The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-08-27
From, a FrnnBfart Pnner.
MEETING OF THE LEGIsLATU.


From a Frankfort Paper.
MEETING OF THE LEGISLATURE.
The Legislature of Kentucky, in pursuance of
the proclamation of the Executive, convened in
the Capitol, on this day, Q9th of August and
proceeded to the organization ofthe two Houses
Of the General Assembly. In the Senate, SAM'L
HANSON, Esq, Senator from the 3Sth District,
was elected Speaker without opposition. JAMES
SToNEsTREET was elected clerk, without oppo-
sition For the office fSergeant-at-Arms, JNo.
MAYHA-.L and VIM. CAMPBELL were placed in
nomination and the ballot resulted in the cleo
ton of Mr.. Mayhall-for Mayhall 81, for Camp
bell, 8. MIR. BANKS was reelected Door Keeper
without opposition.
In the House of Representatives, CHARLES S.
MoREHEAD, Representative from the county of
Franklin, was elected Speaker without opposi-
tion. THOMAS ]. HELM was reelected Clerk,
and JOSEPH GRAY, Sergeant-at-Arms, both with
out opposition. For the office of Door-Keeper,
the names of JOSEPH CLARKE, VIM. B. HOLE
MAN, and VIM. H. GRAY, were put in nominal
ton. On the first ballot there were for Mr.
Clarke 81 votes, for Mr.. Holeman rs, and for
Mr.. Gray 13. And, thereupon, Joseph Clarke
was declared duly elected Committees were
appointed in the respective Houses, to announce
the organization of each House-and Joint
committee was also appointed to intern the Go
vernon that the Legislature was now duly or
ganized, and were ready to receive any commu-
nication he might desire to make to them. AT
o'clock, the Governor transmitted by MIR. Sec
rotary Bullock, the following message to the Lee
gislature;
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
.4uguSt 18th, 1910.
Gentlemen Of the Senate,
and House o. REPRESENTATIVES:
The purpose of calling you together at this
time is distinctly announced in the proc amation
under which you assembled.
1t is a matter of regret, no doubt, with you, as
it is unquestionably with me, that the omission,
by the last Legislature, to re-enact the law of
1886, prescribing the mode of choosing cleo
tors to vote for President and Vice President
has made this extra session of the Legislature
necessary.
When it is remembered that the attention of
the members of the last General Assembly was
Intensely fixed, and their labors unremittingly
devoted to many exciting questions Of State and
National policy, it is not the part of justice to
censure any one for the omission. They, like
myself, no doubt believed the law of 1886 was
in full force.
The Legislature having met for special OBJ
ect, and so near the period at which my official
connection With the government of the State
will terminate, have not felt myself at liberty
to call your attention to other subjects of gene
raj interest, or to trouble you with a statement
Of the fiscal condition Of the Commonwealth,
and the progress of her public works during the
present year. Should the Legislature desire
any information upon these or other subjects
connected with the administration of the State
Government, it will give me great pleasure to
furnish such as may be required by the repre-
sentatives Of the people
1t is not intended by the undersigned to init
mate an opinion unfavorable to the power, or TO
the propriety of its exercise, by the Legislature
now assembled, of general legislation upon all or
any questions which, in the Judgment OF those
vested with the law-making power, the public
interests demands.
La the event that you feel it your duty to pre-
coed to the general business of Legislation at this
time, will take the liberty to invite your atten-
ton to the subjects treated of in the message
had the honor Of submitting to the consideration
of your predecessors, with the renewed express
sion of my opinion that none of them, and par
ticularly the condition of the public revenue
the necessity of providing the means TO protect
the credit of the State, to enable the Common
wealth to fulfil her engagements with the con-
tractors upon her public works, and to preserve
her faith inyiolate with the holders Of her bonds
have lost any thing Of interest, or diminished
in Importance, since they were presented to the
consideration Of your predecessors.
congratulate you and my feilow-citizens, in
being able to announce to the Legislature, that
the interest due to the holders Of State securi-
ties, has heretofore been promptly paid need
not say how humiliating It must prove to every
true Kentuckian, should he live to see the day
when that credit which his State now possesses,
shall be furnished by the failure on the part of
the Representatives Of the people, to provide the
means of redeeming the plighted faith Of the Com
monwealth. She now enjoys confidence and a
credit OF which she may Justly boast, when we
take into consideration the arrangement of the
monetary concerns of the world, which no,y
every where prevails
Under the law of the last session l cor
its object the maintenance of the pe n =.
Sc, have issued to contractors and &c Gre
ditors for work and labor, and demand against
the Commonwealth, connected with the system
Of Internal Improvement, the bonds OF the State
at par, redeemable in six years, bearing an inter-
est of six per cent, TO the amount OF 1857 AGO.
I have sold the Board Of Education thirty year
bonds, bearing like interest, at par, to the amount
of S24, 900.
Under the opinion that a sale OF the bonds Of
the State. could not have been effected upon the
terms prescribed in the act, or upon such terms
as the State ought to accept, i have not commits
stoned a special agent, at public expense, fol
that purpose, though agents have been, and arr
now vested with Authority TO make contracts fOl
the sale Of State bonds upon he terms prcscribee
in the act 81 the last Legislature My last ad
vices from them have not created any well
founded hope that a sale can Of will be eaectet
at the present time. Capitaliay seem unwilling
to make investments until things shall righ
themselves by the establishment Of some system