Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-05-02


and the transfer of the duties of the Super
intendent of the State House to the Secre-
tary of State?
The vote was then taken on the passage
of the bill, and 1t failed to pass by the
requisite constitutional maiority:
YEAs-Messrs. Berry, Campbell, Carter
Dickev, Dowdney, Emmitt. Evans, God
frey, Golden. Jamison, Kenney. Lawrence,
Linn, May, Onderdonk, Rex, Scribner, Win
ner-1S.
NAYs-Messrs. Burrows, Conant, Corey,
Dangler, Everett, Griswold, Hall, Hutche-
son, Keifer, Kramer, Terrence, Woodworth,
Yeoman--13.
Mr.. MAY moved that the vote be recon-
Mr.. HUTCHINSON moved to lay that
motion on the table, which was not agreed
to--yeas 8, nays %.
The question being on Mr.. Mays motion
to reconsider, 1t was agreed to--yeas 18,
navs II.
On motion of Mr.. MAY. the bill was
made the special order for P. NJ. on Tues
day next.
On motion of Mr.. EVANS. the Senate,
at half-past H. took recess till 2. M.
AFTERNOON SESSION. pt
The PRESIDENT pro tenn. called the
Senate to order at three o'clock.
THIRD READING.
Senate bill by Mr.. REX-To amend Sec
tion thirteen Of an act entitled an act pre-
scribing the duties of directors, trustees,
commissioners or other officers to whom Is
confided the duty of devising and superin-
tending the erection, alteration, addition to
or improvement of any State institution,
asylum or other improvement, passed April
g. 1S6S was read the third time and passed
yeas %, nays none.
This bill exonerates the Directors of the
Penitentiary, in the erection, alteration,
N nr mn nr d.
ing, from the conditions imposed by the
act which the bill amends.
80 CALL OF THE SENATE.
Mr.. SCRIBNER demanded call of the
Senate, which was had, and Messrs. Dang
Ter, Dickey and Golden were announced as
absent without leave.
On motion of Mr.. SCRIBN Err, the Ser
geant-at-Arms was despatched for the three
absentees.
Mr.. Dangler having appeared within the
On motion of Mr.. GRIswOLD, all fur
ther proceedings under the call were dis
pensed with.
THIRD READING RESUMED.
House bill by Mr.. BAKER-To provide
for locating, establishing and constructing
bitches, drains and water courses in town
ships, and to repeal certain act therein
named, was read the third time, when
ul
the bill, and hoped it would not pass.
MIR. YEOMAN pointed out wherein the
bill amended the township ditch law of
May ], 1862, and urged that it was solely
intended to perfect that law.
On the motion of Mr.. BERRY. the sixth
section of the bill was amended, and the
question being on the passage of the bill,
Mr.. MAY spoke in favor OF the bill as q
judicious measure, and one that would be
generally approved by the people.
The bill was then passed-yeas 81, nays q
House bill by Mr.. HUGHES, of High
land-To amend an act ceding to the Unit
ed States OF America jurisdiction over GER
tain lands and their appurtenances of the
national asylum for disabled volunteer SOL
diers and eXempting the same from taxa
ton, passed April 13, 1867 Volume "a
pages 149 and 1901, was read the third
time, when
Mr.. SCRIBNER explained the purpose
of the bill, which provides that the officers,
employees and inmates of the national asy-
lum for disabled soldiers who are qualified
voters OF this State, by complying with the
requirements of the laws which are and
NAV be enacted regulating State, county
and township elections in this State, shall
have the right of suffrage at all township
county and State elections in the township
in which the said national asylum may be
located.
Mr.. EVERETT spoke at considerable
lenght against the bill as political meas
ure devised by the party in the majority
in the Legislature, and proceeded to dem
onstrate the unfiTnesS of the Democratic
party to be entrusted with political power,
urging, among other things, that the rebel.
lion was the work of that party.
Mr.. EVERETT having said that every
man who took up arms against this Govern
ment was Democrat,
Mr.. DICKEY wanted to know to what
I. Ill l~oCz Al
war, carried banners with sixteen stars.
Mr.. LAWRENCE also desired to know
to what party those men belon ed who
made the attack in 1853, upon Harper's
Ferry.
Several other similar questions were pro
pounded to MIR. Everett, who disclaineC
any connection with the the persons re-
ferred to, and went on to charge upon the
Democrats the late war and its conse-
quences, calling 1t Democratic rebellion
and continued, with occasional interrup
tions, for some time, in a strain of similar
invective.
Mr.. REX said the bill proposed to amend
the act which ceded to the United State;
certain territory, and gave to the people
residing in that territory certain rights anC
privileges which did not appertain under
the Constitution and laws of this State tC
the residue of the people in Ohio. The
law passed by the Republican Legislature
gave to the residents of the ceded territory
the right to vote without having resided in
the county or township the length of time
required by law. This, NJ. r. urged, was
wrong and could not be defended. The
bill, which Mr.. E. had characterized as the
''miserable visible admiXture bill," was
simply carrying out the provisions of the
Constitution which confined the elective
franchise to white citizens, and was in &C.
cordance with the decision of the people
at the last State election. In the adoption
of the new Constitution, the people deter.
mined that this Government should be 8
Government of white meD without any ad-
mixture, and hence the words "citiZ ans
of the United States" were inserted in the
suffrage clause, in view of the fact that 6
negro could not be such citizen. Mr.. r
went on to vindicate the act of this session
known as the 'Students' Voting" law
which Mr.. E. had also assailed, and claimed
that the law simply prevented men from
voting in precincts where they had no res
idence, and placed students, with regard Il
the qualification of residence, on the same
footing with other men.
Mr.. R. referred to the opposition of Mr.
z. to certain bills and other measures o
this session, because they were calculated
as he said, to give the State to the contro
of the Democratic party, not because they
were impolitic and wrong. Right anC
wrong, said MIR. R, never enters into thu
head of Radical, it is simply party, anC
nothing but party. Mr.. r. demanded wha
doctrines of the Democratic party eve
produced rebellion. Radicalism leads Il
revolution and rebellion. 1t was the
Radicals of the North, united with the ex
treme men of the South, who produced th
rebellion. Democrats had always KEEP
step to the music of the Union. They hat
always opposed every infranction of Jh
| Constitution and every attempt at the dis
memberment of the Union. Mr.. r. con
tinueG to reply to the charges made by MI
E. upon the Democratic party, and con
cluded by saying that these were the gen
tleman's arguments against the bill, ant
simply amounted to this-that the bill wa
opposed to the interests of the Republican