, 1873-02-18
STATE LEGISLATURES.
IOWA.
Special Despatch 10 1hs chiea0o Tribune.
kENATE,

Special Despatch 10 The Chtcaoo Tribune.
bENATF.
DgsMo1NRs, Fob. 17.-In tie Senate, this
morning, Senator Lowry introduced bill to pro-
Aervo the funls Of the State institutions. Or.
dorntI to be flled.
4, Senator Valo offcrod n rcBoletloh that there
shall not bo inscribed Oh tho Cornerstone Of tho
new Capitol any o1hnf name than that OF tsIowa,"
nor any other ypar than that In which Baid Btolio
ia placod In its position as coruor-atono.
pngs0d.
Consideration Of Titlc Of Royonuo was Re-.
anmed
Tho Houao amontlments requiring TINT nows-
papers publishing delinquent tax lists shall havo
ct least 900 bnbaorihors resident In tho county
was stricken out. a few other amendments wero
Undo, and tho bill paHsod.
Senator Wost offered the following resolution,
which Was adoptoa:
Reso1gtd, Tint tho Committee appointed to ksoer:
IN article appearing In tho Des Moines Republican, Of
he .,1 19h tsspn b. enlarged by adding
said Committee 10 instructed to admit tcstn,ony on
any and a connected with tho allegations Of
1sid article hosher connected with the Thirteenth
Fourteenth dencral Assembly, or my other Gnnera1
Assembly.
Title %, Of Compensation Of Public Officers,
was then considered Tho eonipanaation OF Adj
mum. Tho oaalary Of Julgca Of tho Supreme Court
was fixed at q GOD. An amendment WAS mndo
allowing the olork Of tho Supreme Court mileage
Tor attending Courts, fixing his salary nt sa,060
por annuna, and fooa rocoivod by him to DO paid
sS The 1s shers Sts fes Eli was amended allowing
IS cents and mileage for ,sumtnoning 1urors nj
lowing g. per Day Tor dieting, prsonors;, Super;
s2.5o per day while engaged In Committee work,
oto. County Surveyors compensation fixed at
O. instead Of IS por day. Tho bill passed.
The Senate refused to recodo from it's amond-
monta to the Chapter on Fencos and also to
Liquors, and Committee Of Conference was
ordered.
Title "a, Of Education, WAS then considered,
and disagreoing to tho amendments made by tho
Senator Burke, from tho Investigating Com
mittee, reported that Ex-Governor Samuel A.
Morrill,, q witness before thon, had refused to
/ answer the question, "Do you know who wrote
that It would Involve personal @ friends. 'sfi Tho
Committee intended 10 report that ho refused to
anBwer tho question US to who was the author Of
the article n qaostion, but nude ono OF their
Bonator wolcott offered resolution TINT Wit
ness be. ndjudged guilty Of contempt, and
brought before the bur Of tho Senate.
Senator Converse moved to strike out tho
ysas T9sa4 "sa}uags neTs S' guilty of contempt" Lost
Tie resolution vas then adopted-yeas % Z;
nays, IA.
Tho Committee was inntruotad to prepare
warrant. Afterwards, the scrgoantat-ArmB
was ordered to bring the ex-Govornor before tho
Senate without warrant. Being brought be-
fore tho Senate, tho question was proporndod to
him: Do you know who wroto the article In
question ?" The prisoner made a statement,
saying that this mattor WIS brought about unex-
peotodly. 1t had grown out Of series OF artl-
oles published In tho Register, endeavoring to
implicate them In defalcations, simply because
he was supposed to be friend Of tho Republican
newapsp9F; Il II bad been suggested to him
told tod the edtor t6 Let It slide. Els expeetntioa m
was by this to stop slander, and not to alantler
any honorable Senator: He dig not Wish to toll
10 could not and would not tell.
Senator Allen moved that Morrill, bo excused
from answering. Carried.
Senator Willott moved that Mr. Edwards. tho
former recaloitrant witness, also bc discharged.
Carried,
The House bill authorizing cltles and towns to
lay out and occupy grounds for market houses,
aud to take private property therefor, passed.
The Senate adjourned.
In the House to-day, the vote by which the
House refused to concur in the Senate amend
ments to Title II, Of Tho Police Of the State,
Green moved to concur in all tho amendments
save certain ones to the chapters on fences and
Intoxicating liquors. Conference ordered.
Tho House then went into Committee Of tho
Whole on Tltle IT, Of Proceedings in Courts Of
Original Jurisdiction, as amendod BY the Senate.
The amendments wero conourrod in after dis
oussion. The Committee roae and the bill
passod.
long discussion was had over the Senate bill
relative to State warrants. After reducing tho
rate Of interest from to per cent, the bill
passed.
Tho Senate amendments to Title 6, OF nevo-
nue, wero then considered and concurred in, with
g1ight amendments.
Adjourned. ...
DEs MONIES Ia., Fob. 7.-Tho Edwards inyes-
tigation ia closed, and the charges against Sena-
tor Allen ard found to be entirely groundless.
Mr. Graves, Of Dubuque, testified that ho
never told any ono that money had been i'm
properly used in the Senate; never knew that it
had.
Colonel Tloknor's testimony waa to tho same
effect. Tho universal sentiment here is that tho
alanderers havo been utterly routed.
MICHIGAN.
Special Despateh to The Chicago Tribune.
LANSING, Mich, Fob. 17.-The Bonate and