The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1848-09-22
WHOLE NO. 1900

Journal, and therefore lnler that the journal
vas cbanged becnuse The action Of the
House urOn the blil was OuI OF order. ina,.
much as tie senate had taken subsequent ae-
llon upon lie hill, which must also be re-
cohsIdered. ~ OrG'r 10 give the House the
'lgih TO reconsider It's vote upon its fnal
passage. Bni lei us apply the same rule 10
ne subsequent action Of tie House, and
'heh rec how the rase will stand Without
any subsequent vote OF The House on the
passagr.o Of the bill. it was again returned
20 Tie senate With the Hnuse amendments:
ana The Senate bad again taken action upon
INC bhl, as will be sren by The { following
quotation from the Sehate journal: (Ses
page 56O.)
Message from the House Of Representa-
tivcs.
.M Sprakfr:-1he House recedes from
/ ITS tlrst aud second, aud insists upon its re.
maiulng amendments 10 the bill Is. No 7Ul
10 tx aid apportiun the representation Of
The Gen'rai Assembly Of the State of Ohio.
"Anest n. A. SWIFT, Clerk.
Mr. Ewing moved TO lay said Senate
! Iblil No. ~ upon The table, and demanded
! he yeas and nays thtrcon. which were or
dered, aud resulted a. lolows," DC.
so the rnrt,ou was hst.
"Mr. Lewis moved that the Senate re-
cede from lis disagreement 10 the third
House amcndEcnt to SAID bill"
! MIR. Backus demanded call Of the Sen
ate, which was had.
'Alessr+. Ankenny, BIocksom. Byers,
l'urns, CrouIse, Emne, Evans, Ewing,
'iraham, King, Ods, Reemelin, Scott,
Wheeler and Ninrga ner we're absent"
aud after sending lor The a5sentees.
"On motion ol Mr.. Corwiu, the Senate
adjourned
BY Ins Adjournment, the bill was laid up.
~ The table Inerr was also at that time.
A. shown by the above extract ON the jour
nal, an undecided question pending upon
lie motion OF MIR. ewis: that motion was
never wl'lidrawn, and stIll remains upon the
journal updecded.
These extracts from The jcurnal show that
the Senate had taken action upon the bill.
and that nLdcr THIS question Of o.der de.
lclded IN The House, aud considered so inn
Iportant Az 10 require a Justification OF the
journal; the House could not again act up-
on tue bill until all this action of the Sen.
ate had been r"cnis sldered aud the bill 4.
gam returned lu the House. Yet fnu7 days
afterwards, aud wlnle1he bill was still living
npon the table 10 The Senate, and that BODY
VIII out Quorum Tor the transaction of
bu'lnrss. the HOue undertook to recedo
from lis amendments.
If thrs action rf the House was in order,
and could fora moment be entertained the
p FRACTION # the House by hich It recon-
slder5d rs vote upon the passage Ofthe bill,
was also IN order; aud then, hntwithstand-
ing the talelhcation OF the journal, every
honest man would he compelled 10 acknowl-
lrdgr, that this bill had hever passed the
House; aud il he prior action Of the House
was so much Oul Of order a. to require fall
sIhca,ion Of the journal, aud violation of
the contribution. which required them to
Keep JoErnal OF their proceedings, then
thls subsequent aclOH OF the House was
eqnl.ly ont OF ortcr; and thus 10 this day
The House mas not rrceded from its amend
menls. We care not which horn of the di-
lena the federal LEADERS may choose to take,
either is fataIto the bill. But the sub,e-
quent action OF both the House and the Sen
ate, is equally fatal to ITS validity, and alto>
geiler unconstitu ional.
Let 1t be remembered, that from Monday
until Friday. the bill had been slumberinp
upon the liable IN he senate. That body
during all that tlme was wIfhnut a quorum
f1r the transaction Of bus ness: yet on FRI
dry, tic House undertook To rtCede from its
amendments, by The passage of the following
resolution, viz:
'RPsoired That as touching The amend
ments OF the House of Representatives to
Senate the bill No. ~. 10 fix and apportion
the representation Of the next General As
sembly OF The State Of OHIO. the house re-
cedes from all lis amendments to which the
senate has not agreed. and that the Senate
be info rtned thereof forthwith
In addition to the question OF order al
readd decided, 10 be 60 binding as to re-
quIre iaIshcolion of the journal, IN this
case, aided 10 all the circumsta ances atte n
ding The former, We nave still more fat al
objection in the fact thUt the bill was out Of
the possession OF the House. We quote
from the law on hal subject MS laid down
Ia Jetierson's Manual when a question
has Uccu once made and carried, elthor in
the affirmative or negative, no motion for
recons derallo ION Ot any vote shall be in or
der, aiierU oil. resolution, message, report
AMESDMENT or motion. upon which the vote
was tnken. SHALL HAVE GONE OUT OF THE
POSSESSION OFTHG HOusB," These amend
ments, as well as III bill itself, had been
tour days IN tue Senate, and had received
tie action of that body In the one case,
the objections were so fatal, as to require a
lalslhcalon otthe journal, and in the latter
case with all the iurmer objections, and the
still more positive pro hibtion Of the
amendments having gone out Of the poss-
essiou Of the lionse," these law abiding
Mhlg leaders would maze the people be-
iieve, that all was parliamentary and fair.
But when in addition to all this, the
people of Ohio shall have learned tho 0oas-
ted trickery by which This fraud is preten-
ded to have been pa med upon them, they
Will be better enabled 10 judge of the homes
ty Of lhe past winters legislation.
Knowing that this fraud could only
be cunsnnnted by violation of the consti-
iuiOn aud Of parliamentary law the ma
ljorily entered into Conspiracy to deceive
and tritk democratic members OF The House
that they might grasp and retain power and
titus snbvert the right OF the majority to
rule and place the law making power Ofthe
Slac into the hands of an unprincipled
mil oriy.
THIS conspiracy is fully developed BY
their own admissions, and disgracefrl boas-
tings. One If The pa ,tlripai ors, or at least
one in the secret cf the conspiracy was the
letter writer uI The summit county Bea.
con, leading whg paper of Northern