Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-03-18
Ohio Legi.lasure.

In the SenQte, on tuesday, March IL,
1868, the following petitions were presente
in the Senate: BY Mr.. Stambaugh, from
citizens of Mill township, Tuscarawas coun-
ty, demonstrating against any portion of
that township being attached to Union
township; BY the same, from residents OF
Dennison,in Tuscarawas county, asking
that certain lands adjoining Dennison, now
In Union township, may be attached to
Mill township; by Mr.. Everett;S from citis'
zens of Ottawa county, for authority to the
Commissioners of that county to levy a
special tax to dredge and clean out the
bars of Portage river.
The Senate passed the following bills {:
Mr.. Yeoman's Senate bill to 30 amend the
act of April 18, 1855, prescribing the duties
OF county commissioners, as to make it the
duty OF the commissioners to require the
treasurer and auditor of their county to
keep in book an itemized account of the
receipts into, and disbursements from the
county treasury; and requiring the COM
missioners to make to the Court of Com
mon Pleas report of their transactions
and an accurate statement OF the financial
affairs of the county. fsfaisss
Mr.. Carter, Senate bill to amend the acts
making it the duty of county auditors to
levy extra taxes for road purposes in GER
tain cases, by providing that the same
property shall not be so taxed twice in the
same year.
Mr.. Carter, Senate bill to extend the time
for the payment of school lands in section
sixteen in the townships of Highland and
Defiance in Defiance county.
House bill for the election of four school
directors in the I'd, 4th, 9th and 9Th wards
|-one in each of these wards-of the city
of Columbus, on the first Monday of April
next. i-- - it
House bill to punish and suppress prize
fighting.
The following bills were introduced in
the Senate:
By Mr.. Lawrence, for the relief of Har-
rison Butte. SIS -;.
By Mr.. Berry, to make it penal for per-
sons to knowingly permit their domestic
servants to enter any railroad enclosure,
or to drive or land them upon railroad
tracks, ar rs5 e.ii5zs
By Mr.. Terrence, to prevent speculation
in street railroad tickets. se
The Zanesville Courier and the
Word White.
We notice that the Portsmouth Tribune
(Republican), claims that WEBsrER's Die
tionary is Republican authority. If this
is so. Republicans, and especially the
ZanesuiAe Courier, should accept it as SUCH
The Courier persists that the word ,o1aite in
the Constitution OF Ohio is intended to
mean anything that is not quite half-black.
Now, WEBsTER's Dictionary defines white
to be "the color of pure snow." The
Courier thinks that if snow has not an in
er-mixture gilmore than three-fitths black,
it Is whitehall although you mix six
ounces of antimony with ten ounces of
snow, you have sixteen ounces OF white
snow. Neither rSenator LINN, nor any 9TH
er Democratic Senator, believes any such
absurdity; and it will require a confound-
ed amount of educating to make the mass
of the people believe it, too. The word
white was put into the new Constitution
of Ohio for the express purpose of
preventing every person from voting who
was made up of the White and Negro races;
and the trainers labored under the impress
sion that they had done SO. The people
thought they had done so, and were salts
fed; and because Democratic Senators and
Members of the Legislature will not run
round, examine old papers, or the decisions
of some Abolition judges to see whether
they have not decided the word White to
mean something else than common sense,
science and the history of the world unite
in deciding it to be, they are denounced by
Republican editors as being unfaithful to
the Constitution. Until the word White is
stricken from the Constitution of Ohio, no
man who has in him blood of the Negro
race can rightfully vote.
An Impartial Trial.
The Journal, on the 18th, felt called upon
to write an editorial designed to show that
the impartiality of President JoHNsoN's
trial so far is of an unprecedented charac-
ter. It is of an unprecedented character
we admit. There's been nothing like it
since the days of the Star Chamber. The
Journal would have its readers believe that
:sif there was the least ground for complaint
It would be for a complaint on the part OF
the country that this great offender Presi-