Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-12-22

majority of all the votes, the joint ASSEMBLY sha'
then proceed, BY ballot, to eecta person Ior tne
purpose aforesaid" &c.-Vide e. >. PIP. VI, Oh
See. 81 10 so inclusive.
The only manner Of going into an election is
by concert of action in pursuance OF aJoint res
oluton for that purpose.
Can either branch Of the General Assembly
thwarl the object to be obtained by an indefinite
postponment of the matter .?
The only way to effect this is by JOINT reso'
ntlon-the one under consideration belhg mere
y resolution On the part OF the senate ;-iol
the statute just read seems to imply this, as It Is
cypress in The preliminary acton. ne JONI
resolution, by virtue of which we have been act
ing, is not yet exhausted, which makes the res
oluton ruled OCT Of order analogous TO motaon
in joint assembly, when the two houses ore con
vened Pursuant 10 concurrent resolution, to DIS
soce The Joint assembly before the business OF the
same Is completed aud also analogous TO
motion to adjourn The joint assembly toa day,
presumed By The Char 10 be after The Legislature
toN haze adjourned. Precedents that such no.
tons are moi in order are abundant, not only dur
ing the present session, when the President oi
the Senate was in the chair, and shcn the Pfes-
ldent pro fempoY, the Honorable Senator IRON
Windsor &C uped the chair, but during Tor
mer sessions.
The adoption cf this resolution would be in
consistent with good order. The House can in
troduce another Joint resolution for the same
purpose, adopt it, and send it here fer con
cnrrence; bni the Senate to be consistent with
itself if the decision of The chair is reversed
should lake no notice Of II, or to US the mlldest
team, lay II on The table mol to be taken up Such
action M our part would seem 10 be Il 'tepcct
ful to the House, if not IN fict ieVo ltionary
The iI'use may elect oa h pir; it 81, what
can the SenaSFNo? Nnyg,4. ~ essit ackno~l-
edge t. error bgrsusrsiity It's decision ... 2,
All the authority The Senate have in the prem
isf IS derived from The joint resolution founded
on the Constitution aud the statute, when have
been referred 70; hereiore this resolution is
,CtthoM the safctDn Of law, Inconsistent with
our JOINT rules, not binding upon the action OF
the House nor even on the Senate (provIded the
House adopts another JOINT res. luton to go into
an election ~i''ch ii may do and cannot be sus
tanned es IN order by euen one precedent since The
organization OF our State The doctrine assunl
ed by the char Is sustained by the action Of Con-
gess ntder I'iuI Resolutions; see Journals OF
b en- made by the members thereof; also our own
unrnal Of the Senate and House in 1898, when
IA certain prominent m1n occupied this chair
mre learned and technical in parliamentary
practice ind conventional custom, in the opinion
OF ah.s CHAR, iiian any one who ever did, and
perhaps ever vii, fiji the same. This is said
also, with great spect for the opinion Of o hers
who have occupied the sima posi'ion In 1886
each house Tor day OF two postponed lndepend
cit OF the other, he election uni another day
when on the advice OF their President, the jour
nal was crpungeA aud the same now reads or
every occasion OF The poslponenent Of such cleo
ton as If II was ifected by joint resolution.
The adoption Of the resolution canno, be lrea
ted as .fndlity IN any respect; but 1t will tend
to divert the streams Of justice, and nuIllfy the
Constitution and the statute under which we are
acting
These, lie said, were his convictions, on due
consideration, connected with The Importance o.
the subject.