Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-02-16
e Ninth Week Of the Session.


we have, ia oar legislative proceedings, 10
has passed, and nothing else OF Importance
to our readers.
Six weeks was the time allotted by the
whig press to our wise and honest (O whig
Jaw makers 10 do up the business Of the
session, and then return to their constitu-
ents. Already they are entering upon the
tenth week, aud when the whig majority
will get through caucusing. and be ready
to do up the business and 60 home, we
know not.
During the session a large amount oi
lecnl laws have been passed, and when
that is said, all is said. They are gener.
ally TO amend former acts, to incorporate
villages, cemetery associations, &C., and
could better have been disposed Of by one
general law, than by the special legisla.
,ion required in each particular case.
A bill creating Commercial Court ol
Csnc innati has passed the Legislature, and
is now the law of the land. In their hot
haste to give the spoils Of office to young
man, fresh from Kentucky, over one of the
oldest and best whig lawyers in Cincinnati,
the tin pan ordered the election 10 be held
on Thursday; and on that day, Mr.. Key,
the Tin pan candidate, was elected. On
Friday night the court was created d-the
Speaker Of the Senate signing tho bill at
that time, and dating the law on that day.
Thus Mr.. Key was elected Judge of n
Court having. no existence at the time of
his election, and some thirty-six hours be-
fore it comes law. In the meantime the
new made judge, with his blushing honors
thick upon him, got his commission, and
started post haste for Cincinnati TO appoint
his clerk and open his court. But alas, he
will find that all is not gold that glit.ers,
and that every man called Judge is not a
judge in reality. He will either be no
judge, or else return and have the oysters
again dished up, and the fixins uncorked,
the tin-pan again meet and be elected over
again, and have his commission dated after
the law was passed. By the time this is
done, we hope our news koys, sent out in
quest Of information, will learn something
about this ssKey' which will unlock the
mystery hanging over him. Save that he
IL beardless, that he beat Timothy Walker
in tinpnn, and was elected Judge of a court
no. created. and that he is fresh from Ken.
sucky, we can learn nothing of him.
On Saturday night, Mr.. Lewis intro
duced q resolution in the Senate requiring
the Judiciary committee to ascertain nnt
repost whether Judge Key be Judge Key
or whether he be nothing but Lawye
Kay, requiring new election to make
Judge Of him. When the committee re
ports we trust they will also give some in
formation abort the man ''what beat Tim
elhy " ulker!"
The Senate, by vote Of 24 to II, pas:
ed the bill allowing the people Of Ohio t
vote for or against convention to amen
the constitution.
Tho bill required two thirds vote, an
II barely got IT. On its passage ever
Democrat voted yea, and happy are we t
record the fact that wings enough wer
found to vote with them to carry the mea
ure. The fate of the bill in the House
Representatives is, we fear, defeat
Whiggery is so fearful Of trusting th
people that they will not dare pass it. Sc
erul wings, perhaps some leading one, wi
vote for it, but care will be taken to max
litile' over one third of that body vote ma,
and thus will the bill be lost, through ii
fear of whiggery that the people wou
vote for Convention, and that tho CO
ycntion would blow into thin air some
the darling schemes of whiggery.
Mr.. Lewis, from tho majority Of Il
colored committee IN the Senate, made
report on the repeal of the black laws,
which the Senate, formerly SO fearful
printing, ordered 5000 copies to be print
off for circulation The House indefnit
ly postponed the resolution Mr.. Byel
from the minority of the same commtte
gave motive that he weuld submit mino
ity report. @ -
Mr.. En,rie, from the Senate commit
ON Printing. to which was referred t
accounts of Charles Scott, rs contractor
ahe pubfie printing, made lengthy repo
showing by nm examination the over cha
ges OF Mr. Scott in almost every docume
printed. More composition (the setting
type) was charged for than had been 9,
outed-rule and figure work was charg
for where no rule or figure work was fouI
ana other small charges were ferrett
out, and exposed by the committee chare
with an examination of this subject. D
ing the reading of the report, The fe5e
majority remained in their seats looki
not unlike men under the infietion of ,
torture. None dared deny the correctr'
ot>the report, and none were fOol-har
eaough 10 paliiate or defend the St;
Printer. Except one or two, who, in I
reading oil the most interesting part of /
report, were seized with on lnlolerable
of coughing, the whig members were siie
ns the grave. When the report is print.