Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-04-06
EditOrisI Notes from the State Capital.
April l, 1870.

COLUMBCSs ApAiA Il AOaos
The end of the first and regular
session ofthe 59th General AssemblyUf
Ohio, is supposed to be drawing nigh.
and that two weeks hence it will
have adjourned until the first Mon
day of January, 1871. This, 1 repeat,
Is a prospective condition of things
supposable, but not as absolutely GER
tain as it should be, if the action OF
the House to-day on the General APP
preparation Bill, affords a criterion OF
its temper and disposition to finish
up necessary business and then ad-
journ. The House has had, for ten or
more days, the appropriation bill I'M
der consideration, and proceeded with
but little diversity of sentiment, ex-
eepting in regard to the transfer of
the soldiers relief fund, the Morgan
Raid claims, and a few minor plum
der claims for damages to property by
the public works, by the overflow OF
lands. The Democrats have, during
the last three sessions, presumed to
charge the Republicans with acting
in bad faith to the soldiers in the
transfer, in 1865, of a sun of $SO0,0O0
from the relief fund to the payment of
the State debt, and have insisted that
the relief fund should be reimbursed.
The Republicans, at the sessions of
1S67-S, expressed a readiness to levy a
tax to raise the requisite sum, but TO
this practicable mode of obtaining the
motley the Democrats uniformly
objected, thus showing their sympa-
thy with those for whom the relief
fund had been raised, was all sham,
and for political effect. To a motion
made by a Republican that a sum,
equal to the relief fund. should be APP
propriated and applied in annual in
stalments for the use of the Soldiers
Orphans Home, the Democrats also
presented an almost unanimous oppo-
sition, again showing the hOllowness
of their pretended sympathy for the
soldiers. The motion, however, pre-
vailed, and the provision is incorpora-
ted in the appropriation bill. Then
the claim of some 100000 for DANA
ges sustained by citizens of the SOUTH
ern part of the State, by the ravages
and destruction of property by John
Morgan's rebel raiders, by the loss of
horses impressed by Union troops
and by loss of property taken and de-
stroyed by State militia, in 1854, was
saught to be incorporated into the ap-
preparation bill. This was voted
down, and, as a consequence. no little
i'll feeling was spgendered by the de-
feat of the measure, among the friends
of the Morgan Raid claims. When the
appropriation bill was put upon it
passage, this evening, tie Democrats {
nearly all voted against it. Four
Republicans, Bradbury, of Gallia !
county, Titus, of Meigs county, An
derson, of Guernsey county, and =
Williams, of Jackson county, who :
were especially anxious and solicitouS :,
for the success of the attempt to get :
the State to pay the laid claims, voted !
with the Democrats, and helped to !
defeat the appropriation. bill. This {
leaves things, apparently, in a bad c
shape for the financial interests of the
State, for if we should adjourn, rs
some propose, without making ap- G
propriations, the public benevolent l
institutions, and all the departments d
and branches of the State Govern .
ment, from the Governor down to the :
sweeps and spittoen cleaners in the {
State House, would have to "go on
tick" for the next six months. We
however, that these few dis I
affected gentlemen Republicans will :
reconsider their course, and that after :
been beaten in a fair contest, =.
they will recognize the fact that it is :
The dignity of an hon
est legislator to carry a captiOus Oppo-
sition to such extremity as they have /
in this instance. If, however, they '
should cooperate with the Democrats
20 force us to vote for their raid claims
Or lose the appropriation bill, We shall Il
and fight it out on that line, rath- r
er than be coerced into conditions as
10 the propriety Of which grave z
exist. AS the cas- stands, we
may adjourn in ten days, or it may +,
be ten weeks. The Democrats are e
jolly over the situation of ?
he Republicans. All we have to say y
s that if they can feel comfortable F
their course in a matter involv- =
ng SO solemn q responsibility, it is a f
akin to that probably felt by is
Nero fddIing while Rome was burn a a
ng. Ii
BILL POSTPONED. 81
The Senate has postponed until Ii
81 the consideration of the House ri