Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-03-07
mdORR,a0LU1fB HSLEgYER.
t.nlooIuMnus, March 4th ls72. !:

Z aw 1'aGoLU8fBUs, March 4th 1872.
fidon last Tuesday afternoon, the time
/ TO Which the legislature had adjourned
| from the previous Friday morning,
there was no quorum in either House;
land, Consequently, no legislation unit!
Wednesday. And now the newspaper
complaint is revived, that our legisla.
tors are sqraHdering their precious lime
in idleHess. A large number of bills
Iand resolutions have been introduced,
land are in their various stages toward
Idefeat OF adoption, but then the nnn-
Der Of laws actually passed up 10 the
present time, is coulparatir reIy small.
Here is, this department Of the State
! government costing the people a thou
sand dollars day, it is said, and one
searches the proceedings in vain for an
equivalent for the money. Perhaps
this is true. but Legislators sit 50 long,
lanyhow, and Ii is not unlikely that the
usual 'yearabockp viii yet be as large,
if not as Interesting, as most readers
fIesirei1oE biti = 3 : So Il -
Democrats are now comforting them
tselves With the crumb that for the fu-
ttire, If not the past actions of this Leg
| Iislature the Republican party will be
entirely responsible. You remember
| that the Democrats resolved in caucus
| 10 object, to Mr.. Sayler's being allowed
| to vote, every time a. vote. should be
taken and his name called. Jenner
tried it on Wednesday morning, but the
1 president simply replied that he had no
fanfhority ovef that subject. Since then
lthe little selfinposea duty has been
forgotten, and Sayler voted up till. Fri
day without Interruption. The matter
iof Correcting the journal was then taken
| up and finally disposed of. The motions
| to- correct were disposed of without any
| discussion and the Journal was approved
| as 1t stood. So endeth the Kemp Say
| Ter contest. The Senate is now. com
posed of nineteen Republicans and sew
enteen ID Democrats. ..s.',..i -,
Senator Knox,s bin relative to the
duties of Sheriffs aud Coronens has
passed the Senate, and will doubtless
/ Become a law. There can be. no srea-
sonabIe opposition; the good sense Of
| such d law Is, obvious to ALL, - -, ,
MI. Knox presented a memorial, one
day last week, from the council Of
bridgeport, against the proposed cause
1 way at the head Of Zane's Island. The
kduesffon, however, has since been dis.
posed Of. The Committee on Federal
| Relations recommended that the Joint
Resolution. be indefinitely postponed,
and the Report was agreed to-,
7 large fitffnbers OF, PEI itions are stiIl
presented daily relative to the proposed
Modification Of the liquor law. r 1t is
said that over thirty, thousand people
fare thus prayiiig for this SIMPLE act OF
jiusticen to tse eWfisky-seller. 1t is con:
eededsthat the hillswilI pass'the House,
land the friends of the measure areIeven
hopeful of a majority; in theSenate.i Pc
titions have been presented asking thst
| the law be so amended as to apply to
hale, beer and native wines If the true
friends tof the temperance cause
lthroughout the State are of the opiHion
that the pending bill would, if passed,
Impair the efficieney OF the existing
law, the manifestation of a.littie more
iinterestin the matter might have some
| influence The Temperance people in
ithose counties where there has always
been the most noise on the subject seem
lnoW to be essublimely Indifferent. They
twould have prohibition without travel
ing over the Intervening distanceto at
tain iss True, there are many fremon
strances against the changes; but. 81
far as petitions are concerned, and they
thave their influence, the people of Ohio
are solicitoas that the poor, persecute6
lruiner of his race shall hive IA fail
4 chance.1 - bnini alzs4 bsd s5el
The Senate bill has passed the Sen
late, providing for the establishment O
liza State Department of Insurance. :
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