Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-03-15
ooIUMBUs CORRESPONDENCE.
CoLunpus, March ls.

CoLUMBUs, March l3,
Rp. LEADER As Soioumer in ibis law.
making city, have slight propensity TO talk,
and hence this letter ] have been here few
days and have looked in upon the House and
Senate. However those bodies may have
worked at the beginning of the session, they
are very industrious now. do not understand
that they were idle then but they know how
to work better now. I do not decide what
legislation was needed, but whatever was
wasted has been much intsriered with and i'm.
peded by the notion Of retTenohment. This
idea Of retrenchment seizes and makes mad
some two or three men, every session Of the
Legislature, whOwake up to find their usetul>
ness gone and nothing done Members ought
toreAect that much relrenchmsul is not poe.
sible. If any material reduction Of taxes is
made,it must be by suspending expenditures of
a kind that cannot be suspended and preserve
the State. The tax for Public Schools is the
lesding expense not necessary to carry on the
government in its technical sense So of the
State debt. The government can go on with
all these suspended. But where is the man
who will even suggest either ! When the
retrenchment man looks round him for other
subjects, he fnds them dwindle down to few
paltry items, such as the publication of few
laws in the ne sEspspeTs. The useful member
to his constituents, is the man who goes ssRsi-
bly, to work to do things and not talk about
them. he vail accomplish something. l have
never seen more striking case of this kind
than in the members from Medina One Of
them is always talking about Fetrenchment in
some way, but especially in printing. He seems
to think that the press is supported out OF the
public funds His constant talk in this way
has disguised the members, and he has lost his
usefulness. On the other hand, his cOllesuge,
Dir. Sears, is a worker, a man Of plain, easy
manners, making himself agreeable to all, nev>
er talking and getting into the reports, but
using his personal influence, which amounts TO
something's TO carry through some measure i'm
poTtance. On the passage Of the bill for the re-
lief of the Cleveland, Medina d Tuscarawas R R.
Company, this trait in his character was of
value. On his representation to members
and few words on the floor, the bill passed
almost unanimously, though it was Of the same
character as the Marietta Bill, over which was
made the hardest fight of the session. This
bill passed the House on the day that the
Adjournment Resolution was adopted, when
Mr.. Hills, by a singular coincidence, went to
visit the Southern Lunatic Asylum. in the place
Of a member who was known to be in favor of
an adjourned session. This is only specimen
Of very many cases / could point out. Give
me the men, who, like Mr.. Sears i0Ork, with
spirit Of liberality, if want county well rep
resented.
We are now within two weeks of an ad
jourDment for this year and the work begins
TO move in earnest, and the members are in
good trim. There viii not be much left unat-
tended TO at the close Of this session. Yester-
day we had fght over the resolutions of Mr.
Hutcheson, apologizing to Virginia for the
HaTpeTs Ferry affair, when he made long
speech for Southern admiration. The resolu
tions were amended so that their friends would
not vote for them, and then voted down. SO
that humbug is at an end. The House refused
to engross the bill for an additional Judge in
the Ashtabula sub district, by decided vote
The calendars for to day are full of third
readings, so that we shall have lot of bills
passed to-day, or otherwise disposed Of
This morning is one of the most delightful
spring mornings, when you have probably snow
On Saturday and Sunday it was cold here, but
we haYe had no snow.
The strictly anti slavery measures of this
session will now be all, or nearly all postponed
till the next session. We had SO many men
here who thought at first that Liberty meant
the picture on the half dollar, that nothing
could be done for freedom till they were through
with their Ietrenchment projects. Now hope
they will discover that men are of more value
than dollars. ERIE,