The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1848-09-22
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ruaRiRg. The latter wasch0sen, and yes
terday 'Falher Park ofsLorain, the staid
Chairman of the Committee
on benevolent Institutions, arose IN h.
place 10 ofFera resolution. The Speaker 1
fbya precoaceried qrrdHgems,ti) had resign
cd the Chair to Or. TrneSdale of TrumbulI
man made on purpose to do up The thing
righ. No body supposed that Mr. Parks
resolution related TO any thing more dan
gerous than the reception Of pupil 'into
one Of the Asylums, or something of that
sort, and all from confidence in the man
were prepared to cry aye The resolution
was read distinctly, but perhaps rath0r GH
emily by the Speaker pro fem, and proved |
to be Que declaring that the House receGe !
from It's amendments to Senate bill No.10, |
and that a message 10 that effect be sent to
the Senate. The question upon the adop,
tion of the resolution was put plalhy aud
promptly as was proper, aud carried almost
unanimously, some Of the Lpcufdcns even
voting for it. Ii was immediately declared
passed, and the Clerk being in the secret y
sent the Sergeant st-arms With the message
TO the Senate before the echo Of the loud
aye had hardly returned from the gallery.
The biz was then passed, and only needed to
be enrolled aid signed to become law
II was by some magic, or rather by the CHI
rographic powers of our mutual friend jim
my Roble,' enrolled in about five minutes
reported back from the enrolling committee
signed by the Speaker the House and sent
to the Senate for the signature OF us speaker
--.all before the lucofoc0s had comprchendet
the meaning oF Mr.. Parks resnIu'ion. At
this time a more amusing scene was never
wituassd than that presented by The conh'
tenanccsIof the members of the House; those
Of the wings showing an expression OF tn
umbh struggling from coDcralmcnt, and
those of the Locofocos saying one TO anoli-
er like Brown TO his convicted brother in
the farce, "Smit wto'e been .(,OieH'' An
attempt was made TO recon ider The vote on
the adoption Of the resolution, on the ground
that they were not aware oil ITS elect whtn
the question was first taken, bul hlled
This loter writer unconscious of the ef'
feet ofthe secrets he was divnlg'ng, unveils
the whole plot, and although he a'lemps 10
smooth over portion n( 1t; his letter shows
thatthe whole scheme was concoGcd out Oi
the House, and that caclrnclOr IN the play
had his part assigned, and was perfect in H.
The BILL the writer says, was "cnroIed IN
about FIVE minutes" 1t must truly have
taken mage po,uer to have performed the
task Of writing out bill, covering nearly
seven pages Of the volume of general laws,
in five MINUTES. The bill had been left by
the adjournment OF Monday, on the table o
the Senate, Ond in possession OF The Clerk
From that table, and from the possession o
the Senate Clerk It could not legally pass
1t was frauduleuly taken the efrom to tho
House and was enrolled 10 0d,ance, an,
hence, in the words of the letter wliler
"the Clerk being in The secret" he was en-
abled to send the "Sergeant.ut arms Will
the message to the Senate before the ech'
ofthe loud aye had hardly relrrnedfrom Tho
gallery" Does not these things prove lh'
conspiracy Upon evidence less strong ap'
less positive, men have been indictrd con
victed and sentenced by courts OF justice
and have paid the penalty Of her crimes 10y
imprisonment.
But we have other evidence. After til,
return OF Mr. Speaker Hawkins TO his home
in ER ton, he is reported, in speaking OF TN
passage Of Mr.. Parks resolution, as saying
"When twas determined by the Wing
that the resolution should be passed by til
House, he l5peaker Ilawkns,) lniorme
them that If he was 10 the Char he wou
read the resolution as he read all others, 81
that il might be distinctly heard by all th'
members, and that il any democrat caugh
his eve and wished to speak against The p0s
sage Of the resolution, hr should be heard
II was then determined ky he Whigs that h
should isaue The Chair because they did no
wish him to compromise his Off clal station
in which opinion he fully concurred, an'
ef the Chair And thercupOn the resolu
tion was passed in a little less trmc thai
lightning would ran down agrcosed pole"
This report is corroboraled by the dccla
ratOnsof llr. Hawkins IN his Dayton speech
as given in The Empire" Of HAT city, th
correctness of which can be proven by te'
tlmony OF mcn whose veracty will not b
impeached In that specchlhc Empre says
"Mr. Speaker lawtins open BoAsrEl
Of the maaner in which the "rn pau" hu'
"iricked'" THAT was The idea, the deInocra
ito minority Of tho House in the passage q
the resolution by that body pretending Il
feccde from IT'S amendments to the blll liz
Hyowed that the resolution had hecn prepar
ed, aud the whole scheme c0ncuclcd beior'
hand, that in order 10 secure its adoption wuh
Om kaOpiedye or suspicion Q( dem0crdis
the resolution was handed 10 Elah Park {
plain, sleepy, unpretendQg kind oI an ol'
doh whom no body would suspect Of offer
ing such resolution. lie described, laugh
ngly and exultingly, tho way IN which lht
"ticR" was carried OUTFLOW the old MAJ
addressed the Speaker, Mr., Truesdale, thel
temporarily put in the chair as part OF tn
scheme;) how he iumbled in hls pocket 70
his resolution. as II he could scarcely find It
how he got IL out and pu; on his "spock-;
how the democrats looked up for moment
and how, seeing that II was daddy Park, the
looked down again, and wcnl some to WI
ting letters, some 10 reading newspapers
some to one thingand some To another, hOS
some Of them supposed that the old man wa
about 10 present q bill to incorporate
church, or lyceum, or debating society
or offer resolution 10 provide some unlor
tunatc lunatic with place ia the Asylum
or for tho Tel,el ofsome ono ofhW constitu
ents who had had h,s barn hurnr; how iii
resolution was mutnbied over by Truesdall
and the vote put at once; how lhe wings a
ready responded aye, and how the dem,
Gratis, not knowing the 'riek' responded u,
at all, but wrote, or talked, or read on; an
how they were in this manner caught MAJ
ping"
The parliamentary law, and the rulcs Ii
down for the government Ofdellbrral i've a