Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-19
THE STATE LEGIsLATURE.
SENATE.

THE STATE LEGISLATURES.
SENATE.
! In the Senate on Wednesday number
of petitions and new bills were introduced
Among the latter were those of Mr.. Brad
bury, for the relief of Harmon Kent and
to provide for the adjustment and payment
of claims growing out ofthe Morgan raid
The latter appropriates s576,225 for that
pnrpose. A motion to facilitate the pass
age of the bill relative to the redemption
of Seneca County Bank bills, was lost, for
want of the requisite majority. The reso-
luton of Mr.. Willett protesting against
the assumption by Congress of the war
debt of the several States were taken from
the table, discussed, and recommitted.
In the afternoon the resolution of Mr..
Cummins (Union) sustaining the Presi-
dent and endorsing his policy were taken
from the table. Mr.. Bradbury (Union)
moved the reference of the resolutions to
the Committee on Federal Relations. The
motion was warmly debated by Messrs.
Bradbury, Kellogg, and Cole,all Union, in
favor of 1t, and by Messrs. Cummins and
Martin, Union and Gritchfeld, Dem,
against it. Mr.. Kellogg's remarks are
reported by the Cincinnati Gazette:
Mr.. Kellogg thought the President
would not suffer to any great extent even
if the Ohio Legislature should delay in
dorsing his policy for two or three days.
He would be glad to have the author of
the resolutions define the nature of that
policy. He thought there was difference
Of opinion concerning it, and would say
that if it implies that the seeded and re-
bellious States haveInever been out of the
Union, but are still members of 1t intact,
he did not agree with 1t, and therefore
could not support the measure under con-
sideration.
The resolutions were finally referred, by
vote of q to IA, Messrs. Martin and
Cummins voting with the Democrats
against their reference.
Gen, Warner presented series of reso-
lutions on the same subject, which he
thought could meet with the views of the
Senators AT his request they were laid
on the table and ordered to be printed.
HOUSE.
QUITE number of petitions and me-
MORALS ware presented; among them, one
by MIR. Perrill, signed by one thousand
.colored citizens of Ohio, asking such
amendments to the laws as shall remove
from them distinctions based on color.
Among the new bills introduced were the
following;
By Nj. Shipley-To provide for the
punishment of seduction under promise of
marriage; the punishment proposed is not
less than one nor more than ten years.
By Mr. 0berklineZTo pfotid6 for a
.triennial election CT Cohstables.
BY Mr.. Hough-To give additional
power to the municipal authorities of in
corporated villages for the suppression of
the sale and use of Intoxicating beverages
Mr.. Howard, from the Committee on
Judiciary, reported, RECOMMENDING the
passage of the bill introduced by Mr.
Thornhill, to authorize County Commits
sioners to pay counsel employed to defend
INDECENT prisoners. The bill was passed,
without discussion, by vote of yeas 81
nays u.
Considerable excitement was produced
in the House by communication laid be-
fore it by the speaker, asking the use of
the Hall on Saturday evening for colored
convention in session in the city. Mr.
Blenn (Dem.) moved to lay it on the table.
The motion was lost. Mr.. Lockwood
(Union) moved to suspend the rules for
bidding the use of the Hall except for leg
islative purposes. The motion was car
ried by the necessary two-third vote. The
was then offered by Mr.. Miles
Resolred, That while we treat with re-
spect the application ofany number Of our
when they make appli ca
ton for the use of this Hall, we deem it
unwise to grant the use Of this Hall for
any purpose except the duties of legisla-
tion, when other halls in the city can be
had for such purpose.
This motion was laid on the table, after
debate
In the afternoon a number of resolu-
tions were read and referred, among them
one from Mr.. Dangler, requesting the
President to appoint General W. B. Hazen
a Major General in the regular army,
which was referred to the Military Com
mittee The House then took up Mr..
Dangler's resolutions in favor of equal
suffrage. Mr.. Piatt offered the following
substitute, which is composed of extracts
from Sherman's speeches:
Resolved, That we do not believe that
the whites and blacks will ever mingle
together on terms of equality.
Our notions on that subject have been
defined often enough. We think the law
of caste is the law of God, which cannot
be changed. The whites and blacks will
always be separate, or when they are
brought together, one will be inferior to
the other.
Resolved, That the Fugitive Slave Law
of 1898 should be re-enacted, it being a
law framed by the fathers and sanctioned
by all the high judicial tribunals of the
country, so that the oppressed negro may
be seized in Northern States and returned
to their Southern homes, there to exercise
their rights as freemen and equality before
the law.
The reading of these resolutions created
amusement.
The Outside Caucus.