Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-02-25
SATURDAY, Feb. 16.

SATURDAY, Feb. 16.
The House has disagreed to Senate
amendments to the Convention bill, and
has renstated the 20 Tuesday in October,
as the time when the Delegates are TO be
elected. The Senate has.refused to recede,
and if the house of Representatives insist
on its disagreement committee of confer.
ence will have to settle the question -
Mr.. Denuison took occasion to charge
the democratic party with hostility to the
bill, and set himself and his party up as
the friends, pur excellence, OF a new con-
stituiion. This will be news to the people
Of Ohio. who we'll recollect the systematic
efforts Of the whig party, session after sess-
ion and year afler year, to defeat the meas
urs. Why was not the voice of Mr. Dem
nison raised in indignant denunciation of
tbs organ Of his party, last winter, when it
strove to defeat the bill allowing The people
to vote yea or nay on the question Of call
ing Convention? He was silent, as he
was during the canvass, when the whig
leaders ofthis city, by secret movement,
sought by a fraud on the voters, to defeat
l.
/ The democratic party, as party, were
in favor Of the measure-while the whig
leaders, as body opposed it, and Mr.. Den.
nison, in charging different, charges that
which he knew to be untrue.
During the early part of the present
session Of the Legislature, this same Mr..
Dennison as the spartan man of his party,
boasted that he would prevent an organi-
cation of the Senate until the I'd Tuesday
in October next, rather than allow Mr..
Johnson. the Senator from Hamilton to
take his seat. The ulterior purposes, 10 be
carried out, as charged at the time, and be
lieved now as then, was to prevent The Leg.
gsla,ure from passing the Convention bill,
and in this crusade to thwart the wishes ol
the people, this same Mr.. Dennison stood
head and shoulders above his fellows, as
chief instigator Of the fraud. His charges
now, are in direct Opposition to his &C.
| tions then.
Mr.. Whitman, in his5reply, exposed the
falsity of the charge, and the conduct oil
lhe party, whose leader made it.
MONDAY, Feb IS.
In tne f1Ouse, Mf. Nheidon offered res
olution providing for a convention of the
1 two Houses tomorrow at 8 o'clock, to
elect two Associate Judges for Portage, and
one associate Judge for Stark county.
| Mr.. Holcomb moved that the resolution
be laid on the table, which was lost; ayes
%, noes 81.
The question being upon agreeing to the
resolution Mr.. Hawkins demanded the
ayes and noes, which were ordered, and
resulted: ayes 80, noes 80.
So the resolution prevailed. n
In the Senate, the resolution of the
House OF Representatives TO 90 into an
election at 3 O'Clock Tomorrow, for one
Associate Judge for Stark county, and two
Associate Judges for Portage county, was
| taken up.
air. Wilson moved 10 amend by insert.
ing one member Of the board of Public
works Lost-yeas IL nays IA.
Mr.. Dubbs moved TO amend by addne.
one President Judge for the Oh Judicial
circuit.
Mr.. Johnson said that II his presence in
the chamber was TO be the cause of voting
down resolutions 10 go into elections, he,
Mr. Johnson. would rather leave the cham.
Der and abandon his rights here, than to
! see constituents thus punished. He hnd