Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-10
OUR DIES MONIES LETTER.
Capi:al. Punishment Fails --- Prison
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Building, Reg
ulation and Tearing Up. Farm
Matters--.BelknapB usiness--M Mud.

MatterB.ss h011rO00 building, Reg
ulation and Tearing Up---Farm
Matters---Belknap Business--Mu
From our own correspondent
Dies MONIES, March 6, '76.
l did promise myself a lighter and
shorter letter this time. But this
Belknap Business" as the newsboys
call it here, puts sombre hue on
everything. 1t is worse than Capital
punishment. The House took cog
nizance of it on Saturday. Resolu-
tons were offered expressive of the
deep sorrow at the sad news, and de-
handing a thorough trial, with COM
mensurate punishment. Speeches
were made evinclng intense feeling
on the subject. The citizen of Iowa
is disgraced; the Republican party
dishonored, and the nation deceived.
The resolutions were referred to the
Committee on Federal Relations for
proper wording. | shall not follow
the debate on Capital punishment
farther. 1t was continued this week
with no special new features, and
ordered engrossed by the House.
But in the Senate vote was taken
on the original bill and lost. 1t is
now possible that the House may pass
the compromise bill and send 1t to
the Senate, and that 1t may there pre-
vail, though it is very much doubted.
Prison matters have been quite
prominent. The bill to reorganize
Anamosa was passed, and A. E. Mar
tin, of Delhi, nominated by the joint
caucus for Warden. Mr.. Kelsey
was so connected with the old man.
agement that it was thought best to
place him on the retired list. Mr..
Martin is young man of energy and
ability, and will infuse new lite into
the enterprise which has been under
a cloud from the beginning.
We have had railroads in every
form. The land grab of the Nc
Gregor q Missouri Railway Company
is still unsettled. 1t has had an over
hauling in the House, with the pre-
ponderance Of argument and influence
in favor of extending the time to the
old company if they will build the
road in two years, and this they agree
to do.
A neutrality-suspicious.
has passed the Senate, and every in
dication is favorable to its passage in
the House. The era of railroad build
ing is dawning upon us.
AS to the tariff law, l cannot yet speak
decidedly. The commissioner system
is gaining ground, and the schedule
of rates is in doubt. A majority, I
think, favor much modification.
And now come the railroad-tearers
from Dubuque, and propose to tear
up the Dubuque Southwestern Rail
road from Monticello to Farley, and
run it into Dubuque via Cascade,
so as to be Independent of the Illinois
Central Road, with which they seem
to be in terrible war. The bill was
sprung on the House, suddenly, Sat
urday, and passed with no real knowl-
edge OF its contents. 1t may be all
right, but 1t will be thoroughly look
ed after in the Senate. If it is a good
bill, there can be no excuse for run
ming it through con the sly"
Farm matters have had some atten-
ton. The Senate has passed bill
to accommodate our decreasing quail
ity of oats by fixing the weight at 80
pounds to the bushel. And to keep
pace with fence Improvements, have
defined a legal barbed wire fence to
be with three wires, two stays, and
four feet high.
The State Agricultural Society ap-
preparation of $4,000 per year, has
finally passed, though its discussion,
l should say, cost $4,000 more.
AS to License matters, l can throw
no light on them. The effort will be
very great to pass it. AS the time of
adjournment is fixed at the 10th the
balancc of the session will be a grand
rush, and we may look for the pas
sage of almost anything, all previous
promises "to the contrary, notwith-
standing"
There has been one grand sociable
at ex-Judge Coles, and about three
days of nice sleighing, for which We
now are having mud-mud-mud