The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-04-06
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The specimen of pari.a nentary deeenc and
Senatorial manners which we give below as
exhibited in the Senate on Tuesday Senator
Schleigh succeeded in wiring himself down
what a eelebrated character was Obliged TO
call another TO do for him: and the Democrat.
ic majority with one honorable excePffnr--
Mr.. Reid, of Delaware-showed spifi OF
patty and impotent malianits. that nas' make
them dispise themselves when they see it spread
before the public. The potent. z ave and
reverened Senators Of the great State OF uiao
could descend to the petty meanness OF send
ing an insulting message TO tie Governor, IN
solently accusing him OF withholding knoSl~
edge of fraud. and snppres<i <ing report which
was sent to this same honorable body last
April and il published 10 heir journal.
Have the habits Of these Senate ors so stupe
fed their faculties That none of them could
remember the proceedings of last session; or
are they such ignor muses. that they cannot
refer to their own journals for SO public cir
cumstaDce as this2 The Governor has shown
due consideration for the maudlin intellectual
imbecility Of these Senators in referring them
to the precise page of their journal where the
Information they have acquired 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 obfnscafed fac.
ulties, and furnish them information of their own
acts, and who shall have the ability requisite to
9 refer to the Senate journal for simple record;
and. ifit is not asking too much, perhaps il
would save the State from disgrsce if the Dem.
ocratic party would send Senators here who
shall maintain the outward semblaDce of de
AGENCY and who WILL in their official intercourse
3 with the chief executive officer of the State
who represents the majority of the sovereign
people, while they represent nothing but a
fraudulent apportioDmert, assume the manners
Of gentlemen The following is the Governor.
appropriate reply to their insulting resolutions
Z State Journal. assI5 aI 8a
STATE OF ONO, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMxT. I
OoLuMBUs, March 80, 1859.
To the Senate: =
received yesterday, but not in time for ar
sanswer 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
fence whether be has had in his possession since
the month Of April 1858, official knowledge
that fraud to the amount of $l0.600 existed
in the stocks reported to the State Treasury
for the pretended security of the circulating
! notes Of the Sandusky City Bank; and why, i
such information has been in his possession. ht
has withheld a knowledge of the fraud from tht
Legislature and from The public
Rcsolued, That the Governor OF Ohio bt
requirdd to communicate to this body, withou
further delay, copy the report made IL
him by w. o. Collins, E O., Special Examine
of the Treasury, and which report has bee,
heretofore suppressed
In answer to the FIRST clause of the 6rst res
! olntion beg leave to state that have nt
information in respect to the subject matter q
your inquiry. except what is contained in tn,
report Of William o. Collins Esq sent to I h
Senate for Information of the General Assem-
g bly, on the 10th day of April 1858, and print
ed In the Appendix to the Senate journal
pages 253 and 271 inclusive. to which re
spectfnlly refer you. ma r.sf
The latter clause of the first resolution ant
the whole of the second are expressed in Ian
gnage which, l am sure your honorable bod
will. upon reflection, regard as unsuited t
intercourse between the Senate and the Exec
utive The respect due to the people VIII
have entrusted to me the Chief Magistracy {
the State must forbid any reply to either.
(Signed) S. P. CHASE.