Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-01-11

haps, than il has receixediD thu Executive
hiessags9 WSalttihutsithis not alone to
he Iepugnance ofjeEiss 70; enEh1ei ilih
death pedalty .fbuliI pant also TO prosecu-
ting officers, and to the ltlo E1x lptlhiini5s
tals10iIof justice generally. which char
aeterizes the present eeneisi0iiI A Me
doubt, Mhether legisla;i0ni willospesdilY
remedydldsiexjl, though the suggestion OF
the Governor, rs to leaving ito,,the Courts
the alternative ofapunishing with death or
iihpifsonment for life, in capital cases.
migPtts tend g insure greater certainty Of
conviction. t,,,1,,,rl- fse,, ~. ,,,f XXI,
~ The total receipts into the Treasury,
during the last year, were @3,758g E57,'
and tie total Disbursements, ,$3 532, ,602, 2
62, leaving a, balance in lhe Treasury Of
$226.Il8.95;V The total valuation Of tax.
ableireal estate is a$590s205. .947. u and Of
chattels, $3.50 514.084. itfhe-totAl lsvies
Of the year for State purposes were S9,-
978.i get for cohhbyp1Iboseb, S3. $40 .e4S Ss
township, city, dscE.Iss6 ,7i7a sea.
In, regard to the Tax and Treasury Jaws
Of last session, Cow Chase offers some
very appropriate and well considered sug-
geslions. His criticisms on Certain fea-
lures, of the Sub Treasury Act are 50
clearly just and unansweablej that We
trust the present session will not close
without some amendmentof that defective
law. :, sli ,s .npn,se-4i 81 ~ ,Ia.aYis,l asI.
, a The aggregate public debt, of all des-
eriptions, is $i7, l66,972 81. Oftthis,
SO, 413, 525 IL falls due within one year,
for which our Democratic legislators,
though heretofore requested 10 do 80, have
failed 10 make adequate provision. II is.
notyet too late, certainly, to save the re-
putation and credit of the Sate--as the
Government will of course take eareA.o do
but itymight have been done to better
advantage, probably, al, an earlier day.
9 Gov. Chase speaks out decidedly in
favor of sustaining the action Of our. Su-
preme Court on the bank tax question-1re-
cogniziDg no authority Of the United
States Supreme Court to reverse its
decision. The nuconstitutionality a. Of
the act OF last session which virtually de-
stroys the Board of Public Works, sub
stituting single and independent superin-
tendents of particular division, is conclu-
sively shown It's ''free plundsr" feature
is also properly exposed. We can hardly
hope. however that the present Legisla-
ture viii retrace this illegltimate partisan
step
The Pubic Works appear still to be
burden instead of a source of revenue; yet
their sale, on the terms-msistsd'vn by The
9 GoEerRorlisS indispensable 70. the 10 Lerssis
Of the State, ,isl hardly possible, On any
less sqpilable and sale conditions, such
sale wv ould5 be almost universally epn-
deninel and deservedly so.aiz1a .sUsh
bs1lbei other Recommendation Of the Ex-
eeutise, which are few, are such asiwiH be
generally approved He does not taikEor
btttfreats of only lsdelfhiasters
as are NATURALLY forced upon his attention
and always. offers good reason 'f3f what
ever Legislation is proposed, He introdu-
ces no distractions, and says nothing that
an properly give offense in any quarter,
however much his views, clearly and un-
hesitatingly proclaimed as they are, may
De dissented from by political opponents.