Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1860-03-16

turc events, and all demand Legislative ac-
ton.
We are here, and the question is, Shall
we stay two months more now, or shall we
go home and sit again two months next
winter, where we can he of some service
to the State by ratifyiug the action of our
officers who are trying to relieve US, and
deyising ways and means to get out Of our
trouble If we adjourn, it is the same ses-
sion of this Legislature, held in two parts,
TO accommodate the interests Of the State,
instead Of one long session at such time
when we cannot have before us our actual
position.
He regretted that we could not adjourn
sooner, but we had drifted on SO far with
out action, that it would be impossible to do
so now But we must make the part Of our
session to be held next winter enough short
err TO equaize this, making not much over
month for the whole two years.
He could not now give the detail Of i'm
portant measures pressing upon this body.
The penitentiary is to he enlarged. A new
one is to be built. The Benevolent Iusti-
tutious are pressing important appropria-
tions. The public works of the State are
crushing the life out of us.
The State is now found to furnish water
power along the canals, and every year
these privileges are increasing in value,
while the fact is moro and more apparent
that the State must get rid of these Works.
We should certainly get rid Of all leases
which can be forfeited: get off our hands
as cheaply as possible all others. 1t was
the great block in the wheel against the
sale of those Works. We have never had
a message from our Governor on these and
kindred subjects, and his views are known
to be wise and prudent, should they be Civ
en- to us as we should meet again.
We need revision of our criminal laws,
now running through sixty statutes, and
tapping and conflicting in various ways, fur
nishing ample loopholes for the escape of
rascals. This we have not time now to
complete, and need to carefully mature.
The capital of Ohio has gone largely in
to railroads, almost all of which are in f.
nancial trouble, and looking to legislative
hour of their dissolution.
A large number of bills arc before US re-
quiring mature deliberation, to pass or pre-
vent from passing, as we shall Judge best
for the State. To complete these now
would take MS at least ninety days, and by
a recess we can act on them in a month
He had decided that his duty to the State
required him to vote for an adjournment,
and he should do so not as Republican
measure or Democratic measure, but as
his deliberate conviction Of duty in an emer-
lgency-such as he hoped the State Of Ohio
would not again find itself in.
A call of the House was then ordered,
and eighty-five members answered to their
names.
Mr. Hitchcock moved to amend Mr..
Nigh's resolution by adjourning on the 10th
of March, which motion was lost.
Mr. Tanneyhill said that he had been
reared in the Jetfersonian school of politics,
one of the cardinal principles of which
school was frequent elections and frequent
sessions of the Legislature. Under the
rev Constitution the Democratic party had
set the example, and rightfully he believed.
Mr.. Tanneyhill proceeded to give his
reasons at some length for the vote which
he should give on this question.
Mr.. Hitchcock was sorry that his amend
ment did not prevail. He thought that
the House could get through by the 10th.
He moved an amendment TO adjourn on the
Goth.
Mr.. Tanneyhill said that if the amend
ment of the gentleman prevailed, he should
consider it his duty to vote against an ad-
iourned session, if the goth inst. was the
day fixed for adjournment.
Mr.. Andrews said that he had ever been
ready since he had been q member of the
General Assembly-and he believed he was
oldest in continuous service of all the men,
bers-to vote and act on all proper occa-
sions for party ends; but he never had, and
he never would, act solely to make bun
combe He thought it a preposterous idea
to pass a resolution on to-day, the 9th
to adjourn on the 10th. The appropria-
ton bills were not yet drawn; after these
were perfected, it would require six days,
according to the rules to pass them, even
though they gave rise to no discussion
There are other subjects yet untouched, the
consideration of which amounts to absolute
necessity.
Among them tho construction Of new
Ipenitentiary is prominent. If the 10Th
had been fixed on month ago, perhaps
the proper business could have been trans
acted; but the 26lh would now be the ear
liest day that could be fixed on with safety.
AS to the question of an adjourned ses-
sion, Mr. A. was in rather paradoxical sit
uaton in reference to it. He had uniform
ly been in favor of biennial sessions, but
this position could now scarcely withstand
the censures of his ripper judgement The
Finance Committee had been instructed by
the House to bring forward bills making
appropriations for the year 81 as well as
the present year; he was the only member
on the Committee who had experience be-
fore the present session, and the balance of
the Committee had to some extent deferred
to him in making the estimates; but he
was entirely unable, with all the light be-
fore him and the benefits of four or five
years experience, to make figures at all sat
isfactory to himself for the year '6l. 1t
had been said by member, few days
since, that after making the estimates for