The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-09-18

or the talk OF saving dollar by this
is bosh and nonsense. But
here is another feature Of the DUNCAN
worth attention. 1t al
ows the Common Pleas Judge. upon
proper application sanctioned by the
County Commissioners, to appoint one
or more deputies or clerks for each of
the five offices affected by the amend
ment, these all to be paid out of the |
County Treasury There's a nice lit
tie arrangement for you. Instead of |
having the amount of fees and sala-
ries fixed and definite. it in effect gives
the County Commissioners the power
to add to the taxes without limit. Sup
pose the amount allowed should be
one-half that paid by these same coun-
ty officers, last year for clerk and dep
uty hire, the increase would be more
than thousand dollars.
Your claim that the reduction in the
State would have been over 100000
is equally fallacious. A careful ex-
animation has convinced me that the
saving would not be half of that, and
possibly not anything. Now, sir, as
you seem anxious about my record let
me give you leaf from it.
[ introduced a bill in the House,
and had it passed to its third reading,
giving County Commissioners the
right to dispense with plating sur
veys, ETC., in the appraisal of real es-
tate, at that stage, a bill of the same
character came over from the Senate,
and as it accomplished the object L
desired, [ gave it my support. It be-
came law, and saved this county not
less than $4,000 or $4,000. | procur-
ed the passage of law for the relief
of the outdoor poor which makes a
yearly saving to this county of more
than $4,000.
| voted for the Williams Fee Bill
which makes a saving of more than
$4,000 for this county. There is more
than $4,000 for this county in three
laws. | supported a proposition to
make the salaries of State Senators
and Representatives $500 instead of
$500. I voted against half dozen or
so of claims against the State. claims
of 20 to 40 years standing. | voted
against the Carthage Pike Bill, which
had half million in it. | voted
against any and every measure, and
there were plenty of them, to decrease
the revenues and hamper or destroy
the canals of the State. | opposed
the scalpers bill, which had hundreds
of thousands of dollars yearly in it tc
the railroads of the State You say
voted to increase taxes. [ believe
did vote to levy taxes to pay portion
of the State debt falling due, but the
Democracy did not want to pay it off
and so they voted me down.
You assail me on the tramp ques.
ton. Now look here, young man
Just take your nib out of that. The
honorable Levi and l have that job on
hand At least, he said he would like
to see anybody who would discuss it
and / told him | was his man-that
would discuss it with him all ovel
Jackson county. The honorable gen.
tleman desires it understood that he is
not in favor Of additional legislation
to protect the women and children in
the country districts from insult and
outrage. lie the women can't take
care of themselves when brutal ruff
fans come prowling around, why
blank it, let 'em take the consequence
es. To satisfy yourself on this ques-
ton, see his speech on the tramp act
The honorable Senator Irvine says
that under this law the Savior and his
Apostles would be arrested and sent
to the penitentiary. He evidently desires
it understood. that Savior and his
Apostles were, in his judgment, COM
mon beggars, vagrants, tramps, spong-
ing for living, for the law applies to
no others. At least that would be the
construction put upon it by an ordi-
nary mind in defining tramp to be
any one who goes about begging and
asking subsistence by charity.
Now highly refined legal mind
like the honorable gentleman's will
be able no doubt to see that the man
who is out Of employment and asks
for something to eat while he search
es for work is a man ''who goes about
begging and asking a subsistence" OF
in other words, living ''by charity
Oh that I were blest with highly re
fined legal mind like the honorable
gentleman. If an ordinary man were
asked to define common beggar, he
would be likely to say that it is ''any
one who goes about begging or asking
subsistence by charity" But then
my dear Allen, you know some minds
are so acute.
Your friend DUNCAN says that when
furnaces and mines get so that they
can pay cash, that then will be the
time to enforce the scrip law. [ have
a kind of an idea that along about
that time the laws Of trade will COM
pei the payment of cash, and the ques-
ton will settle itself.
Do you mean to say that [ was alb
sent from the house 70 of the days in
which it was in session? If so, | de-
nounce your statement as false.
If you mean to include therein the
so odd days, | believe that is about
the number, in which your Democrat
ic Legislature was not in session. If
you add to that the time | was in Gin
cinnati, on a House committee, and
about three weeks in which | was sick
and absent most Of the time from the
House, you may be nearer the truth.
There were junketing expeditions last
winter in every direction. | did not
take one of them. | could have got
ten pass to visit any one of the lead
ing cities. | staid at my post. I did
not even go to Delaware "a miles
away, to visit the college | graduated
from. | was not even across the hall
in the Supreme Court Room. You
say drew pay for 16S days. Didn' t
the honorable Irvine DUNCAN, as well