Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-02-26
IOWA LEGISLATURES.

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| DEs MONIES, Feb. 1s.
The Senate to-day passed Mr.. Cues bill tc
prohibit the circulation Of foreign bank notes
in this State. This will confne our currency
to the State Bank, United States Treasury and
Natl nal Bank notes. .t-- ,-.
The Senate adopted resolution to adjourn
on the 10Th of March. t5' 'Ho o
The House voted down resolution to ad
journ on the 18th Of March. -' ''
A bill was introduced in the House to SO
amend the Constitution as to fix the time Of
meeting of tho General Assembly on the first
Monday in December; bill to provide for
the settlement of swamp land claims against
the United States and bill to provide sys-
| tenn of township collectors. ''-
The committee appointed to visit the State
University and Deaf and Dumb Asylum re-
ported to day, and represent tho University
in honrishing condition, having students
from forty three counties in the State, and re-
commend an appropriation of $25, 900 to build
a chapel and furnish other accommodations.
The conmittee represent that though the pu,
pills in the Deaf and Dumb Asylum are max
ing commendable progress, and the teachers
are doing all that can be done under present
circumstances, yet that the accommodations
are totally inadequate, and the furniture Of
the character usually found in an almshouse.
This is disgrace to the State. Iowa, to her
honor, has spent immense sums Of money on
the insane Hospital at Mount Pleasant, in
Henry county, but, to her shame, keeps her
deaf mutes in miserable rented building at
Iowa City. .e, p. rE a
a9 DEs MONIES, Feb. II.
The Senate went into Committee of the
Whole and spent most of the morning in con-
sidering bill to tax railroad property ac-
cording to its actual value, the same as the
property of individuals and all other corpo-
rations are taxed. Railroad companies, under
the law as it now is, are taxed on their gross
receipts. The question on the bill was not
tested.
In the House, Mr. Hale introduced another
resumption bill. The House devoted the af-
ternoon to bill abolishing the Board Of edu-
cation and the Office of Secretary of the Board
and the Office of Superintendent of Public In
struction. The bill provides for an appropri.
alton Of fifty dollars for each county of the
State fer Annual Institutes, on application of
twenty resident teachers. o H';"a q
DEs MONIES, Feb. IS.
The Senate yesterday passed the bill re-
quiring the incumbent in cases of contested
elections to give bond to account for fees and
profits, and the bill providing for the sale Of
Swamp Lands of the several Counties, and
fixing the minimum price per acre at seventy
five cents A number of new bills were
introduced.
The Senate went into Committee of the
Whole for the further consideration of the
bill to tax railroad property, and Messrs. Cue,
Henderson, McCrary, of Lee, and Hunt made
able speeches in opposition to the policy Of
the bill. r.'-...
Z In the House considerable miscellaneous
business was transacted during the morning
session. The afternoon was spent in Com
mlttee of the Whole on resolution Of Mr..
Hixson instructing our Congressional Dele
CATION to use their influence in favor of the
entire abolition of slavery within the national
domain.
o- February 10.
Several bills not of general interest were
passed by the Senate yesterday. The day
was spent in Committee of the Whole, having
ohNOA NOAoANSi0IiOl tAC Olii W IdA oil Odu
property. Messrs. Foote, Dixon, Udell, and
port Of the bill, and Messrs. Saunders and
Hunt in opposition to it. The motion to
strike out the first section did not prevail in
Committee = having seventeen yeas and
eighteen nays. The Committee rose, etc.,
and the bill was made the special order for
Thursday Of next week, at 104 O'clock, A. NJ.
The law now in force taxes railroad companies
one per cent. on their gross receipts, and the
bill attracting so much attention proposes to
tax the aggregate value Of the property of
railroad companies without regard to its
character or the receipts of the company.
In the House, the Senate bill for the en-
couragement of Public Libraries was passed
also, House bill providing for the recording
Of United States Revenue Stamps. Mr..
Stiles Dover bill was killed. The most of
the afternoon was spent in discussing the bill
t. prevent profanity and obscenity. 1t was
finally referred to select committee of five.
.y DEs MONIES, Feb. 90
Several important bills were introduced in
the Senate yesterday.
The Senate -concurred in the House
amendment to the Supreme Court Judge
OHt, uSAC0tCu SiAo PiopoSitIOu W SCH tilc
gold in the State Treasury; passed num-
Der of bills and indefinitely postponed others;
refused to strike out of Mr. Saunders bill
the section providing more liberal compen-
sation to County Superintendents by vote
of seven to thirty-two, and disposed of a
large amount of business.
The House passed the bill abolishing the
Board of Education and providing for the
election Of Superintendent of Public In
struction, discussed the bill providing for the
government of the State University, and or
dered it engrossed for third reading, and
spent long time in discussing the Senate
resolution providing for an adjournment on
the 18th Of March.
PATRIOTIC FAMILY.-John d. Hickox, Of
Pine Meadow, Conn.,, with two of his sons,
or1iefo1 loot mail IL ha1 eaynr eope n