Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-05-06
Letter.

Columbus Letter.
One more week sacrificed on the
altar partizan p~rofigacy, by the Incor-
riRible Democratic majority in the
Ohio Legislature, at the neat little cost
of seven thousand dollars thousand
Der day-to the people. This Is now
one of the charitable institutions OF
the State, run for the benefit of a few
political lunatics who are beset with
the idea that the State and country
generally would be expunged from the
map of the world if they should aLlo"
this Legislature to adjourn pending h
.impeschment trial. The session mas
been pr~otracted about forty days longer
than necessary, at q cost of fully forty
thousand dollars, that might as well
have been saved. 1t is said soEe o.
the hard sitting Democratic members
have been h~alf-soling with sheep skin
to run them through the session.
Others spend two or three days in the
week in the rural districts officiating
as grooms to big horses. The days
they are here. they are used to help
croEdsome miserable party bill through
under the guidance of the whippers IN.
Of course such fellows don't want to
adjourn. They never were so well
fixed before and never hope to be again,
hence they will hold on like the grim
monster to a defunct colored indivldu-
al. Unfortunately none such resign
and, considering the quantity and
quality of the whiskey, strange to say,
none die. A petition came in from
Clark county, on Tuesday, praying this
body to resign. Those petitioners are
sensible men and an honor to their
sex.
The Senate has cleaned up its calen-
dar and was ready to adjourn two
weeks since, if the House had agreed,
but the House is SO unfortunate as 70
have a Bourbon among III" who wants
TO put on Ben Wade's Senatorial boots.
A sorry figure the little man would cut
in the cast off leather Of the old Radical
giant. Jewett would dearly love to ex-
change his leather seated whirligig
chair here for 8 velvet cushioned one
at Washington. The Vsllandighamers
say they can't see it, not having forgot
ten that Jewett did not vote for Val,
when he ran for Governor in 1868.
There are some old scores to pay when
the time comes.
The Democrats in the House have
voted down the bill to reimburse the
soldiers relief fund. They think the
soldiers have had all they deserve
They also refuse to complete the Sol
dier's Record, some of them saying If
they could find out all the murders
and robberies the Union soldiers COM
mitted they would not object to pub
fishing their record. The dyed In the
wool copperhead has about as much
love for a Northern soldier as the devil
has for q christian.
The House has passed a bill requiring
all election tickets to be on white
paper. Also a bill extending the time
of assessing real estate from 1869 to
1870, and every FIVE years thereafter.
It was passed by a party vote and was
8 democratic caucus measure. The
object in passing it is to prevent an
increase of valuation on the duplicate
for taxation until after the Presidential
election, the Democrats fearing that
an increase of the valuation of taxable
property would be offensive to certain
classes of tax payers. 1t IS estimated
that q reassessment next year would
double the valuation on the grand
duplicate of the State, running it up
from eight millions to at least sixteen
hundred millions. The Democratic
manouvre will exempt 800 million dol
lars of property from its share OF taxa
ton for a year, causing a loss of millions
of dollars to the State, and leaving the
manufacturing, mercantile and me-
chanical pursuits to foot the bills
while wealthy real estate owners escape
their due proportion. Political quacks
label such demsgogueism Democracy,
and fools swallow it. This is a speci-
men of Democratic retrenchment.-
Pretending to cut down appropriations
300 thousand dollars, while they cheat
the treasury out of three to five NIL
lion dollars. Sapient meni when you
retire from the cares of State, wisdom
will be non est. WOE unto them that
are wise in their own eyes, and prudent
in their own sight"
At this writing it is amatter OF guess
work when this concern will bid adieu
to Columbus. Some say next Friday
Changman's dsy) will see the long e1
pected exodus. Now that the aPpro
pristion bill has been passed, there l
nothing to do StsteWise.
The weather is fine. and vegetation
in its multiform beauty, and sprinI
fever in its most fatal form, are Il
course of rapid development.
Tom Thumb and wife, and Com
Mutt and Miss Minnie Warren exhiol
ted at the Opera House a night or tw,
since. The Commodore smokes N
cigar as oomplacently as Ulysses 8
and Toms benign face sports the lates
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