Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1900 — OPPOSES SEATING OF QUAY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OPPOSES SEATING OF QUAY.

Majority Report Adverse to the Penn•ylranian’* Claim. ■ Reports in the Quay ease were.made in the Senate Tuesday by the committee on privileges and elections; the majority by Turley and the minority by Hoar. The first was feigned by Turley, Caffery, Pettus and Harris, and Burrows concurred. The views of the minority were expressed by Messrs. Hoar, Chandler, Pritchard and McComas, the committee standing five to four in favor of excluding Quay on the ground that the Governor of Pennsylvania had no constitutional right to appoint after the failure of the Legislature to elect. • ! After reviewing at great length all the cases and precedents and particularly those of Mantle, Beckwith, Allen and Corbett, the more recent ones, the majority report concludes: “The statement of these cases and precedents shows that

from the beginning of the Government dowq to the present time the Henatf has never recognized the right of a State executive to make a temporary appointment where the vacancy happened or occurred during a session of the Legislature. The result is fatal to the-claimp of Mr. Quay. No danger nor evil has resulted to the Government from the enforcement of this principle. We, therefore, submit that the Senate, for its otvn honor and dignity, should stand by its previous solemn and deliberate decisions, and recommend the adoption of the foMowing resolution: ‘Resolved, That the Hon. Matthew 8. Quay is not entitled to take his) seat In this body as a Senator from the State of Pennsylvania.’ ” • ' The minority in their report quote extensively from Madison, Webster and other eminent statesmen of the past to sustain their position.

MATTHEW S. QUAY.