Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1887 — Page 4

democratic Sentinel

fRIDAT MARCH 11 1887 E* bfted at the postoflice at Rensselaer, Ind., as second-class matter.)

FOR THIRTY DAYS ! Two lirst class new, improved light running Sewing Machines for sale, at $25 and S3O. This offer is only open for thirty days. For particulars call at this office. March 4.1887.

RENSSELAL R UViE ABLE Passenger Trains. North. South. 4:39 a. m. 11:27 a. m. 8 - 46 a. m, 7:54 p. m. 4:01 p. m. 10:50 p. m.

The democratic Senator’s presented President Green Smith with a handsome and valuable gold watch afKy token of their admiration and regard.' He well deserved it. Rensselaer Republican: “ * A man whose election was secured by such means as Tin pie's wa , stands mighty little show for everge* ling 4iis seat,” etc. L t ns «ee In w tli i vo’e i tood: For Turpie, 70 Democrats. <£ Harrison, Republicans, 2 otool-pigeors Tnrpie received 2 majority, wi 1 get nis seat, and we beg our nek hbor not to worry on his account. Flie Rensselaer Republican in referring to Republican Senators dr wing their pay on warrants signed by P -esident Smith, says: * * Mr. Dune?n exonerates himself by > bowing that lie warrant he accepted was fov seven dollars for expenses on prison committee, and that he procured Col. Rol ertson’s signature before he drew the money.” Ah, well, you can bet your happy life Dunca didn’t have the signatuae of President Srnitli erased therefrom,therefore the autograph of Gol. Robertson’ woul not destroy its value, but would be gratifying to the vanity of the disappointed Pretender. The Indianapolis News, a very able aud prominent Republcan p :- per says of the Senators and their warrants:

“The republican legislators pocket their pay by virtue of Gi eer Smith’s signature, yet they can’t Ro any legislation with him.” We suggest to our neighbor that the above, too, must smack of ‘a great howl about the hypocrisy and the inconsistency of the Republican senators in accepting pay warrants signed by Green Smith, while they refused to recognize him in any other maimer.”

The republican members of the legislature desired to c mpromise matters,, act with the senate and witlidra v all opposition to Senator Turpie s admission, on the basis of xecognition of the Pretender Robertson’s pretensions to the Lieutenant-Governorship, but were informed that the Senate had not refused to act with the House, was offering no obstruction to business that Judge Turpie was honestly legally, fairly elected to the U. S.’ Senate, and would be admitted into that body; that the election of Robertson was invalid, so decided ■wherever that point w s considered by the courts, snd that his pretensions would not be recognized.— They were further informed that the Senate moving right along in the transaction of business, and the House will be held responsible for failure of important legislation. Tim Syria to had no cor - nonuse to make. ,

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stated publicly and pri. ately that their intention was to unseat a sufficient number of Democrats it. th 3 Houst? to enable them to succeed in the senatorial election. Ai tli*- same time, Mr. Kercheval, Republican chairman of the committee on elections in the House, to whom the contests in that branch had been referred, publicly declared that he had nineteen cases of c mtestsbe ore the committee, and when incpiiry was made of him what evidence there was m support of such contests he answered: “What’s the use of hearing evidence when our minds are made up already as to the course we shall take in thes cases.”

The Senate was Democratic by e even majority. Some week before the meeting of the General Assembly til. election of Wdliarn N. McDonald, a senator declared to ! e elected|from the counties of lackson and Lawrence, had been regular 1 * contested by his competitor, Frank Branaman. and testimony taken in support of the reasons filed, which which reasons were bribery —notor’ous, open and corrupt— used by McDonald at said election. The crime of McD maid was one of pecu ia • infamy. The use by him of money for the purchase of votes was cleariy shown —so clearly that he himself has never publicly, either wit or without catli, ...ade any denial thereof, although ho was specially invited by the committee to go upon the witness stand and make such denial. Upon this state of facts and proof, the Senate of Indiana declared him unfit, incompetent for an not entitled to a sea*; in that body, and iiis acts of bribery having been shown to have been publicly known and notoriously bruited among all constituency, both before the time of his election and at the time ■hereof, the Senate declared his competitor, Frank Branaman, lawfully entitled to the seat, and Senator Branaman as sworn in and took his seat as a membor of that body on the 17th of January, 1887. This action of the Senate in the McDonald case succeeded the action of the House in the Meagher case. The conspirators paused; t he, felt that th y were taken by the throat; they came to the conclusion that it would not do any further to interfere with the members of the House of Representatives as the people had chosen them.

The two parties by this action were left in the same condition as at the commencement of the session, with a Democratic majority of two on joint bobot. \\ hen the S. nateof Indian met on the 6th day of January, 1887, it had been publicly known for many months that General Mahlon D. Manson.who had been elected Lieutenant Governor of the State -in 1884, had, in July, 1886, accepted the appoin ment of the Collectorship of the Seventh .i dstric* und' r the Government of the United States, and so had become incompetent to fill + he office of Lieutenant Governor. In the absence of the Lieutenant Governor and his inability to discharge the duties of pr siding over the Senate, the Senate was organized by the Hon. James H. Rice, Auditor of State, and by the Hon. Alonzo G. Smith, Senator from the counties of Jackson and Jennings, who, at the request of the Auditor of State, occupied the chair during the organization of the Senate, while that officer called the roll ca the new senators, who were sworn into office by one of the J udges of the Supreme Court, whom the Auditor bad also requested to attend for that purpose. The senate then proceeded to the election of officers, and chose Webster Dixon as Principal Secretary, John.D. Carter as Assistant Secretary, and Frank iirtchett as Dum keeper, and also elected Hon. Alonzo G. Smith, one of their number, President of die Senate in the absence of the Lieutenant Governor.

Both parties had, at the November election, 1886, voted for their candidates for the office of Lieutenant Governor, notwithstanding •the fact that the Governor had not proclaimed a vacancy in said office, and made no appointment to fill the' same. Many citizens of the State believed that no vacancy existed and that no Liputenant-Gov-ernor could be elected at that among whom was President Smith, of the senate, who was, howevei, at fill times itiiling to submit the

question of his rights as President of the Senate to the Courts of the State, and had, in the first instance, before the meeting of the Legislature, inst tuted a suit against W illiam R. Myers, S cretary of State, t.i enjoin him from delivering to the speaker the returns of the election, which suit Mr. Smith prosecuted both in the Circuit and Supreme Courts, but was beaten therein in both the courts upon the ground that ihey had no jurisdiction to determine the question or to grant the injunction prayed by him. Afterward Mr. Smith instituted another suit in the Marion Circ .it Court, the object of which was to test the question as to whether the person who claimed to be elected I ieuteus nt-Governor at the

November election, 1886, was duly elected as such and could, therefore, preside over the senate, or whether the senate had the right to select its own President. Mr. Smith was then, under his election had on the 6th fcay of January, 1887, acting as President of the senate, having been elected to said office by the senate, and has ever since acted, and is now acting as such. Beside the principal suit insti tuted to try the question of the title of the office of President of the senate, Mr. Smith had applied, in his case, for an injunction to prevent the person claiming to be elected Lieutenant-Governor, in November, 1886, from disturbing or interfering with him in the present discharge of his duties as President of the senate. To this application for an injunction the pretended Lieutenant Governor made bu one defense, and that was that lie lived in Allen county, and could not be sued in Marion county. Hon. A. C. Ayers, Judge of the Marion Circuit Court, after full hearing and argument, decided against this defense; that there was no lawful election holden for Lieu-tenant-Governor in November, 'B6, and granted an injunction against the claimant of that office to prevent any disturbance by him of President Smith in the discharge of his duties as such. This injunction was issued and in force on the day before the two h uses met n joint convention, aud it became a question between the two houses as to how the joint convention should be held. The House claimed that the pretended LieutenantGovernor should preside over it; the Senate claimed that it should

be presided over by the President of the Senate, the highest legislative officer present. Under these circumstances an agreement was mad*, by way of compromise, substantially providing that the joint convention, when its session was held, should be called to order by the President of the Senate; that the i. resident of the Sen .te sho’d direct the call of the roll of the senate in v ting; that th Speaker of the House should direct the call of the mernb 'rs of the house in voting; that the procsedings of the joint convention otherwise sho'uld be conducted by the Speaker; that the result of the vote sho’d be announced by the President of the Senate; that the joint convention should be adjourned by the Speaker; that this agreement sho’d be in force until a United States senator was elected; and the joint convention of the two houses was held each day when in session, under the terms of this agreement, from the 19th day of January until the 2d day of February, on which day David Turpie was elected Senator of the United States, and the joint convention then adjourned sme die. In tiie meantime the pretended Lieutenant-Governor had appealed the casein which he had been beaten upon the application for an injunction be lore the Judge of the Marion Circuit Court, to the Supreme Court of Indiana, and the case was ther pending. The court, after full agreement and advisement, decided that tlib suit was improperly brought into Marion county, and should have been brought in Aiien county, where the claimant of the office of Lieutenant Governor resided. — This decision was rendered on the 23d day of February, 18-7. The J udges also delivered separate j opinions, two of the Supreme Court Howk ‘and Mitchell, deciding that no election for Lieutenant-Gover-nor flcould have been holden lawfully in November, 1886; three of the J udges holding that the court had no jurisdiction of the subjectrmt'er of the suit; one of the Ju ges, Niblack, deciding expressLj that the senate had the tight, as

between two adverse claimants, to determine for it-elf who should be its presiding officer. Thisopinion, and these opinions, were hurriedly certified to and distributed at large by the clerk of the supreme ceurt, who was a republican, among members of the Legislature. The House of Representatives, on the direction* of its republican speaker, Mr. Sayre, took up and made a special order ot w hat he might have called, “This message frome the supreme court.” It was made the special order. — I Concluded next week ] A New* Light-Running Sewin g Machine, cheap for cash or trade. Inquire atthG office. Rev. "W. H. Hickman will deliver a lecture on the subject of Temperance, H this place, on . ueeday evening next, 15th. Everybody invited.

FREE TRADE.

The reduction of internal revenue and the taking off of rovenue stamps from Proprietary Medicines, no doub has largely benefltted the consumers as well as relieved the burdens of home manufacturers Especially is this the case with Gref's ugust Flower and Bgschee’s Gebman Syrup, as tne reduction' of thirtj T ~six cents per dozen, has been added to increase the size of the bottles eontaming these it-omuies. iherebv g'v ing one-fifth more medicine in the7s cent size. The August Flower for Dyspeosta and Liver Complaint, and the German Syruj? Tor Cough and Lung troubles nave perhaps, the largest sale of any medicines in the world The advantage of increased size of the b-otries will be grentl appreciated by the sich and afflicted, in every town and village in civilized ounfries. Sample bottles for Wets, remain he same size 11—1

Very Remarkable Recovery.

Mr.Ceo. V. Willing of Manchester, Mich , writes: ‘My wife has been al» most five years, so helpless that she eould net turn over in the bed alone. She used two bottles of Electric Bitters and is so much improved, that she is able now to do her own work.’ Electric Bitters will do all tfiat is claimed lor them. Hundreds of test! monials attest their great curative powers. Only fifty cents a bottle at F. BMeyer’s. Aug 29-2.

Executor’s * Sale -OF—(xmmzMmo MOTR E i here! y gi en that the unders gueu Executor of the Estate of Job O- OuR, late of Jasper countv, Indiana, dcceust d, will off, ratPublic'Sale. at the lata redden-e of decedent, in Barkley Township, J sper county, Indiana, on THURSDAY, APR L 7, 1887, commencing at 10 o’ lock a. m., of said day, (lie l Mo ving described j ersotu Ity of said estate, to-wit. Five head of Horses; 0 or 12 head of CJatlle; 3 Hogs; 1 Binder; 1 Wagon; 1 spring Wagon ; 1 Mowing Man chine; 1 Cultivator; Plow# ana other Farming Implements; 250 bushels of G»rn in crib; lot of Blacksmith Tools, etc., otc. TERMS: Nine months credit will be given on all sums over $5, the purchaser giving nofu with approved surety, end without relief fro •-> valuation <t appraisement laws. Sums of $5 and under to be cash in hand. GEORGE 11. BROVVN, March Jl, 1887 Executor. C HICACO COTTAGE ORGAN Has attained a standard of excellence which admits of no superior. It containwvery improvement that inventive genius, skill and money can produce. These Organs are celebrated for volume, quality of tone, quick response, artistic design, beauty in finish, perfect construction, making them the most desirablo organs for homes, schools, churches, lodges, societies, etc. ESTABLISHED BEPIJTATIOW. VNEQUALED FACIEITIES, SKILLED WORKMEN, BEST MATERIAL, COMBINED, «A»t THIS THS POPULAR ORGAN Instruction Books and Piano Stools. Catalogues and Price Lists, on application, pbhk, Wise SDTTIGc «a a. •v. i eOn t hiu. ts *«*.*,,4 I\t <( „

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