Evansville Journal, Volume 20, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, 1 July 1869 — Page 2

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PUBLISH KD BT TH tYANSYILLX JOURNAL COMPANY, No. 6 Locut Street, Evansville. THURSDAY. ..JU" Y1,H' New Hampshire follows in the wake of her sisters in ratifying the Fifteenth Amendment. The House of Representatives ratified it on Tuesday, and the Senate will probably do the same to-day. Strong efforts are being made by the New School Synod of Iowa to establish a college at' Cedar Rapids, in that State. A fund of $50,000 has been donated by Daniel Coe, of New York, which is still further backed by a donation of between five and six thousand acres of land worth about SCO.OCO. The total length of the French cable will bs 3,-107 miles from Brest to St. Pierre 2,323. and from St. Pierre ti Boston 722, or about' 1,200 more than the length of the Anglo-American cable. Up to noon of the 2Gth the Great Eastern had paid out 636 miles of wire, or more than onefourth of the principal line, without any serious interruptions of the work. Communication was perfect, and everything wsi going prosperously. Referring io the recent Peace Jubilee, the Boston Traveler says: "The expense entered into by the Executive Committee, with the firm determination to carry out all the promises made to the public, was something enormous upward of three hundred thousand dollars having been lavishly but most judiciously ex rended. mostly before the return of as many cents. For their sake, although that was a secondary matter with them, we arc happy to announce the undertaking a financial success.' The demise of the old National In telttgencer, which was established in the year 1S00, and has been a favorite with gentlemen of tho extreme con83rvative school, ever since its establishment, has created quite a sensation among them. They have been devising means to revive tho pa per, but its liabilities, which are said to amount to $40,000. constitute too heavy a load for them to shoulder Democratic politicians manifest in tense sorrow at its demise, for they have heretofore made much of its sympathy and support as the great conservative Whig paper in times past. The Intelligencer really expired when (J a LE3 & Seaton, its former proprietors, departed this life. Since their death, it has been tho "National Intelligencer in nothing but name. Cincinnati votes, ten to one, in favor of aid to a railroad from that city to Chattanooga. Its citizens arc shrewd enough to see that in reaching out after the enormona trade of the South they can afford some outlay. Meanwhile, what is St. Louis doing to push the St. Louis and Paducah, the St. Louis and Cairo, and the St. Louis and Henderson roads, each of which is as important to us as the Chattanooga to Cincinnati? St. Louis Democrat. St. Louis seem3 to be exhausting all her energies in establishing direct trade with Europe. In doing so, she is in danger of overlooking other interests that are of equal if not greater importance. While the shipping of grain direct to Europe, without breaking bulk, is in the nature of an experiment, the building of railroads cannot be regarded in the same light. Every railroad completed must inevitably increase her business and add to her wealth. Especially is St. Louis interested in a direct railroad communication with this city through Southern Illinois. By it she would have a direct and excellent route through Nashville, Tenn., to the Southern States on the Atlantic seaboard, and also better communication with the States bordering on the Gulf. These States look to the Northwest for their supply of grain and provisions. The Democrat is right when it says this road is of as much importance to St. Louis as the Chattanooga road to Cincinnati. The Specific Appropriation Bill ARGUMENT OF J10V. SAMUKL I'EIKIXS BKKORE TUK SUI'KKME COIKT. E. A Fall and Complete Exposition the Quorum Question. of We give below that portion of the argument made by Hon. Samuel E. Perkins, of eighteen years a member for the Bench, before the Supreme Court, which refers to the questions of "What constitutes the House?" and " Whatcon3titutes the Quorum?" After a lengthy examination of the principle that the court. could not go behind the record, on the decision as to the validity of the bill, the Judge said : I have argued this case thus far upon the the theory that a quorum could be no less than two-thirds of the largest possible number the House could consist of under the Constitution, viz.: 07; but I submit that this view of the quorum is erroneous. This question has been so exhaustively discussed of late that I can add nothinenew to the argumant. 1. The Natural Meaning of (lie Constitution,. The Constitution ordains, Soc. 2 of -Art. 4, that the num ber ot the House shall not exceed one hundred, and the statute declares that it shall consist of one hundred members. Nothing is said in the statute or section of the Conetitution cited relative to the number of the House, as to what or how many shall constitute a quorum. That is provided for elsewhere in the Constitution. This fact it is important to bear in mind in discussing the question of quorum. Thus far the Constitution and statute have purported to define and provide for the creation of a House, sayno.tniD a9 t( quorum of it. V hat then is a House ot Representatives? Hot many are absolutely required to constitute it to bring it inr , existence? The answer to this qi'rstion decides the whole matter-

for, when wa have got a House, we shall have no trouble in ascertaining a quorum of it. And until we have a House the question of quorum cannot arise. A quorum of a House is not a llouio. Thn n.nt tntion. as we have seen,

says the llocse shall not exceed a hundred, and the statute says it shall consist of one 'hundred members. Must, then, the House, -to make it I one actually, be composed oi one hundred members? If so there is no House in existence while there is less than one hundred members, and the question of quorum cannot iu such case arise. We must first have a House, then we can fix a quorum of it. The word shall often means may, and may often means shall, in legislation; cud I believe it never has been coutondod before, and is not now, that it requires one hundred members tJ constitute a legal House of .Representatives; Now, if it does not require one hundred, how many does it require? A leal IIouso of ReDresentatives may be denned as consisting or aw the members existing at a riven time. be they few or many, who have a right to, or may be compelled to, take seats io the House wnen in session. And it may abbreviate our argu ment to here get a tolerably clear idea of the nature and mode of settling a quorum: A quorum is the smallest number ot members ot a corporate or legislative body that can bind the whol by olBcial action. It i3 not a necessity to the existence of a corporate or legislative body, or to the validity of the acts of either, that the quorum should bear any given proportion to the whole. The number of which the quorum of any body consists depends on the charter or constitution of that body, and may be entirely arbitrary. If the charter or constitution of the body does not fix the quorum or give the basis for fixing it, the courts, by the common law. determine it thus: .1. If a definite number of persons constitute the body, a maionty is a quorum of it by common law. , 2. If an indefinite number, then any number present can act. o. But if the charter fixes the quorum, that controls. If the char ter or constitution fixes the number, that ends the question, lhe number so fixed, be it few or many, consti tutcs the quorum. Ang. & Ames, sec. oOd. '''"". Sometimes the charter or consti tution, instead of fixing the exact numbtr of the quorum, gives the basis and rule for determining it, aod thus the question is, in determ ining it, what are the basis and rule? The question is not then one of gene ral corporation law, but simply of ascertaining the basis and rule, in the civeu case. When they are ascer tained, the ease is at an end. Such is the case at bar. The constitution has given the basis and rule lor the quorum of the legislative House What is it? is the subject of inquiry Having ascertained what, under article 2 of section 3, is a House of Representatives, and what the nature of u quorum, we are enabled to pro ceed iiuuerstandingly in ascertaining what is a quorum of tho Indiana IIowsc under the Indiana Constitution The basis is explicitly declared in another part of the Constitution article 4, sections 10 and 11. They are as follows: Sec. 10. Each House, when assembled, shall choose its ownljfficers, (the President of the Senate excepted), judce the elections, qualifications, and returns rf its own members, deterteruiinc its rules of proceeding, and sit upon its own adjournment. But neither House shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, tor to any place other thau that in which it may be sitting. shall cou.ti'.ute a quorum to do business ; but a smaller number may meet, aljourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members. A quorum being in attendance, if either house fail to effect an organization within the first five days thereafter, the members of the House so failing, shall be eutitled to no compensation from the end of the eaid five days, until an organization ehill have been effected. The word ''House" is used in the same sense in the eleventh section that it is in the tenth, and nobody will contend that it requires one hundred members to constitute the House in the tenth section. Then it is equally clear that it does not require twothirds of one hundred members to constitute a quorum of the House in the eleventh section. Had the quorum been fixed in the section "of the Constitution providing for the House had section two, of article four, of the Constitution read: ''The House shall not exceed in number one hundred members, and two-thirds of the highest number at which it shall be fixed shall constitute a quorum" th en the quorum would properly be determined with reference to the possible, not the actual existence of the House. But such, as we have seen, is not the case. Let us now examine a little more closely section 11, above quoted. It speaks of two thirds of each House as a quorum; of compelling the attendance of absent members, and of a quorum being present, etc., etc. It thus appears that the House may be composed of two parts of present and absent members that the aggregate of these two constitute the House,ad that the present can compel the attendance of those who are absent. The House, then, is composed of the present members and the absent, whose presence can be compelled. But the present members cannot compel the attendance of a person not elected (and there maybe many districts which have failed to elect); of a person dead, or of one' who lias resigned, so that he is no longer a member. None of these,, therefore, can compose a part of the House. When present . members are assembled in the House they pro ceed to ascertain how many and who have been elected members of that House how many of those elected have died, how manyresigned, u ow many iQ short, there are absent whose attendance can be-compelled; they add these to the number of present members, aud then find the quorum by getting two-thirds of the number of the present and absent members, and when, by compelling the attendance of absentee n,- other wise, the two thirds are present then the House is brought within the operation ot thesection "a quorum bein in attendance," &c. Such is the qnorum. Till a quorum is present, the members present can do but two things; adjourn and compel the attendance of absent members. This quorum must necessarily be a variable number, depending upon the actual membership of the House from time to time. Such I take to be the natural meaning and real intent of the terms House, quorum, &c, in our Constitution. If it be said that this view of the case might lead, in practical application, to the r;xistencis of a Legislature cornpoed of a small body of meu, tho reply is, that it cannot do bo

but by the voluntary act of the people in rpfvminz to elect, or of the elected

in refusing to continue members, and it is a maxim of law that parties shall not tako advantage of their own wrong, and it is a maxim of good sense and political wisdom that it is better that the Government should survive rather than perisn tnrougn the action of a minority. 2, Legal and Legislative Precedents. I will now proceed to support my position as to the quorum, by authorities. They are of two classes Judicial and Legislative. 1 Judicial. Southwrth vs. Palmyra, etc.; 2 Michigan, 287. Sedgwick on Statues, p. 574. The case in Michigan is not an elaborated one: but as it was decided Rnmfi lfmsrth of time before the late war, and is opposed by no other decision, it is entitled to consideration by this Court. 2 Legislative Authorities.' Precedents. These are relied upon by the other side, and if they are to have weitrht in the decision of the case at bar. I only ask that the preponderance shall carry the decision. I am willing to risk it on that. The Constitution of the United States provides that the Senate of the United State3 shall be composed or two Senators lrom each fctate, ana that a majority thereof shall constitute a quorum. Under this provision down to 1861, the practice of tb;e Senate, its precedents, had not been uniform, and no occasion had arisen rendering a thorough examination and authoritative decision as to the true construction of the provision, necessary. In 1790, January 4th. there were twelve States in the Union, and thirteen would have been a quorum of all the Senators; yet one being dead, twelve was held a quorum. Congressional Globe, 1861-62, pp. 3191. The Constitution also provides that a majority of the House of Representatives, possibly consisting of a certain known number at each session, though varying from session to session, shall be a quorum. The practice of the House, as well as the Senate, had not been uniform touching the quorum down to 1861. In the House, December 7, 1802. seventy-one would have been a quorum ot a iuh nouse, out siity seven " being a majority ot the quali fi(i members, was held a quorum Anrl IW-omher 7. 1S08. a quorum of the whole number provided . by the Constitution would have been seventy one, but fifty-nine were held a quo mm. bein? a maiority of the quali fied voters. Congressional Globe 1861-2, page 3.192. bo again, in 1860-1. on the proposal of the constitutional amendment, it was de cided by the Senate, then being Democratic, but voting without party distinction, that two-thirds ot th Senate, within the meaning of article 5 of the Constitution, meant two thirds of the existing qualified mem hers. There are also precedents the other way. But in the Spring of 18bi an event occurred which compelled an authoritative decision of what con stitutes a quorum of .the Senate and House ot Representatives of the United States. This event was the resignation of a lartro number of the members of the United States Senate To show that a ease was made clearly in point with that now before the courts, I quote the provision of the Constitution of tho United States touching the National Legislature and its quorums: "The House of Representatives shall be composed ot members chosen each secoud year, by the people of the several States. The number of Re presentatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, but eaoh State shall have one. ! The Senate of the United States shal be composed of two Senators from each State. . A majority of each House shall constitute a quo rum to do business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent membes." Under these provisions, Mr. Cushintr, in his Parliamentary law, section 260, lays it down that a quorum con sists of a majority of the members of which tho House or Senate may con sist under the Constitution, not of the number of which it, at any given time, actually does consist; a majority or tne possible, not oi the actual House or senate, and he cites as authorities for his position a part of the precedents of Congress down to the 18th. He cites some of those occuring within the last fifteen years, ana some oi those against him prior to that time, and 1 might have dis posea oi iUr. uusning as authority in the case, by simply stating the fact that every precedent on which he relies has since been over-ruled. In the Spring of 1861, as I have said, it became necessary to authori tatively settle the question as to what was a quorum of the Senate and of the House. In April, 1862, the fol lowing resolution was before the Sen ate of the United States: "Resolved, That a majority of the Senators duly elected, and entitled to seats in this body, is a constitutiona quorum. Congressional Globe, lbul '62, p. 3,021. A similar resolution as to the quo rum of the House had been introduced into that body in lbOl, aud without distinction ot party it passed on the ground ot necessity, and that such was the fair and proper construction of the constitutional provisions on the subject. Con. Globe, supra, p. 3022 rm i - , ... xne aoove copiea resolution was thoroughly discussed in the Senate, ac amerent times, (all the previous precedents being collected, and the debates in the Federal Convention examined and criticised,) from April, 1862, down to the 4th of May, 1SG6, when it was adopted in the following iorm: Resolved, That a quorum of the Senate consists of a majority of the Senators duly chosen. It was adopted by the vote not strictly party of yeas 26, nays 11 Congressional Globe, 1S03 1, p. 2.0S7. And on" the 2th of March, 1868, the Senate went back, substantially. to the original resolution, in the fol lowing language, which now consti tutes a standing Rule of the Senate : "A quorum shall consist of a ma jority ot the members duly chosen and Bworn. To show that in the discussion of the above resolution, every objection, even to the reductio ad absurdum argument as to the possible suaalluess of a legal House, was raised and cousidered, let me copy the following extract fioai the spoech of Hon. Garret Davis. Congressional Globe, p. 2,083. " But the unsoundness of the principle of the proposed resolution is more strikingly illustrated by the present condition and number of members elect to the Senate. The whole number of States, iucluding those in rebellion, and Virginia and West Virginia, is thirty-five (and it is settled that none of these States have been out of the Union). The whole number of States being thirtyfive, the aggregate number of the Senate is seventy. There ate loriy-nme memoers elected , to the present Senate, twenty-five of whom, by the resolution, constitute a quorum to do business. The legisla-

tive power of the Senate being vested

in twenty-nve senators, wouia De wielded by a majority of that number, .... , . i i 1thirteen, liut tne principle or me resolution eoes to this extent, that if only New England, or any less number of Stahs, were to elect members of the Senate and House, a majority of these Senators and Representatives, respectively,-would constitute a quorum to do business, and a majority of those quorums would put in operation the whole legislative power of the Government. Mr. McDougall further argued against the resolution on the analogy of the law of corporations. He said in all corporations there must be a majority of the directors present, etc. Congressional Globe, 1861, 2, rtase 3 192. But these arguments were ably answered by Reverdy Johnson and others, and after more than two years deliberation the resolution was adopted bv more than a two-thirda vote. I shall not repeat these arguments here. I cite to them and the court will be enlightened by reading them. And we now find this state of facts: The Congress of the United States, for the past eight years, has been enacting laws, civil and criminal, by a quorum only of the actu-il Uousa beine greatly below a legal quorum, if the quorum is a majority of the largest possible House under the Constitution, and these laws have been and now are enforced by all the courts of the United States, without a whisper being breathed as to their validity Your penitentiaries are full of men deprived of their liberties under these laws, aod wrongfully so, it the de fendants doctrine ot the quorum is correct. I take it this long recognition of tho validity of theso laws by the Courts has put the question at rest forever in this country, and settled it that under our Constitution a legal quorum is a majority or two-thirds, as the case may be, of the actual House, not of the possible House, under the Constitution. It must be regarded as settled by the concurring judgment of the Courts or the United btatea. By a rule of the Seuate, as we have seen, a quorum, to-day, consists of majority of the Senators the actual existing Senators excluding those dead and those who have resigned. they not being a part ot the Senators; it consists or a majority of the exist ing members, who have been duly elected and sworn, lhia, we have shown, is exactly the quorum pre scribed by our Constitution, under which alone this case must be deter mined. Recurring again for a mo ment to that Constitution, a quorum is there disclosed to consist ot two thirds of the House; and the House, we have seen, is the ag gregate ot the members who, at any time, are present and absent, but liable to be compelled to be pres nt. This being so, there was clearly a quorum present in the House on the 14th of May, after the resignation of the forty members, they being no longer members whose attendance could be compelled. The House oon sisted of tho remaining members who had not resigned, and there were twothirds a quorum of them present. The gentlemen on the other side may take cither horn if the members had not effectually ' resigned, they were a part of the house, and being present, they, according to the journal, made a quorum. If they had effectually resigned, they were not a part of the House, and the House consisted of the remaining, members ; and, io the language of the Constitution, twothirds of that House made a quorum and two-thirds were present. I shall not argue the question of policy. It may be said that one view of this question acted upon may place the government lor preservation in the hanJrf of a few men. It may be said that another view aoted upon may enable a few men to destroy the government, lhere are evils, both ways, but I have sought in this argu ment to ascertain what the law is, without regard to policy, and that is the question for this court to decide BEETTISTS. ID JR. I. HA.S Resident leiitiat, Over Flint Natloilal Bank, Corner Main and First Streets, Kvansville, lnd RrANrFAtrruKtB or continijjXS. ous (iuixi Work, Uold, Silver, Voleamte, Cora lite, ana Amber Fla.lt, carvea Work., Artilloial Palates, &c. ADMINISTRATOR of Nitrons Olid (an excellent aud sale aawsthetie). Chic roform, Klljer, and also several local par lyzers. NKURALGIC Affections treated. MY FACILITIES are as good and td.establishment as large (consisting of ivk rooms) as any iu tlie United titatui. I RETURN MY THANKSio the . tensive patronage received during the pal KltiHT YEARS. nohiU EAGLE OA UK I AGE WORKS. . I KAMMEItSTEIX, MANUFACTURER OF ILiig-lit Carriages, Fancy Trotting .Buggies, Slurring; Top litijsrgrieM, Koekaways, ami Spring; Wagona, COS. OF FOURTH ' AND LOCUST STS., J2VAJYSVILLE, IND. S"Speclal attention given to repairing of all kinds, and re-painting done at tlie shortest notice and -on tlie most liberal terms. A. General Assortment of Work Constantly on Hand. None but tlie Brl Worknieu Employed. apro-d-3m THE CELEBRATED a;t.stewart&o. JSolc Agents F0R.THE.UNITED STATES) Is for sale , at WirOLEHALK KETAlij, by and

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GROCERIES. The Ca.Nli Grocery, Hi HI A I IV ST. Is in lull Bliit. All.Tlli: 4JOOIIS AT THE 'ASII OKoCKllV lire new and ot the very li quality. The price- will suit. He member, 7 Main Hlreet. IIAKKi:i.Nof assorted Hugars-re-4 J celvpd ut the t'HHii Orocerv. and for sale at unprecedented low rale-, fall and see, ai . 70 Main b.l reel. Till. C ISII 4Jltt'KKY. 7l Main St., will not do a credit buslues; therefore, cairn unyera may expect Darnnm at ti Malu Htreet. f"WiiiMiir.N's Aiini aji;s-a K est' vur.eiy, rauKinx im i'in:f- irum n iu io 1.4 00, at VK KKKY IIKO.H 7.1 and 7U Alain Street. DOOI.KY'M IIAKIJ I'OW III; ItAcknowledged to lie I M bHMi, in use, lorsaleat VICKKKY JlKO.'rt, 73 aud 70 Alain Street. JIM' TIIK. 1UIMJ for tbe m-hhou i lurkee's i. em on Hutjar or t ?oucetilriel Lemonade. One i-poou I ul make a Ishh of Leiiiouudo. Forsiilebv Vl( ICF.RY XKOH., 73 and 7iJ Mam Mreet. i:t:P 'OOf, ! Ice Cream Freezers at very low price- ut VJlKKRY mtO.'H, 7.1 and 7ti AIhIii htreet. Ki:i:lCl.r.A V Uabbllt's bet Foap tlie bem lu the woild, at 10 cpta j er l.i C ii em leal ill ve Hon p, 1 1 bailor f I on; Froctor A (Jumble's Clue lun at 1 iwp, 4 Ours lorlccut. Ulhei soup equally low at VICKKltY LitO Vl, ".liiuil 7H Main Klrei t. MATTHEW DALZKLL, Wholesale Iealer In Groceries, Nails, Wliite Lead, Lime, Coment, &a, No. 18 Water Klrcft, dAchldly FvANsvtf.r.. Inp. ISAAC BKIIIANK. D A V IIK1MAMV. I. A l. Jir.IMA.Nt Wholesale Dealers In GROC 33, I 3 S, Foreign and Domett ic Liquort, NAILH, COTTON YAUNH, ULAHMWA IU Ac., Ac, Son. 60 and Hi Main Street, IJotweon Kocuuil aud Third, FISH DEPOT. OV'JOdtf City Fu.id Store. C? f toxs i-iti-.ii. ny, mo tw tJJ country br.ni; In tons shlpkl n l! j choice. Hour in SiieiiH; fre-h boiled men I, corn, oaiM, vc, id. hiwi'Ki. cat.li pricun. Ooods delivered tree lu tneelly. T. W. M IT f tit AY, Thld Htreet, between Alain and LociihU ebU tt m 13G MAIN STREET, TryAS 01 HiMi, ami is rowJLJL. stanily receiving, tt Well selecled hloi n of Fancy and Staple tirorcrlcs, Which are sold at the lowest living rates. IMTUKTANr TO ItUILDKRS AXD C'0X TUACTOKS. llavlni? bought t ho Kind li ink formerly Owned by -Mr. 10. Crosn, I am prepared to furnish a JSfi. 1 urlli'l of Kiil'i.'lnii Hiiml; alHo, treh I'l.'tMti r, Lime, ami Cciuenl, ul thtt lowest llviiig rale's. api-.il J A M KA CROFJM. CMAJkLES VIEl.E A CO., v u o i4 u a i; & X O O .IS 1 1 , HOVTHWKHT VUHNHH First and Sycamore Stroiitu, KVA-'SVfLI.B. Isd. anfl dtf mttTGOIiiTS. Wholesale and Retail Drrij; liealer In Medicine, Paints, Oi!, Brmhtt, ifrc, MAIN BT., beL Heeond and Third, 1 V kiihV Ule, lnd. Fartlcnlar attention given to CUTTINU WhMlOWULiAKH lu auy mm. IJtml'l dtl LAW CARDS. TJ. M. O I til tn J . Also, KKAL KSTATi: iind CuLLLCTl.NCJ Atr-.. 1. Offlcft nn JLiIti (Street, bet ween Third and Fouittl, No. Wi'4 (over KeiU l'H tillll HUire), I'-viumviilt, Jim. sepl!i,'ti. K Kit. H. li. ItlCIl AKUHOrt ROCKER & RICHARDSON, Attorney" at J.stw, North Hide Third Html, liel. Mlu A fxietnit, fcVAhHHI.l., I"l. IVdleellonM ilium mi V allemled Io. tare. fill ul lent ion elvi-u t' exuiuliiiilion of titles, wrltlllB.lee, apl d.liu W. P. HARQUAViY, attouni:y itt I-A.W. Office on Third Street, In Washington Iloiine lUock. Will praetlen ' e varloim t'ouiri o' the Circuit. Prompt attention to n'.i.-t huMlueMH libi'l .1 im

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