Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-01-27
rhe Proposed Aalsurned sessIon.

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The Proposed Adjourned Session.
Mr. RuKENnRon. editor Of the Salem Repub
Icau, is member Of the House of Representa-
tives from Columbiana county, and in recent
letter to his paper he thus speaks Of a matter
the Republican majority have under cOnsidera,
tiou, Of interest TO the people and the party
lie writes ;hus, January 10Th
In a joint caucus that was held last night, in
the Representative Hail, the question of an
adjourned session was pretty thoroughly disCu,-
sed. Very noarly all from our part ofthe State
were Internationally and uncompromisiugly
opposed to il; but from the centre and southern
portion, they favored it. It was finally laid
over for o0e week, when the subject wall be
again considered. les advocates claim that
there is great necessity for such move-that
1t does belong TO this Legislature to District
the State and if they fail to do it, and the Dem
ocrats in the next election get tho power, and
do the work 20 Suit them, which was in our
place to do when we had it in our hands, the
people will hold us responsible for it. Also the
great danger, they urge, ofpsssing bills, max
ing Appropriations for ttCO years. 1t never was
done but once, and then the records show, was
laid the plot 70 embeEzle nom and swindle the
State out OF nearly all Of it, by Breslin and
Gibson. These and other arguments not neces-
sary 10 mention, are urged by the advoostss of
this measure. The opposition argue that we
can not district the State il We were to adjourn
until next winter, and as to the appropriations,
we must run the risk Of losing them, which
will perhaps not be very great So far as
am concerned and the same is the fact with
Col Brewer, we shall, under all aud every cir
cumstance, in caucus and out Of it, In the Leg
islature and out Of it, vote and protest against
the adjourned session, and for the best of all
reasons, namely, the people Of Columbiana
county will it. They do not want an adjourn
cd session and so far as their expression has
been given, it is against it, and We as their rep
Tssentatives, in that particular at least, shall,
all the time, vote no!
However, in case there should be an adjourn
ed session, this present one viii be a short one,
probably not longer than to the lst of March,
and the adjourned one will not commence per-
haps until about the lst Of February next,
which viii make both, together, no longer than
the one was, of last winter, and consequently no
more expensive.
The sentiment Of the people Of Celumbiana
on the subject of an adjourned session which
their representatives so well appreciate and res
pect,i nearly the unanimous sentiment, without
respect to party, Of Northern Ohio, and we
doubt not of the State. The electors by large
mejorities have twice refused to change the
Constitution SO as to provide for annual ses-
siOns, and hereafter any political party, which,
through its representatives in the General As
sembly runs counter to those emphatic decis-
ions, will just as certainly be run under at the
next election. The people demand that the
salutary provision of the Constitution which
was designed to give some stability to laws and
prevent excess of legislation, shall be faithfully
observed; and adjourned sessions, under any
Pretenee, viii be emphatically rebuked at the
ballOt-boxes. Least of all will the people of
Ohio tolerate an adjourned session for the Pur-
pose of party districting of the State. Such
proposition is unworthy of Republican con
sideration, and an insult to the honest masses of
the party who ask no undue advantage of their
political opponents. They have no sympathy
with the aspirations and tricks of the little
great men who would cut and carve for seats in
Congress, and all such are reminded of the " bad
luck which has attended the Democratic carv-
ing in the last districting of Ohio.
The argument Of danger of embezzIement
in passing bills making appropriations for two
years, comes with bad grace from Republicans.
Itis an uncaIled for and an unjust reflection on
the integrity of the Republican State officers
The Treasury guards too, are much more COM
plete than at the loose period in the manage
ment of our State finances referred to. Now
also the semi annual payment of taxes keeps
the State Golfers in a healthy, instead of the
former plethoric condition.
Retrenehment of State expenses and conse-
quent relief to the people from some of the Op-
Pressive burden Of taxation, are very properly
kept in view by the Republican General AS
semby. The savings, however, should not be
confined to the spigOt, and those in which all
the people have an interest and receive benefits
from. School Libraries and publication of the
laws come home to the minds rather than the
pockets of the people; while short, business
session, and no adjourned one, would most fa-
vOrably affect and impress both pockets and
minds. The last adjourned session cost the
State $4,000 in cash, to say nothing of the
much greater injury the commonwealth sus.
tanned from mere partisan Legislation, and on
both Of which the people pronounced well
considered verdict last October. To again run
the old ship Of State on the same naked rock,
would be folly objectionable in the RepubIi-
cans entrusted with the helm