Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-12-27
Senate-Keys Of the State House, sc.
DEcEMRER IA

To-day Mr.. Byers introduced resou.
ton requiring the State Librarian to sur.
render the keys Of the State House to the
Sergeant ut Arms of the Senate.
1t appeared by the discussion, that men,
bers of the House had called upon that off.
Ger for the keys, and that he refused to give
them up, but with official insolencs told the
members that he would himself lock the
doors Of the State House. if the House of
Representatives would adjourn, and that he
would unlock them again at the hour man,
ed for the re-assembling Of the Represent
atives Of the people.
That officer, by resolution Of last win
ter, had The State House placed in his
charge for specific purpose-to have it
cleaned and put in order for the reception
of the members. Under the advice of the
whig leaders, he refuses to give up the
keys, and thus the property OF the State,
the doors being unlocked, are left open to
destruction, unless indeed members choose
to guard it, or to suffer political buffoon,
without character, to lock them in or lock
them out at pleasure.
The Librarian found fit eulogist and
defender in Mr.. Ex.Speaker Goddard. MIR.
Patterson, Of Licking, was absent, in con.
sequence ofsickness in his family, and i,
was with difficulty the resolution could be
laid OH the table the wings and leading free
soilers going against its passage, under lhe
lead of Goddard.
Mr.. Myers, Of Lucas, who today spoke
for the frs. time in the Senate. placed the
matter in lis proper light, and he wished TO
see recorded vote with q full Senate, so
as to know the men-to place their names
on record, SO as to be seen by the people
who would dare defend conduct so insolent.
The Representatives Of the people of
Ohio, not to be trusted with the keys of
the State House-the State Librarian, ere
ated by the Legislature. and removable
at pleasure, to tell the members that he
could not trust them with the keys Of the
State House, is a touch OF insolence that
we we're not prepared to expect, and which
we are sorry to see even such men as God
dard so far forgelful Of selfrespect as to
defend.
The House-Rejectien Of TOwnShend's
Proposition Determination of the
DisOrganiZers to break up the Legis-
latHre, &c.
The entrance Of whiggery into the
House, this morning, was not unlike that of
a funeral procession, the chief mourners
being tho recusants, whose better judgment
had been warped and made to yield to the
imperious edict of the tim pan. Several of
them had expressed themselves in favor of
the proposition submitted by Mr.. Town
shend, and enough Of them had intimated
that ifnot accepted, they would appear as
members to complete the organization.
During the night of Friday the tin pan
was in session, and high words are said TO
have been banded. On Saturday night
the storm, i, is understood ragged with in.
creased violence aud the day Of Sunday was
used to lash the refractory into the traces.
The leaders succeeded This morning.
Mr.. Olds, as spokesman for Chuckery re-
pudiated the resolutions of Mr.. Townshend,
and submitted new set, nrtfully framed,
which would exclude the entire delegation
(rcm Hamilton county from voting on the
seats Of Messrs Pbgh and Pierce When
these seats were decided, then The other
demo cratic members whose seats are con.
tested were TO be tried, before the whig
Sheriffs were ousted.
The presentation Of such a proposition
80 unjust and so preposturcus, is but ad.
ditional evidence in support of the assertion |
of Mr.. Holcomb, embellished with an oath |