Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1857-04-30
Letter from DIR. Sage.
ALLENsvILLE. April 10Th 1857

ALLENsvILLE, April 10Th 1857
FRIEND WALDo:-I see you have com
mitted al error fn your last issue. which
think should be corrected, as | believe all
parties should have justice meted out to
them, especially in matters of SO much i'm
porlance as those about which you were
speaking. You say yet the Democratic
party is responsible for this state of affairs;
and again. 1.-The record proves that the
Democratic majority in the Senate pre-.
vented the transaction of all this important
busisess. meaning the failure of the Tax,
Revenue General Appropriation and 9th
er important bills which passed the House,
but were not reached in the Senate. Now
the reverse of this is true. 1t will be rec
objected by those who read the proceedings
Of the last Senate, that the Miller and Shry
ock contested seats was laid over until two
o'clock on the last Saturday Of the session,
by the consent of all parties, and made
he special order for that day and hour
But when the hour arrived, the Democrats
refused to take it up, but wee clamorous
from that time until the close of the ses-
sion, and were continually making motions
to take up those very bills that failed to
pass; thus show ing a desire to pass upon
the most important legislation of tie State;
but the Republicans, who had majority
in the Senate, and not the Democrats, as
you have it, )refased to the last to let any
business be done until the said contested
seat was decided. thus showing that they
considered that one case of more impor.
tance 10 The people of the Safe than the
passa,e of those bills. DID not then,
nor do Tow, by any means justify the
Democrats in refusing 10 come TO a direct
vote upon that contested seat, but | then
held that 1t was the duty of the Repnbli-
cans to permit those bills to come up and
be enacted into laws, when they saw thai
il was impossible to force vote upon the
othea case. Had they done So, the State
would not now be placed in the condition
j. is. That seat is not yet decided, noi
have we those laws, the enactment OF
which will require special session of the
Lee e5iolaiure; but which might have been
passed had the ma i,ri.y in the Senate per-
mitted it.
The Senator from Floyd County. Mr..
Crane, had gone home sick. thus leaving
he joint vote of the Democrats and Amer
leans in the mnoiiy. there being twenty
five Republicans In the Senate. Asa gen
eral thing. tie Americans ac.ed and voted
wi h the Repubiicans; bu. FIR one. when
found that the Dem ,cra.s woull not let Il
vote b taken in the Miller case. considered
it Of far more impor ance that those essen
tial laws should be enacted and | acted
AMI voted accordingly with the Democrats
10 bring them p ana pass them. While
he Democrats did wrong in not letting the
Miller case come to "a vote, the Republi-
cans did far greater one. in not permit
Ting those bills to pass and become laws,
when they must have known that ifiL was
not done, the wheels OF The State Govern
ment must be greatly retarded. if not en-
.irely stopped. Besides as party move, t
was an error, for as ''the records show"
hey prevented finally the passage of those
avs, while ,he Democrats were pressing
hem forward, anxious To pass them; and
.hus, with the "record" before the people, |
they will in future canvasses gain victories
when. had the Republicans acted more
wisely. il would, doubt not, be other
wise Yours truly, DC.
u - SAGE