Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-03-03
Mr.. MARSH said +:

Mr.. MARSH said
Mr.. President Il cannot permit this
occasion to pass, when the Republicans
have been frequently openly assailed with
having signally failed in the purpose of
retrencAnaem and reform, without asking
the indulgence of the Senate, while l ad-
vert briefly to the facts, desiring the peo-
ple to examine them, and for one fear not
the result.
How stands the case? On the 7th of
Janury 1856, the Legislature convened at
the Capital; and how then were the affairs
of the State. all of which for years had
been under the control of Democratic ru-
lers? Tile Finances, Public Works, the
Asylunas, Penitemtiary, State House, and
General Expenditures, as established by
the testimony, (the Democrats, IN the
most of the cases, themselves being wit
nesses.)
And first of the Finances. We found
$2O3, 341 IA not in the State Treasury,
deposited by the Democratic State Treas
urer John Il. Breslin, with certain bank
ers and brokers, now called suspended
funds; and according to the testimony OF
w. w. Cones, with whom $47,79 SO
were deposited, and II. p. Bowman, Dem
ocratic Treasurer of Hamilton Co., it will
in fact, ever lie with that expensive Treas
urv net, the Kanawha Bank. (See APP
pendix to Senate Journal of 1856, pages
! 64-7O) Mr.. Bowman therein testlties as
follows 'In relation to the Kanawha pa
Der, have only to say, that it was under
stood by me that Cones 65 Co., and MIR.
Breslin were interested in the Kanawha
/ Bank as part owners; that Cones & Co.
were engaged in protecting the circulation
of the Bank in Cincinnati; that the $21,-
600 l paid over to Mr.. Breslin (Kanawha
bank paper) was received by me through
Mr.. Cones with the understanding that Mr..
Breslin was to receive the same, and that
transactions were for the purpose of pro-
tectino the circulation as | understand it,
and he further says. "from my knowledge
of the firm of w. w. Cones & Co., and
their business relations, l should not have
made such deposits. which were made on
my own responsibility" page 65-W. W.
Cones very politely declined to answer the
following question, to wit: 'What interest
had J. G. Breslin, late Treasurer, in thai
Bank? State the character and amount oi
such interest if anyp' page II. The con
clusion is irresistib bic; the peoples money
> with peculiar fondness for a metallic cur
rency, was bya pure Democrat, used ant
finally lost in initiating that model lnstitu
ton, the Kanawha Bank.
! Secondly, tile Public Works.
s On the 18th November, 1855, seven o
a the eight sections of the Ohio canals, wer
out of eiohty-six responsible bidders, let t.
8 seven of the highest instead of seven of tn
: Loarest responsible bidders (as the law o
I845 required, at loss to the State o
!: SS4, 38I a year, which for FIVE years tn
n time for which let, amounts to 1891 ,9O5
= and with interest, $50, 900, to the snuI
8 little sum of $377, ,9O5, which might hav
been avoided, had the names of the un
It known Co.'S and their residence, and tn
IS contract and specifications been adOpte
It by the Board of Public Works, as urge
e by the Republican member Mr.. Blickens
l. derfer, on the 23d and 24th of October
d 1855. (See part lst Executive Documen
II of 1866, from page 637 to 645. Th
journals of the Board show Tx. Doc. |
# 642 as follows, to wit: "On the final adoI
.e ton of the contracts and specification
l. Mr.. Blickensderfer moved to amend tn
e. specifications by adding the following SCI
OF ton No. 10, Bidders in submitting PR
~ possls, will be requiredsto slate the name
IN in full, and the residence of each and eV
tie cry person joining in any bid, or who e,
We pect To become Interested IN the contra
H. list Yeas, Mr.. Blickensderfer; nay
he Messrs. Steedman and Griswold-"
h, 1t is not singular that the Democrat
d members of that Board readily foreseeiI
nd that there would be Republican Legisl
n ture elected aud in power in January, 1875
ell who might for the interest of the Sta
rs make some beneficial law or arrangeme
as to the Pblic Works; shoull under