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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-01-26
WASHINGTON,

WAsHINGroS, Jan. 2l.--The Senate
Committee OH Privileges and Elec-
tions to-day considered Morfon's bill
to provide for counting the votes for
President and Vice President. No
conclusion was reached, but the opin-
ion of the majority of the Committee
seemed to be that the pending discus
sion in the Senate on the abolition of
the twenty-second joint rule renders
it unnecessary to press Morion's bill at
present. The. Committee subseauenf-
ly considered Morton's Mississippi
resolution and considerable OPPOSE
ton was developed.
Senator Mcdonald presented i
party of Indiana editors To Presi-
dent Ferry, who assigned the visitors
to the gallery reserved for them.
WAsmSGToS, Jan. 2l.--The House
Appropriation Committee has unani-
mously decided to report against the
appropriation Of $223.OOO 10 pay IN
terest on the 3.6J District of Columbia
bonds, on the ground that $4,000 of
the sum appropriated s~<pay Interest
remains in the District treasssg: and
part of this should be applied to tho
payment of interest.
The Ways and Means committee,
to-day. heard a dcputation from the
Brewers Association OF the u. s. ta-
voring the passage of \ bill introduce
ed by Kehr. of NO., to abolish the
Internal Revenue rule fixing % BUSH
els of malt as the maximum allowed
for the production of u 81 gallon bar
rel of beer or ale. The Internal Rev
entlc officers present concurrcd in the
proposition Of the brewers.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-01-26

"REMINISCENCES by the Springfield
(Mass.) Republican,: .Onth grass al
Chappqua, the week before the last
Presidential election, Horace Greeley
said president Grant will be re-
elected next Tuesday, by an immense
majority, and what's more, If he lives
he will be reelected to a third term.'
Bowles, of the Republican, was one
of the quadrilateral editorial ring
which cajoled Horace Greeley into
the commission of, by all odds, the
weakest and most damaging act OF
his life, In fact, they led him down
to an untimcly death, caused by deep
modification, arising from his grief
for, and self condemnation Of his
own act. A decent respect on the
part of Bowles for the really noble
dead journalist. Notwithstanding the
last great error Of his life, ought to
close Mr.. BIS lips to the foolish lcx-
pressions Of a great man in his weak
moments, when overwhelmed with
the cancerous chagrin which in a few
months thereafter closed his eyes in
death. 3sa b
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-01-26

TUE bill Introduced by, Senator Al.
lison to make two Judicial Districts
lin iowa, makes the division as fol.
lows: The counties Of Clinton. Jones,
Linn, BENTON, Tama, Marshall, Har-
din, Hamilton Webster, Calhoun,
Carroll, Crawford and Monona, with
all that portion of the State lying
north Of the same, shall compose ono
district. and the balance Of tho State
the other district. by Tho, bin, also,
our present District Judge, Attorney
and Marshal, all being residents Of
the southern district, are assigned to
the same. There Has been some dis
cussion in regard to how the State
should be divided, viz: whether into
northern and southern or eastern ind
western districts. For our own part,
however, taking into account alone,
the situation as to railway trahspor-
tation, it being largely by east and
west lines, we conld never see any
in o north and south diyis.
ion. The terribly overburdened dock
ct Of the U. S. District Court Of this
State demands that division should
be made.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-01-26

I ~, :, +.
lne ioiloWing y the Hon. samuel
nanuaifs proposed amendmentsto the
rederai I,onsti'ution IN regard to the
rrcsiaentiai term
Resotued, by The Senate Gnd House
3 Msp'esea.aaiees, tseo-tnirds g. 81 each
Lcoilnw;n~ ar*;.,n - se, n.a,.,.a ana. .he .,se
Legislatures OF the several States AZ
an amendment 70 the Consultation OF
sle y nI, unlted otates, winch, when rati-
turcs :shail ba valid os ~ ~. ns u. s.ia. ~ !
Constitution, namely .Articlc 1e--
From and after the next election for
= a. Ireslaeht OF inc United States the
the form ~ CIV sa M rs m ouI u,1'a .h uus.s
with the vice President chosen for
the same term, be elected in the man
iier as now providcd or may hcrcaf-
;dcnt ~ ~ - ,ha v:nn ~. r.Ir n.na!, s'c n It's
the Office Of President has devnlrcd
upon him, shall he eligible for re-
eiectioh as fresident." il
we peileve SIX years TO be too long.
pc'a'se ~ ease oit 2 poor, an NELL
eieu', VI ah ihcorriglDie. hesdstfnilg
aha lhoruihsteiy AMBITIOUS man oe-
cupyihg me ffcsidential. char, the
country shouia not DC forced TO the
ua.'s "i :, c.o"s ~ p.u,sh' 81 Imprisonment
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n' W." ~ aNoi'' '"o 'feqash'
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' W. "'se 'aa' "herf y Tres
.''s "'.s - s'''si,e. ''c people aufins
ms . "fs' ,er''' '''a' ''"s prefer nm iof
!, sec"'u iour years 'et mem nave
.''e CONSTITUTIONS power 10 rc-cicc'
l,ii'' .'' y : 'aiiae'ons 70 presume ihat
"". Pcopt h''c MOI inc WisuoM 70
,"asc ia'r'! anu wei IN TINS regard,
anu rom an unbiased standpoint.
we Know u IS s''id that an admistra-
non wielas sfeat power through the
appointments II controls 70 influence
: fe-'io'''''a''on anu re-e'ec"on. TINS
.'As ss'.a 'olec' ana se', VIC mink y
= '1'''s ''e '''el Is, inc popular
ieeiins rather topples over so as to
ao even mJustice 10 appomtivc
oi''cefs M regard 10 their po-
h'icai preferences ana II is a mat
'cf oi uonot whethcr general sup
por' Oh amor nearly ali'oi these oficefs
ol an! 'a man an IS not feaiiy an injury 70
'l''l man ; pfospce'S' bat 70 afoid
''li ''o"o'e rom ms qaaf'efs lei Inc
,.n'e"un'h' -, ,. 'hefcu os 'ie non. Geo.
W. Mcc,"r!' 'o"chia the tenure oi
o'ho' WIN '',cse "ppo,h''Nc ohccrs, oe
'hcorpof''eu INTO the Iohs'i'utioh
for tho incumbent of the Presidential
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-01-26

: DEs Morxrs, Jan. 18th,

\ Aftcria recess since Thursday, tn,
tsencrai Assembly convened ycstcr
(day al 2 o'clock. There was not .
lfpll attendance, hence comparatively
little work was done. This morning
however, everything looked as tbongf
ithe members meant business from
'|now on, and IN 4 short time the Sec
retarv's desks were crowded will
bills and petitions. b4ag
The prospect is that this session
win be short one, at least there il
an evident intention ON the part Of
the members to rush things and gel
through some time during the early
part Of the month Of. March. The
members Of the House seem disposed
70 do moro work than the Senate as
yesterday and to-day,a large number
of bills were introduced, many of
them ct great general importance.
ag III, a SENATE. ii sss s4t f
Thc Presidentappointc,ith thcfciiow-
ing committees ga bRH ll9iaBo6 ir
On a bill Of Senator Jessup to pro-
vide for a Board of State Charities
Sqpators Jessup, Mccormick, Har-
m6n, Dashiel and Mitchell.
kQn Centennial Celebration-Sena
tors Shane, McCoid, Campbell,St6ne-
man. Perkins, Merrill, Of Wapello: /:
and. Maginnis: 8 t'ts''l' 80
Several bills were introduced, none
ofthem Of more than local interest.
HOUSE. NJ
Petitions were presented by Mr..
Rroudfoot asking that there be HON.
e0pathic Instructions in the Medical
department of the State Il University.
FL BY Mr.. Gilliland from Board of
supervisors in Plymouth county ask
ing a change in the Code relating to
witness fees and compensation of at
tDrncy's in criminal cases.. NJ, n.
BY Mr.. Madden opposing the mill
Ary department in State University.
BILLS WERE INTRODUCED h
{ By Mr.. Brown, an act to provide
1hat thrca-fourths Of a jnry may re-
6rn n verdict. sfs3T
BY Mr.. Kaufman. ain act to forbid
empiricism making it unlawful for
my but medical graduates to practice
Medicinc or surgery in the State. The
bill excepts practitioners Of Is years
handing, and allows those Of FIVE
Years standing two years in which to
make themselves elegiblc.
BY Mr.. HOtchkiss, an act to rcdncc
tbe salaries Of members Of Legisla-s
Mre. The act provides that men,
bers shall receive $3.50 at every regli-
lar session and a proportionate per
dsena ofnot more than *5 day for an
extra session fixes the compensation
Of Secretary Of the Senate and Clerk
OF the House and their assistants at IS
= day, Enrolling an Engrossing Clerks
a. 81 per day, Sergeant-at-Arms. jan
TOR and Doorkeeper at $3, Messcn-
FER and paper folders $2 per day
By Mr.. Shaw. for an additional APP
Preparation of $4,000 for the compile
ting of the Anamosa penitentiary.
By MIR. Lynch. an act 10 punish
three-card monte men.
BY MIR. Elliott, an act furnishing the
perpetrator of rape by strangiing
him by the neck. l3I<4 ~
IL 'Ehc two Houses will meet in joint
convention at IL o'clock Tomorrow
to complete the formality aud then
kirkwood will be completely elected
to the United States Senate, for d
term Of six years beginning with the
4th OF March 1877 $1,000 Gar
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PRINTING OF ALL KINDS,
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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-01-26

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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-01-26

Il 44t Jan. Il.
Knott, from the Judiciary Com
mittce reporteda a bill for the retire.
ment, on full pay Of Judge Wilson
McCandless, of the Western District
of Pennsylvania, in consequence of
physical disabilities, Notwithstanding
he has not attained the age of 20
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-01-26

to0n OIL lnelf ROADS. together with IN
.tcrcst on the several sans paid
by the Government, TO discharge
the Interest on said bonds at
the rate Of per cent. per annum
from date Of payment. less the
amount retained by the Government
for mail transportation, which shall
be credited in account every six
months. The bill further requires
companies respectively 10 deposit in
the L. $. Treasury, 10 days preceding
the maturity of semi-annnal interest
on L. S. bonds loaned such sums as
added to the amount then due each
Company for mail service as win
amount To the semi-annnal interest
then falling due. Referred
HOUSE.
The Speaker called on Committees
for reports. Waddell. from the Post
Office Committee. reported back adj
verscly the bill introduced by Eames
70 reduce the postage on iirsi-class
mail matter to one cent for each half
ounce. Laid on the table.
Al the expiration OF the morning
hour the House went into a Commit
tee Of the Whole OH the Centennial
Appropriation bill.
| Townsend, Of Pa. addressed tht
House fayoring the bill.
fownsends speech was Of humorous
style and heartily enjoyed BY ths
members.
Stengcr of Pa, opposed the bill.
g SENATE. 4a
WASHINGTON. Jan. 81.
The chair laid before the Senate i
memorial Of,thc Committee of the Ma
tiohal Railroad Convention, recently
held at st. Louis, asking aid for til,
Southern Pacific Railroad. Referred
| Sherman, from the finance Com
mittcc, reported substitute for Sen
ate bill to provide for commission
on tho subject Of liquor traffic; also
d resolution instructiAg the Printing
Committae to report what legislation
] h necessary TO prevent the publica'
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-01-26

Mr.. Sewers. Of Mahaska. presented
several bills relating TO an Increase OF
the revenue Of tho State. collection of
taxes and for the enforcement OF tax
levics. a,t
Mr.. Case introduced a bin to per-
init criminals to testify in their own
National Republican., 1876-03-07
A CHARACTERISTIC SOUTHERN BALLAD.

A friend in North Carolina sends us the
appended ballad, with the explanation that
it sis creating considerable enthusiasm
"just now in this section, and, have no
doubt, expresses the real sentiments of
"those who sing it." 1t is mere dog
gerel, to be sure; but in the pineY woods
of the Old North State, where its echoes are
heard daily, it, no doubt, passes for elegant
verse
Oh! I'm good old rebel, that's Just what am;
For this fair Ia nd Of freedom dont care q d-n.
an glad dt against It; emily wish We had
won;
don't want apypsrdOa for anything I've done.
hate the Constitution, this great Republic, too;
1 hate the Freedman's Buresu, and the uniform of
blus:
hate the Yankee nastsn. and everything they
DO:
hate the Declaration of Independence, toe.
hate the striped banner. 'tis dripping with our
blood;
hate the glorious Union, 1 fought It all could;
hate the Brassy Eagle, with all its brag and
~Asn lying. thlsving Ysss.>-=:,'T nate them worse
ard worse.
1 followed old Mass Robt. for four years, near
about;
Got wounded at the Crater and starved at Point
Lookout;
/ caught the rheumatism camping in the snow;
killed lot Of Yankees, and would ike to kill
some mo-.
Icn's tsks up my nusket and fight them any
more,
But am not going to love them, that is certain,
Ard doa't want any pardon for what Was OF
an:
/ won't be reconstructed, and don't care d-n
National Republican., 1876-03-07
cHAxBKRLAIE's AHrEcEpEH rs.

Before Chamberlain and his renegade
ally, Treasurer Cardozo, bribed the in
famous Mems and Courier, at Charleston,
S. C., that organ seems to have had
proper appreciation of the oily sdventurer
and his disgraceful antecedents. 1t has
been bought with price, however. and
now extolls Chamberlain to the skies. Be
sides giving Dawson, one of the editors of
that sheet an interest in bond syndicate,
Chamberlain protected him from convic-
ton when c. C. Bowen brought an action
against him for libel in June, 1875, by en-
ploying questionable means to secure his
acauittal. For these services Dawson is
grateful to his master, and allows no occa-
sion to pass without dwelling upon the
beauties of the Chamberlain system. Hear
what the Charleston Neaos and Courier
had to say stout Chamberlain on Septem-
Der 23, 1874 Did it lie then, or does it
lie nowf
"Mr. Chamberlain, of Massachusetts, In his
speech accepting the nomination of the
carret-bag convention for the Office of Gov
ernor of South Carolina, while attempting
carefully to conceal his purpose, plainly ex-
hibits his true character. The party hack,
the political trickster, the cunning perverter
Of truth, the man who holds the word of
promise to the ear with the settled purpose
Of breaking it to the hope,' is prominent
throughout the production. It rs not for his
birthplace, but for his unworthiness, that
Mr.. Chamberlain, with his whole confrater-
nifty of robbers, is rejected by all the people
in the State whose esteem is worth the &C
ceptance Of noble soul. Words fail TO e1-
press the indignation, the scorn, the contempt
with which they are regarded. Their audacity
is eoualed only by their rapacity. They have
rushed into the midst Of us in our day Of hu-l
initiation. They have bribed and cheated the
ignorant negroes to their unholy ends.
Through the stnstrumentaiity OF the cheated
colored voters they have foisted themselves in
the high places of honor; not to bless, but to
rayage and to ruin--not the white people
alone, but black and white alike, and TO in
yolye in one common destruction all but
themselyes-the obscene birds OF prey. They
(the people) see that Chamberlain stole him
self, or allowed others TO steal; that he was
blind or deaf: thai he was weak or willing;
that he cav reb5efy around him aud said
National Republican., 1876-03-07

GILBERT C. WALKER, the Democratic
carpet bagger who turned up in Virginia
alter the war, and was made Governor by
the Republican party, only to be discom-
fited by his treachery, left this city few
days since for New Hampshire, whittier he
goes TO trsduce and yilify the very class
Of mea who transformed him from aneedv.
seedy adventure ;hgo an apparently re-
spectable gentleman. If he will only tell
the truth in tie Granite State, how he used
the negro to enrich himself in certain ques-
tionable schemes, and afterwards conspired
to remand him to q condition of peonage,
the people of New Hampshire will be able
to form q true estimate Of his character.
His twaddle will doubtless be confined to
patriotic pretentions, and noisy denuncia-
tions of the party that gave him decent
clothes.
National Republican., 1876-03-07

Two newspaper correspondents were
discovered last Friday morning prowling
about Secretary Belknap's residence, end
instantly the alert and always intrusive
agents Of the Secret Service jumped to the
conclusion that the unfortunate man was
about to fee from justice. The idea that
Beiknap or any one else can escape from
the providers of Newspaper Row is simply
ridiculous. But the incident to which we
allude has been made the basis of senss-
tional stories in the Opposition press, and
heralded broadcast over the land. The
only wonder is that these stories did not
include q surmise that the mysterious car
riage hired for the occasion by the afore-
said correspondents was driven by Attor'
ney General Pierrepont or Chief Justice
Waite There would have been as much
sense or reason in such a statement as
there is in the tales that have been told
about it.
National Republican., 1876-03-07


We HAVE before us the Manchester
Mirror of the 4th, edited by John B.
Clarke, ESQ.,, which shows by what frauds
and rascality the Democrats propose, if pcs
sible, 10 carry New Hampshire Democratic
next Tuesday. Ward Five in the city of
Manchester is an Irish Democratic ward.
Last year three hundred fictitious names.
were put upon the voting lists, upon many
of which repeaters voted. This year the
Democratic selectmen have posted list
with twelve hundred and eighty four
names, giving the street and number of the
residence of each voter. The Republican
city committee have canvassed the ward,
visiting every tenement, making close in
qairy and investigating all the facts, aud
find e1lg nine hundred and sixteen who
claim to be legal voters. They publish,
under their own signature, the list of the
names which are illegally on the list,
amounting to about four hundred and fifty,
with the facts, showing the names to be
wrongfully on the list. And yet the at
tempt will be made TO put into the ballot
box every one Of these names vote Cor
National Republican., 1876-03-07
WHEN Bslknap's malversation was

WHEN Belknap's malversation was ex-
posed the Detective Press Justify demanded
that the President should cause criminal
proceedings to be instituted against him
without delay. Now that the President
has taken this very step, the same press
blames him for doing SO, because the in
famous accomplice witness, Marsh, has
taken flight at the preparations for his
punishment and fed TO Canada. The truth
is. Marsh would have left the country
whether the intention of the authorities to
prosecute him had been made public or
not. He is a man of intelligence and
wealth. and his lawyers in New York, both
before and after he gave his evidence in
the case, advised him that the exposure of
his connection with the affair could not fail
to bring down upon him merited punish
ment.
National Republican., 1876-03-07

Ii THE Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune had been in attendance
upon the Circuit Court of the District, and
heard the evidence given in the libel suit
of Wilder VS.. Welch, he would not have
sent dispatch to his paper 80 utterly de-
void of facts as that in yesterdays edition.
Not only did the court take occasion to
speak in complimentary terms of Mr.. Will
-der's official relations with the Indian
Bureau, but Mr.. Davidge. the defendants
counsel, turned aside from the legal points
in his case to compliment the conduct of
the plaintiff as an agent of the Govern
ment. Mr.. Wilder has been most uljustly
attacked by this correspondent, but that Is
not surprising when we reflect upon the
fact that his misstatements appear in the
TrSjUE6, the paper in which the libelous
letters of Welch first appeared.
National Republican., 1876-03-07

FRok the expressions in the Opposition
press regarding the New Hampshire cleo
ton, stranger would be led to believe
that W. W. Belknap is Republican can
didate for Office in that State. The truth
isthat he is candidate, but of another kind,
and, owing to the fealty of the Republican
party and the Administration to the de-
mands of justice, he will undoubtedly be
National Republican., 1876-03-07

MoNTEGAzzI in Italy; Belknap in the
United States. A comparison of the mis-
demeanors OF these two trusted officials
gives q result somewhat in favor of republi-
can institutions, and furnishes sufficient
answer to the comments of the monarchical
press of Europe upon our great national
disgrace
National Republican., 1876-03-07

THK UNFORTUNATE BELKNAP's moral
carcass is being preyed upon by the buz-
zsrdsof the Confederate and Copperhe I'd
Democracy. They hover over it with a
fiendish delight bred of beastly though
natural fondness for the stencil of corrup-
ton. They pounce upon it and root through
it again and again with an apparently in
saIiabIe appetite
National Republican., 1876-03-07

the Copperhead, Daniel Marcy. Well does
the Mirror ask :
"Honest Democrats Of Manchester, do you
propose to ceuntenance this and to invite the
remedy it proyokesi
"Repubiicans of Manchester, do you pro-
pose 70 submit TO this ~
National Republican., 1876-03-07

THE ever present and always meddling
detectives have managed to worm them
selves once more into notoriety in connec-
tion with the Belknap case. They first
''put up the job" to make the authorities
believe that Belknap intended to attempt
to escape, and then were called upon to
SHADOW" him and his residence.
National Republican., 1876-03-07

NEWSPAPER enterprise is one of those
things that no man can understand, espe-
cially when it goes so far as to announce
the arrest, on last Sunday, of man who
will not be arrested until to-day.
National Republican., 1876-03-07

Mr.. CLYMER's connection with the es-
cane of Marsh does not seem to attract
much attention at the hands of the Detec-
five Press. ..
National Republican., 1876-03-07

THE Dem. Jack Asses will bray over
Belknap tonight.