The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1869-07-01
The Democratic Legislature.

We publish this week an article from the
Portsmouth Times in which the editor, who
was member of the Legislature, lays the blame
of the marriage law blunder upon the clerk.
We believe II was the clerk of the senate-a man
who was appolnted-nOt for his fitness for the
position, but because of his services to the par.
ty. This incompetent appolntee ofa Democratic
Legislature appears to have been pretty well
paid for his blunderlng as the following, from
the Columbus Journal will show.
"The able editor of the Statesman promises to
explain some of the wasteful expenditures of the
Legislature of last winter Perhaps he will be
good enough TO explain how II was that the
clerk Of the Senate one G. Is. Flood, received
from the State Of Ohio, for services during the
year 1868, the eum of Tg0 Thousand Ia0O Hun
dred and NiHety.fve Dollars. (S2, ,295, full pay
OF five dollars day for four hundred and fifty
nine (db9) days-in one year. The Almanac Is
authority for the statement that there were only
1866 days In the year 1868-hoW does O. B. Flood
draw pay for 1852 q. B. Flood Is an abIe-bodied
man; but q gentleman who has handled him
states to us In confidence that he does not con-
slider him equal to full man and O quarter so
as to enable him to draw 459 days pay for 866
days time Besides he enfeebled himself to
some extent, by doing full duty upon the Ohio
Statesman during all this time, for which he is
said TO have received prlncely remuneration.
Now, 366 days on the Ohio Statesman, and 459
days paid for by the state. of Ohio, make eight
handred dHd hcenty.fge days labor performed by
~ d. slood curing the year lS6S-Just about
three days work for every working day In the
year!
Then. while the able Editor la in the explain
Ing business, we should like TO know how he ex-
Ia ati nj nd % ia ful
time all the year round as Editor of the States
man, to earn for the State Of Ohio additional to
this, for the year 1869, the sum of Nineteen
Hundred and Fifteen Dollars ($19l5). lie draws
for the regular session of 1913 days, the sum of
Ss16, and for extra allowance by our economic
al Democratic Legislature, $500. He is author
ICED by law to draw Ave dollars day for the time
employed IN indexing the journalism Item
amounting 10 $500 In 1868 We take II for
granted that Flood Is ablobodled enough to draw
the same amount for 90. These sums are equiv
alent to 1856 days for the State. Add for States
man 8G5 days, and We have 750 days work for
the year 1869. Now we would not for the world
disturb the equanlmity of the able Editor, who,
like Rogue RideThOod Is an honest man and
earns his bread In the sweat Of his brow. But
we should like to know, merely as mathemat-
lcal problem, how II Is that z. b. Flood man
ages In 1868 and 20 TO do 1876 days work and
draw the pay therefor, In 731 days, counting all
holidays and Sundaysf That ls what we should
like TO knOw--nOt only as mathematical prob
lem but as great aud saving question In polit-
lcal economy How does q. B. Flood contrve
70 do six years work, In his feeble condition of
mind, body and estate; and how, oh how, does
ho succeed In drawsRg he pay for this totally
unexampled amount OF labOrp Are there several
OF himi IL he corporation. Or 10 he ruyers-
bic Joshua with power TO make the sun 70
three times around the pay clock every day ?"