M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1860-01-19
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COLUMpus, Jan. 16. 1S66

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without anything remarkable having
occurred'upon which one can expatiate
at any length to'the interest Of our
readers. The Lower House Of Con-
gress is still unorganized, and so far as
we know may so continue until next
4th of July. The majority winch the
Republicans boasted in Congress, pre-
vioIs to the meeting of that body, has
proved to be nowhere" The Dem.
ocrats have cndeavored to present q
candidate for Speaker who would
prove acceptable to majority Of the
members, but, 80 far, without success.
The Americans have tried to do the
same thing, ard made a similar fail
ure. The Republicans, instead Of
showing such gteompromisiug dispo-
sition, still dOggcdly hold on to Sher.
man, when it is confidently asserted
aud believed, thatsuch man as Cor
win could be electedat once. So far
as this course may affect politics, dem.
Ocrats, having but little ifauy hope ol
electing aman of their own, care but
little how long it may continue. The
Republicans and Americans, all elect
ed over regular democrats, have a ma.
jority of over forty. and upon them
must rest the responsibility of the OK
listing state of Congress.
Sherman, Giddiuss, Delano and
other wheel horses of the Republican
party, have been here within the past
week--all interested, it is said, in the
action Of the Republican caucus Of
Wednesday evening last, The sub
ject of U. S. Senator was ''up." 1t is
supposed that Sherman desired the
postponement of'the subject until in
February, by which time his chances
for Speaker will have been decided.
The election of Chase TO the Senate,
just now, might drive some Of the
Penrsylvanians away from the sup.
port OF Sherman.
The Legislature has passed one bill
making partial appropriations. In
this bill the small sum Of three hun
dred dollars is given to the Secretary
of the State Commissioner oRCommon
Schools" This Secretary is'the State
Librarian, who has not performed one
cents worth of labor for the Commits.
siOner of Schools during the past year.
The Clerk of the School Commission.
er performs all the labor in that de-
partment and is paid therefor a good
round sum. The appropriation, there
fore, amounts simply to an increase of
the salary ofthe'state Librarian three
hundred dollars! If this be speci-
men of Republican retrenchment, it
would be we'll for the people to have
this Legislature adjourn forthwith and
without day.
Speaking of retrenchmeht, reminds
us of a decided "character" in the
House, named Hills, who represents
Ethe Reserve County of Medina. o.
course he is impregnated with all the
crochety notions and false philanthro.
py common inthat notorious region;
but in addition, he is extremely warm
in the cause of 'tretrenchment," and
he rides this hobby with 'the same
gusto as he does the gentleman from
Africa" A resolution was introduced
providing for the .publicati on of 5000
copies of Gov. Dennison's Inaugar al
address, proposition unprecedented
in the annals of the Legislature OF
Ohio, as inaugurals are always deliv-
cred prior to the oath Of Office, and are
not, therefore, official documents. A
law is in force, however, which pro-
vides for the publication of 1000 cop.
les Of each inaugural address. Con-
sideripg the character Of Dennison's
inaugural, we thought 1000 copies
quite q sufficient number. M. Hills
was of the same opinion, at first, de-
claring that it was useless waste of
the peoples money to print 5000 cop,
les of the document in question. A
democrat followed Hills, Objscting to
Ilprinting also upon the ground of the
truthless and undignitied character of
the address. This turn of the ques-
ton cooled off Hills "retrenchment, ("
| in q moment He arose and annonno.