Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-02-19
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Tdr- Paying BiN-BiH TO Anaefad Schoot
Law-Supervisor Act-Hamilton Co.
Black BM-Asylum for Idiots-Pris-
on Labor Petitioa-BM to Protect
Working Men-Agricultural Reports
-Penitentiary Claims-P,tblic Works
Inquiry-Capital Punishment-lfili-
tia BH-Bils Introduced-BM Passed
Sale of Public Works.
COLUMBUS, Feb. 10, 1857.
In the Senate, Mr.. Hamilton has intro
duced bill to amend the section of the
the regulating the compensation of County
Treasurers so as to allow taxes to be paid
at the Treasurer's office at any time before
the Treasurer has sent out collectors to dis
train for the collection thereof, without
paying five per cent, as now, for the use of
the Treasurer.
Mr.. Hamilton has also introduced bill
to amend the School Law so as to require
the Board of Education of each Township
to levy upon each sub-district such rate of
taxation as may be needed therein to pro-
long schools after the State fund is ex-
hausted-instead of levying on the town.
ship and distributing as now to the sub
districts according to the enumeration.
On motion of Mr.. Heaton, the Senate
Committee on Roads was instructed to IN
ouire- into the expediency to amend the
Supervisor act so as to provide that the
tax levied in each Township for road pur-
poses should be certified to Supervisors at
an earlier period than is provided by law,
in order to give those who work out their
tax the right to do so at time that will
not so seriously interfere with the farming
interest.
The Senate had up the Dill of Mr..
Holmes, of Hamilton, to prohibit and pun
ish persons reputed to be of African de-
scent from voting. Mr. Taylor, of Mahon-
ing, moved several verbal amendments
which were agreed to in Committee by We
ry decided majorities, and which entirely
destroyed the efficiency of the bill. Mr..
Taylor then moved that its provisions should
only apply to counties having over 100000
inhabitants, which was also agreed to,
amid laughter, and much to the chagrin of
the Hamilton Senators. At the solicita-
ton of Mr.. Holmes, the bill was finally re-
ferred to a select committee of one, and the
black bantling of the Democracy will be
knocked on the head when opportunity Of
fers.
Mr.. Griswold introduced bill to author
ize the Mayor of Cleveland to execute
deeds in certain cases.
Mr.. Garfield introduced bill to estab-
lish an asylum for idiotic and imbecile
youth. The general objects of the bill are
explained by its preamble, which is as fol-
lows:
"Whereas the State of Ohio has recog-
nized the education of its youth as duty
incumbent upon the State, and has provided
for those who are not susceptible of i'm
provement in Common Schools, modes of
instruction adapted to their wants and Ca
pabilities; and, whereas, it appears from
the report of the Secretary of State, that
there is large number of idiotic and i'm
beetle youth resident within its borders,
who are incapable of improvement in the
ordinary public or private schools, who are
burden to their friends, and to the COM
munty objects of commisseration, degraded
and helpless: and, whereas, experience has
satisfactorily demonstrated that under the
system of instruction adopted in schools
for idiots in other States and in Europe,
these youth may be elevated, their habits
corrected, and their health and morals
greatly improved, and they enabled to OBJ
tain their own support; now, therefore, in
discharge of the duty of the State to edu-
cate its weak and helpless children, as well
as the gifted and strong, and to elevate a
hitherto neglected class" DC.
The bill provides for the appointment of
three trustees, and empowers them to rent
a building in or near Columbus for tempo
rary use; to employ Superintendent and
teachers; provides for the support and edu-
cation of nine State benefciaries- for
each judicial district-and for the admis-
sion of as many paying pupils as can be
accommodated in the Asylum. 1t also au-
thorizes directors of county and city in
firmaries, and township trustees in counties
where no infirmary is established to sup
port idiotic youth in the Asylum, at the
expense of county, city or township, as the
case may be. The trustees are authorized
to receive propositions for the future site
of the institution, and are directed to col
leet information in regard to its proper
management, and the cost and construction
of buildings, and to report to the General
Assembly at its next session.
Institutions for educating idiots are al
ready established in several States of the
Union. Of them two are located in Mas
sachusettS, one in New York, and one in
Pennsylvania. Connecticut has taken
means to establish one in that State. The
success of these schools is no longer an ex-
pertinent. Idiots are taught the use of
language, the simple rudiments of learning,
are reformed in their habits, and enabled to
earn their own livelihood. Idiot children
in such asylums at the expense
of county or a township but little exceed
ing the cost at home, can be taught to sup
port themselves, and thus obviate the ne
,essity of further expenditure of public
charity. The bill only asks for the moder-
ate appropriation of three thousand dollars
or the ensuing year.
In the House, Mr.. Mygatt presented the
petition of R. Larnder and So coopers of
Cuyhaga, for the repeal of so much of the
aw of 1856 as legalizes the employment
If prison labor upon mechanical branches of
public industry. Referred to Penitentiary
Committee.
Mr.. Flowers introduced bill to protect
working men. 1t prohibits manufacturers