Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-04-10
Doings and Undoings Of the Leg.
fBIature

S1AElElG OF twelve mem DerB has been 2p-
pointed to attend to the location of the
institution. BIessrs. Stickrey, Thomp-
son, Of Columbiana, Thornhill, Cole
man, Leete, Sherwin, Gordon and
Cannon have been appointed as the COM
mittee on the part Of the House. Hon.
T. W. .Thornhill, Of C0shocton, has been
appointed Chairman and Hon. n. B.
Sherwfn Of Cleveland, Secretary. The
Committee viii commence the inspec-
tion Of sites for the College in July.
A bill has been introduced into the
House by Mr.. Kahn lRep.l which is
good take of on the negro legislation
of the session. It is eou6hed in the
following words and figures:
"a Bill supplementary to an act en-
titled an act relating to roads and high
ways passed March 9, 1868.
SECTION 1. Be Il enacted 5s the Geaer-
al ASSs2BblV Of the State 0f Ohio, That
whenever the number OF male persons
of the age of twenty-nne years or over,
having q visible admixture Of African
blood shall equal or exceed twenty in
any road district in this state, it shall
be the duty Of the township trustees in
which the said road district is situated,
to appoint q person having visible ad-
mixture Of African blood. who shall act
as supervisor Of said lRbOrers having
said visible admixture, in any rOa1 dis
trict having a number OF persons Of said
visible admixture less than twenty, it
shall be the duty Of the person elected
supervisor Of such road district to APP
/ point a person having visible admix-
/ ture Of African blood as his assistant,
I whose duty &c shall be to take charge of
said persons less than twenty, and su-
! pervise their labor.
| SEC. 2. It shall also be the duty Of said
/ township trustees to set apart portion
/ Of the road district which shall be work
/ ed exclusively by said persons having
I a visible admixture of African blood
and no white man shall be permitted
/ to work upon the portion of road
/ so set apart; provided, that the por-
/ tion Of road contagious 20 or adjOin
/ ing that worked by white men, shall
not be worked upon the same day that
| the said white men are at work, but
must be upon day different thereto
In the division of such road districtj the
/ trustees shall set apart for the persons
| having a visible admixtuTO OF African
/ blood, the east portion of the district.
/ SEC. 8. All acts or parts of acts in
| CONSISTENT with the provisions of this
act shall be and are hereby repealed,
and this act shall be I'm force from and
after its passage.
/ A bill introduced In the House to
abolish the Office Of Comptroller Of the
Treasury still slumbers in the hands of
the Retrenchment committee. This
office was created by a Democratic Leg
islature after the BresIin defalcation,
and may be regarded as a very feeble
effort to secure the stable door after the
horse has been stolen. The law crea-
ting it proceeded from the false as
sumption that the loss of the pub
lie moneys resulted from a defect in the
! Auditors restraining or checking power
! over the treasury, whereas it was who'll
/ Iy attr ibut table to the dishonesty of the
/ Treasurer which no mere clerical re-
straint over him could prevent or ex-
/ pose. We are not aware that the Bres-
/ lin defa1cation was ever laid to the
fault Of the Auditor or that any neglect
/ or connivance on his part called for the
vesting of his duties in a separate off,
Ger. Yet the Comptroller's work is Of
precisely the same nature as the Audi
tors and any one familiar with his
/ functions nnust see that 1t adds nothing
to the security of the treasury. The
best preventive Of fraud in that depart
nent is the election Of honest men to
the Office, and the next best an actual
and frequent examination of the state
of the public finances. If these two pre-.
cautions arG taken no loss need evel
occur to the State, but without them
any dishonest treasurer may steal III
; spite of a doRen C0mptroller's. The
Office costs the State about s., 900 a yeal
and is wholly unnecessary. Several
attempts have been made to abolish il
since its crsStion, and prominent Dem
ocrats are knssvn to favor its abolition
But the prospect is not favorable for Its
being done the present session. Addi-
tional work will be taken from the Au.
ditor and given to the Comptroller tC
afford the latter employment and fur.
nish a pretext for preserving the Office
The WalhOnding canal bill has pas
sed the Senate with an amendment re.
quiring the release by the millers on
the canal Of the obligations of the State
to preserve their water privileges. The
amendment viii probably be concured
in by the House. With this canal Sc
cured the projected railroad from Co
shOeton to Delaware or some Other
point west of Mt. Vernon may be re-
garded as a certainty.
Prominent Democrats in the House
have pledged themselves In private con
versation to oppose the infamous ''ad.
mixture bill, :" and if their word is kept
there is reason to expect the defeat o.
this outrage. It was drawn by Brevet
Lieutenant-coloneI Plantaganet Lew.
r ellyn Baber, Ex-Paymastsr q. s. A
him of the seoquipedalian title whose
? boring power has been estimated by tbt
r Journal at one hundred and forty-fivC
= gimlets, and who seems to have a gen,
ius for negro legislation. Baber fortu
nateIy abandoned the Union party some
time since and has found his appropri
ate sphere in doing the dirty work fol
the present Legislature. He claims
special calling for putting down the
negro, and the resolutions resembling
the amendment to the constitution o
the United States are attributed to his
pen. He has a genius for nsstines'
which even transcends what bis mas
ters expect and he has sometimes had
difheulty in finding even a Democrat
willing to introduce some Of his more
Infamous negro bills. This is particu.
Iarly true of the one creating an inquis-
ition under the pretense of securing ne
gro statistics, introduced by Mr.. Wal
ling who was careful TO disown it. But
Baber's boring power never lets uE
until he has gained his point. He waE
one of Mr.. OnderdOnk's attorneys il
contesting the seat of Captain Jones in
the Senate, and doubtless claims spe.
cial obligation from the Democracy fol
the success of that business.
The two bounty bills which passed
the House some time since are still de.
tained in the Senate. They provide fol-
levying tax to pay bounties pledged
by counties, townships, and incorpora,
tions, where such bOunties have moi
/ been paid under previous laws