Legislative Summary

Yesterday Mr. Hatch introduced a bill Providing for the erection of an Arsenal for the safe keeping of State Arms. It is a measure so evidently demanded that no opposition to it is anticipated. Mr. Angle introduced an important Bill providing that certified copies of all decrees and judgments in the U. S. District Court for this District shall be kept on file in the Recorder’s offices of the several counties. Mr. Jennings introduced two bills: one in relation to the levy of executions; the other authorizing the stockholders of the State Bank or any of the Branches to file information in cases of failure on the part of the Bank to comply with the provisions of the law. The Committee of Ways and Means reported favorably on Mr. Trumbull’s bill. Mr. Boardman’s Bill postponing the taking effect of the Acts passed at the last session of the Board of Education until the 10th of May next, was passed. At 11 o’clock, the special order being the Treasury and State Bank Note Bill, there was a sharp struggle to postpone it one week, but it failed. At 2 o’clock Mr. Dixon’s Bill being the special order, it was postponed, and the Senate spent most of the afternoon discussing a motion to strike the State Bank Note section of the other bill. The discussion was spirited and able on both sides, but the motion was lost. Some amendments were adopted, which will be found in our report, and the bill passed its third reading.

In the House, Mr. Dorr introduced a bill for resuming the lands granted to the Cedar Rapids and Missouri Railroad, which was referred to the railroad committee. Most of the morning was spent in amending the bill authorizing counties to resume their outstanding warrants. Various amendments were adopted and the bill was re-committed. – Des Moines Register, 13th.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, February 15, 1862, p 1