Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-17
Forty-First Congress Second Session.


WASHINGTON, D. G., Jan. 49,
SENATE.
During a discussion on the Trumbull amend
nietit, the morning hour expired, and the bill
went over.
bill, giving the state of Ohio jurisdiction and
title over the property at Dayton purchased by
the United States for national asylum for dis
abled,soldiers, came up, and was debated for
sevefal hours by Mr.. Sherman, in favor, and Mr..
Thurman, iii opposition.
Mr.. Sherman explained that the bill was made
necessary by the recent decision of the supreme
court of Ohio, under which SOME three or four
hundred soldiers in the asylum near Dayton,
under the laws of the state and otherwise
eligible To vote, were dislranchiSed as nom
residents, because 1Tlthin the one mile
square coded by Ohio to tic general govern
ment, preparatory to the establishing Of the in
stitu.ion. He went on to show that the accept
ance Of this land by the general government
was upon the condition that no resident upon it
otherwise eligible should, by that change of
Jurisdiction, be deprived of his right TO vote He
commented upon the decision referred TO as Il
shock to the feelings OF every citizen of the state,
and said there was a strong public sentiment In
Ohio that the right to vote should be restored tG
these soldiers.
Mr.. Thurman defended the decision referred
to, as having been rendered. uninhuenced by
demagOgism, by an independent aud incorrupt.
bic Judiciary. Regarding the inevitable effect
of the passing Of the bill as the destruction of the
charity known rs the Dayton soldiers homie
he proceeded to show the justice and prGprctv
AGAINST fbe wishes If their nart, in the sfota
After a Iong disrTasion of no iocai and co,-
stitutional noi1,ts involved Mr.. Thnr,non sod
in reply to Mr.. Shermau'S remarks that he
would prefer the disarmament of the asylum to
the distranchiSement of the Country's defenders,
,,nrnear;nrr ,Iorifcd tio f 4b Lii I{{,iiI4
he earnestly annreciated tho soldiers Of +bo iote
war he th6ugbt where tbev owed no alIeTionce
70 and nartook of none of tho re
spOusibilities If a statc II was no o,oot
hardship IN DENY them norticiu5fin,1
in lis Government far The time beip%. liz had
ben one of the f6st m secnre tjia IalIot m tho
Ohio soldiers in tbe field in 1898 tnt tI,ot ,saS
not nertinent The hin was Observation-Disclosures i,
cedinr TO the state of Ohio inriSdirtion oyar
this asylum and tbe act of the Ohio IcgieIot,,ra
in extending the franchise 10 Obioons Who were
inmates thereof was an excess of ifs LEGITIMATE
authority.
Mr., Bavard and Mr.. Carnenter also smoke
against t6e hin. and without disnoSino, az tho
subject. the senate adjourned
HOITSE.
Mr.. Cox offered resolutions which worn 70.
ferred To the committee ON ',yay2s and means ~
nuestinU tho sacratary Of tho freoeur,, 70 franc
nit ali corresnondence since JuIy n tS7O reIs-
five TO n reneal of tbc GENERAL order SvStem of
tha New Yprl o1s+o 6o,so 2,;tt he
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tion IN con1nni the coIlactor IN rasnStabtiSb tbp
system
i + Tono men,her eIect f,or, tho fourth die.
tr;ct anneaTed and tool Tho oath Of ofsica
Mr., Fitch moved to snsncnd the rulps and re-
tprn IN its nioce IN Tho spcailor5s +ohIo tla con
are h'II of Iost session raiotin% ~ +be CcntraI
branch If tho TTnion ponifc 7raii.oad Nero.
tived1tf5 IN S5nss ,bon tyyo-tbirS ho;nSg in
thc affirmative ''7 -
MIR Ranks moved IN susperd the rules and
mass concurrent +io,, rosci,diua the rns
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to n sneriaI committne T6e snbioct was ocean
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the resnln tion ,yoS rassod brrriadIy aud ,rthnnt
heinG understood Nv the house which had al
ready referred the snhiect to the committee on
foreign Affairs He Said the subject invoIved
annronriotions IN the amonnt of SS0 600 oGO mr.
Ok ono 200. ono entor,,-ieo alono coIIIeJ for
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