Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1887 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

VOLUME XI

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Alfred MoCot, T. J, McCoy E. L. Hollingsworth. A. MH3OY & C©., BANKER S 9 (Sncceeiois to A. McCoy & T. Thompson ,) Rensselaer, Ind. DO a flc. eral hanking business. Exchange bought and sold Certificates hearing interest issue' 1 . Collections made on al’ available points Office same place as old firm of McCoy A Thompson April 2,1886 MORDECAI F. CHILCOTE. Attorney-at-Law i fttssELAER, ... - Indiana Practices Jin the. Courts of Jasper and adoinlng counties. Makes colleetions a specialty. Office ort north side of Washington Btreet, opposite Court House- vlnl BIMON P. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOM PSON Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Rensselaer, - - Indiana Practice in all the Courts. ARION L. SPITLER, Collector .tnd AbstractorWe pay , irbcular attention to paying tax- , selling and leasiag lands. v 2 n4B R' H. 11. GRAHAM, ATTORNEY-ATI, AW', Reesdelatr,lndiana. Money to loan on long time at low interest. Sept. 10,m JAMES W. DOUTHIT, At*r;RNEY''AT-EAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC, Office upstairs, in Maieever’s new Rensselaer, ind. EDWIN P. HAMMOND, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Rensselaer, Ind. WOffice Over Makeever’s Bank. May 21, 1885. r M. W WATSON, ATTO±tNEY-AT-LAW E®" Oflice up Stairs, in Leopold’s Bazav, RENSSELAER IND.

W. HARTSELL, M D gOMCEOPATHIC fPIIYSICIAN & SURGEON.EF.NSSELAER, - - INDIANA, Diseases ji Special ty.„|gl OFFICE, in Makeover’s Now Block:. Residence at Makeever House. Jnly 11, 1881. d • H L.OUGHRIDGE Physician and Surgeon. Office in the new Leopold Block, second floor, second door right-hand side of hall: Ton per emit, interest will be added to all accounts, running unsettled longer than three months, vlnl DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician & Surgeon, Rensselaer, Ind. Galls promptly attended. Will give special attcc tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases, mmiMim? imi, RENSSELAER, IND., R. S. Dwici.i’cs, F. .T. Beaks, Vai., Reiu, President. Vic-President. Cashier DOES A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS: Certificates bearing Interest issued; Exe hoticbt anl sold; Money loaded ton farms t low3st rales and oratosti ftvorable tc / •April tBS,

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THE RECORD.

[Continued from last week.] Ar.d before any of the very lengthy and learned opinions could have been at all studied or considered, the republican majority in the House passed without debate, and under the previous question, the following resolution: “Resolved by the House of Repre sentatives. That until the House shall be officially informed that Robert 8. Robertson is in the actual and peace able discharge of the duties of his of* flee as such presiding officer, the House of Rrpre-entptivea must regird the He ate ns illegally and uncoil stitutionally organized. And no official communication can be had wit ; them in order to the due preserv t a [ion of the just rights and responsibilities of this General Assembly.” This resolution was passed, notwithstanding, the fpet that there was nothing in either of the opinions to support the claims of the pretended Lieutenant Governor, th.ee of th ■ judges in fact Hon. Alexander C. Ayres, circuit court judge, and judges flowk and Mitchell, of s the supreme court, had de-

cided that he was utterly without right. No judge of any court at any time had given the least opinion in support of his title. Yet tbe House, over the protest of the Democratic members thereof, by this summary, inconsiderate and wholly unparliamentary action, cut* itself off from communication with the Senate, obstructed legislation and prevented the discharge of publ : c business for the remainder of tlie session. The fact is, they deliberately established themselves and declared themselves to be an insurgent body, an insurrectionary mob no longer having intercourse with any co-ordinate branch of the Government. The next day after the passage of t is resolution by the House, the pretended claimant of the office of Lieutenant-Governor having taken ymmns clandestinely to assemble, a large number of thugs, bullies and bruisers for the occasion, under the auspices of the republican conspirators, against tlie law, peace and dignity of this Commonwealth, filtered tlie senate chamber 1 and made an attempt to

take the chair of the President and to address the senate upon what he called “his claims.” The mob outside, meanwhile, being engaged, urged and encouraged by republican state officers and other leaders to force an entrance into the hall of the senate to compel the President thereof to abandon his rightful authority and position. At the time, republican mejiftieriof the| senate with few exceptions, were employed in aiding hnd abetting Robertson in his attempt b£ force to seize the duties of the chair, and in countenancing and encouraging the gangs of ruffians on th-. outside in their attempts to break into the senate chamber. These attempts f tiled. The claimant was expel led from the senate chamber, the mob was repulsed, and the senate, after great risk, danger and hazard, was restored to order and quiet, with President Smith in the chair. The pretended Lieutenant-Governor was not strut kai all. The only person who received a blow in the melee was an old Union soldier, an old member of the Legislature, senator McDonald, from Alle and Whitley, who, with great dignity, refused then and there to resent it, and told th republican senator who had struck him that that was not a proper place to settle difficulties between gentlemen. This scene of disgraceful violence offered to the members and officers of the Senate of Indiana was the direct result, the outgrowth of that republican conspiracy which had resolved, at all hazards, and in disregard bf every law, to obtain control of the legislative bodies. There was nothing in the opinion of the supreme court to justify it or cause this base-born insurrection against authority. That opinion had determin’d nothing against the rights of Smith a,s President of tne seriate, and had added not a jot or tittle to the value of the worthless pretensions of the person who claimed to be Lieutenant. Governor.

The question rested, t the time this scandalous gang of miscreants attacked the senate chamber, just where it did at the very commencement of the session. One party claimed that there had been a lawful election in 188G;the other claimed that there was none. Republicans claimed th t the spurious Lieutenant-Governor had been inducted into office; the other claimed that his pretended induction was a fraud, supported by an undeniable forgery, to which the speaker of the house had given the sanction of his name, in stating the senate and house had met for the purpose of canvassing tne vote for Lieutenant-Governor, when, in fact and in truth, he knew, and every person else knew, who was present at the time, or at all attempted to ascertain wliat the facts were, that only nineteen sen-

ators bad attended that meeting, and that the senate had refused and absolutely declined tef attend any su li meeting, the senate having adju ged, as it had a right to do, that there had been no election of Lieutenant-Governor, andmliat there were no votes to be counted. In this the action of t(h y senate was supported by the unbroken precedent in Indiana, and’by usage all the other states, which have "such air officer as Lie Tenant-Gov-ernor; for,in none of such states is there ever a vacancy in such office filled by a popular election. Also by the usage of t e Federal Government .ever since its organization m the case of Vice-President, a vacancy which is never filled by popular election, but always 1 y succession by the President of she 1 senate. As now senator Sherman, of Ohio, is succeeding Yice-Pre.-i----dent Hendricks. When it became known to the senate and t-i> the Democratic members of the house that the majority of the house had, by its resolution j of secession, expelled itself, as far j as its own action could do it, from ( any further participation in legis- ; lation, by its refusal to recognize the senate *s a co-ordinate branch of tße Government, every effort

was made to have the fact-Ois majority in the houce leave lac lion and attend to the public business of the state. The senate went on in regular order and passed the following bills: Seoat bill No. 27. To piotectpo'iti«4 purity, aud authorize the holding of primary elections Senate am No. 29. An act to regulate inT’iop of coal and manner of weighing same. Senate bln No. 58. An act prohib*itipg County Auditor* from drawing warrant! on County Treasurers in violation of law. i Scnale bill No. 172. An act to proMbit Child Jen under the age of fourtpen years in mining coal or other minerals manufa turing steel or iron. benste bill No 2815. An act auth rWug the coin.racting of a loan by tho W#te to meet casual deficits lu the agd to pay interest on th© State so ns to provide funds to complete the various State buildings now in process of construction, and bus avoid the necessity of disc-burg-, ing the large cumber or emploves engaged thereon.

Senate bill No. 324. An act to provide Jor the government and discipi ins of the State rrisou North and the State Prison South by one Board of Directors; and determining tb© Officers and directors of the Stat© Pri*6n Scut . Senate bill No. 387. An aot making appropriations for the State Govern-* meat and its institution for :he fiscal year commencing November 1,1686 and benat> o*l No: 235. An act making annual ippropriations for the State Government and its institutions for the flteal year beginning November 1 1887, and ending Oetobei 31, 1888, and each year t' ereafter. beglahing on the Ist day of November and ending the 31st day of October of each year; directing the application of such appropriations, requiring accounts to b® kept of Ue same, and ®tner matter? connected therewith. Senate bill No 134 An act authorizing ilie issue of graduated drain* age bonds bv the Board of Commissioners fpr the payment of assess An ait amending tue®l^gJnH^r^s^ , Lieu Jaw. An act to prevent the unjust enrnishmen: of the wages of laboring men. An act to ippoiut a Live Stock Sanitary Commissioner to prevent the spread of pleuro pneumonia and otlur contagious and infectious diseases among the live a ock cf the State. Senate concurrent resolution No. 2. A joint resolution proposing an am* endmeut to section 2 of article 6 of the constitu ion providing that all county oilieers shall hold tneir term for four years and b- ineligible for r#-electiou in any term of eight years

These bills and the joint resolution, together with many others needed by t ], e people, required by the public welfare, were passed by the senate and transmitted in due course, under the rules of the two houses, to the house of representatives, which ivas duly notified of their having been passed; but the house of representatives, in pursuance of their resolution of obstruction, and deliberately persisting in their determination to defeat and destroy all further legislative action,refus d to receive such bills, or to take any notice of the senate message declaring that they had passed, and the same Avere ieturned to the senate, and yet remain upon its files. These bills Avere passed by the vote of the Democratic members of the senate, and by the further record thereof, showing tlmt the Republican men be sos the senate Avere presenteluripg the time the | vote Avas taKen upon the passage ! and refused to Avote; for the Republican members o l ' the senate, aide the passage of the h use resolution of obstruction to legislation, conceived themselves to bo bound by the action of their coconspirators in the house, and de- ! dined t<> vote on any of these meas--1 ures. They open Died their seats 1 after the 25tli of February the [ same ns they had done before. | Tli »y maintained very strict quiet | and order. They sat in sil nee 1 ke deaf irmles ' SoA T crnl of them, hoAvever, drew their pay by virtue of vouchers signed by President Smith, an o'ficer whose authority they declined to recognize. Irt so doing these senators did recognize linn in the mo >tposi itive manner as President of the i senate; and as these Awichers Aveie

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