Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-01-20
From the State Capital.

OF the peOple."-HoRACE MAYNARD.
from the State Capital.
The Legislature, although nomin-
ally in session for ten days, has done
very little, to outward appearance,
during that time. Notany bill Ofgen-
eral interest has been enacted into a
law, as yet, which is probably quite
as much q reason-for public congratu-
lation as anything that this delectable
assembly could do, save a sine die adj
journment. OF the los members be-
longing in the House the daily aver
Q is about s.. For this reason bills
ut third reading are rarely put on pas
sage, but considerably laid upon the
table, their authors apprehensive
that the requisite constitutional ma
jority can not be had with such thin
houses. I doubt if it is TO be any bet
ter this winter, there beings manifest
apathy for work. As a consequence
work is being piled up in a miscellane-
Gus tumble of unfinished business,
likean accumulation of ''wrathagainst
the day of wrath" One of the unter-
rified declared a few days since that
he was bound to 60 in for frequent adj
journments, reeesses, excursions, and
similar felieitous eontrivances for the
consumption of time he arguing that
he felt justified in so doing because
his party had last winter tried to run
the State government economically,
but the people had repudiated their
efforts, at the late election, as abortive,
10 the tune of 1900 Republican ma
jority. He thinks republics migrate
full, +" and proposes to retaliate, conf
IDENTIFY believing that this is the last
Democratic Legislature that will as
semble, for years, in the State capital.
VISIBLE ADVENTURE AGAIN.
1t is an illustration of the phenOm-
ena of the "ruling passion strong in
death, Z" that the Democrats propose at
this term TO resuscitate some of the
disqualifying features of the so-called
Visible admixture" DISTINGUISHING
bill, which they passed last winter,
but which was timely strangled by the
righteous legal grip Of the Supreme
Court. ~SCRIBNER, of the Senate,
from the hades of the Holmes county
region, has reconstructed his defunct
bantling, and proposes to pass it this
winter in a shape to Obviate, if posi-
ble, the objections of the Court, by
making the law require the elector of
mixed blood TO establish the point that
he is more than half white. 1t is also
provided that the law shall not take
effect until October first, only a few
days before The election, so that there
viii be no chance for legalinterference
for at least one election. This dodge,
they hope, may give them the next
Legislature. Among civilized men it
Is hard 10 conceive the height and
depth Of the implacable hatred of feel
ing which must possess the heart of
any one who can thus pe%rseyeringly
pursue in the yengeful spirit of dire
persecution any class of the citizens of
our State. The moral cowardice, the
sellishness and cruelty of old Herod
made him a slayer and murderer of
little children, lest the sceptre of pow
er should depart from him. In the
light of the 18th century, there are
lawmakers in Ohio whose names can
never take precedence over that of the
Judean tyrant on the score of human
iry. Dare these present-day persecu-
tors of a crushed and almost friendless
race, raise their hands to Heaven and
implore-
The mercy TO others show,
That mercy show TO mes
If NOT, let their stolid eonsciences
enquire, why not ,"
EXEMPTION.
Several bills have been foot-balled
up and down the House, the past
week. One to increase the exemption
of debtors to SI,O00, was cat-clawed
for an hour or two, ~variously patched,
and finally laid on the table. 1t is not
likely 10 succeed.
THE UsCRY LAW.
There Is an uRdercurTent at work
here manufacturing sentiment favor
ing a change in the usury law, so rs
10 allow ten per cent. on contract, and
4 forfeiture of principal and interest
in cases of excess. When there is no
contract as tn the interest 10 he maid