Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-03-04
Ohio Legislat ure.

The question OIL Inc repeal OF the
School Library provision of the present
law, has been warmly debated. The
vote stood Tin the House, AZ to AZ
lost.
The Canal Contracts are still under
examination.
We extract from the Columbus COR
r~espondence Of the Cleveland Herald,
the following:
Mr.. Cory presented the memorial Of
Mr.. Hosea, setting forth his claims TO a
seat as the member to fill the vacancy
occasioued by the expulsion of Mr..
Slough, inclosing his certificate of cleo.
ton, and surrendering the seat to Mr..
Hosea. Documents referred 10 Commit
tee on Elections. The committee report
ed the facts in the case, showing that
Mr.. Hosea has a majority of II votes
oqer Mr.. Slough. Mr.. Hosea was con-
Quoted to the Clerks desk by Mr.. Cor
ry, and by the same gentleman to the
late Mr.. Slourh's seat. 1t was a proud
occasion for Mr.. Cory, for of all the
Democrats in the House. Mr.. C. had a
lone taken the position of right, sustain
ed by a majority of the Representatives
and of the people of Hamilton county
Before the vote was taken on the resolu-
ton admitting Mr.. Hosea, Mr.. CORY
advanced to the tribune, and most i'm
pressively said:
REPRESENTATIVES: The right of Mr..
Hosea to his seat among us being clear
from these papers, l ask that he may be
sworn into Office.
II is proper for me. as the colleague
of the new member, and as the represen-
tative of the people, TO express my salts
factoa at the concurrence Of public SEN
timent in Hamilton county with the &C
ton of this House. The member who
was expelled by is, has appealed TO the
august tribunal Of the people, and they
have decided that for violating the n
tity of this place of deliberation, by
striking a fellow member with bis fist
during business, and afterward persist
ing in his fault to the last, he did deserve
expulsion.
The question involved in this whole
transaction, was not one of party politics
or party organization: it was purely a
question of public decency, affecting
alike the rights and feelings of all the
citizens. There has been an unlucky
attempt TO put a false construction upon
our proceedings. The pariizan press
and partizan politicians had thought fit
10 forget that there could be no differ
ence of opinion upon the delinquen-
cy of the member expelled in the breasts
of u people. 1t was not possible for
misrepresentation and party tramm els
10 bring out more than two thirds of the
vote Of Hamilton county; and in several
wards and townships the refusal of the
Democracy to indorse Mr.. Slough was
emphatic ; with thousands at command
they had no majority to give.
The great moral of this crisis which
is just past, is, that there is a people il
Ohio altogether equal to their own form
of self-government. They require their
representatives to obey the restraints Of
reason and justice. The time is quito
recent when these began to be violated
in public places. But the people and
Legislature of Ohio have now settled it
that force shall be no longer tolerated 10
their deliberative bodies; and the people
of the United States will soon come up
to the support of Congress if they expel
every man who has violated his oath
and duty by fraud.
When force and fraud are forever
banished from all our deliberative as
semblies, the great Confederation, and
the greater cause of Liberty, will have
secured the only conditions Of existence.
Then, and then alone, Justice with her
ever scales will decide which way in-
clines the weight of reason and argu-
ment in the adjustment of controversies
in the establishment OF the Truth--the
Free. ].
The resolution of admission was adopt
ed. yeas IS, nays none. A number of
Democrats were absent or lodged. Sew
ersl voted for the resolution. Mr..
Slough's majority in 1856 was 1900.
DESTRUCTIVE CoNrLAGRArIoS.-On
the afternoon of the 9th ult., a 6,e
broke out in the Montgomery warehouse.
in Mobile Ala, which with Hunts and