Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-03-31
FROM THE CAPITAL.
oo1rnpus. O., March as, 1870.

and in press of other business
was found impossible to get the ap
propriation bill passed which neces
STATED the RESEMBLING Of the resolu
ton to finally adjourn on the 3lst
1t looks very much now as thougl
wo were in for two weeks more, al
Thought believe that inst as sooI
as the appropriation bill is disposed
of an adjournment will be forced
The chief item Of dispute is an at
tempted amendment to that bill
pending for an appropriation o.
over S500,000 for damages done by
John Morgan during his raid thro
Ohio in 1868. The law passed
| by the last Legislature fixing and
determining the amounts which the
State ought to pay, was declared
by Atty General West to be un,
constitutional, and that question is
now pending in the Supreme Court
There is not much doubt but thai
court will sustain the opinion of thC
Atty General. 1t is difficult to SCI
how the State is liable for the dam
ages, and upon what principle they
ought to be paid out of the Stat
Treasury, any more than that th,
State should pay any other dam
ages done by act Of God or tn,
Ipublic enemy--by flood or fire
Representatives from couuties.thrO
which the preanbulatory aud slip
perry John went, are making (
strong fight for such an appropria
ton, and swear they wont vote foI
the appropriation bill unless tina
goes in. ! don't think it will g
/ in.
Every day, almost, furnishes ad
ditional evidences of the inellicieEcy
Of our judicial system in all its de
partments. AS the latest proof o
this, this legislature has found il
necessary to pass a law relieving
the Judges Of the Supreme Court
from attending District Courts
The crowded state of the Supreme
Court docket is such that it is al
most an impossibility to get case
heard short Of three years after it
gets there and every day it grows
worse, 50 that IN the course of q
few years If man should unlaw
fully get possession Of his neigh
hor's farm and should be sued for
it and could get his case into the
Supreme Court, he might very con
tentedly go on plowing and sowing
and reaping, DC, resting assured
that his possession and little would
be clear during his natural life,
provided he didn't foolishly live
very long one, | am not finding
fault with the law just passed, for it
will enable the Judges Of the Sill
prcme Court to devote the entire
year to the business Of the Supreme
Court lam finding fault with the
System, forit will be seen now that
the District Court will be composed
Of three Common Pleas Judges, one
Of whom tried the case below, and
to whose opinion the others will
naturally defer. So that the Dis
trict Court, before Of very little val |
no or worth, now dcgenerales into
amcre farce. 1t had better at once
be abolished. lfa change could he
made by law it would have been
done long ago but it requires that
long and circuitous procedure Of
the Constitution. This
reform is about tho only one Il
know Of which would Justify the
,a'ljng Of constitutional Oonyen-
ton.
One Of the iutolerable nuisanccs
or the present legislature, is Baber,
The power Of argument is good
.ho capacity to talk necessarily to
10 purpose, Is not 50 good BabcrI
AN, on the spur Of the moment,
md upon the slightest proyocation
N any subject, from o motion to
djourn, to the Hapilton County
CO bill or any other occasion what
yer, talk q full hour without Oppo.
ent mental or physical prostra
ion; and what is more, he not
,uly can but always does, and re.
leats the dose irregularly from
hrce TO twelve times day. Let q
rise aud rattle piece Of
laper and rs soon as the sleeplcss
,yc or attentive eNr Of Baber cutch-
IS the sight Or sound he is on his /
Get rafting, always in the same
train, II don't make any differ
nee what the subject is or whether
10 understands it or not Indeed, ,
iis friends claim for him that he
AN make q better speech on sub
ect he don't understand than on
me he does. ] don't think ever
lenrd him make a speech he didn't
understand, lneyer saw such a per.