Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-03-30
HousE or REPRESENTATIVES,.

In THE HOUSE, Mr.. Dawson, from the
Select committee appointed to investigate
Representative Schell's transactions in the
recruiting business, reported the testimony
taken by the committee, which is summed
up in the statement that Mr.. Schell was en-
gagged in the business, and that he realized
the sum of three hundred dollars between
the Doth of February and the lst of March,
and the committee therefore recommend
the adoption of resolution censuring Mr..
Schell. a.. 4s.t Aa'a fg
Mr.. Evans, of Brown, offered as substi-
tute for this resolution providing for the
immediate expulsion of Mr.. Schell. Con-
siderable discussion arose on motion to
refer the subject to the Judiciary commit
tee, m .t.
Mr.. Beer said that the Abolitionists here
had no right to assume an air of pious
indignation against Mr.. Schell for
his small transactions, when larger
and worse transactions were being
advertised and carried on under
their noses by officers of the Government,
and he alluded to the traffic of L. JEFF.
Sprengle, Provost Marshal, in recruits,
and an instance he had been told of by
soldier, that Provost Marshal sold gang
of negro soldiers in this city and made
$l400 by the transaction. Mr.. Schell rep
resented constituency in the eastern part
of Stark county, whose greatest ambition
had been for years to steal negroes; they,
with Schell, had petitioned Congress for
dissolution of the Union; and he did not
think they could be disgraced by this trans
action of their representative. Mr.. Beer
was called to order by Mr.. Kellogg, as not
speaking ON the motion. The whole sub
ject was then referred to the Judiciary COM
mittee.
The following House bills were passed:
To amend the Supervisors act so as to give
those officers 81 80 per day instead of 81;
10 authorize the city of Cleveland to fund
its floating Indebtedness; To amend section
seventeen of an act entitled ian act regula-
ting descents and the distribution of per-
sonal estates" passed March IA, 1853; 10
authorize the commissioners of Wayne
county to pay the expenses already incur
red on ditch out of the county fund, and
to reimburse said fund out of the money
collected from the landowners benefited
by said ditch; To authorize the appraisal
and sale of lands belonging to the State;
House bill to prevent lespread of disease
among sheep by imposing fines of from $25
to $500 on persons allowing diseased sheep
to run at large. o9si .-tS 'i.
The following Senate bills were passed:
To establish board of commissioners to
examine and pass upon military claims
against the State; Appropriating $4,000 as
a permanent fund for the State Board of
Agriculture, for two years, and $500 for the
Ohio Pathological Society; To authorize
the Board of Public Works to lease land
at lock No. 1, Cincinnati; To provide
for the /, appointment of commission
ers to examine claims growing out of the
Morgan raid, and prescribing their duties;
For the relief of the heirs and sureties of
Alex. Scott, deceased, the former Treasurer
of Spencer township, Hamilton county;
The substitute for the Senate's general tax
bill for 1854; To authorize the commissioners
of Fayette county to levy special tax; To
allow soldiers to open up suits decided
against them in their absence, within a
year after their return; 10 appropriate
$4,000 for the Improvement of the South
Fork Feeder in Licking county. -,,