The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26
COLUMBUS LETTER
The Hayes EulOgies In the Ohio
General Assembly
Will Long Be Remembered BY
All Who Heard Them.


CoLUMBtE, Jan. "a, 1898.
On Jan. 10 gentleman, whose whiten
beard, sprightly step and erect bearing
would have attracted attention any
where, walked out of the hall of the
house, down the stone steps and out on
his way to the union station.
On. Jan. 10, exactly one week later.
in that same room from which this man
had gone so short time before, were
offered tributes and eulogies in his hon
or, that seldom fall in the memory of
the dead of this or any other land.
Many of the members crowded about
Rutherford B. Hayes, as he stood in the
lobby Of their assembly room on the
18th, and many more rose to their feet
on the 10th to add their brief but elo-
quent words to the memory Of the great
man whose remains then lay in state in
the city Of ] 'emOnt.
The eulogles and orations that were
delivered in both house and senate ON
the death of the ex-president, served
more than to honor the dead; they
taught the members not only that there
were many things about this great man
that We're worthy of emulation, but
that there had been all these days q
latent force, sometimes called true ora
tory, concealed in the bosoms of the
members Of the Seveutieth general
assembly that had hitherto been un-
known even to themselves.
In the senate the great Grafton of
Senator Nichols will always be remem-
bered by those who were fortunate
enough to hear it.
But it was in the house that the great
outburst took place. Democrats and
Republicans We'd with each other in
paying the proper tribute to the life
and laracter of General Hayes.
Mr.. Aldrich, Democrat, who repre-
sents Mr.. Hayes county, made a most
excellent address in which he showed
the worth Of the general as neighbor
and friend. Especially was he an en-
courager Of the young man. "Many
times have 1 seen him." said the speak
er, take young man by the hand
after he had made some effort in pub
lie way and say, My friend, you have
done we'll"
Mr.. Reiter, another Democrat and a
young man, presented a most carefully
prepared and most highly eulogistic
Grafton. He treated of Mr.. Hayes
character from the standpoint of a
lookeron and observer, as he had not a
personal acquaintance. Messrs. Harsh
barger, Beard, Bruck and Winn, all
Democrats, added their testimony in the
same strain.
. Among the Republicans Mr.. Holcomb
had the only set speech; it was worthy
tribute to the noble character extolled.
Mr. McGrew, Mr. Bloch, Mr. Haskell,
Mr.. Pudney, Mr.. Wood, Mr.. Griffin,
Mr.. Strehli, Mr.. Llewellyn and several
other Republicans touched upon various
lessons to be derived from the patriot
ism, the manliness, the unselfshness
and the uprightness Of life of the
ex-president.
This occasion was one of the most in
spring that ever transpired in the old
statehouse, for Mr.. Hayes was the first
public man that has died while the leg
islature was in session, and the oratory
that his death provoked will be remem-
bered as one Of the things to tell about
to future generations.
LegIslatIon Has Jagged
ever since the preN4nt session has been
on deck. 1t is ht- get committees
to work. 81 have been here now four
years." said member the other day.
"and l have never known it to be SO
hard to get the committees together be-
fore The death of Mr. Hayes has
served to intensity this already existing
feeling.
The most important bill introduced
the past week was that
To Abolish Capital Punishment.
Mr.. Reeve, of Ashtabula, has brought
the measure before the house and
already it has met with much approval
from the members. If it should pass,
capital punishment will be relegated to
the rear and murderers will be confined
in the penitentiary for life, with no
chance for pardon unless it is after
words. found that they are innocent.
'.t An Old Chestnut.
A bill has been introduced in the
house to provide for an inspection of
stations. 1t is necessary to have a
stallion bill every year or the session of
the legislature is not a success. But
the complication that this bill is already
in is rather laughable. 1t was figured
out that under its provision at least
$4,000 year might be brought into the
Etate treasury. 1t so happens that the
governor gets $1,000 year, and some
wag Immediately said that this stallion
bill would pay the governor his wages.
This was printed in an innocent way in
a newspaper and big laugh has been
raised at the bill that may result in its
defeat. The idea that the governor of
the great state of Ohio is to get his
salary from the inspection of stations,
Is little too much for the aesthetic
tastes of even Ohio legislators.
But those members of the assembly
who say that the Dow tax money is
blood money, will have to draw their
first months salaries from money that
was raised from that law. The first
installment is already in the state
treasury.
A New Tax Bill
Is now in the hopper. Mr.. Welch has
drawn a measure making all notes,
drafts and mortgages not listed for tax
alton on the first Monday in April, the
property Of the state. The objects Of
this bill are much more radical than
was the famous Clapp bill that the
house passed last year. but which
couldn't again go through the same
operation. After note or mortgage
has become the property OF, the state,
the payee may pay but 40 per cent. of