The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1849-04-28
From the Ohio Statesman.
The State Debt Of Ohio.
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$ Passing over, as irrelevant at thi
time, the question whether it was o
Q was not, the gross mismanagement G
a the whig Board of Public Works ,ha
|, caused the small per cent. of net reve
j; nue. 10 be collected on the Miami Ex
Y tention Canal, and caused the large de
, 6cit OF $ll5,4l8 06 over and above al
. the revenue collected on the other thre,
!, improvements named, and will proceed
to show, by facts from the record. wh'
/ it was that voted for these improvement,
and thus will we answer the question
"who caused the bulk of Ohio's debt.
y The law for the three last named i'm
provemenls were all passed during the
session of the Legislature Of 1895 SO
when the spirit Of improvement run
wild throughout the State. We give
The final vote on each bill.
| "THE MUsKINGUM IMPROVEMENT"
The first we notice is the Muskingum
Improvement, and we extract from the
journals Of the House of Representa-.
tives on Friday, Feb. s, 1886.
ION motion Of Mr.. Morrow, the
House took up the bill to improve the
navigation Of the Muskingum river by
slackwater navigation.
"The question before the House was
on the final passage Of the bill, which
was agreed lo-yeas 49-nays 10.
"Yeas-Messrs. Allen, Ankeny,
Baldwin, Bentley, Butler, Champlln,
Chambers, CraighiII, Greed. ConkIin, Of
Morgan, Coulter, Enyear,, Faran, God.
man, Holcomb. Hosbrook, Hough, Hub
bard, Humphreys. Hunt, Lowry, Lutz,
Lyman, Matthews, Medill, McMeaI,
Miller, of Laurence, Mitchell, Moore,
Of Musk,agum, Morrow, Norris, Por-
tor, Quinn, Read, Recce, Robbins, Rob.
inson, Sprague, Smith, Stidger, StiDers,
Taylor, Of Gusrnsey, Van Hook, Wal
ton, Welton, Winshlp, Whitmore,
Yontz and Speaker-49.
"Nays-Messrs. Armstrong, Black
burn, of Columbiana, Bostpick, Creswell,
Outright, Gushing, De Wolf, Ford,
Gamble. Harlem, Hathaway Knapp,
Nc Donald, Miller, OF Wayne, Moore,
of Delaware, Patterson, Saylor, Stable
ton, and Utler-l9.
"Ordered TO the Senate for concur.
renee, ,"--See page $50 of the House
Journal. [Whigs in Aalic.]
Thus it will be seen, that two.thirds
Of the wings voting on this question, vo.
ted for the law for the Muskingum i'm.
provemsnt, while but seven Of them re.
corded their votes against it. We next
quote from the proceedings in Senate,
Of Friday, March 4. -
The bill Of the House to improve the
navigation Of the Muskingum river, by
slack. water navigation, was taken up,
and the question being on its final pas
sage, the same was taken up and carri.
ed, yeas %, nays p, as follows:
"Those who voted in the affirmative,
were @
"Messrs. Allen, Blake, Cos, Dondlly,
Florence, Houston, Hunt, James, Ken.
dali, King, Lidey, Mclaughlin, Morse.
Ne,Deil, Price, Ravsscroft, Scott, Spang.
ler. Steele, Taylor, Thompson, Wads'
north, and Welhouse-93. 'ea
"Those who voted in the negative,
were as I.ia
"Messrs. Grouse, Granger, Hopkins,
Ho,oard, Kirby, Medary, McMechan.
Patterson, Sharp, Shepler, Vincent and
Speaker-12."-See Senate Journal,
pages 854 and 855.
By the vote in the Senate, it will be
seen that of the whole number Of wing
Senators voting on this question four.
fifths voted for the law, and that while
nine democratic Senators (ourself a.
mong the number,) voted against the
bill, but three wings voted with US. In
tho Senate and House combined, the
vote Of whiggery against the bill amout-
ted to TEN, all told. aa7's nic
The passage Of this bill, at the time,
was exceedingly popular. In the por.
ton Of the State il was intended to
benefit, those who voted against it werst
freely denounced In Muskingpm and
in Washington counties, twas claimed
as whig measure wings it was charg-
ed, paved the way for it years before.
These facts are known to be true 10
one Of the editors Of the "Republic,"l