The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-01-14

/ ADEQUATE salaries, afford to the citizel
the amplest possible security that ina
partial Justice will be administered by
an independent Judiciary.
forbear to consider further, at thi
! time, the interesting questions which
. | will arise in the revision and amend
, ment OF the Constitution. Convinced
J of the soundness of the maxim that
/ "that government is best which gov.
erns least" would resist the tenden-
cy common to all systems TO enlarge
the functions of government. The
law should touch the rights, the bust
ness and the feelings of the citizen al
as few points as if consistent with the
preservation Of order, and the main
tenance of justice. If every depart
ment of Government is kept within
It's own sphere, and every officer per
forms faithfully his own duty with
cut magnifying his Office, harmony
efficiency and economy will prevail.
Under the Providence of God, the
people of this State have greatly pros
pered. But in their prosperity they
can not forget him who has won the
battles, nor hiswidOw, nor his orphan,
nor the thousands Of other sufferers in
-
thy and relief.
They are to be found in our hospit-
ais, our infirmaries, our asylums, our
prisons and in the abOdes of the un-
fortunate and the erring. The found
er Of our Religion, whose spirit should
pervade our laws, and animate those
who enact, and those who enforce
them, by His teaching and His ex-
ample, has admonished us to deal with
all these victims of adversity, and the
children Of our common Father. With
this duty performed, we may conf
identity hope that for long ages to come
our country will continue to be the
home of freedom and the refuge Of the
oppressed.
Grateful to the people of Ohio for
the honors they have conferred, / APP
proach a second term in the Execu-
tive office, deeply solicitOus to dis
charge, as far as in me lies, the Obli-
cations and duties which their partial
Judgment has imposed.
The oath Of Office was then admin
istered to the Governor by Chief JUS
tice Day.
The crowd then proceeded to the
Senate Chamber, where the oath of
office was administered to Lieutenant
Governor Lee, by Justice Brinkerhoff,
and the Lieutenant Governor spoke
as follows:
INAUGURAL ADDRESS CT LIEUTENANT
GOVERNOR LEE.
Gentlemen Of the Senate:
In assuming, for a second term, the
duties of this chair, it becomes me to
thank you for your very kind and
courteous treatment in the past, and
to express the hope that our future re-
latiOns may be pleasant, and Of SER
vice to the State.
My sole duty is to aid you in your
work Of legislation. fl err, you can
correct. You have the responsible
ties of legislators, and hence the pow
ers of Legislatures. 1t is mine to as
sist you in the exercises of those pow
ers, and in the meeting of those re-
sponsibilities. Although each is elect
ed by but afraction CT the people of the
State, yet each is q Senator for the
whole State. Being Senator for the
whole State, no more local interest
should control your legislative action.
The Senator from Cuyahoga should be
no less watchful of the rights and in
terests Of the people of Hamilton, of
Lucas, of Washington or Franklin,
than Of the people of Cuyahoga. No
Senator can enact wisely, that enacts
laws of a general character, which,
while they benefit a few, injure a
great number. No Senator enacts or
refuses to enact, wisely, who so enacts
or refuses to enact. from any other
consideration than the intrinsic char
acter of the question passed upon. In
some legislative bodies, sometimes
votes are given because requested,
either by fellow members or others.
Such votes may have the legal effect
of legislation, but they have not the
primal elements OF sound legislation.
The approval Of the enlightened
Judgment Of the legislator is wanting.
The brain and conscience elected by
the people are put in allegiance and
something else substituted.
In some legislative bodies, some
times, voters are traded or exchang-
ed, and thus results attained, not war
ranted by the intrinsic merits, of the
subject matter. 1 am informed that
in recent canvass before the people,
a candidate for rejection to a legisla-
tive seat justified vote for bill by
saying that he thereby procured two
votes for another bill, in which he
supposed his constituents much inter-
ested.
No people of any State can say
"well done" of such legislators. Do
the people Of the State, or large part
of the State, except too much of any
Senator when they demand that
his vote shall be his best judgment to
be formed on the inherent merits of
each question? Think not. Let me
think that such is the opinion OF every
Senator. With such an opinion de-
velOped in actual work in this chamber,
1 will know that the people can not
regret their choice.
Here, you are all Senators alike, and
so far as this Chair can see or hear, it
can see or hear you each and all alike
as Senators.
The crowd then dispersed, and the
Attorney General elect and Treasurer
of State elect proceeded to their re-
spective rooms in the State House,
where they took their oath of office.