Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-10-12


authority, or knowledge. Of any off
Ger or clerk of the House, surrepti-
tionsIy interpolated certain matter in
the Journal; and that said committee
held a session to give Mr.. Layman a
chance to be heard, at his request, but
he failed to appear aud therefore re
port tie following resolution:
RESOLVED, That said Amas Layman
be and is hereby excluded from the
floor of the House and from access
tn the journal thereof, and that the
Sergeant-at Arms take care to enforce
the res Olut:oI.
w. b. WEST,
j PURsELL, Com"
Now, Mr.. Layman is an ultra pol
itician OF the modern Democratic per-
suasion, and in order to defeat Mr.
Williams election to the Legislature
OF this State, if possible, the Demo
Gratis of this county used every means
in their power, and among other things
they procured a statement of the
School Bill, about which so much has
been said, and such unscrupulous mis-
representations have been made by the
Register of this place. This state
ment was published in the Register.
Gould felt, or affected to feel quite
jubilant with this statement in his
possession, but his natural propensity
for telling what is not true, represent
ed the Clerk of the House as one Of Mr..
Williams "own party" We quote
the following from the Register of the
7th of September:
"We understand that NJ. ]. VIII
liams says "tt Is lie; he never voted
for that nogger bilI!" Well, all we have
got to say is, if he did not. the Jour
nal of the House, kept by a member OF
his own party is not correct"
1t was this falsohood of Gould's
that drew out the circumstance of the
charge of interpolating the House
Journal by Mr.. Layman; and Mr.
Layman, it seems to us, ought to cal
Gould to an. accom- for representing
him to be of Mr.. Williams own party
unless he was willing to give the state
ment more weight with the people, be
cause it was made by Republican.
Our object in referring to Mr.. Lay
man was to show that Gould had lied
and that he represented the Clerk o
the House to be Republican, hopin;
that the statement made by Layma
under the guise Of Republican woul
answer his purpose with Republican
better than though it lad come fror
Democratic.
Mr.. Layman requests us to publis
his long letter, but we cannot do S
entire. We have no desire to do M
Layman any wrong. We wished t
show that instead of being a Repul
lican, he was an ultra Democrat, an
Gould had misrepresented him fc
mercenary purposes. We give NJ
Layman, however, the benefit of til
statement of his case made at the tin
by the Ohio State Journal, which /
has furnished us and wishes us t
print.
The Journal article is as follows:
'"The House journal Correctio
Matter"
"Our reporter of Legislative prc
ceedings stated last February, that
preamble and resolution had been o
fered in the House of Representative
by Mr.. West. and then adopted, pre-
viding for a select committee to inve
tigate and report as to a correctic
in the House Journal of the 2Ist
that month. Our readers were ais
informed that a majority of the cor
mittee appointed to discharge said i
ty, had made a report, and recon
mended the adoption of a resolutic
to exclude Mr.. Amos Layman, of Il
Ohio Statesman, from the privileg
of a Reporter, for making the CORE
ton complained of; and that their I
port and resolution had been recol
mitted TO the committee, with instru
tiOns to reinvestigate the matter.
In justice to Mr.. Layman, we W
now state the matter:
Morris, West, Converse and Pu
sell, were the committee originally a
pointed. On Friday before the a
journment, Mr.. West had Mr.. Purs
excused from the committee, and n
Cory appointed in his palce, On 81
urday evening, April 11th, Mr.. We
from a majority of the commit
rose to a question of privilege, and
ported back the original report, W
some additional matter, and re-mov
the recommendation that the exp
sion resolution be adopted I
Converse made a minority report,
vindication of Mr.. Layman. A lengt
discussion then ensued, after VIII
the House was brought to a dir,
vote upon the resolution, and it '
voted down-thirty two members V
ing for it and forty four against
So Mr.. Layman was sustained by
House We make mention of Tia
facts simply as matter of justice
Mr.. Larman."
THE GREAT FIRE!