Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-02-26

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man manufacture. WORCESTER.
From cur Columbus Correspondent.
COLUMBUS, Feb. %, 1870.
take this holiday 10 make good my promise
to give you, now and then, the news and items
of interest liOm the State Capitol, being to-day
impressed with the thought that the Father
of his Country" never made any promises that
he did not expect to fulfill What AN example
for those who promise in haste, only to repent
at leisure. 1t will not take long to relate all
the matters Of interest that have transpircd
here, in the two weeks that have passed.
The Female Suffrage Convention took up
the remaining portion of week before last, un-
til the adjournment, on Friday This was the
pretcxt Tor the Offering of several buncombe
resolutions, and the appointment OF Il special
comm In the House, upon that subject by
the way, IT is surprising 10 one not familiar
with legislative assemblies, to witness with
what eagerncss and wonderful flcetncss mem
bcrs who are loud for rctrenchment, short scs-
| siOns and great economy, hasten upon every
occasion, to introduce resolutions for effect and
personal notorieiy, mt an expense to the State,
! OF from 800 to $500. This past week. the
travelling cumm's. have been out on their an
nual cxcursOns,-tO visittiIe public institutions
of the state, have good time and make
ports. The comm. engaged in this agreeable
duty are those on Public Benevolent lnstitu-
lions, and Universities and Colleges.
| The bills passed, and which are now laws
| in full force, are twelve. Two Senate and ten
| House bills. The Senate has passed - and the
House 10, besides, which are yet pending in
the two houses, not having yet received their
concurrent action. The first Senate bill passed
amends Sec. 3 of nm act passed March ~, 1850,
relating 10 public schools, and provides, that
where school house site is had under lease
az
shall be regarded as vested in the Board of
Education and that the same may be sold as
Is now provided for the sale of real estate by
such boards. The other makes the deeds of
the State of Ohio, conveying the lands which
were given by the L. s., To the State of Ohio,
| To aid in the construction Of The Wabash X Eric
Canal, prima iacic evidence that the title of
said lands was in the State OF Ohio.
or the House bills the lst rcpeals the boiler
Law of last winter. The md corrects the mis-
take in the law of last winter in relation 10
marriages, which, ny some fatality, prevented
females under the aye of treatYOh from enter
ing into the state Of maUimOny, without the
consent of their parents or guardians, when
p, every one acknowledges their right so To do at
| IT, The 3d is the alderman bill, for Cincinna.
| ii, ant, the provisions of which are confined to
! that citv. The 4th and 9th, authorizes taxa
/ ton in Prcb, and Montgomery cos, and are
purely local The 9th requires the question of
! the construction on fret Tnrnpikcs, To be sub
mtled To vote OF the .oople ol the Co. before
! the commissioners nre Authorized To levy u
/ tax to build such roads The 9Th authorizes
the construction of street railro. DIS upon or
along any road within or UrHhOWt thL limits OF
any city, town or village. The 9Th is ia: par
| tinl appropriation bill. This Is n bill of inlJr
est 10 The members, $4,000 being therein APP
proprntrd Tor their pay, 1t also has an item
! OF $4,000 To pay for hydrOstatiC pumps, bought
under the late boiler Aaw-and ~ 600 for re-
pairs to the boilers in The State House, aud $3.50
for pat mt fixtures ON same required by that
| law. the 9th relates 10 the buildings ut the
Reform Farm, and amends the old law hy siri-
! king out the words 1.-TWO Thousand Dollars
which limited the cost of buildings thereon to
that sum, and leaves the whole matter of their
cost to the legislature. The 10th Is local
bill Tor railroad To GAINESVILLE,
The free interest law bill is being urged with
more zeal and persistence than any other mca-
sure At this writing think that no change
will be- made this winter cannot for my own
part, see any good reason why, when the
amount of money that Is To he in circulation
! In the country is limited To n fixed sum by lc-
gslation those who are fortunate enough 10
control it, shall by legislation. be permitted To
take any sum they please for the use of it.. II
money was free, or we had free banking, or il
| II Was unencumhcred by legislation, SO that the
law of supply and demand could, with certain
~, apply, and the price by that law be asccr-
tanned aud liked, / should favor free trade in
money. But under our present SYSTEM and
with the generally received opinion, that the
volume of circulation must be controlled by
legislation, this idea of giving the person lend
ing, N,lpOwer To take for the use Of his money
what his gFecd for gain may dictate, looks To
me unwise and mp0lillc. IL is generally nd
mlttCd that ten per cent Is the very highest
that any one can afford to pay In any lcgili-
mate business, and that that sum Is n larger re-
turn for the money than the profits of most
branches of industry, or ordinary Investments.
The House, IN committee of the whole. have
agreed upon bill relating to the election,
term OF office, and duties of County Auditors.
II was presented by the Finance Committee,
and will tiuk, pass, II provides that County
Auditors shall nc elected Tor two years, and
their term OF Office 10 begin on the second
Monday In November atler their election,
The present incumbenls aud those elected last
fail, are not changed, but i0Id their terms ns
before, but those elected In 1870 and 1871, viii
each be elected for two years and about eight
months, which will end their terms at the
time In this new law provided. With slight
attentions, In other respects, IL Is merely CO.
dlhcatiDn o. existing statutes,
The Insurance Committee are hard nj work
on n bill codifymg the, present Insurance laws,
aud creating the Office Of State Commissioner
OF Insurance, aud an Insurance Department
The bill providing for the cstablishnent of n
Soldiers Orphans Home, was passed In the
Senate, with such amendments ana alterations
as 10 make II useless for the purpose intended.
Another has been introduced into the House
and will go through,
The Committees are now busiy at work
The more important ones holding daily ses,
sions. As the mail Is now ready TO leave
must close, aud defer until another time many
things thad intended 10 say In this letter X.
JosErm WESLEY hARPEn VINO died on
Monday, was the third of the brothers Of thC
great publishing firm lie was at first fore
man OF the compositors depaEtment, then he
. took the place 10 literary correspondent. JonN
and FLETCHER are surviving bro.hsrs. The
NEw York Poet says Of JOSEPH WEsLEy,
'He wrote In very clear and finished
! style, and was a sound critic and an excellent
Judge OF ihe literary merits of books. We hay,
heared that he wrote the prefaces which arr
1 found In many of the volumes Of tho ol,
Family Library, and he always exercised
large influence over the choice Of the publca
. tiDns OF his house, Us well as owes the conduc
b of HsrTV''' kggasfae."