eloquence of that
earnest character, peculiar to western
men, and his points were well taken ;
he hurled his bitter retorts thick and fast
at he gentleman from Wapello. Finally
the gentleman from Hardin, Mr.. Moir,
arose, pale and excited, and with that pa
thos peculiar to an orator iaboring under
severe mental excitemont, he stood
in his place hurting the severest Rhe-
torical anathemas ut the men who
had impugned his motives, and such were
the power in his words that the gentle
man from Wapello stated they would
settle the matter outside the Hall; the
gentleman from Hardin replied in biting
sarcasm, anywhere you please" Visions
of pistols and coffee for two seemed to
loom up.
Atthis stage proceedings that smooth
beautiful speaker, Richards, of Dubuque,
arose and, sir, it was delightful to see
how he poured oil on the troubled water;
while he made no argument, and
perhaps designed on that occasion to
make none, he did what was better, stilled
the tempest and forsuch act he deserves
the lasting gratitude of the members Of
the Assembly.
The House adjourned without settling
the question, and on Monday the battle
will be resumed. with,what result no man
can tell. Ills a critical point in the his
tory of this Assembly, and I fondly hope
no rash, foolish act maj. be perpatrated
yet there seems to be great danger,
for the House i very nearly equally di-
vided on this great question. ..4,.s =
The Senate has passeda bill appropFit
ating $2dO 1000 for an A agricultural College,
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