Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1868-02-14

1i'c pa sage of the bill strong combinat 10
IN New York, in the real interest Of n riy,
'ne, has been defeated in its ohcc, Of compe
ing the road t" stap a, Des Mo;nes inlefnit,
~; that this great enterprise in which $
'nnch 81 The Sta..2 is directly interested, an
III indirectly; will 90 on ana that The ,.cui.
Iatnrc does at give ur its right, nor exercis
il over the subject OF tariffs Of fire sht an
rates OF travel
In the discussion Of ,his bill. both in III
upper and lower House, a wide range of dc
bate was entered upon The legal aspects o
4 the ease were considered in an opinion b
Major 0Conner, Attorney General, with
clearness of statement, strength of reasonin,
and array Of authorities altogether admirable
hardly n phase in the railroad question. with
IN which there are, so to saw, many questions
bat received attention and calculation in tn
course Of these long debates. Not a few wh,
had not previously spoken upon any question
spoke more or less lens,hily upon this Thu
public knew Of the "Grcat Railroad Fight y
the Capitol, and the lobby and 70 llarics wcr
crowded from day to day W ta men and Lowell,
women, which last you know, Dcs Moline,
can lr,ng out All occasion more than any o,ll
CT city its Size in the three kingdoms
Amongst those who first got on their leg.
daring this debate in the House, w as Mr. Will
! son. of lama. lie Proposed n. amendment
1 q fNu ~.
posed except for verbal inaccuracies. which
was adopted, and in support of his motion
made iirst>rate speech. lie afterwards spoke
III reply to two or three who had spoken
against his amendment. and here made fiery
'alk Of a few minutes which attracted ,niver
sal attention. Mr.. Wilson is Scotchman.
without any of the ''brcgue' in conversation
but IN the heat of debate and The warmth o,
argument he takes to his Scotch. and YER,
! plainly shows his native land on the end q,
his on-ue. lie is clear in statement. will
fine powers of conversation. and earnest i,
manner lie made a very favorable impress
sion
! Another representative who made his maid
en- speech in the House was Mr. Caldwell. Of
Wapcllo. lie spoke at considerable length.
going into the general railroad question in
pretty wide discussion Mr.. Caldwell is a
practical business man. and has gery great
knowledge ofthe practical workings cfrailwa,
corporations not only, bat Of legisiat;on in re-
gard TO them in other countries and other
States. lie showed very plainly that he had
had the whole subject often on his mind. and
was Thoroughly acquainted with it from top 10
bottom Of those in favor of attaching TO the
bill under consideration provisions in regard
to tariffs, Mr. Caldwell made, think, alto
ge'hel the best speech Indeed am not GER
tain but 1t was the best speech, take it for all
in all, which has yet been made in tits fncis
laturc. Vt its conclusion. Mr.. Kasson. who
took general supervisory care Of The bill.
arose at once, and gave some time and some OF
thu best remarks he has yet made, to do away
if he could with the effect of Mr.. Caldwelrs
speech. Mr.. Caldwell is tall in person grace
fnl in manner little vehement at timcs ms
one would imagine from she rather sanguina-
ry hue of his hair, and as much at home in
DEBATE as successful merchant often gets 70
be. His speech was universally we'll spoken
of. lie Il, by the by. a brother of Clay Caldwell
now United States District Judge in Arkans.
as, who was chairman Of the Judiciary CONS
mittte Of the House in 1860 aud the most
h.i in NJ ma In Io~,
the man who used to floor tile whole Demo.
cratic minority Of that House, as splendidly
almost as brave old Thaddeus Stevens has
been doing that thing in Congress during
these latter eventful years. lie is n nephew
Of Col. 10. Caldwell, the distinguished fight.
ing man of the distinguished First Iowa Cav.
airy.
Another discussion upon Senator Paryi4'
bill for the establishment Of State Reform
School has taken place in the Senate. II was
not TO be expected that bill of this nature
new 10 orr laws, and containing many pro
visions, could he carried without lively dis
cussion and much change in phraseology. L
seems TO be agreed, however, pretty general,
that the Senator's bill, made to dovetail int,
our existing statutes, by amendments care
fully prepared, will prevail and HAT the hu
name institution contemplated in the mcasur,
will lie established.
Miss Anna Diekenson gave her lecture upoY
breakers Ahead TO an immense auhienc.
on Friday n GIT The same has been g;vel
in your city this winter, believe. twas re-
ceivcd here with the greatest enthuiasm ant
the heartiest approval. personally have bu
| one criticism to urge against it. l fear tia
this remarkable lady--one of the best mind.
in Americas becoming just little bit con-
servative. thssgi.t there were one or tive
places where she might have gone a littl.
stronger. But then she might have been call.
ed a Crazy radical. She did much good, Got
bless her.
l observe, on reading this epistlc over. tia
| ought to have stated an additional fact OF
two when speaking Of Mr.. Caldwell. A state,
ment "went the rounds" that Mr.. Irish, o
johnson, is the first man in the Legislature
born in iowa. Clay Caldwell was born II
lows. So Fas Geo. ". McCrary, one of thu
best minds Of tbs State who has been in boil
Houses and is ip 3 fair way to 60 10 Congress
So was Col. Thomas n. Bowen, who was q
representative in 1859, and Is now D distin
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