Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-01-20
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Editorial Correspondence.
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COLUMBUS, OdnudEy III ACNOs1
Agreebly. to motion adopted a few
davs since, both Houses adjourned this
morning until Tuesday next.
A number of bills have been presented
from the respective standing committees;
a number of new bills have been intro
duced since my last letter; petitions and
memorials are also coming in, and, if we
are to judge from the number of these that
are being daily presented, it is fair to
suppose that the people want a great deal
of legislation. o course, it is not to be
expected that the prayers of all will be
satisfactorily responded to by the Legis-
lature.
Private Dalzell, of Noble county, a Re-
publican member of the House, the other
day injudiciously introduceda resolution
against the policy of Presidential third
term. The resolution was adopted by
vote of yeas Is, to Is nays. The Demo-
Gratis, who never had any special love for
Gen. Grant, all voted with the yeas. 1t
is enormously set down by Democratic
politicians and Democratic newspapers
that the fifteen Republicans who voted
against the resolution are in favor of the
nomination of Grant for third Presi-
dental term. Nothing could be farther
from the truth. The reason why they
voted against the resolution was, because
they thought all Eextraneous resolutions,
whether Of that or any other character,
not strictly subjects of State legislation,
and should be promptly met with our en-
phatic NO; and that is the reason why the
fifteen voted in the negative.
The committee on finance made their
report the other day on the partial ap-
preparation bill, and recommended the
passage of the bill. There are some
things in this bill that have bad look; /;
for instance, it provides for an appropria-
tion of $33, 900, in addition to the ST., 900
that have previously been appropriated
for Centennial purposes. $4,000 of this
$4,000 is to be used for the purpose of
securing a history of the origin of the
admirable school system of our State,
complete history of the schools in each
county, their success, etc. This history
is to be published in suitable volumes,
free of expense for printing; but the
binding and expense of proof-reading is
to be paid for out of this $1,000. The vol
umes are to be copyrighted, and place is
TO be had for their exhibition in the de-
partment for Ohio. Efforts were made to
strike out the $50, 900 and insert 1000,
which failed. The Centennial Board of
Directors, in order to carry out their de-
signs as they think becomes Ohio, ask for
the appropriation. This amount may be
required, though we could not see it in
that light.
In this same partial appropriation bill
there is the small amount of $22, 900 asked
for to pay worthy Democratic newspaper
publishers in the State for publishing the
two proposed Constitutional amendments,
which were voted upon in October last ;
one for Judicial Commission, which car
ried, and the other for taxing dogs, which,
unfortunately for the wool-growing in
terests of the State, failed for want of the
required majority vote that was cast at
the election. The worst feature of this
900 appropriation asked for is, that
there is in it charge by the Cincinnati
vertising, of 81, 100, and the same amount
by the Cincinnati Times. These price.
are regarded extravagant and unjust by
majority of the Republican Represent
atives. There is no uniformity in the
charges for the same work.
Mr.. Entrel1in, of Ross county, moved
to amend the bill by striking out the $22,
600 for advertising, which amendmen
was, on a call of the yeas and nays, agreed
to, and with this item taken out the bill
passed the House. This printing bill viii
now Rcome up, I suppose, and be actet
upon separately.
In order to produce an impression
among the people of the State that the,
had retrenched expenses and reduced tn
aggregate of taxes in the State, the Dem
Ocratic Legislature of last year failed t.
make the necessary appropriations TO
several of our reformatory and charita
BILE institutions to defray the necessar7
expenses for conducting them for tn
year 1875, and the appropriations for tina
purpose were exhausted before the yea
expired; some ofthem have had to be ra
toned for two months past on the credi
system. These deficiencies have to b
provided for by the present Republica
Legislature, and an effort is being mad
to throw odium upon the Financial Com
mittee for asking for extravagant and ex
horbitant appropriations. When, if thes
appropriations are large, they are neces
sarily made so on account of the deceI
ton practiced upon the people by the las
Democratic Legislature, to make them be
lieve that they had reduced the taxes. ]
they had made the necessary appropris
tions last year, Of course, there woul
have been no deficiency, and the preser
General Assembly would not have bee
called upon to make appropriations
meet deficiencies, as now.
There seems to be disposition anon
the minority to make the majority respoI
sible for their delinquencies, and the
seem to be rather INSCRIPTIONS abou
making unnecessary expe nses in tn
management of State affairs, if they ca
throw the responsibility upon the Reput
lican majority for their own sins.
For the information of those who hav
a curiosity to know how the seats are d
vided out among the members, will sa
that this is done by drawing for choic,
In the first place, about half dozen {
the most ancient-lool1ing members are 81
lected and allowed to take choice Of seat
and then the names of all as yoosng gentl,
men are put upon separate slips of pape
and placed in box and shaken up. The
one of the pages is blindfolded, and h
draws the tickets out, and the Clerk ofth
House reads the name, and the membe
goes and selects his seat. AS we neve
had any good luck in a lottery, we wei
not fortunate in this drawing, as our ticl
ct came out so near the close of the draw