Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-01-30

grown Legislatures or defy them, and have
made the chosen representatives of the people
a matter of barter and sale; and they assert
that it is the duty of the Legislature and
State officers to investigate the matter of the
violation of the law by the various rail-
way companies doing business in the State,
and to promptly enforce the laws enacted
for the protection of the rights of the people,
and in cases where the present laws may be
found deficient to promptly remedy the de-
feets by new enactments. They also resolved
that no legislative, judicial, or State officer
should be allowed to accept free passes from
railways, and all offers of any special privi-
| leges by railway companies to any such off,
GERS should be looked upon and
treated as q corrupt attempt at brib-
cry; that ''we, as farmers of Michigan,
regard the organization Of the order of Patrons
of Husbandry as movement of vast import
ance not only to the interests of the great
producing class of our country, but also in its
ultimate and highest objects designed and
calculated to bless society at large" etc.
The mine owners in the Schuykill district in
Pennsylvania have accepted the proposition of
the miners to go to work on the basis OF 1878,
and the strike is therefore ended. The miners
abandoned their demand for an increase of ten
per cent. in their wages, thus giving their en-
ployers an opportunity to meet them half
way. r#t.
The Iowa House of Representatives effected
an organization on the 29d by electing the Re-
publican candidate (Gear) for Speaker, and
Anti Monopolists for the other officers.
The Republican State Central Committee
oE c1xra a6n roc
olutions protesting against new election as
likely to cost the lives of hundreds of colored
men in the northern part of the State and the
Red River parishes.
From statement published on the 25th, it
appears that since March, 1867, 5S,61S petit
tions in bankruptcy had been filed in the
United States Courts. The number of dis
charges granted were 3S, 747. The total ex-
pense of the proceedings was $4,S21, 7S4.
An AssociatedPress dispatch of the 25th says
Pinchback's friends had denied that he made
any confession to Senator Morton of fraudu-
lent practices with reference to his election by
the Kellogg Legislature. He stated that he
had been rendered the unanimous support of
the true Republicans of Louisiana, and that,
thus fortified, he was determined to abide the
issue before the Senate. -ft
The Postmaster at Austin, Texas, has re-
ceived dispatch from the Postmaster-Gene-
raj directing that all mail matter addressed to
the Governor of Texas" should be delivered
to Richard Coke, and all mail matter addressed
to "Governor E. j. Davis" or "E. j. Davis,
Governor of Texas should be delivered to
E. j. Davis. Similar action should be taken
as to other State officers. These instructions
were given after consultation with the Presi-
dent.
The officers elected by the Iowa House of
Representatives on the 23d are: John Fl. Gear,
of Burlington, Speaker; James M. Wearl,
Chief Clerk; l.. Irwin, First Assistant Clerk;
ing Clerk; Mrs. E. M. Ives, Engrosstng Clerk;
w. A. Fulmer, Second Assistant Clerk. The
official count of the vote for Governor foots
up as follows: Carpenter, LOG, ,122; Vale, l05,-
O57.
Vice President Wilson left Washington on
the Goth, for Boston, where he would remain
three or four weeks.
letter from jeff Davis was published in
Washington on the 25th, in which he pro-
nounces ex-senator Fl. S. Foote, of Tennessee,
sliar" Mr.. Foote the next morning pub
lished card, in which he challenges Davis
and insists that "the habitual calumniator OF
honest and patriotic men has no right 10
skulk behind the hypocritical pretenses Oh
extreme piety."