The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-12-24
The Ohio Controversy.

We Law before our readers the two following articles
upon the merits OF this question: and the of pro-
ceeding in the legislature:
From the Albany Argus of
THE DIFFICULTY OHo.-No settlement OF the difficulty
Growing the fact that certain members elect cons
utng minority the whole body, refuse take their
and qualiy had been effected at the last dates
was there any prospect of ad usnent. unless the
jory would concede the minority the whole question in
dispute and exclude from any parci patton in the premi
nary organization members regularly certified SUCH by
proper authority, and already in representa-
tives of the county of Hamilton This claim exclusion
reaches nomnaly only Of these members but in effect
carried out would exclude also the other three represent
atives from that county who elected on the
ticket and by the and would place the whole
five on a footing with the wing claimants who do
pretend, understand it, 10 be representatives of
the county but of what the constitution of the State does
not recognise as possibility, to vita representative
of a district, OF part OF county Even the pro-
position made on behalf of the minority in and be
sworn, condition that the TWO disputed sitting members
rom Hamilton should not partic pate upon the
question of their right to seatswhch they do
pear haxe contemplated at any meater having been
acceded to by the aoriy appears have been reec
by the minority and reconsdered by the majority Thus
stood the latest datesthe Senate refusing
cognse the House organized body and the State sub
ected to an expense of l20 day, and the disgrace
such of things, by the recusancy of thirty
member. elect claimants of that they refuse take
The Senate, Notwithstanding, continued TO hold its sit
ngs and debate propositions requiring
renee from the other branch. Among these propo-
on to the usual essage the House. that the SEN
ate was organized and ready for business The PROPOSE
on though of little consequence in itself, drew out de
bate which, for its admissions, at least certainly
mat of importance.
This debate disclosed among other things that the mi
aory the House had themselves agreed before the day
Of meeting, member Of the legislature to preside at the
temporary organization of the House-precisey the
rangement made and carried out by the majority but
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part the minority, for refusing recognise the majority
organization. They contended that the excerk alone OF
the last House, who member, had a right by
usage call order and preside the swearing in And
reversing their own previous purpose the minority did
actually go through the farce of organizing in what is
called sthe chuckery under the exclerk. The further
also disclosed in this debate that Col Bigger, the
member from Guernsey, the person originally selected
by the minority preside temporarily, and the
clerk And is notorious that Col Bigger has since him
self acknowledged the democratic organization to be g
proper and constitutional" and has been in.
The further admission also made in this debate that
the minority had been advised by their friends hod
on" until the second Tuesday of October next, until
their legislative consutionay expired.
But the fact that the minority had themselves arranged
tor organization under member Temporary chair
man, precisely the majority had agreed and acted
the first places the former, In their position, in
awk ward predicament-a predicamen which they APP
have afterwards perceived by reinquhing virtu-
ally their objections to member temporary chairman
and going OFF on other and equally untenable grounds
From the New Hampshire Patriot
The OHTo LEGISLATURES. federal papers delight in
disappearing the and origin of the difficulties in
the Ohio legislature, and attribute the whole blame the
democrats This is very natural for them, and could
expect anything else But the truth is the
this The whole difficulty originated in attem of the
federal majority in the last legislature to perpeuate power
in the hands of their party by papaby
means and their perseverance, in this course and the
manly resistance of it by the democrats form the and
Substance Of the whole As much has been said
about it, and it may still greater importance
will give brief history OF the proceedings in whc the
present troubles had their origin.
The constitution of Ohio provides that the number OF
representatives shall be fixed and apportioned by the eg
ature, among the several counties according the
Der of white male inhabitants above twenty-oue years oil
in EACH and that the representatives shall be chosen
by the citizens OF the counties respectively The whole
history OF the State shows that these provisions have al
ways been understood that representative districts
shall be posed of counties, and nothing less than ro
countless and Previous last year, attempt
made TO make district of less extent than whole county
The federal party have declared and decided In their
legislative In 1856 they busted democrat this
very ground their committee declaring in their report
that to suppose representative district less in extent
than the county, suppose eonstitpiqHat Dossi
bfy" Such being the universally -adm tted meaning
the constitution always heretofore observed the federal
oY in the last legislature, in oPen violation Of this pro