The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-04-11
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DIES MONIES, April 8, 1872.

| OF divine in the House this morning
the Hon. I. Blakely, from thehairy ma
ton officiated as chaplain and offered
mp avery good prayers
Reading of HE journal was dis
pensed' with. M
I'll f. Nod came up rs special order
and having no desire to let your read
ers know how much nonsense some
members are capable of getting off; or
of occupying your columns by speeches
of nonsensical trash; will briefly
state that aftera meaningless debate of
two hours, the whole matter, bill, sub
stitute. and amendments We're indefi-
nitely postponed.
The capital appropriation bill having
come back from the Senate with Mr..
Ainsworth's amendments stricken out,
in which il was provided "that no
money shall be paid out until the Cen
sus Board shsll certify TO the Treasurer
of State that such payment can be
made without increasing the rate of
taxation"
Mr.. futile moved that the Senate
amendment be concurrcd in and this
gave rise to quite tilt between Kas-
son, Irish and Leahy, and Ainsworth,
Caldwell and Pratt opposing.
Mr.. Caldwell said he had not intend
ed to make any further remarks Oh this
question, but the bin had assumed a
shape as to render it necessary. He
had favored this capital bill from the
first, and had voted for it as it passed
the House with this amendment,
aiming TO protect the people against
additional and burdcnsome taxation,
but in looking over his little schedule
of the amount of appropriations al
ready made he found they were in ex-.
cess of our resources to the amount Of
$4,000 In footing up the amounts he
discovered there could not be appro-
priated to the State Capital over
100000 without imposing an addition
al tax upon the people and this he was
not prepared to do.
In his opinion the people had taxes
enough to pay already without adding
any more, and he thought it would be
better not to move SO fast ii the people
were going TO suffer. 1t seems as if
there was q united effort made by the
members from those particular locali-
ties who are interested in these apprO-
priations: that they all pull together:
that they join hands, and as it were,
grind between the millstones all those
members who saw fit to oppose them
in carrying ont their measures. Their
motto seemed to be lyon help me and
will help you" but while he was in
favor of building a new capitol and had
voted for the bill. he was also in favor
of protecting the people, and he could
not nor would not vote for concurring
in the Senate amendment.
Kasson with his shrewdness. saw the
motion to concur was going to be de-
feated, so he moved the postpOnement
of the matter until Tuesday morning,
and rs a great many members We're
DESTROYS Of getting OF on the LIP. m.
train for their homes. the motion pre-
vailed, after which the House adjourn
ed until Monday morning.
i Quite number of local aud legaliz-
ing bills were passed in the Senate, in
none of which is Wapello county inter-
ested.
ii. #. %. also passed the Senate this
forenoon, which in some degree will
interest yonr people. ..ass
4 stated the provisions of this bill in
previous letter when it passed the
House. bnt will here repeat its sub
stance:
| Ii provides that City Councils and
Town Trustees shall have power to
make permanent improvemts, such rs
grading. macadamizing and paving, on
majority Of the resident owners petit
tioning for the same, the grading to be
paid out of the general fund, aud the
expenses of other improvements to be
levied OH the property abutting thereto
IL such improvement be made without
petition. then the affirmative vote OF
three fourtlr> of THO Council or Trustees
is necessary. Streets may be graded
by vote Of two-thirds OF the Council
and paid out of the general fund, and
repairs and temporary sidewalks may
be made by Il majority vote of the
Council or, Trustees and charged to the
property admitting thereon.
Several resolutions were offered by
different Senators. a mention of which
is not necessary. Caro-.
/ DEs MONIES, April 3, 1872. /
EDITon COURIER To-day was one
for the transaction of business, speech
making having been completely ig-
nored.
The first business trslnsacked was
the passage of a resolution for the APP
pointment of sitting committee to
consist Of fifteen members
A joint resolution passed The House
authorizing the Secretary of State to
furnish the Board Of Emigration all
| the necessary stationery and postage
requisite for transacting the business
connected with the duties Of the Board.
Mr.. Carver called up I'll. i. 176 for
which the n. II. Committee offered II
substitute. II is bin for an act TO
amend section 1917 Of the Revision of
1860, and provides that in cases Of APP
peal, the appellant shall pay tllp cost OF
appeal, unless he shall receive more
damages than allowed by q board OF
appraisers Of freelioiders.
The rules were suspended and the
bin passed by an Affirmative vote of 69
to mix in the negative.
A joint resolution passed HI relation
to counties from whose safes monies
had been stolen.
Six bills have been Introduced ask
ing such relief, representing the coun-
ties of Mitchell, Harrison, Bremen, Jas.
per, Marion and Winnebago,
i The resolution authorizes the Audi.
tor of State to hear all evidence and OK
anime into the facts concerning such
r0oheries, and giving the necessary re
lief from State Revenue where the evi
dence viii justify so doing, and thu
Auditor is ALSO required to furnish /:
report Of the same to the next Genera
Assembly. and provides ~4Arther thai
the expense OF such investigate shall
| be borne by the county interested
therein.
A bill passed repeating the net q
the Eighth General Assembly provid
ing for the appraisement Of property
sold under execution.
Under the law repealed by this ac
property, when sold for two-thirds 0
its value could not be redeemed, bu
under the act OF repeal il is subjectSN
/, redemption by the owner.
Mr.. Kasson offered IL resolution re
/, questing the Governor to postpone tn