Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-03-10
FROM COLUMBUS.
The House Through With the
Appropriation Bill.
Praiseworthy Work of the
Finance Committee.

ous Ways In the General Assembly.
7, Every Member of the House IA Friend
{ of Speaker Laylin-He and Several
( Other Members of the House and Senate
! Have Congressional Aspirations-Con-
gressional Redistricting-shou the
Legislature Meet Annually or Bi-
Ennially?
COLUMBUS, o., March 8.
The appropriation bill has come and
gone SO far as the house is concerned,
and the finance committee has every
reason to feel proud of its work. The
discussion lasted from II o'clock in the
morning until about in the afternoon
and only $1,000 was added; there have
been times when it has taken week to
dispose of the appropriation bill and
when it was SO cut up and mangled
that its own father wouldn't have
known it.
have referred to the value of the
labors of this committee in former let
ters, and yet feel that / have but
feebly shown the true state of affairs.
Chairman Taylor, of course, had the
brunt of the work, and he labored night
and day; and besides the measily 5000
a year that the state pays him, he has to
content himself with the excellent
record he has made. The other mem
bers of the committee are entitled to no
little praise and it is accorded them on
every side.
Human Nature Shows Itself.
There are those who think that to see
human nature in its most varied form,
one must ride in street cars. Those who
have not the opportunity to ride in such
vehicles can have the same experiences
in more intensified form by becoming
members of the legislature. Here is
where you see human nature and no
mistake.
There are those members who seem to
be lying in wait for the slightest excuse
for speech that will catch the multi
tude. Labor speeches are the most
| plentiful One day marked copies of a
certain labor newspaper were placed in
| the postoffice boxes of the members.
I. The article was one marked convict
| labor, and certain resolutions were rec
commended Before night no less than
| three members had prepared resolutions
| that embodied the sentiments of those
| desired by the paper, and all three were
| offered before adjournment that day.
| One day member wanted to make a
speech so that those in the gallery would
see him; being a good looking young
man there was good reason for this. AS
his seat is SO situated SO that those in the
gallery could not see him, he changed
his place and stood way around on the
side. Evidently his conscience pricked
him little for his vanity, for the very
first thing he said in his speech was to
the effect that he was not like others
who had come before him, who, said
he, had spoken to win applause from the
| gallery.
Some members wave the star spangled
banner over every question that shows
| its head; others look wise, chase over
| the law library and come back and
| solemnly avow that this, that and the
| other is unconstitutional. Then there is
the member who is looking out for the
interests of his constituents and the dear
people are ever on his mind; others are
| fast to raise the salary, their own in
| cluded, of every officer in the states
service, while many others will vote
against a raise no matter how meritori.
/ GUS. I know one member who voted
! against bill to increase the salary OF
! an official, and when the bill was passed
expressed himself as glad, though he
| couldn't vote for it. Some people are
4 mean enough to call that demagoguey
/ and humbug.
Then there are the members who
want to make political capital out oi
every question that comes up; while
their counterparts can't grasp the situa
ton on questions that ought to be re
garded as political. There are thu
humorous member, the hard working
members, the orators, the arm swingers
the takers who often say little, tn,
earnest members, the demagogues, thu
hustlers, the solemn and wise looking
| the tricky, the dry talker, the smiling
the happy, the glum, the gloomy al
these and more, are the phases of human
nature that one runs across soon after
the legislature begins its grind.
| And what would we do if it were no
| SO? We might adjourn earher for on,
thing.
j Speaker Laylin.
And this heterogeneous assemblape 4
i presided over by one of the most ever
tempered mun in Ohio. Speaker Laylil
is destined to leave his high office will
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4 party. The minority side have NOR
than once even thus early expressed