North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-02-05
McGREGOR, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1868.
From the Capitol.
DEs MONIES, Jan. rs, 1858.

DEs MONIES, Jan. rs, 1858.
EDS TINES IL need not inform you
that the dignitied and wise body of men,
known as the Iowa Legislature" is now
in session, nor that there is attached there
to highly respected, vastly numerous,
somewhat influential and extremely agita-
ted and withal considerably active side
show known rs the Lobby But there
are some little items that your squint.eyed,
knock-kneed correspondent has contrived
to pick up, and these are some of them he
hereby slings at you, so that you may not
be out Of waste paper whercwith to light
your cigar, in the event that you desire
to make no other use Of these "writins."
There is peculiar difference between
the House and the " Lobby" Tho form
er comes to business in the morning with
merry sort of business-like sentiment
pervading. The Lobby looks anxious,
gloomy, excited, mad, disguised. The
House opens with IL prayer, and the Lobby
with s,rear. The members of the House
on adjournment, 60 to their rooms, and af-
ter escaping, in some ingenious way, the
opportunities of the whisperers, button
holders, rib-diggers, and bores, who con-
stitute the Lobby, retire to think, read and
write, or vile away their evenings in social
amusements. The heavy labors of the
House are during the session in the day
The Lobby. when in session, does nothing
but sit and watch the House like cats wo'
a nest Of mice. When the House adjourns,
the chief work Of the day and night is
done. When the Lobby adjourns, its
work only fairly begins. How the "cusses"
work If doubtful member of the House
smokes, his room is filed with cigars with
the "Compliments of Smith of the Swamp
vile Turnpike Co., who wants an appoint
ment to help along his great mammoth
internal improvement, over which, in time,
the whole country, and Ireland, must ev-
entually travel,'' and does Jones, of the
opposition line learn what Smith has done,
straightway he out-cigars the enemy two
to one. Railroads have their Lobby men,
bere here, corporations, counties, towns,
bridge Co.'S, all have representatives here,
pulling, hauling, scheming, combining
and cat-hauling every way for some desir-
ed end.
The present Legislature, your CORES
pondent is told, in intelligence and gener-
al good looks, is an improvement upon its
predecessor. Your own Senator, Hon. H.
Z. Newell, is an excellent man, and very
creditabls is he to your county. He has
talents peculiarly adapted to his position,
and he may blush at what write, never
theless, he compares very favorably with
any Senator on the floor, and especially
the new ones. Not as yet having formed
the acquaintance of your members in the
House, can not speak as to them. Tho
Legislature has blocked out for itself con-
siderable work, and the session promises
to be long one.
If you desire, will try to keep you
posted on events transpiring.
To-day the House passed resolution
endorsing Sec'y Stanton, and the Senate
appropriated 1000 for the Stone-Orwig-
&-Co. Swamp Land Script, which Bremen,
Appanoose, and ether counties according
ly-lost. Respectfully,
p. O'SoUIcGLEs.