The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-04-06
FROM COLUMBUS.
corresponderce Cincinnati Enquirer.
HI or n UR e.
L. JEFF SPRENGLE IN. THE
HOUSE.
COLUMBUS, March 81, 1864.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
MIR. Dawson from the Select Committee
appointed to investigate the charges of deal
ing in recruits and making money out of vel
unteers, made a report, In which it is stated
that the said Joseph Schell, member of the
House, did, between the 10th day of February
and the LIST of March, procure certain re-
cruits liz connection with one John H. Crox-
ton, and in that operation made $3.50, which
was shared between them. He also assisted
in procuring nine recruits for Monroe Town
ship, Carroll County, for which Croxton paid
the said Schell S12S. Thus Schell made
S303 in specializing in recruits, at which the
Committee express their great disapprobation,
and offer for adoption a preamble reiterating
the above facts, and the following resolution
e ResolUed, That for such conduct the said
Joseph Schell deserves the unqualified Gen.
sure of this House.
Mr.. Evans, of Brown County, offered the
following as a substitute for the resolution j:
WHEREAS, Hon. Joseph SeheH, member
of this House, from the County of Stark, has
been found "Guilty'' by the Investigating
Committee of this House, of entering into
the pcrnicious practice of buying and selling
soldiers for the sake of making money, whilst
he should have been in his seat in the dis
charge of his duty as a Legislator and,
WHEREAS, Such conduct in a member is
an insult to the dignity of this House and
merits the punishment of expulsion there
fore,
Resolped, That the Hon. Joseph Schell be
and he is hereby expelled from this House.
Mr.. BRAKEMAN moved that the testimony
and resolutions be referred to the Judiciary
Committee.
Some discussion arose here, and enc Adolf
ZIONIST pronounced Schell worse than a horse
thief.
Mr.. Beer, of Crawford, CDem) was OPP
posed to the reference, by which Mr.. Schel
would be compelled to bear the odium o.
these charges until the next session. He die
not think there was any good ground fer the
~virtuous indignation of the pious Abolition
lists of the House against Mr.. Schcll, in view
of the facts that were every day transpirine
under their very noses. An authorized agen'
of the Government, an Abolition editor anC
Provost Marshal, had advertised in the. Stat
Journal, day after day, that he was dealing
in recruits, and buying and selling his fellow
men, and the v%irtuous members of this House
never raised an objection but now thai
a fellow-member has engaged in a trans
action of the same kind, they wanted to expe
him.
Mr.. Osborne-Who was the Provost Mar
shall?
Mr.. Beer-L. JEFF. S~prengle, editor of the
Ashland Times. I was told too, by a soldier,
that one of the Provost Marshals of this State
brought a gang of negroes to this city and
made S1,400 by selling them. Mr.. Schell
represented a constituency whose greatest am.
bition, for years. had been to steal negroes
They, with Schell at their head, had petition.
ed Congress, years ago, for a dissolution of the
/ Union. Mr.. Beer continued that he did not
think SchelI's constituents would be disgraced
by his transactions. They doubtless Endorsed
all he had done, and this House could not es
tablish its character for purity and patriotism
by coming down upon Schelps poor little job
when there were multitudes of larger and
worse ones carried on by Government officers
every day.
Mr.. Kellogg, of Ashtabula, called the gen.
tleman to order, and Mr.. Beer defended his
remarks until the main question came up
The motioDto refer the subject to the Judi
ciary Committee was then carried, and the
House proceeded to other business.
COLUMBUS, April 1, 1864.
Resolution fO ExnaI ET.oe-I. Wof.