Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-20
HOUSE.

HOUSE.
Among the petitions presented in the
House on Thursday were the following;
By Mr.. Bronson-From G. G. Codding
and sIO other citizens of Medina county,
for the relief of Jesse Seely. Referred to
a committee of one-Mr. Bronson.
By Mr.. Stedman-From Mr. Joseph h
Coult and fifty other citizens of Portage
county, for change in the manner of
taxing bank stock Referred to the Com
mittee on Currency.
Among the messages received from the
Senate was one notifying the House of the
passage ola resolution appointing Messrs.
Hayden and Willett committee on the
part of the Senate to report joint rules for
the government of the General Assembly.
The resolution was concurred in by the
House, and the Speaker appointed Messrs-
Stanton, Davenport and Perrill the COM
mittee on the part of the House.
Among the new bills introduced were
the following;
Mr.. Oren introduced bill to amend
section of the act prescribing the duties
Of Supervisors and relating to roads and
highways. This bill increases the num-
Der of days of poll-tax from two to four
days's labor on the public highways.
The House now took up the communi-
cation requesting the use of its hall by
the colored convention. Mr.. Nixon in
troduced the following resolution as sub
stitute for that of Mr.. Wiles, which had
been tabled the day before;
ResoIred, That the request of the COM
mittee on behalf of the convention of
eolored persons of the State of Ohio, now
in session in this city, asking the use of
the Hall of the House of Representatives
for said convention on the evening of
January Is, 1866, be and the same is here
by granted.
The introduction of this resolution
caused immense squirming among the
Democrats, and all sorts of fillibustering
motions were resorted to for its defeat.
But the majority were inexorable, and
after demanding the previous question,
voted down all dilatory motions, and
passed the resolution by the following
vote:
Yeas = Messrs. Alexander, Boynton,
Brown, Clark, of Columbiana, Clark, of
Harrison, Cochran, Coulter, Curtis, Dang
Ter, Davenport, Davy, Encell, Fox, Fur
mas, Gaddis, Gallup, Gardner, Glover,
Hanson, Hare, Houston, Hough, Howard,
Johnston, Kessler, Kibbee, Lawrence,
Lockwood, Lybrook, Masters, McMor-
ran, Nixon, Northway, Oren, Patton,
Piatt Rhodes, Stedman, Tafel, Teetor,
Trip, Wilcox, Wiles, Williams and
Young-4s.
Nays-Messrs. Bloom, Bronson, Clark,
of Guernsey, Coan, Cusac, Denman, Dres-
back, Erskine, Follett, Fitch, CASTOR,
Gorden, Hastings, Headley, Heller, Hen
ricks, Hibbs, Hill, Hughes, Jones, Kagy,
Kerr, Kramer, Larwill, Lefever, Marshall,
McMarrei, Myers, Parks, Perrill, Phil
lips, Putnam, Rosencranse Rutter, Schnei-
der, Shipley, Stanton, Stooky, Swain,
| Thornhill, Wood, Worth and Speaker
Al
In the afternoon the spite of the Demo-
crats at the passage of this resolution was
exhibited by the following resolution, in
"a ". s1Syge. --~o--~--
WHEREAS, The House, by its vote this
morning allowing the use of the Hall to
a convention of negroes, has established a
nreeedent which will admit all manner OF
! irresponsible parties into the Hall at diff
ferent times during the session; therefore,
be it
PesolUed, That the members who have
| Given receipts to the Sergeant-at-Arms
for receipts of Swan & Critchfelds Stat
utes, be and they are hereby released from
all responsibility, which may acrue from
the loss of said statutes.
This was properly and promptly tabled
Mr.. Wiles offered a joint resolution for the
appointment of committee of three OF
the part of the House, and - on tht
part of the Senate, to investigate the pro
priety of purchasing a suitable residenc'
for the occupancy of the Governors o
Ohio during their respective terms of of
fee; said committees to report by bill o.
otherwise.
The resolution was adopted-yeas 43
nays "a.
After transacting other business tn
House went into joint convention with tn
Senate for the purpose ofelecting Unite'
} States Senator. The vote resulted Johl
Sherman 81 Allen G. Thurman Al.
The Senators who voted for Mr.. Sher
, man we're;
=Messrs. Bateman, Bradbury Brooks
/. Brown, Carlin, Cole, Cummins, Dosn
Gr.swold, Hall, Harris, Hayden, Hollistel
, Irion, Jones, Kellogg, Knowles, Martin
Mcfarland, Sadler, Tabbals, Warner
Wast Wilson VVilliamann-2A