Year: 1866

Trumbull's speech, set forth with unusual
power and eloquence. F
MEASURES IN WHICH KEOKUK HAS


AN INTEREST.


Hon. J. F. WILSON, member of Congress
from this District, introduced on the 10th
inst, into the House bill to authorize the
Keokuk & Des Moines Valley Railroad Com.
pany to construct bridge over the Missis-
sippi, between this place and Hamilton for
railroad, foot and teaming purposes. We
have not yet seen the bill. But the construc-
tion of the bridge is a matter that has been in
the utmost favor with our people for an in
definitely long time.


Mr.. WILSON sends a printed copy of bill
whieo he also introduced, granting lands to
the Iowa and Missouri State Line Railroad.
The bill provides that to aid said Company


"To construct and operate a railroad on or
near the State line Of Iowa and Missouri, be-
to connect with the Des Moines Valley rail
road at or near Farmington in the State of
Iowa, running thence to and along the said





point on the east bank of the Missouri, there
is hereby granted to said railroad company
every alternate section of land, designated bv
odd numbers, to the extent of ten sections per
mile on each side of said road: but in case it
shall appear that the United States have.
when the line of said road is definitely located,
sold any section, or any part thereof. granted
rs aforesaid. or that the right of pre- emption
or homestead settlement has attached to the
same, or that the same has been reserved by
the United States for any purpose whatever.
then it shall be the duty of the Secretary of
the Interior to cause TO be selected for the
purpose aforesaid, from the public lands OF
the United States nearest to the sections
above specified, SO much land as shall be
equal to the amount of such lands as the
United States have sold. reserved, or other
wise appropriated, or to which the right of
homestead settlement or pre- emption has at
tached as aforesaid, which lands, thus indi-
Gated by the direction Of the Secretary OF the
Interior shall be reserved and held for the
use of said company by the said Secretary for
the purpose of the construction and operation
of said railroad, as provided by this act


The bill then makes the necessary proyis-
ions to protect the Government and property
holders and to carry out the specific purposes
of the grant. An important provision is the
following


SEC. 4. And Be il further enacted, That
for the purpose Of enabling said lowA and
Missouri State Line Railroad Company to
effect connection with the Union Pacific
railroad or any branch thereof. at point not
further west than the one hundredth meridi-
an Of west longitude, the said company is
hereby authorized to extend its line from the
point where it may strike the Missouri river
to some point to be selected by it within the
limitation above prescribed, upon the same
terms and conditions, and with the like aid
and privileges, that are granted to the Bur
lington and Missouri Railroad Company by
sections eighteen, nineteen. and twenty of an
ast in relation to the construction of rail
road>and telegraph line TO the Pacific ocean,
approved July two. eighteen hundred and
sixty four Prorided. That no lands in this
section granted shall be taken from any
grants or reservations heretofore made by the
United States.


This, it will be noticed, places, when the
road shall be completed, keokuk on the
great national intercontinental highway, the
Pacific Railroad. 1t makes US indeed a cen
tre from which can radiate travel to either
seaboard, and to all parts of the country.


MR. FEssESDES. who isn't liable TO the
charge of radicalism, or being an impractical
Bile man, made an able speech in the Senate
on the 2Sd, upon the Constitutional amend
ment. In replying to the Presidents veto
message he insisted that it was the intention
of Congress not to act on the credentials OF
the Southern members till they had passed a
law for the admission of the Southern States.
He discussed the whole question at length,
and in conclusion he gave his views on recon
struction, holding that Congress, by the laws
Of war. had a right to security for future war,
and he was in favor of the admission OF
Southern members and Senators at the earli-
est momlh consistent with the safety of the
country


TnE Union sentiment throughout the eoun-
try is unanimous on the subject Of the non
restoration of rebels to supremacy in the gov
ernment. There was an immense meeting at
San Francisco ON the 22d which Col. Hawk
ins addressed. The speaker said,


If the sentiments of President Johnson in
his recent action have been correctly reported
by telegraph he was unfit for Chief Magistrate
of the United States This was greeted by
long continued applause. n


Gov Low. in introducing Col. hawkins, in
the course of his address, said Of the PresI-
dent s veto that he felt 1t to be a source OF
alarm when he saw every traitor in the land
singing praise to Andrew Johnson. This
sentiment was also greeted with long contin-
ued applause.


FASHIONABLE SOCIETY AT THE CAPITAL.-
The Washington Chronicle of the 10Th inst,
says:


The reception at Secretary Harlan's to.