Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-01-24
POM ER0Y TELEGRAPH.
T. A. PLANTS. EDITOR.
ED1roR1AL coRREspoNDENcE.

TUESDAY, January 81, 1850.
EDIToRIAL CORRESPONDENTS
se.e. No. g..
Busfness OF LegisIature-Ten Per Cent.
Interest Law-An Act to prevent Inva-
sions-No Increase in Salaries-lnau1u-
ral Address-An Act to prevent Eman-
! eipation In Ohio.
! s. CoLuMBrs, Jan. II, 1850.
The business of Legislation is pro-
crossing as rapidly as could be expected.
But as most of the members are new,
and each one feeling the awful response
bility of his position, and the absolute
necessity of amending and changing our
l present laws, as we'll as the enactment of
an abundance of new ones, the work of
the session promises to be arduous-
With one hundred and four members of
the House who must go exiting" to i'm
mortality upon the bills they introduce,
or not go at all, it will readily be: seen
that the tables must s'groan" under the
weight of that kind of literature. 1t is
not necessary to cucumber our letters
/ with abstracts of all the "bills. '' They
must, however, go through the mill,
which will occupy much time; but in the
end most of them will be strangled as
they deserve.
| A very interesting discussion has been
had in the Senate upon a bill to revive
the ten per cent interest law The prop
osition was introduced on the first day of
the session, and was disposed of in that
body to-day by an indefinite postpone
ment Some of the ablest of the Sena-
tors took opposite sides, and the debate
demonstrated the fact that in that branch
of the Legislature there is some of the
best talent in the State. The decisive
majority by which the bill was indef-
nitely postponed after full discussion,
settles the fate of that measure for this
session. A large number of the mem
bers of the House, if not a majority,
would vote for the change; but the deci-
sive vote of the Senate demonstrating,
as it does, that the measure cannot pass
that body, will save the consumption of
time in its consideration by the House.
Mr. Harrison, an able Republican
member Of the Senate, but strongly
tinctured with old henkerism, and rep
resentipg constituency Of the same sort
in part, introduced to the Senate, on the
first or secoud day of the session, bill
to protect our Southern brethren" from
military invasions from this State. This
"apple of discord," although not so in
tended by its author, has revived the
dropping hopes of the Democracy in an
| ticipation of conflict in the ranks of
the Republicans. Itis very we'll known
that but very few of the Republicans
can vote for the bill, but it is hoped that
enough can be induced to do so to pass
it, with the aid of the entire Democratic
force. Mr.. Monroe, from the Committee
to whom the bill was referred, has made
an able and, we think, unanswerable mi
nority3 report, showing why the bill
should not pass. Final action has not
yet been taken upon it in the Senate,
and it has not, of course, come up in the
House It seems to US, besides being
wholly uncalled for, to be deliberate
insult, not only to the people of this
State, but of the Southern States as well.
It assumes that the citizens of Ohio are
disloyal to the Government and laws of
the country, and that the Southern States
are unable to protect themselves. It is,
moreover, seeming Endorsement of the
rantings of Governor Wise, and the
slang of the Democratic press generally.
But there are few gentlemen here,
who, although elected by Republican
votes will not be called Republicans, and
in order to show their perfect independ-
ence, lean clear over to the Democracy
on all questions where submission to the
demands of the Shareholders are con-
cerned. How many of this class there
may be is not yet known, as no test vote
has been taken, If there should prove
to be sir in the House then the Repub-
licaus have not majority What the
fate Of the bill may be is therefore un-
certain.
A bill was introduced into the House
raising the salaries of Common Pleas
Judges to $500 In Committee of the
Whole to-day, it. was indefinitely post
poned by very large majority. What
ever else may be done there will be no
increase of salaries voted by this Legis-
lature. A sincere desire to economic
and retrench wherever practicable is
manifestly predominant in the mass of
the members.
Quite spirited discussion sprung up
to-day on a motion to print the usual