Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-03-08

20 Bank, he could be sued upon his bond by
the State, but not by the Bank So,sihe lille
gelly issued bank bills, he Is responsible to tho
State for malfeasance In Office, upon his bond.
The Bank can have no power over him. He Ia
an officer of State, gives bond to the State, and
can only be sued by the State, and the State is
certainly responsible for the correctperformanee
of the duties of her officers.
SsItmay be true that the State has engaged TO
perform an onerous duty--a duty which It
should never have undertaken-.a duty which
may cost the State ultimately ihundrcds of
thousands OF dollars! But, Mr.. President, II
my reasoning Is correct, IL 10 a duty which the
State has voluntarily assumed and from which
she cannot honorably shrink.
a Mr.. JONES moved TO amend the bill by strik
ing out the second section Of the bill which pro.
vides for, paying the Receiver $500 out of the
assets Of the Bank s3ta8 r'4 HaRI
Inc bill was.recommitted to Mr.. MONROE,
VINO reported 1t back with the above amend
men1, n Tnen the bill was putupoD lie passage and
Those who voted in the Affirmative weye
Messrs. Breck, Bonar, CollinS. Cox Crnnv
Cummins, Fisher, Garfield, Glass. McCsI
Monroe, Morse, Parish, Ready, Smith.
Sprague-16.
Those who voted in the negative we're
sMessrs. EAson, Ferguson, Foster, Harrison.
Harsh, Holmes, Jones, Key, Laskey. Moore
Newman, Porrill, Schleieh, Stanley and White
-l5. l3ilc yfolt. WYNN
Mr.. COX offered the following, which was
adopted, viz: 'V
Resoiusd, By the General Assembly, that
5000 extra copies of the report of tho Commis.
soner OF Statistics be ordered to be printed for the
use Of the General Assembly---all said copies
to be bound In cloth.
Messrs. Smith, Eason, Stanley and Brewer
had leave OF 'absence until Tuesday afternoon
next. baos .Il, =
The Senate took a recess
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
+ Yesterday, when II. B No. 80, by Mr.
| JONES, was under consideration, Mr., HILLS
opposed Its passage, mainly on the ground thai II
\ provided for too frequent revaluation of real
estate, and instead Of shortening the time from
aix TO i've years, he was 10 favor of lenetbepipe
the same to period of ten years. He contend.
ed that u was not the amount we had on the
| grand levy that was sought by a reyaluatiop.
but equality, and that might be found with as
much certainty by taking every other Eve years
the average increase Of land sales mado in each
county, and add fair per cent. of such
increase to the levy last made. this
to be done in 1865, then in 1870 have
another reyaluation made, and so on eyery
ten years thereafter, and every interme-
diate five years add the average increase az be-
fore provided for. In vindica;ing his plan,
Mr.. Hills stated that the Board of Equalization
relied on the sale tables from each county, found
in reports Of the Commissioner OF Statistics, more
than any other data, In deternining whether to
increase or diminish tho value as fixed by coun +.
ty boards, from which they finally fix the aver
| n 0a fnr on m ~. L
IL the wiser policy to provide for royaluatiop
once In ten, rather than once In five years:
thereby saving half the expense that accrues, If
we adopt this bill He said he made these sug.
| gestions In hopes that others, better qualified,
might bestow on them such thought as would
save the State from a growing, and he sin
cerely thought useless expense ..
Prayer by Rev. Mr.. Trimble
On leave, Mr.. THOMPSON, of Perry, intro
duced House Bill 4l2-To extend the iurisdio.
tion Of the Probate Court Of Perry county
which was read the first time.
On motion Of Mr.. KRUM, the Committee TO
whom was referred 8. B. 78--Relating to
Dltches-was instructed TO amend the same go
as to drain School Section No. I6.
On leave, Mr.. NIGH, from a select commit
tee, reported back II. B. 395-For Loan In
Monroe county-fxing the rate of interest on
1 VIZ lbob Nv uOt huONo . per cent,
Mr.. WOODS moved TO amend the report by
fixing the maximum at seven per cent.
Mr.. CONVERSE moved to further amend nv
making 1t elk per cent.
il Mr.. STOUT objected to these amendments.
as likely to make the bill useless as means of
immediate relief.
Mr., BLAKESLEE thought the local author.
| tiles competent to manage the matter
+ Mr. WELSH object ed to these amendments
ae, they were adopted, aud the limit fixed AT
less than eight per cent, he did not think the
money could be borrowed at a lower rate. and
the bill would be Of no use to the county asking
It,. -.
Mr.. CARLISLE concurred with Mr.. Welsh
and hoped the report would not be amended.
Mr.. BROWNESof Miami, would support the
oii u sEch shape as preferred BY tho represen-
| q Mr.; BURR said ifthe House was not willing
TO permit the loan to be made. they had better
vote the Dill down, and not paes 1t In form
that wouldbe useless. =
Mr.. BRUFF said he protested against allox-
ing higher rate of interest 70 be uaid by COR
porations or counties than individuals; and IL il
was in order, would move to strike out all rela-
ting to rate OF interest, leaving the rate to be
governed by the, general law. He further ob
Jected to the long time of the loan. He would
not have this loan to be paid by another genera
tioni and would therefore fix the time OF nav.
ment at less than ten years. 'iI q
Mr.. SCOTT, of Jefferson, remarked that as
this loan was to supply defalcation of a treas
urer, he was not willing 10 vote for It unless as
sured that proper legal proceedings are had
against the treasurer. lfui-g@ g@nNsil
The amendments Of Messra. Woods and Con.
yerse were disagreed to. ftld YI5
! q me-. BRUFF moved TO amend, by leaving out
all rate Of interest aud fixing the time Of nav !.
ment at i've years, inetead OF ten, which was
disagreed to. i asi li.Ti y
Mr. BALDWIN objected to the bill, as no. be-
| State.
Mr.; TANNEYHILL cited the provisions for
local legislation In reply to this, when
mne phi was passed---yeas 62, nays 81.
~ Inc House took up the special ordor-H. o.
294uTo provide for tho sale or lease of the
Public Works, when
Mr.. McCLUNG opposed the bill, and con-
tended that the argument that the Public Worka
were not aelf.sustaining at this partiular time
is not conclusive; sineelt could be applied with
equal force to all the business of the country,
for neither the agricultural, manufacturing, nor
commercial interests Of the State have been
prosperous and remunerative during that period.
You might as well propose that all the business
OF the country should be leased, sold out or
abandoned, because they have not been ss pros.
porous aa you could desire. He eontended that,
in prosperous condition of the business Of the
State, the canals would be not only eIi.sustain-
ing, but remuneratiye; and read from statistics
to sustain his position. He Was for a divorce Of
the unproductive portions Of the canals from
those that were really Of use and profitable.