The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-04-22
COIUMBTs ONO.

To The Editor OF the Standard:
The lock is broken, and the Sixty
fourth General Assembly has place
in history.
Owing to ii disagreement Of the
House and Senate on Appropriation
Bill No. 3S2, the session was prolong-
ed ten days. The item which caused
the disagreement was the appropria-
ton for Longview Asylum, In the
Senate several amendments were
made, all of which, except one. were
concurred in by the House; that was
the one that appropriated in addition
to the amount authorized by law, S31, :
300, that the necessary expenses of
that institution might be met. On
this occurred the lock. 1t was shown
that Hamilton County had in the year
past paid into the State Treasury the
amount named in the amendment,
more than she had drawn out: still
the House refused to concur. Then a
conference committee was appointed,
but after being in session for conside-
rable time, reported a disagreement. A
second committee was appointed,
"HlCI SIeel tLdb GIlG Delldue dHleuu-
ment should be reduced to $4,000.
Both Senate and House refused to
adopt the report. A third committee
was appointed, and disagreed. A
fourth committee was appointed, and
after being in session from Tuesday
until Thursday, reported in favor of
reducing Senate amendment to S10,-
600. The House refused to adopt this
report; whereupon message was sent
to the Senate notifying that body of
the action of the House.
Mr.. Kelley moved that the Senate
recede from the amendment: they re-
fused by vote of 21 to 15. The
House and Senate were then in a dead
lock, with no prospect Of breaking it.
But on the following morning at the
request of Maj. Townsend, Of Athens,
DR.. Green, of Greene, J. B. Paine, of
Jackson, L. M. Beman, Of Gallia, Mr..
Corey of Crawford moved to reconsid-
er the vote whereby the report Of the
last conference committee was disa-
greed to, and it was reconsidered. The
vote was again taken upon the report.
and the result was SO yeas and 80
nays. Thus the lock was broken, and
the bill became law, and settled the
question as to time for adjournment.
Immediately after, resolution was
offered to adjourn Saturday, April II.
at AM, and adopted.
The committee whose report was
adopted consisted of Kirby, Hollings-
worth and Sullivan, of the Senate;
Locke, Beman and Moore, of the
House, and for their excellent service
in securing a compromise, the people
Of Ohio should be grateful.
Mr.. Bemans appointment on the
committee was due, without doubt, to
the fact that he had, throughout the
session, opposed any increase in ap-
preparations, and especially to the op-
position he made to defeat Senate Bill
No. 26, for the relief Of John Porter
for burning the barge Mingo, of vel
low fever fame, which he succeeded in
doing after it passed the Senate by
vote of 25 to 9. But the opposers Of
adjournment had mistaken their man,
as he believed that justice should be
done to the State and to Hamilton
County also, and moved that the COM
mittee compromise, which they did,
thus providing funds for the
wants of our benevolent institu-
tions, and for the payment of the
employees and creditors of the State.
and for an adjournment, thus stopping
the expenses to the taxpayers of the
State. In his argument he referred to
the action of the last session of Con-
gress in refusing to make appropria-
tions, as a precedent to be avoided,
and one which would prove now, as it
did them, disastrous to the party in
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