The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1846-01-29
Ohio IGgisERtglrc.

THURSDAY, Jan l5.--In the House, the
act to amend the act Incorporating the Grand
Lodge of the TO- of Odd Fellows was passed
yeas 33, nays 81.
FRIDAY, Jan. l6.--In Senate, Mr.. Edger-
ton presented the remonstrance Of 81 citi-
zens of Paulding county against any aliera-
ton in the Lima and Defiance Free Turn
pike road.
Mr.. Coombs introduced bill to secure
the rights of women.
In the House, the bill TO incorporate the
farmers Storage and Forwarding Company,
Of Seneca, at Republic was passed; yeas 36,
nays 23.
On this Bill a sharp debate was had, Mr..
Finn characterized the bill as creating the
most Objectionable kind Of corporation, and
denounced the democracy of Mr.. Brown, Of
Seneca, as more than suspicious. He
charged that his course had proved him to
be better whig than democrat, though he
claimed 10 belong TO the latter party. Mr.
Browns votes are so frequently for Wing
movements, that he certainly must hold to a
loose construction Of the duty of demo-
crat. He is one Of that class of men who
mistake dereliction from principle for indie
pcndonce.
SATURDAY, Jan. l7.--Tho Bill to increase
the wages of members to three dollars per
day being before the Senate.
Mr.. Coombs stated that the effect of the
present rotrencbment law was to exclude
the farmer and mechanic from seats in the
Legislature, and referred TO the diminished
member of that class to prove his position.
1t prevented all but the wealthy and the
"political loafcr'' from place in the Legis-
lature. He considered the man who only
sought place in the Legislature for the
merconary consideration in the emoluments
as unworthy of seat in that body.
The Bill was indefinitely posiponed--for the
Bill, II; against it, q.
In the House, Mr. Knapp presented three
remonstrancos from Putnam County against
the erection Of the County of Auglaizo
Also for q modification of the license law
from the same County.
Mr. Knapp reported back the bill to au-
thorizo the Directors of School District No
l, in Napoleon, Henry Co. to exchange Ger
tain lots, with two amendments. Bill re.
famed to Committee on Schools and Schoo
Lands.
MONDAY, Jan. 19.--In the Senate, Mr.
Edgerton presented two petitions from 49,
citizens of Williams and Defiance countie!
praying for the repeal Of the law erecting
Defiance into county.
In the House Mr.. Cowen from the Finance
Committee reported back the bill to author
ze the Commissioners of Pauldng COUNT
10 apply the bridge tax Of said County te
pay the debt Of the Same and recommended
its passage ordered to a third reading.
Mr. Cowen, from the Judiciary committee
reported back the bill to amend tho act reg
ulating elections, with one amendment, striI;
ing out all after the enacting clause, ant
inserting new bill.
Mr. Olds moved the indefinite postpone
ment of the bill and pending amendment.
Mr. Olds said, that he had no expectation
that his motion TO indefinitely postpone thi
bill would prevail. We need not attempt Il
disguise the fact, that is party measure
sustained by pariizan Influences, and is t.
bo carried by partizan votes. The whig par
ty, in the plentitude Of their power, have, il
defiance of constitutional rights and the lon,
established usages Of our people, redistric
ted the stale, for legislative and congression
al purposes; and that the clerks may b
made to bend their oahs and sense of dut
to the despotic will of the whig party, an
give certificates Of election TO whig pariizan
thus elected, this law, increasing the penal
ties by fines and dungeon walls, must b
passed. The distrcting law Of l943, en-
bracing nearly the same provisions as the bi
of the extra session, (upon the merits {
which the whig party made a direct appea
to the people by breaking up the law-makin
power of the state. by ahsquatulation,) wa
passed after the whig party had, in the Sen
ate, voted down bill that gave to that pal
ty at least one-half Of the members in Cor
gress. We claim, then, that the dis,rictin
law of 1913 was passed in accordance wit
direct instructions from the people, and til;
the changes made in 1916, were in drec
violation of constitutional rights and long es
tablshed usages, and without any instruc
ton from the people. And, for fear the peopl