Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1866-03-22
Iowa Legislature.

10 Me Senate and House Of Representatives. Of the
United States;
Your memorialists, the General AS
sembly of the State of Iowa, would
most respectfully representative the
several railroads running from the
east to the west through our State
have had valuable and munificent
grants given to them to aid in build
indg said roads for developing the rich
resources of our young State, inducing
the emigrant to settle among us, also
affording facilities to transport our sur
plus produce to Eastern markets. And
in view of these benefits arising from
grants to the State and the roads,
your memorialists would further repre-
sent the Importance of encouraging a
railway connection with the St Louis
and the pine regions of the north, and,
by this means, affording the advan-
tage of navigation to the ocean at all
seasons.
The increasing demand for lumber
for the vast country west of the Iowa
Central demands that we should seek
an outlet from the pincries through
our State Our produce would find a
cheaper and reader exit to market
than Eastern lines are able to afford.
The prosperity and wealth of the State
are, in measure, dependent upon the
speedy construction of north and south
roads. They would be the best regu-
lators of excessive tariffs, opening a
competition with the east and west
roads that would be for the best inter-
ests of the agricultural prosperity of
the State
| Your memorialists would further
represent that a company has been
formed, called "The Iowa Central
having for its object the feasibility
and Importance of connecting the rail-
road system of Missouri and Minneso-
ia. The Iowa Central will connect
the North Missouri with the Minnesota
Central, thus completing great chain
of railroads from the lakes of the
North to the gulf of the South, with
hands of iron. The northern terminus
!, | will be Superior City the southern,
Galveston, Texas, by way Of st. Louis
and St. Paul.
This great thorughfare. will rur
through the counties Of Mitchell, Floyd
!. corners Of Chickasaw and Butler
8 through Bremen, Black Hawk, Tama
Powesheik, Mahaska, corner Of Wa
pello; through Monroe and Appa
moose
Sufficient amount has been raised in
e Black Hawk, Tama, Mahaska, Wapel
10 and Appanoose cunties, for grading
and bridging the road. The work
through the counties of Black Hawk
and Tama is under contract, and will
be finished for the iron by the second
day Of July next. The contract for
the grading from Cedar Falls to the
Missouri State line will be put under
contract early in the spring.
Passing through, as it does, one OF
; the richest agricultural districts of the
State, on one hand terminating in the
lumber regions of Minnesota, and on
the other, reaching st. Louis, the COM
mercial emporium of the Missouri, pas
sing through the great coal region of
our State, which will be Of vast bene-
fit to the country north of us. The
, counties through which the Iowa Cen
trail passes, have population of over
100, 900 persons therefore, be it
Resolped, That to bind the North with the
) South by bands of iron, and widening and
, deepning the good feeling now existing be-
tween the three great States of the West Min
nesota, Iowa and Missonri), binding them to-
gether by a common interest the prosperity
of each as a commercial and agricultural ne
cessity; and as the General Government has
already given aid to the construction of the
several roads through our State, il is not too
much to expect that Congress would be equal
, ly generous towards this project therefore,
be it
Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be
, instructed and our Representatives be request
ed to use their influence to procure liberal
grant of land to the State to aid in the con-
struction of the Iowa Central Railroad, embra-
cling such privileges and restrictions as they
may deem proper to prevent any diversions OF
said grant from the object contemplated in
this memorial and joint resolution.
, Resolped That a copy of this memorial and
resolutions be forwarded by the Secretary oil
State to each of our Senators and REPRESENTA-
tives in Congress.
. In the Senate, on the Sth the bill fix
ing the salary of the Supreme and
District Judges, was discussed at
length.
The House passed bills to amend laws
relative to assault and battery by re-
ducing the penalty so as to bring the
, offense within the jurisdiction of JUS
tices of the Peace to leave the pay
ment of bounty on scalps to County
Supervisors within certain limits. An
| important opinion was received from
the Attorney General in reference to
the McGregor Western Railroad Land
Grant, asserting that the Legislature
has full control of the same.
i In the Senate. on the 9th bills were
} introduced to repeal the State Bank
law to amend the school law with
reference to appeals to authorize ar
rests by telegraph in certain cases !;
to amend the law creating the State
Board of Examination, for the exami-
nation of school teachers.
| The House was busy all day on the
bill to provide for the payment of the
School Fund. A discussion ensued,
| and good deal of determination was
manifested on the part Of of those who
favored keeping the fund in the seve-
raj Counties. The bill was finally re-
ferred to special committee.
In the Senate, on the 10th, protest
against the passage of the Judges
salaries bill was presented. A num-
Der of bills were introduced, among
them one for the resumption of the
lands granted to the Dubuque and Pa
cific Railroad in relation to taking
private property for works Of internal
Improvement for fixing the salaries
Of officers of the penitentiary to tax
dogs to amend the Revision relative
to exemptions from jury duty. The
bill to increase the compensation Of
Road Supervisors was made the spe-
cial order for Monday morning at 10
o'clock.
/ The House passed the following
bills to settle with the River Land
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