The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1857-12-24

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act in relation To Court ana Judlciai pro
ceedings.
Also, bill, entitled m act IN relation to
the compilation oil the statutes.
yISAL PASSAGE op BILL NO. /.
The uouc y,Il To proyide for the election
If r,;,.d s,.,e. sena,ors cam. mn on IL,
S,.I ms.asoe when a call Of the IIno-e va,
or,L,rJ ami Nesxn. Duyn.x and G,sKul
wcr. sounJ abscnt,
Pu,ther nrocedinus under the call being
disnen.ed with. the House proceeded to vote
on The final passage OF ,he bill, with the fl-
loving rsult
10 49,. .,,,.on p,,alev I,rav Bu,.
Ter, Carn.n,sr. Crosby. Cruticnden. Cum.
mings, Dsysrn, Decow. Dow, Esmes, Foster,
Frost, fladsl.nd, Graham ua.tln'' hlosr'
klngnoIn, Ls n' 1 i..o.' ,ISs,li o.. p,eSes
poshls, Isueh. Es6fen, Rutan, seoncId,
starkey' Stevens, futile, vertre.., Wilson,
Young, Mr.. spsaksr-0. .
NAYsIass.l.' naoo" " ".mnhcu cs..s'
f@, "s rn."a. G,aysr H.n.on. unkIey,
Hsyd. i. Il. Johnson, smith Johnson. Keith,
Leonard, Libbey, Lord, Lyle, Parker, Peckham'
Petite, POWER, hanas,' e',e'ir ,.oa
Tnssm, Walker, Wakefield. Ways.
The SPEAK Err announced that ma.
iori,v Of ali the members Of the House hay
mo voted in the affirmative the bill was
n.ssed
Mr.. BALCOMBE appealed from the DO
e;sioo NJ the Chair. lie stated that ut one
time he hnd contcnlcd that two-thirds Of
four,e,n we're nns. on the ground that hut
on.third of 4 man wns lacking but that
the Speaker had gone ahead Of tina, calcu-
lstion bv deciding that foriy was majority
OF eighty. inasmueh ~ no lacked a whole
man 10 co,npletc his figuring. lie insisted
that the Constitutional majority Of the
House wins fovtv.ons that the Constitution
nrovided that eighty members should be
elected and that the provision was explicit,
reouir;no a majority of nil those elected 10
vote in favor OF n bin, 70 pass il finally
Hs argued that II this decision should be
sustained. that Il would be q plain violation
Of IN, Coustitution.
Mr.. DOW insisted that the decision Of
the chair was correct, and should be sus-
famed There wns no knowledge 10 posses
sion ~ the House. that any more than
ssyentycight members were elected. This
vas the number that presented credentials,
and until further credentials were presented,
tbi, was certainly tho full number Of mem.
bers of the House. Although the CoDsti.
tuition provides that eighty members shall
be elected 10 tie Iious,, certain counties
might neglect To vote for members, and in
thai event. the constitution could not be 10
construed that N majority vote of all the
member. nroyiie,l for should be necessary
N n..s n lin when the whole number were
NOT elected The House could have no
knowloJve Of the election Of any offs mem.
brrs o,cept by their presentation Of ere.
Jentials
Mr.. BAICOMBE urged that il this
were correct . number of members might fail
10 meet AT the time for converting the Iegis.
la,ure and the number prcscnt. could 20
forward. and having presented their credcu
tials could organize. even though they
we're a much lcss number than half the
members proyiJrd for.
Mr.. DOW said that "a 10 the question OF
a ouoram. he though, the constitution was
plain. that if less than a majority of the
n,mbers proyided for by the Constitution
,,e, thev could only receive the credentials
Of those present, and adjourn over from
Jay 10 lay until a majority of the members
nroyided for .hould be IN attendance
That number having presented their
credentials, they could then proceed to legis-
la,ion. and the House being the Judge Of
the election of i,s own members II No others
,rca,n,,J credentials il must he conceded
Ina, they constituted the House: and ma
iority vote of those members, would be the
constitutional majority 10 pass n bill.
Mr.. STAKKEY sia,ei tina, the gentle
man from Dakota. mir. Dovl had antici.
na,ed him 10 some extent by his remarks
but he desired while he was up to drec, the
Uo,.e 10 the coursc Of tho gentleman from
Winona iMr. BAicosps) since the com,
nene,m,nt Of the session, in his persist.
On, disrcspect of the pn,sidinc officer Of tn,
Jjo,.. in m, firs, dnv of the session h,
manifested a disposition Ia oucstion his RICH,
10 c,ll the Uouse 10 order. and ever since