The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-03-12
From The Capitol
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
DEs MONIES, Iowa,
March 6, '68.
The greater portion Of the day ir
the House, was spent in discussing
and amending the New State House
Bill, which at the noon adjournment
was SO far gotten through with, as te
be ready to pass into the engrossing
clerks hands, to place in shape its
multitudinous amendments.
In its present form it is q grey
horse with an entirely different col
or, from what it was when submit.
ted by the committee, and before
running the gauntlet Of the faithful
members, who are honestly in favor
ofretrenchmcnt and economy in every
department of tho State govern
ment.
| By the amended bill, the State
House is not in any event to cost
more than one million dollars, while
only one hundred and thirty-five
thousand dollars being the amount
now in the Treas'y, which the State
collected from the General Govern
ment an account of expenditures for
the War and Defence fund, is to be
expended during the coming two
years.
Wilson, of Dubuque, (Copp.) sue
ceeded in getting this amendment
adopted, and an additional one, that
no part Of this latter amount should
be raised by taxation.
| The sophistry Of this proposition
is apparent to the dullest mind.
II we didn't build State House,
this War fund could be, and should
be used to meet current expenses,
while if it is thus used, as is likely to
be the case, then just that much
more will have to be raised by taxa.
tion.
A partial canvass Of the Senate on
this question, shows that body to be
very equally divided, with the chan
ces of its passage depending greatly
upon tho success of the capital ring
in manipulating that honorable body.
In the mean time it would be we'll
for the people who are opposed to
this measure at present, to send up
their potential remonstrances.
Very little was done in the Senate
today, except to discuss tom fool
cry bill, to appoint q collector fo1
every township instead of the pres.
ent system, which can have no 9TH
er effect than to get our records and
finances into an inextricable muddle,
saving and excepting all the time
the benefits to be derived by the as.
piring township politicians in whose
interests the bill is apparently sup
ported.
The Capital is unusually full Of
lobbyists for various and sundry
measures; the Railroad interest il
drawing the largest and ablest of any.
other, among the latter in the city
now, we notice Gen. Reid, Ed. Xii.
bourne and Geo. Williams, Of oul
Valley Road, Ex-Gov. Kirkwood
Hon. J. B. Grinnell, and many other
distinguished and extinguished indi.
viduals, are ibobbing around here
with uncommon activity.
Quite q number of prominent poll
ticians are here arranging the State
and Congressional States for the
pending compaign.
From present appearances, we are
to have su, felt of Congressional
candidates in every district perhaps
but the 4th.
We hear already of Wilson, Nc.
Creary and Mathies, of the lat; But
or, McNutt, Parvin, Trusdell, Cotton
Ellis, Hubbard, Smythe and Tuthill
in the I'd; Deering Burke, Cooley
Graves Hobson, Burdick and Allison
(the incumbent) of the Sd Palmer
Glasgow, and Williamson, of the 9Th;
and Clarkson, Scott, Pomeroy
Couch, Bagg, and Curtis, Of the 9Th
Districts.
In the 4th district it is generally
understood that Mr.. Loughridge will
be candidate without serious oppo
sition, except on account of his pc
culiar financial notions which may
arouse some opposition.
| Plenty of candidates are already
looming up for electoral positions
but it is agreed on all hands that al
real or imaginary personal claims
must give way in the matter O.
these selections, to strength and abil
ity to make able and effective can
vases in the great presidential fight
before us,
| Benjamin Disareli, the new Brit.
ish Premier, is not, as a paragraph
going the rounds of the press says HI
| is, an Israelite in faith. His father
Isaac Disraeli (the celebrated author
Of "Quarrels Of Authors" }" and many
other works), embraced Christianity
some years before Benjamin's birth
and the Premier himself declared dur
ing q cross-examination in court
about four years ago, 81 am what
have always been, . Christian"
"Will you run away with me to
morrow night, Kate, dear ?" said Phi
TO his charming rustic belle, who had