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From jefferson City.
Special correspondence Of the Inteiiiseaeer.
JEFrERsoN CRY, March II, ~.
AnIo1nNNENT.

special correspondence OF tue inteiii9caect
JEFFERsoN CRY, March II, ".
ApJouRNMENTs
Tho question OF adjournment has
greatly exercised the Senate and
Honse during tho psst week, and the
House has made another exhibition
of Its timidity aud weakness in its
vote on the Senate concurrent rcso.
tuition. which provided for au nd.
Ijournment on the 2ith of March, to
meet January lst, 1874. When the
resolution came 10 the House, 1t was
amended by striking out January
1st, 1884," and Inserting 'sine die,n
and sent back TO the Senate which
refused to concur. But the worst
feature of tho matter was the lobby
ing OF members of the House, who
had voted for an adjournment sine
dc, with Senators, to get them to
vote against tire House amendment,
for which thoy themselves had voted.
thereby showing that they wore IN
favor OF an adjourned session, but
lacked tho stamina to vote for It'll
the House. Such action on the Dart
of members of the Legislature is
simply contemplate, and deserves
the reprobation of their constituents.
1t t~hrce-fourths of the members OF
the lower branch of this Legislature
are ever returned again, it will dem.
onstrate more than anything else, the
nnhtncss Of tho people to govern
themselves.
The Senate refused to concur IN the
House amendment, and the latter
body came down from its lofty atti.
tude and passed the Senate resolution
as it was originally sent In to them,
and so we are TO have an
ADJOURNED SESSION
Of the 9th General Assembly, to file
up what this session has done, which
will not require a very great drain
OH it, physically or mentally, for
what it has done SO far may be rep.
resented by zero.
HIC JACET BOURBON COUNTY,
The question %ofcrcating new coun.
ties was settled last Monday, for the
present session, by the Senate com.
mittee on county boundaries, report
Ing adversely. to the passage OF the
bill establishing Bourbon county.
The advocates of this measure made
q gallant fight in behalf of the bill.
and would doubtless have obtained
a favorable report, had it not hacu
for the united opposition of the rep
r~esentatives from the counties affect
ed by the erection OF the new county.
Thus, three new county propositions
have boon consigned TO a temporary
grave by the first session of the
Twenty-Seventh General Assembly,
only to be r%csurrected Mt the adjourn-
cd session next winter, and at each
subsequent session of the Legislature,
until some one or more Of the new
counties are made, or the constitution
is amended, SO Is to prohibit the
maEing Of any new counties. By
tllis action of the Legislature, this
eternal new county agitation is to be
kept alive at the expense of thous.
ands of dollars to the State every
year, and no possible good can result
from it.
MORE ,SLUsH.-A HrGE "GoAK."
n scene occurred in the house
Thursday which initiated on O small
scale the celebrated performance of
York in the Kansas legislature.
When the session opened, Nj. Quea-
ly of Marion rose to aprivileged ques-
ton and stated that lie had heard that
the friends Of the insurance bill were
using money to corrupt members of
the Legislature. lie knew that two
members of the house had been ap-
preached i'll this manner. The names
were demanded, and Mr.. Burger of
Franklin ose. lie stated that he was
one OF the members SO approached,
but hated to give q name, but us he
was requested by a unanimous vote
20 do SO he would name the man.
His name was Frank Hickox. This
announcement created quite ali up
roar III the lobby, and amongst great
excitement and continuous rafting
VI tire speakers gavel, the bill was,
at the instance of the chairman of the
insurance committee, postponed un-
tit Tuesday next ut ten O'Clock, The
insurance men whose interests have
been damaged by the exposure were
very much annoyed: They deny that
they had anything to do with Hickox,
ana denounce it us 4 put up job, got
feat it. Col. IlickoS was formerly
state senator, but for many years has
been king of the lobby. The Colonel
came luto the lobby as soon rs he
learned what Burger had revealed
and he denied it in toto, saving that
he never offered Burger money, and
that he is a Dutchlnan and does not
understand the English language if
le SO CONSTITUTES what he said to him.
Yesterday, Mr.. Bell offered a rcso-
luton requiring the Sergcaut.at-
Arms to arrest Frank IIickox, and
bring him before the bar ofthe House
to answer charges of attempted bri-
berry, made by Burger on THURSDAY.
Mr.. Post offered substitute, rcquir-
Ill. n committee of five to be appoint,
ell to investigate the matter Of at
tempting to bride Mr.. Burger, and
that the committee report at as early
a day as possible, which was adoptei.
The committee held a session last
night IL examined Col. IIickox.
Ills testimony was of most damag-
lng character to Burger, and went to
show that Burger had told him some
time ago, that if II bill came up
which had money in it, lie wanted to
get some of it, and that he could in
duence a number of members. This
is a fact moreover, that can b; sub
stantiatcd by more than one member
OF the lobby here, who have been ap-
preached by this virtuous Burger,
with a view to selling his vote. Ii
VIII DC remembered by the reader
that Burger is the Radical member
from Franklin county, who, by the
grace of the devil, and the votes OF
Democratic members of the Legisla-
ture, was retained in his seat which
was contested by a Democrat, in the
teeth of the law and the facts in the
case. The investigation of this mat
ter will most probably end in tho ex-
puision of Burger, as it certainly
ought. 1t is proper to say that the.
Radical members Of the House arg
bitter i'll their denumciations of Bur-
ger, and keenly feel the disgrace that
he has brought upon them, and will
doubtless. withouta single exception,
vote for his expulsion. The House
owes 1t to its dignity and sclf-respect
tiat 1t should purge itself of this
creature who is a stencil in the nos
trils Of all honest men.
THE PENIrENT1ARY BILL.
The bill providing for the leasing
Of the p%enitentiary to Thomson and
McNabb, to which l referred i'm my
last letter, has been so hacked r.