Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-03-18
IOWA LEGISLATURE.
DEs MONIES, March 9.

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The Senate yesterday passed the bill tt
facilitate the construction and operation o
railroads in this State and concurred in thu
4 House amendment reducing the committe'
appropriation to purchase law books to three
thousand dollars. 3A1tJ Ssgc- c-iE7s = s' g.
The House bill providing forrthe appoints
ment Of sanitary agents, which was deemed
an attack on Mrs. Wittenmyer, the Senate
indefinitely postponed by an almost unani
nous vote. - s5,r-sa i}C5r ad5 q; 'f1aJ
The House passed a bill appropriatine
$4,000 a year to pay the expenses of the
| Sta'e Blind Asylum at Vinton, and the SENATE
bill authorizing railroad companies to issue
preferred stock. Resumption was up all day
in Committee of the Whole. Resumption i.
on the wane. -,-l .-.-,r.s. ..t l,,..s.......
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The Senate yesterday passed the House
bill to amend the appraisement law, and bill
| fixing the fee Of clerks for signing and attach
ing the seal to certificates required in making
out pension, back pay and bounty papers al
| ten cents. .--.. q ... 7s...s,., {" c.ssla
The House passed the Senate bill appropri
ating one thousand dollars for the survey o.
ship canal route from La Sale to the Mis-
sissppi, with an amendment providing fo'
the survey Of the Fox river route if the first
should be found impractcable. .-..- ..
The House adopted substitute for the uu
conditional resumption bill by vote of forty
four to thirty-seven. The substitute requires
the railroad companies to release to all actua
settlers on the Des Moines river lands within
ninety days, and release to the counties all
selected swamp lands sold by the counties
prior to January 1st, 1861, under the swamp
land grant of 1850, and gives the companies
indemnity lands. ..,.... ..
Both Houses adopted resolutions to adjourn
on the 29th inst i- ''.'
The Senate, yesterday, passed the follow
ing appropriation bills $4,000 for the erec-
ton of an agricultural college on the
College Farm, in Story county; $4,000 to
build State Arsenal at Desmoines; 800
600 for additional buildings for the State
University at Iowa City; $4,000 for inns
provements Of the Insane Hospital at Mount
Pleasant; $4,000 to build Deaf and Dumb
Asylum at Desmoines, and locate the institu-
ton $4,000 for repairs and extension of the
Pcnitentiary. Also, concurred in the House
amendments TO the bill providing for the
survey Of ship canal route from La Sale to
the Mississippi river; also passed bill legal
izing the acts of cities incorporated prior to
the seventh session Of the General Assembly.
The House finished up the discussion on
the resumption question in committee, and
came to a vote on the substitute for the i'm
mediate unconditional resumption bill. The
substitute was adopted by vote of A to 81.
ID is known as the Conditional Resumption
Bill, requires the railroad companies to re-
lease to all actual settlers on The Des Moines
river lands within ninety days, and release to
the counties all sold by the counties, all
selected swanps sold by the counties prior
to January lst, 1861, under the swamp land
grant of 1850, and gives the companies an in
dcmnitv for the lands.
The House also passed the Senate bill ap-
propriatng S 200 for the survey of ship
canal route from La Sale to the Mississippi,
with an amendment providing for survey
of the Fox River route if the first should be
found impracticable.
--7 s'" 915la DEs MONIES, March l3.
The Senate yesterday passed the following
bills: The House bill appropriating s., 900
for Improvements of the Blind Asylum; the
bill fixing the terms Of the Supreme Court at
the Capital, on the first Monday of January
and Second Monday of July; and bill to
limit the levy Of taxes for all county purposes,
except for kounties to volunteers and relief of
soldiers families, to six mills on the dollar of
property valuation, and in counties of less
than one hundred population the limit is one
mill. The bill to provide that no personal
property should be exempt from execution
for the purchase money, was indefinitely
postponed. -a
The House was engaged all day on the
substitute for the Resumption bill. An
amendment to require the railroad companies
to release to all bona .tide purchasers of the
Des Moines river lands, instead of to actual
settlers only, was voted down by 81 to 40.
The bill will be up again on Monday.