The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1856-04-30
The Extra Session.

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Great effOrs are being made BY the color.
ed Republican press in this State to show
the people the cause Of their holding an eI.
lrs session. To show tie rolteuness Of the
whole affair. !, is only neee.sAy for every
honest man in the State to read the follow
ing from The Statesman. Notice par -icular.
. y IheramAsks Of Messrs Smilh. Truesdale
and dygati. and see the rascality of the
whole muvrmen:-
When the scheme was eoneocted by the
reckless leaders Of the fusion party in the
Legislature 10 hold an ex r. session. il was
sounded far and wide that committee was
IoAr appointed 70 smell out reasons 10 go TO
the ftoPie as sn excl sc for such extiao d..
nary and useless waste OF tbepubFe money,
as an extra session would incur, TO say no
thing Of rhe duublsal propriety under the
new Constitution Of Ohio which restricts
the sessions TO biennial.
A joint committee was therefore appoint
ed long time before the adjournment, we
believe in February. and every body was
az xious and impatient to see whst kind of a
Report would be made. but no one could
hear Of the committee or their doings, until
a few days ago, when the State Journal
rcunt'nnec @hat purported to be Report
from said coraniltee, and brief and SAnse-
less as it was, outsiders were led to believe
that it was the real Report. But why no
notice Of il appeared N the reported pro
ceedirgs Of the two houses no one could
tell. We supposed our reporter had over
looked i. But in the proceedings Of the
House on Il last day OF eile session we find
The follosing developeinent, which speaks
/ for itseli .. ... +.. : II,
"Mr. Smith Of Montgomery said that he
rost TO question of ,priwlege- lie had
beeh appointed on tie committee to end out
reasons fol- an adjourned session. Now be
did net know that that committee had ever
had meeting, he had certainly never been
asked to attend, but he found that there
hau been Published ia the Ohio State Jour,
nal, what purpovted to be report by that
committee signed by six mcHabers. He now
asked whether that committee had ever re
ported to this House? . .. as.
"Mr. ,Truesdsle said that il bad not, the
document published in the Journal was in
Formal, though soRle Of the members of the
committee had agreed to It.
"Mr. NygaI. said that he might becon.
sidered paired off with Mr.. Smith. lie was
on the cosaalittee, bat had not 5eea reaues.
ted - attend" ..........t .s.... ... ...
A more transparent trick, baser moral
forgery cannot be found in the annals of
legislative monstrosites. If this is the NOR
fal standard Of politicians and Legislators,
the peopl lie vii naturally enough conclude
that legislative session, once in ten years
will be quite as often as will be necessary.
Tie truth is. that after smelling round
thre' months and half, with dozen or
two egisla i've committees, they fouad moth
| ing that would justify even the calling OF
the committee on reasons together, and
hence, TO use the language Of Mr.. Trues-
daie, for language is "pecuiar iustitu,
tion" of i'self it was necessary to escape
the dilemma, AMI foel the public by slipping
an "INFoRMAl" report, never shown to the
coHimittee as CHI, into the columns of the
Ohio State Journal as part of the legislative
dongsl s Hv. ssat. Ea 10.
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This disgraceiul transaction stamps with
| lindellbIe lntamy the hue and cry about the
public institutions--the necessity OF an ex-
ira session--and the three demonstrations
judicial Committees TO sit during the recess
Of the legislature. r
After The committee of the Legislature
had gone round to all the InstitR'ions were
received not only with civility, and every
Act Book end Record were 'cheerfully O.
pened to them. they should have had the
manliness 10 have stated the facts as they
discovered them, ans AS WAS their duty tt
DO. But this would not answer the purpose
either of keeping up elannor-o of making Ila
ces for hungry committeeman, with trair
OF clerks and policemen as long as the tai
OF Turkish Bashaw,to to sit during the re
cess and report to an extra session! All thi
was necessary TO complete the scheme o
tire Presidential campaign, md make tht
pat1ic Treasury foot the bills!