Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-03-24

The Ohio senate has Reconsider
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TIt has been said by some one that one
Legislature repeals the laws enacted by the
preceding Legislature. This great Admin
istration Legislature glory and the
pride of Ohio--has improved on that. 1t
repeals and modifies its own enactments.
On Wednesday, March Is, the Administra-
ton members Of the Senate passed the
House bill creating the ofiiceof Clerk of the
Supreme Court, to be voted for by the State
at large. The STATESMAN at once charac-
terized It a partisan measure, designed to
provide a snuggery for some member of
that most tpre-eminently disinterested party
---an Office Che dutiesof which had been dis
charged by the Clerk Of the Court of Com
mon Pleas for the county Of Franklin,
without expense to the tax-payers-he
deriving his compensation from the
fees of the oflice-whereas this law,
in addition to the fees thus derived, stip-
ulated that the Clerk should draw
$500 per year from the Treasury. The
matter began to provoke comment not the
most complimentary to the Administration
members Of the Legislature, who had been
guilty of this piece of objectionable legis-
lation, and some members began to appre-
hehd that in their anxiety to befriend
member of their own patriotic ~ party they
might so arouse the Indignation of gulled
people as to loose theirinfluence with them.
So on Wednesday, March 22-just one week
after its passage-the Senate reconsidered
its vote on the passage of that bill, and
amended it by striking out that part of it
that taxed the treasury sl,500 a year. This
Is signal triumph for the tax-payers7-a
triumph, too, that would not have been
achieved had not the Democratic press TAX
en- the matter up. Let the people, there
fore, take courage from this circumstance.
to vote against the Administration candi-
dates at the April election. Let them,
by their. votes at that election,
MAKE ~ uumlebahauAO bhae OhO "SNS'hN
eney Of the Administration party in this
State Is precarlous, and be assured most sal
utary will be the result. Ifthey shall do this
the next Legislature will be an improve
ment on the present one; twill have ca
pacity to legislate with some wisdom on
matters of more gravity than 'skim milk"
playing at stag, marbles, hop-skip-and-
Jump and kindred subjects. The execra-
BILE law that exalts even Illicit miscegena-
tion to the altitude of sublime virtue, by
conferring on its issue the political privi-
leges expressly reserved to the purely
white race by the Constitution, will be
swept from the statute book, and the Ad-
miuistration party will be spared the infic-
tion on it Of the "stigma" of negro suffrage.
Unquestionably, if the structures of few
Democratic papers can induce Administra-
tion members to reverse their action on
manifestiy unjust partisan enactment inf
nitely more potential for good will be the
influence Of the people if they shall only
pretty solidly throw their votes against the
Administration candidates at the election
on the Sd of April. At least, trial can
work no harm. Let them not hesitate to
make it with boldness.