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raj Assembly according 10 tnlS COqstltu-
ton. And any person may be elected q
member of the House of Delegates who
at the time of election is actually resi-
dent within the county, city, town, or
election district, qualified to vote for men,
bers of the General Assembly according to
this Constitution. The removal of any
person elected to either branch of the
General Assembly from the city, county,
town, or district for which he was elected
shall vacate his Office.
I" PoUers and Duties of the General Assem-
bly,.
"SEcT1oN 6. The General Assembly
shall meet annually, and not oftener unless
convened by the Governor in the manner
mr.. ,scribed in this Constitution. No session
IF tbs General Assembly after the first
Under tbs Constitution shall continue
longer than SIXTY days without the concur
rence of tbree-Gfths of the members
elected to each House, IN which case the
session NAV be extended for further
period not exceeding ninety days. Neither
House, during the session OF t.e oeleIai
Assembly, shall, without the cons. nj OF Inc
other, adjourn for more than thre.7 oays,
nor to any other place than that IN y nicn
the two Houses shall be sitting. A H. "
iority of the members elected to each
House shall constitute quorum to do
business but smaller number may ad-
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power to compel the attendance of absent
members in such manner and under such
penalty as each House may provide.
"SECT1oN 7. The House Of Delegates
shall choose its own Speaker; and in the
absence of the Lieutenant Governor, or
when he shall exercise the office of Go
vernon, the Senate shall choose from their
own body a president pro ternpore, and
each house shall appoint its own officers,
settle its own rules of proceeding, and
direct writs of election for supplying inter-
mediate vacancies; but if vacancies shall
occur during the recess of the General
Assembly, such writs may be issued by
the Governor, under such regulations as
may be prescribed by law. Each House
shall Judge of the election, qualification,
and returns Of its members |; may punish
them for disorderly behavior and with
the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a
member. = - i. - .,e,,, -, =.
aSEor1os s. The members Of the Gene
raj Assembly shall receive for their SER
vices compensation to be ascertained by
law, and paid out Of the public treasury /;
but no act increasing such compensation
shall take effect until after the end Of the
term for which the members of the House
of Delegates voting thereon were elected.
And no senator or delegate, during the
term for which he shall have been elected,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-08-07
Republlcan STATE Convention.

4 Republican State Convention TO nominate
candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Govern
or. Associate Justice Of the Supreme Court,
Secretary Of State, Auditor, Treasurer, Super
intendent of Public Instruction, Attorney Gen.
sral, Member Of Congress, and Presidential
Electors, OF the Republican Party, will be held
at Topeka, on the 9th day Of September, 1883.
The Republican voters Of Kansas will, in
each Representative District OF the State, on
the 18th day OF August, In such form and man
ner as may be prescribed by the County Com
Dittee Of each county, elect one delegate to
said Convention, and one alternate.
All citizens who favor the speedy reconstruc-
ton Of the States lately In rebellion. upon the
basis Of loyalty, equal rights and impartial
Justice; who would maintain the national hon.
or in the just payment Of the national debt /;
who would equalize and reduce taxation as
fast ~ the national faith will permit; who
would have the Government administered
with the strictest economy, and the eorrup-
tons shamefully fostered by Andrew johnson
radically reformed; who would have the natur-
allied citizen abroad protected equally with
others; who sympathize with all oppressed
people who are struggling for equal rights for
all men everywhere; who will support the
victorious hero OF the late war, and hts gallant
associate, Schuyler Colfax, are cordially In
vited TO cooperate with the Republicans Of
KAnsaS.
The local County Committees of each count,
are requested to cause sufficient notice to bt
given Of the time and manner Of the election o
delegates and Alternates in their respective dis
rtcts- +. II. DRENNING, Chairman.
G. G. WHITING, Secretary. u
Leayenworth, July Is, 1868.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-08-07
THE VALLEY ROAD.

The editor Of the Burlington Patriot
had an interview with Col. Goss few
days ago, aud gives the following ac-
count thereof:
We had the pleasure Of meeting Col.
Goss at the Falls, who arrived there the
evening before from Humboldt. The
meeting was unexpected, though none
the less pleasing. The Colonel was at
New York in attendance at the Nation
al Democratic Convention, and he had
several interviews with our railroad
contractors while in the city. He says
that the contractors have one hundred
thousand dollars paid into the cOmpa-
ny's treasury, and that he is assured and
thoroughly satisfied that the work on
the road will be pushed vigorously.
He saw Mr.. Phelps In New York, who
promised to be in Kansas ready to drive
the work, within two weeks. AS the
work of grading and surveying is al
ready in progress and has been for the
past two months, we think that the most
skeptical must be convinced by this
time that we are really going to have &
railroad. Mr.. Phelps has not yet com
pleted the contract on the st. Joseph s
Council Bluffs road, but will soon. HI
will transfer his working force on tina
road to ours when his contract there il
completed.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-08-07
DROUGHT AND GRASSHOPPRRs IN
OHIO.

Reports come to us from all sections
of the East that the late hot weather has
as seriously affected the crops there as it
has in Kansas, and much more so in some
localities. Below we publish extracts
from q letter from Northern Ohio,
which was written to citizen of our
village, by relative there. If any of
the balance of our people have received
such letters, we should like to see them,
in order that we may compare Kansas
with the older States. We are willing
for Kansas to take her chances by the
side of any country in the Union. We
don't laugh at the calamities of any
body, but we confess to certain degree
of malignant satisfaction in noticing
that the grasshoppers are visiting our
brethren in the East So many ridicu-
lous lies have been told there about
their devastations in Kansas, that we
are just little glad that the people of
the East are having q small visit from
them ; and then If it don't happen to rain
here for two or three weeks, it is her
aided all over the Eastern States that
we are to have repetition of " sixty"
-'jist like sixty" etc. Last year in a
large portion of Southern Illinois they
had no rain to do any good from the
middle of May to the middle of Au-
gust, and yet it was hardly mentioned
in the newspapers. But here is the let
ter. 1t speaks for itself:
TTErJN ONO JnIy 9f "a
| 1t is very dry and hot here. The
Thermometer having stood as high as
1l2 degrees in the shade. Our wheat
and oat crops are good, but potatoes
and corn will yield but little, if any
The drought IS great! We hope to have
rain soon. We haven't had rain enough
to lay the dust since the first of June
The grasshOppers are eating the gras.
that is not already burnt up; the pota
to bug is destroying the potatoes, ant
a black bug is eating up the cabbage
that remains. The apples seem q
though they would all drop off. Time
look darker here than l ever knew il
my life. We sold our wool for IL cts
per pound, aud sheep that were wortl
$500 per head two years ago, we sol,
at 81, per head, to keep them from
| starving"
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THE WORK OF CoNeREss.-The ses-
sion of Congress which has now closed
viii be memorable in history as one of
the most exciting and yet one of the
most fruitful and useful ever held AL
though large part of the session was
occupied with an Intellectual attempt to
relieve the country from the danger
and shame of such = President as Mr..
johnson, Congress has nevertheless ac-
complished far more than the ordinary
amount of practical legislation. 1t has
reduced taxes about S19o,000.000. 1t
has cut down the expenditures of gov
eminent to less than $500, 100000, in
Guiding all extra expenses and interest
on the debt-to less than 100000, 600
for the ordinary expenses of govern
rnent. 1t has changed the whiskey law
SO as to break ups it is hoped, the gil
gantic combination of corruptionists
and has pat Indian swindles at the
mercy of General Sherman. 1t has
declared the purpose of the United
| States to protect all her citizens
! whether native or naturalized, in eve
| ry right of citizenship. Finally, i
| has brought the great work of recon
struction to a successful completion il
seven of tho lately rebellious States
| Missouri Democrat.
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THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

The Democrats put in nomination the
following named gentlemen for State
officers, at Topeka, OH the goth of July:
Governor-Geo. W. Click, of Atch-
ison.
eut-Gov.-Col. NJ. McCaslin, of Mi
ami.
Secretary of State-Wilson Shannon
Jr., of Douglas.
Auditor-Gottleib Schauber, of Riley.
Treasurer-Dr. A. Mccartney, of
Wilson.
Attorney General-Ross Burns, of
| Shawnee.
Superintendent of Pub. Inst Rev.
A. Beatty, of Wyandotte.
Associate Justice-W. II. WagstafI,
of Miami.
Congress-Charles w. Blair, of Bour-
bon.
Electors-L. T. Smith, of Leaven-
worth, p. z. Taylor, of Davis, Orlin
Thurston, of Alien.
The ticket is mainly weak one.
With several of the gentlemen we are
personally acquainted, and socially
L
with them widely, and shall do what
lies in our power to defeat them. Mr..
Click is fairlawyer, plausible, but
not forcible speaker. He has been in
the Legislature for several years from
. Atchison county, has always been a
strong Democrat-one of the old ''peace
on-any-terins" sort. Mr.. Blair is a
good speaker-has run for Congress be-
! fore and is getting used to being de-
feated. Two years ago his principal
theme on the stump was abuse of the
: negro. We presume we shall have
more of that this fall. 1t is innocent
amusement. There was talk of nomi-
mating. John Martin, Esq, of Topeka
for Congress. We confess we are pleas
! ed that he was not nominated. He
would have made much better run
than Blair.
l Mr.. Shannon is young gentleman
3 of good abilities, and we doubt no
: would make good Secretary. There
: will be ten or twelve thousand major
s ity of the people, though, who will pre-
n fer somebody else, and consequent!
the duties OF Tue OInce VIII not pcIplel
S friend Shannon to any alarming extern
d for the next two years.
c Ross Burns is one of the best fellows
o and best lawyers extant, but we inten'
y to put up a good Republican to rul
X against him, and hereby give him no
p tice that he can continue his little 'laV
&c business" and give himself no uneasi
o ness about the election. We can't prom
s. ise him Lyon county this time.
l. Wagstaff is said to be popular a
b home, and a fair lawyer. We know
but little about him. We do know
however, that he will come about a
near being elected Judge this fall, q
. he did Governor four years ago.
With the balance of the gentleme
= we are not acquainted.
The Burlington Patriot declares tina
Mr.. Beatty, the nominee for State 81
perintendent, is Radical Republican
:, If so, the Democrats have played
- good joke on themselves. Republican
u Kansas, let us run this ticket benin
;. about $4,000 votes on the 3rd of NoveH
hcl.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-08-07

A Washington correspondent of the
Atchison Daily Champion, writing un-
der date Of July 9th, has the following
encouraging words in relation to the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad i:
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railroad is now q fixed fact. The Di-
rectory will meet in New York about
to-day week, and Immediately there
after work will begin on the road. This
Is not idle talk. know what am say
ing, as will be fully demonstrated soon
after this reaches you.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-08-07

Viewers appointed to view and cause to be
surveyed two certain roads a. ask ed for in peti.
ton of Thomas ArInor and others, made an
amended report which was laid over until next
meeting of the Board. ~
Viewers and surveyor appointed to view and
survey county road as asked for in the petit
ton of L. II johnson and otlIers, presentedfh
report which was accepted and publicly read
before the Board, and there being no legal OBJ
jections, and the Board believing said road
necessary for public travel.
Ordered. That the same be established,
public highway according to plat and survey.
Viewers and surveyor appointed to view and
survey the county roads as asked for in the Pc
titions of ii. ID. Curtis and others, VIM. Rich
ardson ans others, p. B. Plumb and Others pre-
scented their corrected reports, which were ac-
cepted and seyerally read before the Board
and there being no legal objections and the
Board believing them necessary for public
travel.
Ordered, That they be established public
highways according to the accompanying plats
and survey.
Ordered, By the Board, That the following
bills and accounts be allowed and orders drawn
on he for ffoS
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It is decidedly cool to hear an Illi-
nois man talking about Kansas being dry
and hot, especially if he halls from
Southern Illinois. Two or three of
them have been in our Office lately, ex-
pressing fears that Kansas is dry. A
little after this time last August, we
had occasion to go out from st. Louis
to Olney, something over one hundred
miles in Southern Illinois. The cars
were 30 filed with dust and the wealth
er SO hot as to almost suffocate the trav-
eler, while all along the route the trees
were burnt yellow, and the biggest corn
was not over three feet high. Every
thing was literally burned up. 1t was
almost as bad as SIXTY" III Kansas, and
worse than any portion of this State
is this year. A man told us, who drove
some cattle from Bloomington to Quincy
last summer, that he travelled thirty-six
hours without being able to get drop
of water for his cattle. And now these
Illinois chaps have the impudence to
come to Kansas, and because the exces-
sive heat cut the corn crop short in pla-
ces, talk about Kansas being dry. Such
downright effrontery has no parallel.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-08-07

The following are among the ardent
and friends of Grant and
the Chicago platform:
SHERMAN,
SHERIDAN,
THOMAS,
MEADE,
FARRAGUT.
The following are among the ardent
supporters and friends of Seymour and
the Tammany platform:
BEAUEEGARD,
FoRREsT,
HAMPTON,
SEMMEs,
ToMBs.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-08-07

Large quantities of wool are being
brought in daily from all parts of the
State, but principally from Southern
Kansas. The Lawrence Wooden Man
Company, in addition to
keeping five looms constantly employ
ed, have shipped over fifty thousand
pounds to Eastern markets. They rep
resent the wool as generally being of
an excellent quality. From the great
increase in the number of sheep brought
into the State in a year or two past it
will not be long until the wool business
will be one of the greatest sources OF
wealth to the State.-LGacrence Tribune
9:lfh nH -.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-08-07
TIE MEETING T0.MORRoH.

Remember the Republican Mass
Meeting tomorrow at the Court House,
at o'clock p. N. The court room
ought to be crowded to its utmost ca
pacity. Republicans, give one after
noon to the cause. Several speakers
will be present.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-08-07

Every few days we receive letters
from Eastern men inquiring about Kan
sas the quality and price of land, town
lots, and-so-forth, and for US to under
take to answer them all would consume
too much of our time. We can imag-
inc that we SET one of these old gentle
men as he carefully adjusts his specta-
cles, and after taking q long, wistful
look at the map of Kansas, he turns to
his wife and says: "If 1 was only TWEEN
ty years younger would go to Kansas"
These men feel like Investing something
In Kansas lands-thsy feel it their duty
to do SO, and not feeling able to come
ont here they sit down and write to
some Kansas editor, land agent, or law
yer, that they may have heard Of.
asking an innumerable amount of oues-
tons about soil, climate, products and
prices. This shows that Eastern peo-
pie have faith in Kansas-but the truth
OF the matter Is there is too much land
In this State owned by just such men.
They do not intend TO make any ina.
provements, but are simply holding it
for speculation. We want men to buy
our lands that will come and improve
!, them, thus benefiting themselves and
the State at large. If you want to make
money by investing in Kansas land,
bay farm and come here and improve it.
The President has offered the Com
Tofesionerahin NJ Tufar,.ay Eavauua IN
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-08-07
GRANTvs RESPECT ron LAW.

i
land is Conservatism, then General
Grant is Conservative enough to suit
the loyal people. While johnson sets
up his individual will against the legis-
lative power of government, and vetoes
laws not because they are unconstitu-
tional, but because he does not like them,
while he disregards laws and refuses to
execute them after they are passed in ac-
cordance with the provisions of the con-
stitution, Grant holds that the laws of
the land are paramount to all personal
considerations, and must be observed |
by the Executive power of the govern
ment without question after they are
lawfully passed. johnson is Endorsed
by the Democracy in his revolutionary
course, and Grant is denounced as dan
gerous person to entrust with the helm
of State. Will some of our Democrat
ic friends explain to us how it is that
the party which endorses the arbitrary
disregard of law may be implicitly
! trusted with the government, while the
Union party, which executes the will
of the people, expressed by their rep
resentatives in accordance with the con-
stitution, must not be trusted? The
position of the two parties as shown by
their exponeuts and leaders cannot be
mistaken on this point. Johnson's
course has been endorsed by every DEM
ocratic convention, and his disobedience
of law has been denounced by every
Republican. Grant in his acceptance
pledges himself if chosen President to
execute the will of the people, and even
before he was talked of as a nominee
he demonstrated with johnson for dis
regarding the will of the people in the
removal of efficient officers without
cause, except to make room for party
favorites. A case has recently come
within Grants jurisdiction in which he
decided against the interest and the pro-
testations of his party friends because
|, he would not disregard law OF the
land. In Louisiana, General Buchanan
l issued an order pronouncing the State
government organized only provisional
i'll character, and prohibited the meeting
of the General Assembly before the ap.
prevail of the State constitution by Con.
gross. The question was appealed tC
General Grant and a strong party press
ure was brought to bear to have it re
voked. Grant refused to violate the
plain terms of the law and sustained
the order. Many other instances have
occurred during his administration
proving his respect for the laws of The
country. And yet Democrats charg'
that his principles are revolutionary
r 1t is Democracy that upholds the viola
tons of law, and it is that party which
: would destroy order and good govern
ment With the Inauguration of Dem
ocratic rule confusion and disorde
would reign supreme III the South
r Loyal men would have to leave th
country and neither law nor orde
would exist. The only conservatism
which Democracy can claim is of tina
character which preserves the evil tina
;, exists. The conservators of law ar
found in the ranks of the Union Repub
lican party under the lead Of Grant ant
: Colfax.
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Raised from
July Dist. 1868.


Board of Lyon County Commissioners met
pursuant to adjournment.
Present. X. b. Hurst, j.. Ernst, and j. S. Pig
man.
Board called to order by the chairman.
Ordered, By the Board, In all eases W here
lands have been decided TO Lyon county for de-
lnqucnt taxes, and where said lands have been
quit-claimed by said Lyon county to individu-
ais, that upon the application OF the parties
holding under the counties said tax deed, the
County Clerk assign to the said persons so
holding said lands under the said tax
deed to said county aforesaid, the tax GER
tificate on which said tax deed te said county
was issued, and make and deliver to the said
persons so holding under said Lyon county as
described in due form of law. and that the
county pay the expense of assigning said tax
certificate, and also of making and recording
the tax decd,
WHEREAS, 1t appears to the satisfaction of
the Board that the assessment and return of
personal property of Elmendaro township.
Lyon county, for 1865, has been illegally made,
therefore, be il
Ordered, That the assessment and return of
personal property of the township aforesaid be
rejected, and the Assessor of said township be
required to make new assessment and return
ship according to law, and deliver the same to
the Clerk of Lyon county ON or before the 31st
day of July, 1868.
Ordered, BY the Board, That Z. p. Ban
croft be added to the committee appointed to
audit the Treasurer's books Of Lyon county.
County warrants returned by the Clerk and
/ tgnn cd ia
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-08-07

There fs some curiosity to know
whether Seymour, Indiana, where the
Adams Express robbers recently were
lynched, was named after HoratiO. Ii
so, he should call there with speech
addressed to ''my friends"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-08-07

A salary of $4,000 per year, payable
in gold, and house rent free, has been
offered Rev. Newman Hall, of London,
by the frs Presbyterian church of Chi
cago. to accept its passionate.