The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-14
OUR COLUMBUS LETTER.
A DEFICIENCY OF ONE-FOURTH
OFA MILLION.
Ross Alexander as. Leeder OF the
LesisIature-DanfO Bill
The BelIaire Tobacco WI are.
house Set Down On.
rresnondenc. Of the Register.

house Set Down On.
Correspondence Of the Register.
COLUMBUS, o., February IL.
This thoroughly Democra ratio Legis!s-
ture, which has in the past been no COM
mon thing, is making itself felt all over
the State by
Honest Reform Measures
tha. are so vigorously pressed by the
party that is so largely in the majority.
Reform and protection is the watchword
and the cry that is felt and heard at sll
times, in both branches of the General
Assembly. The people have long de-
manded 1t of their public servants who
have watched over the Interests OF the
State for so many years, but year after
year they have been passed by to be Tor
gotten until the coming election. But the
Democratic party, true 10 the people and
her interests, treating the capitalist and
the laborer alike, are working and legis-
lsting for the mass of tie people; they
want no cliques or rings, they will deal
out Justice in equal quantities to every
citizen OF the old Buckeye State.
The House goes into the Committee
of the Whole every day at o'clock for
the consideration OF the revision Of our
laws by the codifying commission, which
consumes about half OF their time and
which will materially assist in protract-
ing the session.
Milo DOdds, the
Spry Young Bachelor,
has beer successful in the advocacy OF
his bill to allow women to protect the
paper of their male friends by allowing |
them TO hold the office Of notary public,
60 far as It's passage by the House is con-
cerned and tair prospect of the same |
treatment by the Senate, which will add |
one more lever to the destiny stamping
of women. The bill OF
DanfOrd, of Belmont,
to increase the fees of witnesses in COM
mon pleas courts 10 Sl00 and in justices |
courts to rs cents is surely strike in |
the right direction and will more than
likely become law ere Mr.. Dsnford re- |
turns to his Captina home to while away |
the hot sumne er months.
The penitentisry Investigations, now in
progress at tie instlgstion Of the House,
have brought to light some very fine
things, and some that are not SO fine. |
There are many uneasy Republicans |
from different parts of the::Stste..who are
trembling with fear. They know what
Democratic investigating committees are |
appointed for. They know ths. when |
the fine Calcium of Democratic COM
mittee is brought to bear on some things |
that are no: clear, it will burn, and some
will squesl, hence this unesslness IN the
Republican camp. The Hon. eX-GoveI-
nor Thomas l.. Young will be before this
committee this afternoon, when he will
tell what he knows about "pardons,"
about all OF which the REGISTER will be
posted.
The PeBiteHtiary REORGANIZATION
Bill
will pass the Senate tomorrow, and IN q
.ew days the Governor will lift the vail
bv announcing who he has chosen as his
Board of Trustees. The slate Is more
than likely made out. Eastern Ohio will
get one on this Board; also one member
on one of the other Boards of the insti-
tuition. We would like to give the
names OF the lucky ones, but strict conh-
denCe iorbidS.
The wardcnship will verv likely be
rendered to one Mr.. McWater by the
Board OF Trustees, and the gentleman
will doubtless accept.
The House has spent three days IN the
consideration Of
RO.s AIcxander's Partial ApprOprf-
alton ana Deficiency Bill,
which does not exactly meet the sp.
proval of SOME OF the members who are
endeavoring TO kill it. But Ross Is no
repudlator; he wants the State to pay her
debts, although they were contracted very
loosely. Wnen it is known that this
legislature has 10 make up deficiency
OF more than quarter OF million
dollars that the last Radical Legislature
should have made good by spproprls-
tiOn, it does not very well suit some
of the solid ones. 1t WAS shame and
disgrace, but what can this Legislature
do but pay the bona tii>. honest debts OF
the State. Ross. the Reformer, AS he is
called, has got the vim, energy and sbil-
ity. and will pull her through s-hylng,
which viii count one for Alexander, the
Reformer. II cuts some of the old
Democratic members 10 see Ross, 3 new
man, come in and take 3 very interesting
and prominent part in all the work as
well as Chairman OF the second commit.
tec in the House, and 10 their great dis
comfture they were not cared for so well.
The BeIiairc Tobacco Warehouse
clause in the appropriation bill was kill.
ed very dead indeed. On motion to
strike out SS,C00 for said warehouse, and
$500 for furnishing the same, the vote
Was a. yeas to - nsys. Thus you will
see the great tobacco warehouse OF East
ern Ohio wss set down on very heavy for
the first set-will very likely terminate
IN the utter extinction OF the same. -
will be good-bye warehouse, come again.
But
The Biggest and Boss Man
IN the State Of Ohio Is 10. Poe, the
lone star OF Cuysnogs, IS he is
more :smllisrly known, because
he Is the only Democrat elected from
Cuyahoga county, and his opponent was
a gentleman of color, whose Republican
friends gave the Geld shoulder 10 the
poor fellow. But Jo. Poe, noble as ne ls,
could not see his fellow couutrymsn,
though be be dark, imposed too heavily
upon. So he brought his glssses 10 bear
on the word white in our militia lsw,
tns, the Republicans hsd so beautifully
placed there some few years sgo, ana
which would not allow any co!ored
-,,I,t,s T. he O-raniZed in the State !
(Here is SIS lar as the Republican love
Tor the poor dsrkey goes. So our 10.
Poe had bill passed both Houses to wipe
ou. this obnoxious word "whi;e," sll o!
which he did on short notice; and now