Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-12-20
Official Result.

The official canvass of the Congressional
vote of this State was completed at Madi.
son on Saturday last, showing the follow
ing result:
DISTRICT.
Rep. Dem
Paine IA 67S Brown q, ,29S
Paines majority, 3,SS0.
SECOND DISTRICT.
Hopkins. .......141 129. Pease...............8 S3S
Hopkins majority, 5,29s.
THIRD DISTRICT.
Cobb..........l30 .l3 006. Virgin. $50
Cobb's majority, 1881.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
Hatch..........1o0 00S Eldridge.. CSC
Eldridge's 2,G2S.
DISTRICT.
Sawyer 341 HTartin..... 347
sawyer's majority, 4,994.
SIXTH DISTRICT,
Washbuyne ........13, ,161. Park ....6 G47
Washburnes majority, 6,514.
The total vote of the State for Congress-
men is 1874 ,719, of which 79, 1873 IS Repub-
lican, and 53,4l6 Democratic, making the
Republican majority in the State 23,9o7,
The vote of several towns was thrown
out on account Of informality or delay in
return. The vote on the amendment to
the banking law, so as to tax shares of ma
tional banks, was 49,7l4 for, to 1851
against. On the proposition to call a con-
venton to amend the State Constitution,
the vote stood %, ,43l for, to 80, ,S62 against.
EDITOR DopGEvILLE CHRoNIcLE-Sir I
notice in your paper statement from Mr..
JOINER, correcting an error of $50, 900 made
in your report of the proceedings Of the
Railroad meeting [ think Mr.. Joiner
maze an error also in his statement given
you for correction.
Ifmy memory is rot at fault, the prop
osition made by Mr.. Joiner was substan-
TALLY as follows
Resol0ed, That the county of Iowa pay
$4,000 per annum for six years without
any interest whatever.
AS to any act Of the Legislature grant
ing privilege to any town or towns in said
County, of which they are not at this pres
ent time, in possession Of, would, in my
opinion at least, be the Legalizing Of
another fraud upon the pcople. No town
acted on its own responsibility when a
vote was taken for the issuing of the coun-
ty Bonds, but the county at large became
responsible for the result of that election.
Let unity be our motto until the County
Bonds are obliterated.
Ridgeway, December IA, 1866.
JOSEPH ROBERTS.
SALARIEs-It will be remembered that
the Copperhead press of this District made
a desperate effort TO convince the soldiers
that Colonel Cobb was not their friend, and
refused to vote them bounty. The miser-
able failure which they made will be as
distinctly remembered. He is still work
ing for the interest of the soldiers, and as
much as ever opposed to the raising of pay
to members Of Congress, as the following
paragraph will show, which may be found
in the proceedings Of last week:
Mr. Cobb offered preamble and resolu-
ton setting forth that the sections of the
act of the last session, for additional boun-
ty to soldiers, was prepared and passed in
great haste and without due examination,
and fell far short Of the equalization of the
bounty; that the same acts increasing the
pay of Members of Congaess were also
adopted in great haste, and were of ques-
tionable propriety as well in substance as
in form, and referring the first legislation
to the Military Committee for amendment,
and the second to the Judiciary Committee
for report. Adopted.