Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1882 — Democratic Protest. [ARTICLE]

Democratic Protest.

The protest read by Mr. Cox, in the House of Representatives, against the arbitrary and extraordinary ruling of Speaker Keifer, is as follows : Whereas, The minority in this House have heretofore, under the rules of the House, successfully resisted the efforts of the majority to consider the case of Mackey vs. O’Connor, because a proper hearing has not been granted to the conteetee by the Committee on Elections as to allegations of forgery and fraud in the evidence submitted by the contestant; and WHEBEAS.the majority in order to pievcntand avoid such investigation have proceeded to change the rules in a manner not provided for in the rules in which alone they can or ought to be changed ; and Whereas, The Speaker has made a ruling which justifies a proceeding unknown to the principles of constitutional and parliamentary law and subversive of the rights of the minority ; therefore, the undersigpid, representatives of the people, hereby protest against the proceeding of the majority and the rulings of the Speaker as unjustifiable, arbitrary ana revolutionary, and expressly designed to deprive the minority of that protection which has been established as one of the great monuments of a representative system by the patriotic labors of the advocates of parliamentary privileges and civil liberty. Sam’l J. Baudall, 8. 8. Cox, Abram 8. Hewitt, * Jno. F. House, Dan’l Ermentrout, Jo C. 8. Blackburn, J Fred C; Talbot, Jordan E. Cravens, Morgan-B. Wise, H. G. Tumef, L. C. Latham, Gibson Atherton, Miles Boss, J. 8. Hobhtzell, Henry S. Harris, J. White, H. A.’ Herbert, Wm. 8. Holman, G. W. Hewitt, G. A. Oury, Oscar Turner (Ky.), Martin L. Clardy, Phil B. Thompson, Jr., M. E. Post, Jno. B. Clark, Jr., B. F. Armfield, Oliver Wellborn, Clement Dowd, and others,