Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-04-16

HE OF THE LEGISLATURE
-ITs REFoRMs.-This is the day fixed up
on by theIGeneral Assembly for adjournment.
TT is likely, therefore, that the labors of the
session will close at midnight. The major
ity came into power with loud pomises of re-
t~renchment and reform. They were to have
a short session of sixty days, aud they were
to have no Extra Session, They were net
to waste time in discussing "nigger bills"
and they were to have no smelling commit
tees" Everything was to be done up quickly
AMI with strict regard to economy. Let US
see how :hey have kept their pledges:
LIST. They have been in session SO days;
I'd. They have voted for an Extra Ses-
sion; SISSY @ @
Sd. They spent more time in discussing
Hnigger bills as they call them, than their
Republican predecessors did.
4th. They have appointed a number of
smelling committees during their session,
ndthey have one which is to sit during the
recess. 3ssf5~ Fsgc 1zA III j. alsisi sa
In addition thereto, threw have not redeem
ed the promises made to the people, to prove
the robbery Of tue Treasury was committed
by the Republicans. They have not dared
tO HUME III uVSSLIS0 LIOu A0LO tHC SdUftCL dL
all, because they know that if they made an
investigation, they would have to report that
the Treasury had been robbed by one of
their own men and to endorse substantially
the report made last fall by Mr.. Sparrow.
They knew at the same time that the people
would ask them when they returned home,
what they had lone in regard to the defalea-
tian, whether what they had said last fall in
regard to it had been verified, and if so,
where was the proof. In order to escape
the force of these pertinent questions, they
passed -b5t appointing Messrs. Morgan,
Edgerton and Reemelin a smelling Commit
lee to 81 t during the recess, and to make re-
port at the next session. So when they are
asked respecting the defalcation, they will
answer wait till The Smelling Committee re-
port text winter.
We do not believe that there is any me-
cessity whatever for the appointment ofthis
committee. The facts relating to the de-
f~aEcation are already known, and nothing
new or startling will or Gun be discovered,
unless indeed, William D. Morgan had beef
put upon the witness stand and made to tes-
tify, but that the majority were determined
should not be done, and in order to prevent
it they made him by act Of the Legislature,
chairman of the smelling committee which
is to make the examination. There is no
man in Ohio vino knows as much about the
def %alcation as Morgan. He was Auditor of
State at the time, and knew all that was go
inn on. He bid the guilty kno Wedge he
possesseG and did what he could to have
Breslin elected Treasurer Notwithstanding
- :.
he knew him to be a de!Ilter, and this is
the man who has been appointed chairman
of the smelling committee to make I%nrcsti-
cations into the matter. / is for his inter-
est either to screen or pervert the facts, and
we have no doubt that he has been chosen
for the post in order to do it.
Again: The majority promised TO lessen
the burden of representatives the taxes.
They have done neither; on the. contrary,
the acts will show that the expenses have
been increased, and the taxes enlarged. A.
great many new iundgships have been crea-
ted; one in part ocular, which rumor says
was made to be filled by a distinguished
member of the majority in the Senate. We
do not charge that there has been any waste
of public money, but the charge SO often and
so falsely made against the Republican leg
~islature, OF wasteiuI extravaganza, of blum
dering imbecility, we intend shall stand con-
futed by the example set us by the present
legislature, the members OF which made the
charges, and profited by them. We intend
to draw parallels, and let the people see how
much easier it is for men to make charges
against others, and to make promises for
themselves; than it is to prove what they
say, or fulfil what they promise.-State Jour
nal Monday.
A brief note dated at Bensonville, Arkan-
sas, on the Sd inst, informs us of a terrific
disaster in that town. On the 9th of March
a dreadful hurricane passed over the place
by which nearly every house in the town
was blown down, and twenty-fv lives were
lost. The wounded could be heard for tw en-
ty-four hours after the storm, under the ruins
of the buildings, where they suffered the
most intense agony. No other particulars
of this accident have reached us,--IMo.
Rep 18th.