Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-04-01
Public Works-.Adjourned Sess
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Public Worke..Adi0urne sess
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We commend the interesting Columbus
letter we publish this morning to the atten.
ton of readers. 1t will be seen that the bill
TO provide for the sale of Public Works
has passed the House, by two more than
constitutional majority, but amended so as
to fix the minimum price Of $2,5O00,-
600 and requiring the whole to De
sold or no sale. The terms are such that
should the Senate pass the bill into law,
it is hardly probable that sale could be ef-
fected. We record the vote of tie Repre-
sentatives from Cuyahoga against the bill
with pleasure.
The same record is made of their vote
on the question of an adjourned session of
the Legislature, vote their constituents
will also applaud. An adjourned session
Will doubtless be held. for party caucus
has declared it. The Democrats of the
House held caucus Friday night, and tin
pauned it through, by agreeing to pass the
Senate resolution. The State Journot
learns that member who spoke vehement
ly in opposition to an extra session in the
House, was as vehemently in favor of an
adjourned session in the secret causus.
The party outside of the House will i'd
SO have TO put through caucus drill. The
New Lisbon Patriot notices the passage of
the adjournment resolution by the Senate,
and shouts right out in Democratic meet
ing like an earnest exhorter. Hear brother
.Gill:
"That a dishonest and suicidal act has
been committed no disinterested individ-
tal, endowed with three grains of common
sense, will for a moment deny. The act
is dishonest, because it is direct falsifca-
ton of the promises which secured ma
jority of the Democratic members their
seats, which fact they must know as well
as they know that they breathe. 1t is dis
honest because they know that the people
have repeatedly, and with most unmistak.
able emphasis, expressed themselves in op-
position to annual legislation against too
much Legislation, which is unfxing our le
gal preccdents, distracting our courts of
Justice and piling up mas of special,
local, class, and useless legislation to the
especial annoyance of all those not paid
for squandering time in its enactment.-
Wonder if these Senators remember how
promptly every Democratic member in both
branches of the General assembly, voted
against an adjourned session, when adyo-
Gated by the Republicans in 1861.
We are willing however, to excuse this
squandering of time and money biennially,
provided they do not insult as with an ad-
jcurned session, thus compelling US TO
swallow double dose.
We regard this movement rs suicidal in
that involves the defeat of the Democratic
party when battling on the defeat on ono of
its favorite issues. Thirty days were al
lowed, by those acquainted with legislative
life, as time sufficient for passing sub
treasury bill, and making few other
changes; but three months have already
been consumed with very little prospect Of
usefulness, and we are threatened with an
adjourned session.
In the name of all that is sacred and
profane we would ask what for? What is
there in the present code of our State, SO
intolerable as to demand it; what interest
so endangered as to compel you 10 hazard
your own reputation and the success of the
party which mistook its men in elevating
YOU'D
There is hope that good sense enough
will be found in the House to crush this
iniquitous banlling ana save us from the
ignominous shame which its passage would
entail.
Should it find its way through that body
also should shaky members enough be
wheedled into its support to give sanction
it of the law, We earnestly hope TO see every
democratic supporter sunk so deep, politi-
calIy, that sun beam could not reach him
for an age"
No paper in the State howled louder or
oftener against the adjourned session of
1861 than the Cleveland Plaindealer.
1t was in party line then, and is in party
line now on the question. Listen to the
keynote in brother Gray's exhortation in
Saturdays issue:
"Nor should the Legislature in our opin-
ion abdicate the Government at the END of
the present session, by an adjournment
sine die this spring. The people of the
State are in favor of the principle and prac-
tice of annual sessions, and upon that ques-
ton alone would carry it almost without
opposition. Besides this it would be folly,
it appears to us, to leave the new and re-
formatory measures of the party in power.
at the tender mercies of their opponents in
the other departments of the State Govern
ment.
The welfare of the State demands ses.
sion of the Legislature next winter, and We
look confidently to see the majority accord
their action to the necessity"
The consistency and honesty of the
Dealers course we shall leave brothers
Gill and Gray to settle, and with special
reference to the favorite axiom of the lat
ter-"When man ceases to be consistent,
he ceases to be honest"
What Ohio Will Come to.
1t stated by the San FranciscoAha Cal
Jornia that the slave Archy, who was de-
livered up to his ownes by the Supreme
Court of California, Notwithstanding that
owner voluntarily brought the slave to a