Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-02-19
VOLUME Is.
swOUxDED.

| VOLUME 20.
| wOUNDED.
The Burlington Hawkeye Of the llth
| inst, is not satisfied with single shot
In return 10 our last article, but comes
back double shotted, delicately, how
ever, in botl- of them letting severely
alone the point we made upon our
friends.
When tho controversionalist would
escape. the force of an argument. he
usually begins to Jump the subject.
The HasOkeye says: s s
By the way, as we are talking with
| our friends OF the Ottunwa COURIER,
will they be good enough to refer jus
70 the issue 81 their paper in which
they answered fhb question We put 70
them concerning the fesolntIon adopt-
I'd by the Lexislalufs of town. COM
demning the Pfesideut fbf signing the
salary grab bill OF the Iast session.
Did the COURIER endorse or condemn
Ithat res0lutione cor has its failed to say
anything On the ssuhjest2 80 q
The action Of the Senate, referred
leo, took place on ths "a day OF tho
.sssion, viz j the Ian Of Janusry. In
our daily issue Of the 18th Of January,
We made the resolutions referred 70.
which were introduced by Senator
Mccormack, (DsmocraD OF Marion
county. Tho subject OF our leading
editorial. If our friends desire copy
Of the sCoURIER OF that date, we will
forward them one.. We win, how
ever, copy here part Of what We
said the next day after the resolutions
passed, and before, certainly, our
friends could have called upon us tor
our opinion. After giving in full the
|'resolutions - introduced, we made the
following remarks:
Twas q once very evident that the
Democracy commen0ed thus eariy to
make showing Of Duncombe. The
resolutions are good, save II We could
laYe. had Oure Way Abont Il, We WQpld
- f0rihi In behalf ~ Prs1ldent Grant
&AospeculfAf &circumStQnces under
which he signed tue bill, Wig: under
hestress of haviug to sign II, or call
n extra session, and that the choice
lad to he made without time to hear
which coIrse would best accord with
b. sanlimsmt ofsshe Dasi0ss, The sen-
iment OF tho resoiUtions met no oppO-.
Sitions Whatever. The Osly question
swa. - ~ sho s,h~A .S<.Ax,& :, - a. - uss.
srooking or q finger, hD Vevsr, q 20 the
wording vas siezed upon b. sach Inn
snaculats Oemocrat or Anti Noaop.
ind fiisrepresented as opposition to
he sentiment itself. Democracy would
,ot hear OF any delay; not . momen,
OF the preparation even oT ! change
Ia phrassology. During the lev no.
nenta, however, that the matter was
pending, the Hon. John Y. Stone, ot
Mills county offered The following
amendment which (since the resolution
WAS hasty dd copfandum affair." war
very geFmain to the subject. The
amendment was an addition to the
|.res0luti.ina O. follow.
Resolved, That II was q misfortune
10 the Democratic party that there was
greater proportion of It's members
voting for said b.H than there Was o,
the Republican party.
The resolutions thus amended
passed without dissenting vote.
Our friends of.the Hdssksys were
not certainly ahandling mailsv for
uncle Sam, 50 that they could not ex-
smins their exchanges close enough to
see leading editorial In the COURIER
upon this important production of
Democratic Senator. We were pres
ent In the Senate when the aforesaid
resolutions were introduced and
passed, and therefore spoke Of the
matter the next day, in our paper.
from psrsonat observation. We saw,
too, the resolutions was handed to
senator Mccormack b. another Dem.
'era.ic Senator to be Introduced, but .
few moments before they were offered.
10 the Hosckeye answered.
Since the Hawkeye is in the query
businesa. Wa will put one to 1t. Iu II.
issue Of the 18th or 10Th Of last month.
II quoted from the Chicago Iri6unes
Warrington special, and loaded the
article, placing It In its first column on
the fret page without comment, and
in- 30 doing, the Fsadsr would natural
|ty conciuds It endorsed the sentiments
OF the writer. This quotation, allud-
ing to President Grant said--
sWhen he wss lobbying the inesesse
bill through Congress-, the Presidsn,
likewise expressed himself as OF the
opinion that Congressional salaries
were also too email, and he may still
hold TO that opinion"
Do we understand the Havksrs to
sllege that President Grant was en-
gagged In lobbying the back salary bill
through Congress? II the Hascksye
does not make such allegation, are W
tcunderstsnd that II follows the buai
nsss of quoting, leading, and publish
Ing, in its. columns. the sensational
special dispatches from Washington
10 the CaicAso zsi5rse ~ithoss com
msnt, and 20 give its aid in sprsadisg
snckSepsrts2 .a u 49, ,.s.s 81.
In the ssnsts Of the Unitsd States
The currency q6sstion q taking some
ds6afse sheps. The Chairman of de
Finance Ccmmittss. NJ shsrnaa, .of
Ohio introddosd btll for, ths easali-
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