Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-01-07
COLUMBUS.
News Notes from the Buckeye
State Capital. i
Supreme Court County Cormorants-
Week of Conventions Committees
DR.. Scott-The Belmont County
Seat-ConstitUtional Amend
rnents.
GOVERNOR FOSTERS INAUGURATION

Special Correspondence Of the Register.
COLUMBUS, January 5.-The January term
of the.Supreme Court of Ohio began on
Tuesday with full bench. The docket is
quite large, but will be reduced more rap
idly this term than it has been for some
wears. Chief Justice Okey is making q
good record in the matter of disposing OF
cases. The Court is several Years hehfae
with its business.
The County OMcers
Of this State are better paid than any other
class. In some of the larger counties their
compensation is simply excessive. Yet
they are already here begging the Legisla-
ture u increase it, Each class of them has
held, or is about TO hold, State Conyen-
tion to memorable the General Assembly,
TO authorize them TO draw bigger pay. A
leading member remarked to-day, That
the county officers had better stay az home
and perform their duties, and not come
here TO lobby for more compensation, as
they are already overpaid, and may be cut
down, If they hang about Columbus too
much.
The Agrieulturists,
the wool-growers, the swine-breederS, and
the short horn cattle men have held their
respective State conventions here this
week, and have had their annual election
for officers. Their conventions have all
been larger than usual, and have excited
more than ordinary interest. w. n. Cow
den, of Quaker City, Guernsey county, was
reelected member Of the State Board OF
Agriculture for eastern Ohio. Action was
taken by the Agricultural convention,
which will tend to make the next Ohio
State Fair the best ever held in the State
The Standing Committees
Of both branches of the Legislature have
been announCed-the House committees
late this afternoon. There is some dissatis-
faction over the Senate committees, but
not more than usual. The Speaker OF the
House, however, has stirred up the biggest
kind of hornets nest. 1t is positively
fearful the way many OF the Republican
emphatically' rewarded his friends and pun
ished his enemies" in making up his CON-
mittees. DR.. Scott the old war horse, has
been snubbed and humiliatcd. One OF his
friends in the House said the other even
ing: THE doctor has been the faithful rep
resentatiye of Warren county for twenty
years and has served his party with equal
fidelity. No other member of either branch
has seen one-fourth as much legislative ser
vice as he has performed; and now when he
is near the close of his long and useful life, he
must submit to this injustice and hllmilia-
tiOn from a man who ought TO know what
DR.. Scott was entitled 10. S>NN
The Speaker
will end that he has made very grave
blunder before he goes fur ther. The Doc
tor will be heard from during the sessions
Of this General Assembly. When it adj
iournS sine die, Scott will be more than
even with Hodge. There are good many
II . 1lA ,.tNhl CiH In
who have been badly treated in the fOrma-
tion of the Committees, and who will he
heard from. Look out for war Your
readers in
Belmont County,
who take an interest in the county scat re-
moval question, will want to know how
the Committee is constituted which will
have to deal with that question. Here 1t
is: Messrs. Ross, of Carroll; Brooks, OF
Meigs; Stevens, OF ClermOut; Frame, OF
Guernsey; Card, of Cuyahogo; Mccullough,
OF Allen, and Hopkins, OF Marion.
Two Joint Resolutions.
submitting constitutional amendments on
the liquor question, are already before the
House and several railroad bills have been
introduced. Enough has been developed to
insure lively session. The leaders of the
dominant party talk right out, and admit
that the present Legislature is dangerous
one for their organization.
The Inasuration
of the Governor and other State officers,
which will occur next Monday, promises to
be an imposing affair. The programme for
the exercises was reported and adopted in
the Legislature this afternoon. The Adiu-
tant General says the military display will
be grand. The Inauguration Ball in the
City Hall, on Monday night, will be given
under the auspices of the Governors Guard
of this city, and will be a magnificent af-
fair-the society event of the season.
Robbers and burglars infest Columbus at
this time. Several daylight robberies were
committed to-day, in prominent residences
in the very heart of the city; and last