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OIElO LEGISLATURES.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
Saturday, July so, lS42.

ReSOtUed By the General ASSem0ty OF
the Stdte OF Ohio, That the Governor
be requested TO use all practical dill
geuce, in Obtaining this States portion
Of the amount accrulOg from The sales OF
the public lands, now ia the Treasury Of
the United States; in order that the
same be appropriated, during the pres
ent session TO the redemption Of the
domestic State Bonds, paid to the o n
tractors upon our Public Works-or to
wards the payment Of the amount due
to the Iabors thoreon-and to report the
result of his action with the premises 10
this General Assembly.
Mr.. Byinglon moved the indefinite
p"osrponement Of the resolution.
Mr., Cook said the object OF the reso.
luton was. if practicable, during the
present session, to secure the appIica-
ton Of the amount of this States portion
of the proceeds Of the Public Lands, now
in the Treasury Of the United States,
towards tho payment Of The claims OF
the suffering contractors aud laborers
on our public works. Other PROPOSE
tons for that object were pending; bet
no one could %forel6ll the result Of either.
Mr.. c. we'll knew the intense suffering
and distress which prevailed among
that class Of the public creditors, and
no one in the House would @ further to
r adopt any and every practicable means
to relieve them than himself. This
resolution contemplated a certain re
lief, so far as the amount would 60, and
looked 10 its application by legal pro-
vision, to that purpose, during tho pres
ent session, 10 this view no could not
doubt the undertaking adoption OF tho
resolution.
Mt. SpaIding charged the introduction
Of the resolution, as tho result Of con-
sullalion, and designed to effect tho
next election. lie dwell upon this
point at length, and closed by declaring
, that the Legislature ought not TO in
!. t~errpre in tho matter, but that the Go
vernon should DO left TO the exercise Of
the discretionary power it had beea re-
ported hO was using
Mr.. Hawkins said that those who
, were in the habit Of doing dirty work
, were lreest in charging the same upon
others. Why, this oXtra session was
gotten up for purposes, and so the Spoa'
-, ker had himself admitted, Mr.. Ilaw.
= klns after explaining the object of tho
=, resolution, said tho charge that it was
. the result Of consultation was as untrue
4 as that tho Wings were legisIaling for
:, party ends, lrlhe Speaker had not had
= a similar feeling ranking in his heart,
no would not have made the charge
lie (Mr. II secuted the charge. 1t
was unloundGd. The object Of The res
]oIut1on was not as had been said, 10 tel
=, The Governor to do his duty, but to cal
-, upon him to report what he had done.
The question as to receiving tho fund
was not involved in the resolution
! The Governor had already decided that
question. Bot al this session we ought
to mike q prospective appropriation Of
the fund.
Mr., SpaIding replied that no had
said what no believed what no still
believed 900 and what he should continue
+ to believe. Mr.. S. said It was true he
had declared a bird in the hand wa.
II worth two in the bush, iAe still though
so. II democratic principles were wortt
a preserving, it was our duty so TO dis
L.. trjcl the State as to secure the largos
representation Of those principles. IL
felt conscjeuciOusly aud constl,utionaIIy
c bound to vote for a bill based upon tha
view. wa cannut get such a one tn
II Wings must make the most Of our dis
traction,
The question upon the indefniio pos
70 ponomenl OF the resolution of MIR. Cook
u was then taken, and decided in the at
'e nrmallNc-ayeS Sc, nays 32-as fol
10 lows:
IS YGAs-Mcssrs. Atkinson, Bair'
. Briggs, ByiogDoG. CahjlI Dunn, Ewing
ID Green, Griffith, Hatch, Henderson
10 lluCkIuherry, James, JchhlhS' JnHe'
to Knrshucr, Kelley of P. Kilhcor', Low
le man, Lyon, Meredith, Moore, MCloske,
M'Cluug, M'ConneII, M'Nu!'y, Obey
a RaGrnel crscr, Sharp, Smith Of l.. Slee'
&c man, Waters, WoIColl, Wood, Workman
'e Spcakcr-3j.
III NAYS Mcssrs. Ackley, Bliss, BoweI
re Brown, Chambers, Chenowtlh, Clark
Cooke, Durham, Evans, Fudge, Fulle
u Gard, Gregory, Hawkins, Kelley OF I
b. Luwrncr, Modhcrry, MCren, Perklo
Powell, probasro, S,heUck, Scott, Smit
OF Of II Smith OF NJ. SlreaDor, Taylor, u
" tus, UpjearoG, Warner, Wheoler-3@.
nd Me- Clarke mquir d OF the chairman
OF tho select ApporluOmenl comm'It'
SC when a report would probably be loItl
"a coming.
Mr.. McNulty responded lhatthe con
mitlee had bean engaged, but SUI