Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-03-09
Editorial Notes from the State Capital.
COLUMBUS, MARCH 4, 1870.

sixty days, and it is quite prooaoie
hat thirty days more will be con-
sumed before the end comes This
would be a saving of nearly six weeks,
as compared with last year, in time,
and of at least fifty thousand dollar;
in money. The Republican members
of the House have almost unanimous
" agreed to strive to secure an ad-
joutnment on March 31st. The Senate,
two weeks since, passed a resolution
in favor of adjourning on the 18Th
inst. but that is so manifestly imprac-
ticable that the House will amend by
substituting a later day. On Thurs
day the chairman of the House FL
nance Committed reported the general
appropriation bill, providing for the
expenses of the current year and the
first quarter of 1871. The considers
ton and passage Of the annual appro-
priation bill usually occupies about
three weeks. That measure disposed
of and there will be little if any ex-
cuse for not drawing the session TO a
close.
POLITICAL MEASURES.
Since the ratification of the 18th
Amendment, the placid surface of
legislative experience has not been
storm-tossed by any violent discussion
of political issues. The Senate, some
weeks since, passed billto repealt the
visible admixture law, but it has not
yet been acted upon in the House.
The law DISTINGUISHING the crippled
soldiers at the Dayton Home, and the
Students voting law should be re-
pealed. But there is a most vexatious
impeachment in the way of successful
action. The Republican majority in
the Housei is but two. If one is absent
the vote is a tie. IL requires every
Republican to be in his seat to secure
the passage of any political measure
in either House. Since the 18th
Amendment and the Williams county
case have been disposed of, it seems
quite impossible to hold all our MEM
bers here. For the last thirty days
there has been an average absentee
ism in the House of a dozen members,
one-half of them Republicans. In
the Senate the proportion Of absentees
has been quite as large. Court bus
mess calls away every week some of
the lawyers, and when one set returns,
another batch steps out. Then again
sickness occasionally detains one or
more of the members from their pla-
ces, and from these and various other
like causes legislation drags its wheels
tediously and YEARLY along. 1t
vas thought that if an adjournment
was permitted every three weeks,
from Friday until Tuesday, so that
gentlemen could visit their homes
frequently, the general attendance
would be mor regular. The expert
ment does not prove successful. do
not believe the Republicans will be
able to enact a single purely political
during the remainder of this
session, unless we can devise some
means of compelling our men to stand
TO their posts better than they have
been doing. The situation is unPleas-
ant, and very trying to the patience of
the great mass of the Republican MEM
bers who are almost every hour faith
fnl to duty, and it is due them that
the people Of the State should fully
understand against whom the fault of
dereliction should properly beeharged.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
A member of the House having con-
eeived the idea, or copied it from some
equally fertile genius, that he could
devise a plan to settle the woman
voting question, introduced a bill to
provide for holding an election at
which the women of the State might
cast their votes for or against female
suffrage. The bill was for buncomDe,
and q majority of the House voted to
reject it at irst reading, being a more
sudden cutting off of q bill than We
had seen in our three winters expe-
RENEE. The forlorn author was al
most beside himself with wrath and
modification at the sudden demise of
his n~cndescript bantling. The next
day the Honse reconsidered and voted
10 permit him to have his bill printed
and allow it to run the regular course
1t viii never see daylight. The action
of the House on this bill is no indica-
ton of the sentiments of a majority
being adverse to woman suffrage.
NUISANCE IN STREAMS.
4 few weeks since I received a
petition signed by number of citizens
of Newton Falls and vicinity, asking
the Legislature TO pass q law to pre-
vent the owners Of fax and tow mills
from casting shives and refuse matter
into streams of water. The petition
1as referred to the House Committee
on Judiciary, and on Thursday last
they reported that they find the law
in regard to nuisance makes ample
provision for the protection Of the
streams and for the prosecution of Of
tenders against the purity and health
fulaess of the same. The committee
say any further legislation is unnec-
essary.
PETITION AND REN0NsTRANCE.
A numerously signed petition from
Fowler, asking for the establishing Of
a Soldiers' Orphans Home, was last
week received and presented to the
legislature. A rem0nstrsnce came
from Orangeville protesting against
the passage of a law organizing that
village into a separate election dis
triet. We think that existing law
provides for the settlement of such
questions by the county commission
ers, and a special legislative act is not
really required.
JAIL BILL.
Nj. Wing introduced his Jail bill on
Thursday. 1t provides for raising a
sum not exceeding forty-fye thousand
dollars (S4, OOO) by a county levy for