Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1859-04-08
81. LouIs Election.
STUPID INsOLENCE.

The specimen of parliamentary decency
and senatorial manners which we give be-
low, was exhibited in the sentate on Tues,
day. Senator Schleich, succeeded in writ
ing himself down what celebrated charac-
ter was obliged to call another to do for him
and the democratic majority with one hon
orable cxcoption-Mr, Reid, of Delaware
showed spirit of petty and impotent ma
lignity, that must make them despiso thom-
seves when they see it spread before the
public. The potent grave, and reverend
senators Of the great State Of Ohio, could
descend to the petty meanness of sending
an insulting message to the Governor, inso-
lontly accusing MIN of Withholding know
ledge of fraud and supressing report
which was sent to this same honorable body
last April, and is published in their Journal.
Have the habits of these Senators so stu
lpofied their faculties that mono Of them
could remember the proceedings of last ses-
sion; or are they such ignoramuses that they
cannot refer to their own journals for SO pub
| lie circumstance as this? The Governor
has shown due consideration for tho maud
lin intellectual imbecility of these Senators
in referring them to the precise page Of their
journal where the information they have ac-
quired so sudden an anxiety for can be found.
1t would be well for the Senate to elect
some secretaries, whose duty it shall be to
assist their obfusticated faculties, and furnish
them information of their own acts, and who
shall have tho ability requisite to refer to
to the Senate journal for simple record
and, if it is not asking too much, perhaps il
would save the State from disgrace if the
democratic party would send Senators here
who shall maintain the outward semblancc
of decency, aud who will at least in thei
official intercourse with the chief executive
officer Of the State, who represents the ma
Ijority of the sovereign people, while the.
represent nothing but fraudulent appor
tionment, assume the manners of gentle
men. The following is the Governors ap
propriate reply 70 their insulting resolu
tiops ~ O. S. Journal, a.I aat @
STATE OF OHIo, EXEC. DEPARTsfr,
. CoDUMBus, March 80, 1850.
To the Senate:
l received yesterday, but not in time 70
an answer before your Adjournment the fol
lowing resolutions adopted by your Hopora
able body: 4 fn" ~
"Resoived, That the Governor be request
ed to inform the Senate at his earliest con
venience whether he has had in his posses
sion since the month of April, 1858, officia
knowledge that fraud to the amount Z
J $l0,6oo existed 10 the stocks reported ;
the State Treasury for the pretended scct
rity of the circulating notes of the sandp'
Ky City Bank and why, if such informntio
has been been In his possession, he has will
held knowledge Of the fraud from th
, Legislature and from the public.
! hResolved, That the Governor Of Ohio b
required to communicate to this body, will
out further delay, a copy Of the report mad
: to him by W. o. Collins, Esq, Special E,
! aniner of the Treasury, and which repo
(; has been hitherto suppressed"
!. In answer TO the first clause Of the fir
O resolution, beg leave to state that | hay
no information in respect to the subject ma
ter of your inquiry, except what is containe
= in the report Of William o. Collins, ESQ
sent to the Senate for information Of ii
General Assembly on the 10th day of Al
,. riI, 1885, and printed in the Appendix
the Senate Jcsrnal, pages 253 and 27i il
elusive, 70 which | respectfully refer You.
The latter clause Of the first resolutic
and the whole of the second are expressC
& in language, which, ] am sure, your hone
able body will, Upon reflection, regard
unsuited 70 intercourse between the Sena
and the Executive. The respect duo TO Il
people who have entrusted to me the Chi
Magistracy of tho State, must forbid any 7
in nv 10 either. (Sicued1