The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-01-20
THE SENATORIAL QUESTION
- DISPOSED or.

ASHLAND, JANUARXt2O, 1854.
THE sENATORIAL QUESTION
DISPOSED on.
e4heS Senate, on Friday last, adopted the res
olutions reForted by the Committee on Priv.
legcs md Elections, giving the seat in that
body to which Mr.. KENNY was elected by a
mejoritysof the People of this District. to his
defeated addition conpctiter, ISAAC Glass;
Apore Infamous outrage upon the electors of
Legislative district, 0r one perpetrated in
Hors Indecent haste, has few parallels in gov
erhnaentsi claiming the least responsibility to
ne people. We extract from the ssofieiala re-
Yort cottained In the Cincinnati Gazeue Of
- GAss VS.. KENNY.
sa1Ir. Stapsbury, chairman of the Committee
oAuPriyileges and Elections, reported that the
coumittee had investigated the claims of Mr..
kcnpyte a ssatin tho Senate and hsa found
that he had no claim ut al. In the counties
ceupqs;ng he Senatorial District, Colonel
Isaac Case receiyed 5s270 votes, while that
t1gs giving the former . clear msjority of 40,
Which Nm hanEs pemcrats says is correct.
EfEhe report says, thai Sin coming to this
I8&- law GOnP4tG0 u
rotes east at said election by persons in the
military service, only those which appeared to
them to have been cast and certified in %confor-
uityto the law regulating elections by persons
m said service, and have excluded those which,
nktheir opinion, did not conform to the pro-
visions of that law. Not adding to the mum.
ofsEotes given for said Isaac Cas-, as Senator
IN The county Of Ashland, such as were infor-
NAL, your committee find that said Gass had,
neyertheless, the majority before stated,
amount NJ to forty aine.p
kaIhe committee accordingly Recommended
the adoption of the following resolutions:
-slResofued, That Isaac Gass is entitled to q
seat in this house as Senator.
&HdRes0lred, That Thomas j. Kenny is not en-
titled to- a seat in this House as Senator.
~ The report and resolutions were laid on the
table and made the special order for this af-
ter noon at 3 O'Clock, in order to give the ssnice
little imam " Kenny, q chance to "say his say"
alUron the meeting Of the Senate in the af-
t~ernoou, the resolutions were put upon their
passage, and without debate. adopted of course
@tbe midnight aLoyal League" having doubt
less pre-arranged and ~prejudged the whole
aesion. Of the COMMITTEE and the Senate.
The Clerks of Ashland and Richland conn
ticg had been subpoenaed to appear before the
gonmittee with their returns. The official
asstract of the former was thrown out, alto
gether, while that of the Clerk of Richland
county was received. Why was this SIM
ply that the abstract Of the Ashland Clerk,
gIf. SEE, was made in conformity to the Con-
f~titution and the laws ~thereunder." as Mr..
L1Nco1N would say-and abstracts thus made
euE we're paipahIe attractions of Art.@IIT.
Sec, %, of the knights of the "Loyal League"
Bafthrcpihg out Mr. SEE's abstract would
elect Mr.. KENsr By two hundred and odd
majority. It became necessary, therefore,
that the Committee canvas his returns. This
they aid s1aith d sehereas,"
= The nabstract,s of Mr.. RIrTER, the super
-serviccable Clerk of Richland county, who
had counted ereyyfhing hat would make for
ne xieaguers;r and who had rejected nothing
That would count against them. was ~graciously
.reeeived, sub sizentio. There was no room
for criticism or analysis Of has acts. He had
kssidently sold himself for a ''mess of trntiage,"
and therefore his official action was unbecom-
ing The criticism of the Committee. RfrrER
ard bis sabstraet" ] eng adjudged "loyal,' he
txassuEered 20 ego he~ee-" But not SO with
Mr.. SEE. HIS abstract being thrown out, his
returns must be eanoassed-and they we're
The result is shown in the foregoing %"ofEcial
report" Of the Committee and the Senate.
Gas,
q;
Gass's majority,---- AZ
Clear as mud. A man would be damned and
pronounced sdisloyal' for doubling. Being
compelled, however, to analyze the returns of
Mr.. SEE, they threw out, of soldiers votes,
BY reason.o of informal returns, about 30 per
cent, and the same rule would have excluded
shout e5 per cent but they prudently aban-
doned their rule, and admitted sufficient to
elect GAss by 40, precisely Their "ruie,'
so far as they applied it, elects positively MI
GB1RWILL, our Representative and the WHOLE
Democratic County ticket, except one officer
"a fact which we have from. a Loyal Lacquer
himself A Court Of JUSTICE, however, vii
mot emily Yindicafe Dir. SEE in his action, buf
viii also siBdicate the majority of the people
and win award an the county officers to the
Democratic candidates who were chosen BY
the people in October last.
JoHS PHGNIx 0UTDoNE.-A p ragraph
has been. e5ing the rounds of the press IN
in which an account is given of a horse having
a nSavho6f CROWN onsby the use of p certain
farrier's ointmest. Now. this reminds us Of
Ensldstance that happened in Lyons. Wiscon
sin. A Mormon priest named Nicholas pro
fessed a poTersof doing miraculous things and
compromising wonderful medicines. He made
a nerve and bone all healing salse, and thought
she would experiment a little whit. He FRS
cut of his dogs tail and app led some of it tc