Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-04-01

The specimen Of parliamentary decenoy and
Senatorial manners which we give below, was
exhibited in the Senate on Tuesday. Senator
schleigh succeeded in writing himself down
what a celebrated character was obliged to call
another to do for him and the Democratic ma.
jority with one honorable eXoeption--Mr Reid
of Delaware--showed a spirit Of petty and i'm
potent molignity, that must make them despise
themselves when they see il spread before the
public The potent, grave, and reverend Sena-
tors of the great State of Ohio could descend
10 the petty meanness Of sending an INSULT
ing message to the Governor, insolently ac-
cusing him of Withholding knowledge of fraud,
aud suppressing a report which was sent to this
same honorable body last April, and is published
in their journal
Have the habits of these Senators so stupe.
fed their faculties that none OF them could re-
member the proceedings Of last session; or are
they such ignoramuses that they cannot refer
to their own journals for so public circum-
stance as this The Governor has shown due
consideration for the maudlin intellectual imbe
cility Of these Senators in referring them to the
precise page Of their journal where the inf1r-
nation they have acquired so sudden an anxiety
for can be found. II would be well for the Sem
ate to elect some secretaries, whose duty it
shall be to assist their obfuscated faculties, and
furnish them information of their own acts, end
who shall have the ability requisite to refer to
the Senate journal for a simple record and, II
it IS not asking too much, perhaps it would
save the State from disgrace il the Democratic
party would send Senators here who shall main
tain the outward sembance of decency, and
- 1oas IN, Nhoir ,ffioial tntaronrrpn
with the chief executive officer Of the State,
who represents the majority of the sovereign
people, while they represent nothing but a
fraudulent apportionment, assume the manners
Of gentlemen The following is he Governors
appropriate reply to their insulting resolutions.
| Stale Journal.
STATE OF Ono, Executive DEPARTMENT,
CoLUMBUs, March 80, 1859.
To the Senate:
received yesterday but not in time for an
answer before your adjournment the following
resolutions adopted by your Honorable body
"Resolved That the Governor be requested
to inform the Senate at his earliest conven-
ience whether he has had in his possession since
the month of April, 1858, official knowledge
that fraud to the amount of SlO,600 existed
in the stocks reported to the State Treasury
| for the pretended security Of the circulating
notes of the Sandusky City Bank; and why, if
such information has been in his possession, he
has withheld a knowledge OF the fraud from
the Legislature and from the public
"Resolped That the Governor of Ohio be re-
quired to communicate to this body, without
further delay, copy the report made to him
by W. o. Collins, Esq, Special Examiner of the
Treasury, and which report has been heretofore
| suppressed"
In answer to the first clause of the first reso-
luton, beg leave to state that have no in.
formation in respect to the subject matter of
your inquiry, except what is contained in the
report of William y. Collins, Esq, sent to the
Senate for information of the General Assembly
on the 10th day of April, 1858, and printed in
the Appendix to the Senate Journal, pages 253
and 27l inclusive, to which l respectfully re-
| fer you.
The latter clause of the first resolution and
the whole of the second are expressed in Ian
guage which, l am sure, your honorable body
will, upon reflection, regard as unsuted to in
tercourse between the Senate and the EXecu-
tive. The respect due to the people who have
entrusted to me the Chief Magistracy of the
State, must forbid any reply to either.
(Signed) S, p. CHASE.