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J 3-> 3)3 , SPEECH H rv- OF GEN. C. H.MOSVENOR, OF ATHENS COUNTY. Delivered in the House of Representatives, March 25, 1874, on the Passage of House Bill, No, 285, by Mr. Lewis: A Bill to Provide for a More Economxcal and Better Regu- lation of Hospitals for the Insane. U.S.A. ffc 1; SPEECH OF Gen. C. H. GROSVENOR, OF ATHENS COUNTY. Delivered in the Souse of Representatives, MarcJi 25, 1874, on the Passage of Hotise Bill, No. 285, by Mr. Z,ewis : A Bill to Provide for a More Economical and Better Regulation of Hospitals for the Insane. All the amendments to this bill offered by Messrs. Grosvenor, Morris, Richards, and others, had been steadily voted down by the solid vote of the Demo- cratic majority; the bill had been ordered to be en- grossed for the third reading, and no amendment had been offered by any Democrat after the bill left the hands of the Committee on Insane Asylums. It was ready for its passage, and everything indicated that the Democratic majority was prepared to force it through in the shape it came from its author. The Speaker of the House — " The question is shall the bill pass ?'" Mr. Grosvenor said : Mr. Speaker:— —It is natural, upon the presentation to this House of a bill like this, bearing upon its face an indictment and judgment of condemnation upon the 2 Republican party, that members of that party upon this floor should demand that the indictment here filed should be sustained by proof satisfactory to the honest thinking men of the State of Ohio. This bill has a peculiar feature. I refer to its pre- amble, and I undertake to say, that the legislation of this State for twenty years will furnish no precedent for the preamble to this bill. It reads as follows: ''Whereas, three-fourths of all the State taxes are being consumed by the benevolent institutions of the State in the support of their inmates, and providing new places for them ; and whereas, there is reason to believe that there is extravagance, if not dishonesty, in the expenditure of the taxes of the people; therefore, be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio," etc. Now, for what purpose is this preamble placed in this bill ? Is it placed here because it is true ; or is it because the majority on this floor hesitate doing this act — passing this bill — and placing this indictment of the Republican party upon record to quiet the con- sciences of the supporters of this measure ? If the preamble of this bill is true, there can be no possible apology for delay in the passage of this bill. If not true, the majority on this floor are driven to the neces- sity of admitting that they pass this act for the simple purpose of partisan spoil. I propose no arraignment of the Democratic party, except as it may be incidental to the defense of the Republican administration of these institutions. I stand here, Mr. Speaker, to proclaim, reiterate, and declare, that this Republican party, in its administration of the affairs of this State, has set an example worthy of the commendation of all true men. I stand here to defend it in each of its public acts — to deny that anywhere upon its record there can be found a blot. It is said that the system of managing the benevo- lent institutions in the interest of political parties is chargeable to the Republicans. I deny this. If it has become the settled policy of the people of Ohio to treat the benevolent institutions of the State as the basis of party capital ; if the funds that are disbursed for the support and maintenance of these institutions have be- come the stock in trade of political parties, I maintain it is not the fault of the Republican party that such is the case. Before the Republican party had its exist- ence — before the fiat of the people of this country called the chaotic elements of opposition to the corrupt De- mocracy into the form of a great political organization, these benevolent institutions were taken out of the hands of the Democratic party. That party had been so faith- less to the trust confided to it by the people, so recreant to its public duty, so inefficient in the details of its ad- ministration, that the people of the State, acting through the party that carried the State in 1855, had wrested the management of the lunatic asylums from the hands of the Democratic party. They 'had done it as an absolute necessity, and the men who supported the measures that produced that result were not Republicans, and thou- sands of them have never been Republicans since that time. The management of the Northern and Southern Asylums for the Insane had been so grossly corrupt, as well in the construction of the buildings as in their sub- sequent management in the hands of the dominant party, that on the accession to power in 1855 of the Know- Nothing and Anti-Nebraska parties in this State, their management was changed. The gentleman from Wayne (Mr. Eshelman) the other day charged that it was the Republican party that made this change ; but history shows that the necessity for this change grew out of the fact that the public verdict was that the Democratic party had grossly, outrageously, and persistently mis- managed these institutions. Mr. Eshelman — Will the gentleman from Athens allow me a word ? Mr. Grosvenor — Certainly. Mr. Eshelman — =1 did not say the Republicans suc- ceeded in 1855. I said that the Free-Soilers and Know- Nothings succeeded in 1855, and the General Assembly elected by that combination, on the 8th of April, 1856, passed laws reorganizing those institutions, and sweep- ing out of office every Democratic incumbent. Mr. Grosvenor — The gentleman from Wayne with- draws the charge that the Republican party inaugurated this system of party plunder in the public benevolent institutions. An examination of the records of that General Assembly will show that a majority of the members who voted for those bills were not, and those who are living are not now, members of the Republican party. The party in opposition to the Democratic party in this State at that time — the Know-Nothing party — numbered among its members such distin- guished Democrats of a later day as Van Trump, Trim- ble, Campbell, Chase, Hubbel, and a score of others, the leading, prominent, active men of modern Democ- racy ; men who rose into political power under the aus- pices of a secret political organization; men who swore eternal hostility to the rights of foreigners upon the soil of this country ; men who marched under the ban- ner inscribed with the legend, " Put none but Ameri- cans on guard to-night;" and these men who thus de- stroyed the Democratic party in 1855, have since been rebaptized into the fullest communion of the Demo- cratic organization, and to-day stand forth their ac- knowledged leaders. Mr. Haag — Will the gentleman inform me what party it was that organized in opposition to, and did fight the Know-Nothing party as a party, not as indi- viduals ? Mr. Grosvenor — Mr. Speaker, no political party fought it. Political organizations were swept away, as the wind drives the chaff before it. The organization of the Democratic party was powerless to withstand the desertions from its ranks. Thousands of its members, private soldiers and officers, deserted its colors and went over to its enemy. In the Democratic district where I lived at the time, with a majority of nearly three thou- sand, a district organized for the express purpose of sending to Congress a citizen of this town, a Know- Nothing was elected by almost three thousand, a revo- lution of six thousand votes from one election to another. The Democratic party bowed its head before the Juggernaut of religious and National proscription, and the result was its own destruction and its ejection 6 from these hospitals for the insane. It was not the act of the Republican party, for the Republican party had no organized existence until after the passage of the law of April 8, 1856. As time progressed, and the Republican party became in the ascendant in the State, it' naturally took possession of these institutions by operation of law — law then in force ; but it never in any instance revolutionized and changed the organic law of one of these institutions for the purpose of getting possession of the spoils thereof. Now let this Demo- cratic party, in power in Ohio by accident, when it takes possession of these institutions, do it upon one of two grounds : Either, first, that the preamble to this bill is true, and if this be so, then there is a necessity for this act, and a demand upon the Democratic party is made by the voice of the people of the State, and it need not hesitate, it should go straight forward, execute the de- mand of the people and appeal to the people for sup- port ; but if this preamble be not true, if in any essen- tial particular it is false, then let the Democratic party put its action upon the other, and in my judgment the better ground, because the more truthful, that it wants the proceeds of these offices — the moneV that is to come from the salaries — that there is a political necessity to wrest these institutions from the hands of the present occupants for the mere sordid purpose of transferring the salaries into the pockets of clamorous Democrats ; and in order to satisfy this insatiable outcry for plunder, it is willing to hazard the prosperity of these institu- tions ; and, Mr. Speaker, I am justified in saying that this is the true ground, in view of the fact that this bill increases the salaries of the officers of these institutions nearly $10,000 per year. What say you, my Demo- cratic friends, to this feature of the bill under consid- eration ? You came into power in this State under a platform which demanded retrenchment and economy in the public expenditure of the money of the people, and this is one of your first public acts. Let us see now how your acts compare with your public professions. In order to justify this wholesale revolution and for the purpose either of satisfying your own conscience or of putting on record a great fact, that the people of this State should know and understand, you have said there is extravagance in the expenditure of the public funds. If that is true, then you are called upon to ad- minister the will of the people, which to-day in this State is unmistakably in favor of curtailing the expenses of this administration ; but in the sixteenth section of this bill, with this same specious preamble attached to it, you increase the annual cost of the salaries of all these officers nearly $1 0,000. You can not escape from it. This bill is here upon its passage. No member of the Democratic party has asked up to this moment to amend this bill. Were I to relinquish the floor at this time the question would be, "Shall the bill pass ? ' You have placed yourselves upon the record in favor of this sixteenth section, just as completely and irrev- ocably as though you had in a body voted for it. You can not go before the people and deny it. The fact will haunt you from every stump and in every news- paper, and there will be no justification for it. In compliance with the demand I here and now 8 make, you may amend the sixteenth section of this bill and cut down these salaries ; but if you do it, the credit must redound to the Republicans upon this floor, who denounce your extravagance, and not to the Demo- cratic majority that has brought this bill to its passage in its present shape. 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