Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-05-10
Ad,ournment OF tho Lesl.Iature.


Adjournment Of the Legislature.
This body adjourned at about o'clock on
the morning Of the Friday the %, after session
Of ll6 days. From an intelligent communica-
ton in the Sentinel we condense the following
matters of interest
AS usual some Of the most important
measures of the session were crowded into
the last few hours Of the last day but
believe the most of them reached the Sec
re1ary of the States Office in due form
The leading idea of the session has been
that the unusual burdens thrown upou the
the great mass Of the people by the rebel
lion, must he lightened in every practicable
way by retrenchment in public expenditures
aud 10y bringing upon the tax duplicate as
far as possible, property of corporations
which have heretofore escaped taxation
Following out this idea, laws have been en-.
acted reducing the salaries of Judges of the
Supreme Court, from three thousand to two
thousand and Eve hundred dollars OF mem
hers OF the Board of Public Works, from
fifteen hundred to FIVE hundred dollars OF
Commissioner of the Statistics from fifteen
hundred TO one thousand and no contingent
,und. The ger diem of members aud officers
of the General Assembly is reduced % per
cent. that is from four 10 three dollars per
day, and mileage at o corresponding rate.
The compensation of country offcers-Au-
dtors, Clerks of the Courts, Treasurers and
and Prosecuting Attorneys reduced from
twenty to forty per cent. Believing that
in many cases the powers of taxation here
tofore conferred upon local authorities have
been abused, aud the pre- existing laws pre-
mitted too heavy local taxes, law framed
by the Auditor of State has teen enacted,
which cuts down the maximum rate to be
levied by cities, counties, townships aud
Boards of education. The State school
levy was reduced one tenth Of a mill and
the outside local levy two tenths.
Under former laws, telegraph and express
companies have almost entirely, and rail
roads TO q great extent, escaped taxation
Laws have now been enacted that il faith
fully executed will bring millions npon the
duplicate not heretofore taxed.
BY accepting the act permitting them to
suspend specie payment, the banks OF the
State have been compelled TO come under
the general laws for taxation and list their
property as other individuals and corpora
tions do, and thus dispute has been set
tied, in which the State, attempting th
vindication Of a high principle in the feder
n courts, has expended large sums of IaOne.
annually.
The agricultural interest has not becl
lost sight of by our legislators, who ordered
the printing of the usual number Of reports
of the State Board of Agriculture, refused
to enact the bill cutting off the allowances
of county societies, and by the enactmen
of the law "to raise revenne protect sheep
and coh6scate dogs" they gave the peopI
statue, which il thoroughly enforced woul'
completely effect what its title proposes
A bill authorizing premium of i've thou
sand dollars for the successful culture OF tn
sugar beet, and manufacture eofmerchantabl
sugar therefrom within this State, passe
the Senate, but the House postponed actio
| upon it till the adjourned session. 1t woul
be strange if in so many sweeping enactment
upon The subject Of retrenchment some mis-
tak?s.had not been made, and such think wa
in particular, the one which repealed the ac
for the publication OF the laws in newSpa
pers, but its author, DR.. Scott, is himself
newspaper man, and thus is exhibiting th
self.sacriGcing character of the profession.
OF course matters of national policy di
not escape the attention Of the Legislator
aud about the usual number Of joint resolu
tons were adopted, setting forth the sens
of the "people of Ohio" as 10 what Uncl
Sam ought not to do in the prosecution c
! the war and other little matters.
The action bringing the attention OF tn
: Washington, authorities to matters at Cam
Chase was timely, and as a result secessio
feryor in lbe streets of Columbus, was col
e Siderably cooled by the transfer of rebel .
:. fcers 10 other points. Gov. Tod by spe'
~ iul communication informed the Senate tha
y colored persons prisoners at Camp Cha'
y were daily released, giving them each thrC
$. days cooked ralions aud a certificate OF r
q. lease
eI BY special acts the Govcrner was autho
}" lzed 10 appoint not more that hfty ado
tonal surgeons for Ohio regiments in Il
nd field, and o accept volunteer aid and po
er expenses to any extent needed. He was al
10 authorized TO and did bring home to Oh
all of the wounded from this State at Pit
It's burg.
Ten amendments to the civil code VIZ
ur enacted the past session, for which fact
he tornPys at least will be thankful.
About four hundred bills in all were
troduced, of which about $50 were pass