Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-01-04
Legislature.

The. LEGISLATURE OF this state met
on Monday last. The House was
called to, order, and in due time was
organised permanently by theelectiOn
of,its officers. Hon.. N H. Van Vor-
hees, Of Athens county, was elected
Speaker, and b. j. Loomis, of Frank
lin, was elected Chief Clerk.
s On Saturday evening the Repnbli-
cans held a caucus for the purpose Of
putting in nomination candidates for
oficers Of tie House, which resulted as
follows:
Nelson H. Van Vorhees, of Athens,
was nominated by acelamation for
Speaker; B. j. Loomis, of Franklin,
for Clerk, also by acclamation; Chas.
.Babcock, of Cuyahoga, Speaker pro.
TEN. also by acclamation; A. T. Car
penter, of Union, for First Assistant
Clerk; Mr.. H. F. Barnes, of Guernsey,
Second Assistant Clerk; w. R. Hull,
OF Jackson, Third Assistant Clerk !;
Basil W. Adair, of Carroll, Fourth As
sistant Clerk VIM. w. Nye, of AIeigs,
FiEth. Assistant Clerk; H. Cushman.
Of Cuyahoga, Sergeant at Arms; j. B.
Scott, Of Stark, First Assistant Ser
geant-at-Arms; L. A. Ferry, of Trum-
ball, 4 Second Assistant Sergeant at
Arms; Fred Blenkner, of Franklin,
Third Assistant Sergeant at Arms.
The ticket put in nomination was
on Monday elected by the House.
The Republican Senators (18) held
. caucus on Saturday evening for the
purpose Of nominating candidates fol
offices OF the Senate, which resulted az
follows.
Chief Clerk, f. T. Hall. of Frank
lin: First Assistant, Frank Brown
ing, OF Clinton; Second Assistant, J
A. Lantz, of Summit; ERgrossine
Clerk, s. r. Sedan, of Hamilton; En-
rolling Clerk, Albert Parker, Of Han
cock; Sergeant at Arms, B. D. Pat
rick of Huron First Assistant, Jane
B.Wilbur, of Cuyahoga; Second AS
sistant, VIM. J. Rennells, of Vinton
The nominated ticket, as above, wa
elected BY the Senate on Monday. i
relation to the election in the Senate
the Columbus correspondent of th
Cincinnati Gazette of Tuesday morn
ing says:
a 1NoI- VxynV.o r1rooont in f1
Senate this morning to see the organi
zation. fI
Lieut.. Gov. Lee called the Senate t,
order at 10 O'Clock, all the Senator
present., E. T, Hall, Republican, wa
elected Chief Clerk. The vote stoo
IS to:1S for his opponent. 9. 3. FLOOD
Democrat. The Lieutenant Goyerno
gave the casting vote, and at once de
cided Hall was duly elected
Puthan, of Ross, (D,) rose to
point Of order, but Lieut.. Gov. LIE
said no business was in order excep
the nohaination of assistant clerk. MI
Putnam asked if an appeal fIom th
decision of the Chair was in ORDER
The Chair said nothing was in orde
except the nomination Of an assistar
clerk, and at once swore Hall in 9
Chief Clerk.
Nominations we're then made fe
assistant clerk. All the Republican
voted for their caucus nominee
votes. The Democrats cast IL vot'
for. one of their nominees and l f
another, thus preventing a tie. Nil
ballots were had without an electio
On the tenth ballot the Republics
nominee was elected by the castir
vote Of the Lieut.. Governor. All Il
other Republican nominees were elec
ed by the casting vote of the Lier
Governor, except for unimportant c
fees.
There seems to be perfect harmon
among the Republican members
each House. This is quite differe
from what the Democracy had expet
ed. They had hoped that there won
be discord among the Republican me-
bers, and that they, the Democra
would be able to obtain some q
vantage or comfort from this anti
pated course,