The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-02-18
Letter from the State Capital.

State Sodp-County Fee BiN-De-
bate upon Capital Fundamental
Fallen one-LoJ6y--W Wood County
Seat Mattef-Cdnal Inresfigation.
CoLUMBUs, Feb, 12'h, 1873.
cies, in the items of expense in keep
ing the State House and its occupants
III presentable order. we notice, by the
Comptroler's Report, that it costs
nearly one hundred dollars per year
for soap. This includes both hard
and soft, but excludes aiI of the latter,
used by the platoons of lobbyists, who,
at times, come swooping down upon
the General Assembly. They, the
lobbyists, ordinarily bring theirs from
home, that kept on sale at the capital.
lacking one element SO essential to q
successful worker in the lobby, The
l(y)ie. Does any reader question as
to the use of so much of this cleansing
power, we can only say, that the peo-
| pie pay for it, but whether all of it is
used in or out of the ateHOuse, this
| deponent saith not.
! Another Coanty Fee Bill passed the
! House last week, and has put in its ap-
! pearence before the dignity OF the
Senate. Two more are pending in
the House, whose anxious fathers are
trying to keep on their feet, until their
| time comes to try their speed through
that body. The peculiar philosophy
of so many measure supon one subject
doth not yet appear. The warmest
debate of this session occurred, few
days since, upon proposition, tosub-
stitute Imprisonment for life in place
of the gailows. To the surprise of its
friends, the measure received forty
four votes. Another bill has been
read the first time requiring that any
one convicted of murder in the first
degree, shall be imprisoned two years
before his execution.
Speaking of crime, reminds the
writer of Mrs. Victor. who, as many
OF your readers will remember, was
sent to the Penitentiary from Cleve-
land, for poisoning her brother. To-
day she is the merest wreck, both in
body and mind. For long months
she was bereft of her reason, to which
now she is restored, but, a stroke of
paralysis confines her to her bed, only
the merest wreck of herself. Certain
ly, from a human stand point. the
blood of an innocent brother has been
avenged. She is probably far better
off now in prision, than she would be
! if pardoned. 1t is not known that
any one wishes her pardoned.
Last week the work of legislation
moved quite briskly as it should do ii
full lobby was any help. Burns has
it that the hopes of men and mice
| ''aft gang aglee" which was true of the
men who came down from Perrysburg
scattering cegars and wy SO
freely, while they instructed members
how to vote upon the matter of the re-
moval of the county seat. This matter
was made the Especial Order" for
Wednesday last, but come to ''ciear
the ring" enough affirmative woes
could not be brought to time to
"sweep it through the gates,' and SO
it quietly sleeps upon the Speakers
table, to be called up when ever the
ropes can be properly laid. Old Por-
tage, blessed be her hills and valleys,
has no such thorn in her flesh, as a
county seat question. The joke OF
the matter is that Perrysburg, which
dates her age from A. ID. 1872, claims
that in the vote taken upon this vexed
question, in 1866, Bowling Green, n
little town with nothing but its head
out of the mud, fooled the friends OF
the good old lady, on the banks of the
Maumee, into voting TO establish the
county seat at or near the center of the
county. And now she comes whimp-
ering with the wish to try again. -
A bill modifying the Adair law was
crowded through last week under the
pressure of the previous question.
The canal investigation moves slow.
ly. Whenever it matches any ything that
can pass l will make note of it. AL
low me to say, that the investigation is
eminently property. if for no other
reason than to look after seme canal
lands, which seem to have strayed
away from their proper owner, the
State of Ohio. 1t is to be hoped that
these lands will be found, identified,
and sent home, and when there sold,
and go OH to the grand duplicate of
the State for taxation, as they ought to
do.
The Woodicounty bill came to grief
again on Thursday last. Perrysburg
now hangs its hopes upon re-conider-
alton, the second hope of defeated
measures. Another county Fee bill
passed the House on Thursday last.
Thicker than the leaves of Valambro-
sia do these measures fall upon the
General Assembly. X.
THE AMENDED ADAIR LAW
The Reese Bill Passed by the Legislature
A BILL to amend an amendment OF