Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-01-21
Ohio Legislature.

VHAV AO5 AcAsStuAVs
THURSDAY, Jan 1880.
. In the House the current of'businesss
under the decision Of the body that COM
mon fame having Informed them that the
Senate was organized, by the election OF
It's officers, they we-e rs much bound tod
notice and 10 act upon the f,ct, as though
the usual notice had been given. Nume-
rous petitions have been presented and nu
merous bills introduced aud several Of them
passed and sent to the Senate, there to re-.
main, unread and unacted upon, until il
may please the whig portion Of tha, body
to allow the public busines of tha, body to /
proee d.
In Senate this morning, Mr.. Chase, of
Butler, made on able speech on the deci-
sion OF Speaker Blake in ruling the Pre-
amble and Resolutions Of Mr.. Swift, to
dismiss the Speaker from the Chair, as out
OF order.
Mr.. Lawrence, Of Logan, proceeded in
defence OF the Speaker, but instead Of
! defence, the Senator rambled and made
i'vers and sundry charges against the de.
mocracy, among which was the one that
! they wished to defeat the new constitution.
/ his whig Senator iorgets that the demo-
CT attic party voted and defended and car
ried lha, measure when before the people,
against the united opposition of nearly eye-
ry whig leader in the State.
When this prepos,erous and silly charge
was made, Mr.. johnson rose and stated
that the whig Senators had charged an in.
lention on his part 10 vote in his own case,
Us the only obstacle TO an organization, ,and
he would submit, for the purpose Of testing
their sincerity, the proposition that if wing
Senators would aid in the passage Of the
bill to call Convention to remodel the
constitution, he, (Mr. Johnson,) would
pledge himself not TO vote on the question
Of his fnal. right. This was stumper-
whiggery was caught, and to rid themselves
OF the difficulty, proposition wos soon at.
ter made to take recess until Tomorrow
morning, and in The meantime, the whig
= caucus will doubtless consider the matter,
and on tomorrow the party will show its
decision by their acts.
The proposition Of Mr.. Johnson was
not accepted. The federal members
showed their utter insincerity, ard we hope
+ to hear no more praiing from the other
side of the Senate about supposed inten-
ton of Mr.. Johnson to vote, being thecause
of the disorganlzaton Of The Senate. On
the refusal TO accept, the proposition Of
Mr.. Johnson was considered Us Withdrawn.
Il SATURDAY, Jan. IL, 1850.
}, During The debate in the Senate on the
question Of the impeachment of the Speak.
Of IL
yilest men, Mr.. Lewis, Of Jefferson, in en-.
deavoriDg TO defend the Speaker, charged
that Democratic Senator had pledged
!; himself to him thrt he would vote against
) NJ. johnson having the right to vote in
his own case. For Time he refused TO
J give the name Of the Senator. On yester-
day, he named Mr. Ferguson as the man.
During the afternoon session, Mr.. Fergu
son, although laboring under severe In.
disposition, rose to question Of privilege
: and replied to the Senator from Jefferson
} and in which he showed most clearly thai
that Senator had not only grossly misstalee
I lhe facts, but that in an attempt to save the
Speaker from the merlled censure due fol
$ his forfeited pledge Of honor, he had been
guilty of other prevaricaton and falsehoods
In so doing, MIR. Ferguson brought to igh
the attempts of Mr.. Lewis TO get himself
made Speaker-hIs refusal to go TO Mr.
I Pavne's room for fear that he would bt
. seen by wings who would suspect his OBJ
$ iect, and of his successful endeavors TO ge
D Mr. Payne TO meet him ut the room Of MI
7 Ferguson at the Broadway Hotel. Some
, of these facts Mr.. Lewis denied, and after.
! wards was forced to admit them TO be true
MIR. Eckley, who it seems has taken the
7 Senator from Jefferson under his specia
| keeping, refused to allow him to answer
7 any more questions.
3 The debate was one of deep pain to Mr..
e Ferguson and to all who heard it, for up
: to that time Mr.. Lewis mad preserved fall
e character for truth and fair dealing, hut SC
clearly was lalsehood and duplicity fastened
3 upon him, that all turned away with loath.
ing and disgust, to think that one who
makes profession of being a teacher oil
Christian religion, could fall so low-coud
: to subserve party interests, be SO debasee
D as to utter uniruths, to save from merilec
. scorn and conlemp. man who had pledged
his word and his honor rs man and as q
: Senator and falsiied the pledge.
MIR. Ferguson was driven to make the
exposure, by the falsehoods and breach o
faith in Mr. Lewis. No one who hearc
) the manly statement of the Senator from
Coshocton could doubt for one moment, the
unvarnished tale he uttered the plain
/ truths he told.
To-day Mr. Converse, Of Muskingum,
made speech Of some length, arguing tbs
constitutionuity of the Apportionlnent law,
f and though oil gavehim credit for great in.
genuity OF argu,nent,and for more than usu
al courtesy in debate, we doubt if he even
succeeded in convincing himself that he
was in the right.-Ohio Statesman.
On Yesterday in Senate, Mr.. Byers took
an appeal from the decision Of the chair,
for ruling as out of order, resolution of.
fered by Mr.. Dennison, when another
question was pending before the Senate.
This appeal, the Speakerdecided out Of or.
der! Messrs. Byers, Burns, Chase, and
, others, showed the Speaker up in so strong
, light, thet even Mr.. Dennison was alarm
ed at the proposition in which his msera-
be dupe had placed himself, and in reply
to Mr.. Byers, MIR. Dennison denied that
the Speaker had made any such decision.