Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-05-31
W HOLE NUMBER 1855.

ma n1ngg aInendIueHlS 70 Inc Uill 10: NO. NJ
to fx and apportion representation Of The
General Assent bly, ,cf the State of Ohio
Attest H. A. SWIFT, Gerk.
eMr. Ewing moved to lay said Serats
bill No. 70 upon the fable, and dema1aded
the yeas and nays thereon, which ware or
dered, al d resulted as follows, &c.
$50 the motion was lost. s.
Mr.: Lewis fasred tkatthe Senate Yecede
from its disagreement to the third House
endmentsto said bi!k.
8 sMr. Baskus demanded cali If the Sem
Fate, which was had.
@Messrs. Ankeny, Blocksom,. Byers1
Busns. Cronise;; Emerie, Evans, Ewing.
G ahanl. King, Olds, Reemelin, Scott.
atAF hesleE and pegaEner 1apere, absent =
and that affsfssendi linz loT tie absentees 4 y.
son motion Of Mr. Corwin, the Senate
adjourned"
BY this adjournment, the bill was laid
upon the ia bic. There Was-also at that time.
as shown by the above extrsct from the
journal, an undecided question pending up4
on the motion of Mr. Lewis: that motion
was never withdrawn, and still remains up-
on the journal undecided
These extracts from the journal show
that the Senate had taken action upon the
bill, and that under this question Of order
decided in the House, and considered SO inns
p4rtant as to require Justification of the ious
nal; the House could net again act upon the
bill until all this action Of the senate lad
been reconsidered, and the bill gain return
led to the House; Yet four days afterwards,
and while the bill was still lyiag ON the tabls
in the Senate, and that body without a QUO
rum for the transaction of bu siness the House
undertook to recede from its amendments.
IF this. action of the House was IN older.
and could for a. moment be entertained, the
prior action of the House by which it recon-
S. dered itsEote upon the passage Of the bill,
was also in order; and then, notwitEstand-
ing the Justification of the Journal, eve
honest man would be compelled to ackEop :
! edge, that this Bill had never passed ths
House; and ii the prior action Of the House
was SO much out OF ofde. as to require fall
sifcation OF the journal, and violatioi Of
the constitution, which required them to keep
a journal Of their proceedings, then this sub
scguent action of the House wis equally.
out Of order; and thus to shis day the House
has not receded from its amendments. We
care not which horn OF the dilemma the fed
eral leaders may choose to take, either Is
fatal to the bill. But the subsequent action
of both the House and the Senate, is equally
fatal to its validity and altogether uneonsti.
7 ttulionaG @sss3 sss-.s1.
Lett be rendered, that from Monday una
til Friday, the bill had been slumbe up
on the table in the Senate. That BODY du-
ring all that time was without quorum fsf
the transaction of business; YET ON Friday,
the House undertook to recede frctn .its a.
meadments, by the passage Of the following
resolution, viz:
"Rssolred That as touching the amend
ments of the House of Representatives to
Senate bill No. 20, to TX and apportion the
representation OF the next General Assembly
of the Stateof Ohio, tie House recedcs f.om
all its amendments to which the Senate las
not agreed, and that the Senate be informed
thereof forthwith"
In addition to the question of order already
decided, to be so binding as to require fall
sitication Of the journal; in this case, added
to all the circumstances attending the for
mer, we have a still more fatal objection in
the fact, that the bill was out Of the possess.
ion of the House. We quote from the law
on that subject as laid down in Jefferson's
Manual. "When question has been once
made and carried, either in the affirmative
or negative, no motion for reconsider alton Of
any vote shall be in order, after till, reso-
luton, message, report, AMENDMENT or mo-
tion, upon which the vote was taken, SHALL
HAVE GONE cUi OF THE Possf SION OF THE
HoUsE." These amendments, as well as
the bill itself, had been four days in the
~ hol al AZ
body. In the enc case, the objections were
SO fatal, as to require Justification Of the
journal, and yet, in the later case with all
the former objections, and the still more pos
tive prohibition of the amendments kav-
ing gone ou. OF the possession Of the House,
these law abiding whig leaders would make
the people beleve,that all was parliament
nry and fair.
But when in addition 10 all this, the peo.
pie Of Ohio shall hnve learned the boasied
trickery by which this fraud is pretended
to have palmed upon then, they will be
better enabled to judge of the honesty Of
he past winters leg station.
Knowing that this fraud could only bo
consumated by q violation oil the constiiu-
ton and Of parliamentary law, the major
and trick the democratic members Of the
House, tha, they nigh. grasp and retain
power, and thus subvert The right Of tho
majority to rule,und place the law making
power Of the State into the hands ofan uR-
prncipled minority.
This conspiracy is fully developed by
Their OWE admissions, and disgraceful boast.
ings, One of the. participators, or at least
one in the secret o. the ,olspiracy,was the
letter writer OF the Summit couty Beacon,
a leading whig paper of Northern Ohio.
He details, with oil the minuteness of one
advised IN advance, the scene in the Houss
of Representatives, on Friday, February
18th, during the passage of the resolution
offered by Mr. Park, by which it is claim
ed that the apporliontnent bill, then upon
the table of the Senate, where it WINS placed
by the adjournment Of the previous Mon.
day, was passed into law. He writes un-
Ter date of Saturday, Feb. 10. ln speak.
ing of the epportionmsn. bill,- the writer