North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-05-11
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McGREGOR, NAY IL, 1870.
Cheap Legislation.


Cheap Legislation.
The late Iowa Assembly was liberal in
every respect. It paid about 5000 dol.
lars for newspapers. Of this sum the
Bulletin got 5,305, the Register 1855,
Homestead 99S, Statesman 76S and the
News Depot 1903. All these barnacles are
in Des Moines. The Senators "tosk"
$3.50, the House Is, 1856 1--WE give round
numbers). OF the $4,000 expenditure
nearly $4,000 stuck to the city of Iowa
wisdom; only 10000 were given to the
$50 papers Of the State at large. Funny
but fact.
The Assembly adjourned for 10 or Is
days to go home or to Omaha, but the
liberal chaps retained their pay and gem
orally accepted R'y passes from companies
interested in bills of benefit to them be.
fore the Honorable Gentlemen of the
Senate and Of the House Of Representa-
tives." This little intermission cost Iowa
say $4,000 dollars, besides the neglect
of public interests. Various :appropria-
tons were made in the way of improve
ment Of our public buildings which, un-
der the present excessive tax requirement
and the extreme stringency Of. the money
channels, might have been dispensed with.
The country is in q state of business consti-
patton and nothing but the crotep oil of
currency will save it. Give us Currency
or give US death The Bankrupt record
of 1869 tells story that Congress should
heed. You cannot absorb the waters of
commercial navigation by untaxed bonded
sponges and then expect the steamers of
trade to feat at profit to the owners.
Business is dying and Capitol is exulting
in its power. But of this some other time.
Well, we were talking of Iowa's States
men as represented 10 the late economical
Legislative gathering Of the ''Be it enact
ed" One of the sells upon con6ding
consistency was the capitol appropriation
Of One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dol
lars to begin an improvement, repair or
reconstruction of the State House. We
are not particular about terms in definition.
Call the imprudence what you will. 1t is
colored with Fraud for the benefit Of the
property holders of Qes Moincs. Some
doubtless voted for the bill innocently, but
most should have the credit of being re-
garded as ''smart." In the National Leg
islature aud throughout the administration
of the general Government there is more
time spent in examining cases of delin-
quency in officials than there is in attends
ing to the vital interests 6f the masses.
All know this is true, and many, without
distinction Of party, are feeling it SO close
" that they rpeak of it without fear of
giving ofense to their legalized oppress-
ors. We see public opinion in our ex.
changes and in our streets and hear it in
with men who are being
ruined by the pressure. But if Congress
can act improperly-not 20 say swindling-
ly-for the benefit of Wealth or for the |
personal profit resulting to all political
statesmen why should the statesmen of the |
young state of Iowa be blamed for follow
ing the illustrious examples of the Dis
trict Of Columbia?
The Capitol Bill is simply an entering |
wedge to the expenditure of two or three |
millions OF money To ue scrumpivu ror ny
of future Legislatures. There
are six Commissioners appointed to watch
this initial expenditure; six for Regents of
the University six for Ayr. College and
six for the Orphans Home. Twenty four
men besides the regularly elected officers
Of State and Counties to do the business
of the people, at salaries not much less
than $4,000 each, all expenses included
1t required exactly sir because there are
six Congressional districts. Had there
been ten or twenty districts the number
Of appointees or electees would have been
made to numerically correspond. 1t is
you see that prominent men be
kept before the people whether demand
for their services or regard for their quali-
fications be or be not considered. In the
name Of q people once boasting to be free
We protest this lavish and uncalled-for
waste of money wrung from the hard
hands of toll.
Funding Bill.
We clip from the Chicago Tribune, Of
May 4th, the leading paragraph of its
leader. It is "Gar6eld's Funding BILL"
Comment on our part is unnecessary. The
Tribune Of Chissgo is becoming so sensi-
BILE on the financial questions Of the day
hat it requires no farther instruction from
democratic sources. Had the same course
it prior to the last presiden.
;ial contest tax-ridden country would
have been blessed with more commercial
daylight than is now perceivable If
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