Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-01-21

due order Of sequence, from first and
fundamental principles. The necessity
that Legislative action should be free, and
the RICH, of the people so to- demand it,,
and we hesitate not in saying that any
law depriving them of such power woeld.
be unwisein the extreme and fraught
With infinite mischief |
Having the power TO so adjourn, We
submit that they are the sole and exclu-
sive judges Of the necessity demanding It,,
we hold ihatit is not competent for either
the Executive or Judicial department to
pass upon and decide the amount of vio-
lence either threatened, or actually neces-
sary to intimidate this or that member,
and thus render at adjournment to some
other place Imperative.
The connection of the Executive with
the Legislative Department. is for specific
purposes, and for those who are acquaint-
ed with the past history of our Territory
4 is not difficult to understand that to
make the power. Of the Legislature to ad.
journ dependent. on the approval of the
Execuiyel night be to place th9 dearest
rights Of the' people at the mercy Of a
single man, sympathizing with the few
trampling these rights under foot.
3 With these views we did not deem it
necessary to consult the then Executive,
in reEatdlio our adjoernmeplioel 1.-The s,h
inst.
Toshut persion Of your ExcellencY's
.~couunnicahon in which YOU Of the
Capital having been located at Omaha
City, in the county of Douglas, and of
the concurrent action of the Governor and
of the Legislative Assembly being re-
CURED to remove il, we need not reply at
length, as the Legislative Assembly now
in session at Florence has never assumed
that the seat of Government of our Ter
rilory had been removed to that place,
but have only claimed the right of the
Legislature convened at the seat of Gov
ernlnenf 10 adjourn for good causes to
some other place, and there proceed to
discharge its legitimate function. y
In regard 10 Our mode of adjournment,
which yoi question, we would say That
we have been unable to find any provision
in our Organic act or elsewhere, reqSir-
ing that it should be by joint resolution,
and we hook upon the absence of any such
provision in the Organic act as proof of
the wisdom and the foresight Of its fra
,ners and supporters, among whom are
take great pleasure in remembering that
your Excellency was not the least propi-
nent. -. . .
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The same circumstances which made
our adjournment imperative, might, as in
our case render an adjournment by joint
resolution impossible. Such . mode Of ad-
journment being in efect 10 thwart the
mob in their opposition, would In every
conceivable case meet with the samc re.
s~istence rs the matter which originally
incited 1t. .VWOgR 81 4
The actionlo of the Council aud House
of Representatives inthek miJpurnment to
this place, was in all hui, atechlieaLsense
concdfrent. The House being caIled-to-
ge,herlat y o'clock "A. NJ, adjourned 10
meet ut Florence at 10 o'clock Az MI.
next day. The Council .meeling alto
O'Clock A. M.-when the fact Of the adj
jo.rnmen, Of The House to the time and
place was notorious both in and out of the
Council-had its journal read and pro-
ceeded regularly in the order of business
and upon motion adjourned to the same
time aud place. ~
i It only remains to say, in further proof
Of the concurrent action of the two Hous-
es, that they both met at the time and
place fixed upon in the adjournment. and
at once entered reciprocaIly upon their
legitimate duties in the enacting of useful
and necessary laws for the welfare of the
people of the Territory. ''' Aaha q . 90
Your Excellency suggests the strange
spectacle Of a Council in. one place, the
House in another. and the Executive at
still another, as being a possible operation
of the power which we clam; with all
due Difference to the opinion Of Your Ex-
celleney, we do not think that ~recogniz.
ing the mnprity of4both Hoeses ADJOURN
cd tosa place, 6ther than he seat. Of Gov
eminent, as the Legislative Assembly,
would as of course donbeI you 10 recog-
nize them as such if Scattered at differ.
ent places over the Territory. ."1'ie
We are free 10 admin that such a state
of eswoald ia sIfprobabi leave the
Territory without any Legislative Assem-.
bly, capable of mnking laws ,10ets
Being a separate and dislinc, branch of
our Cove mnent-having the power 10
adjourn to another place, and being sole
and exclusive judges Of the necessity de-
manding tive proies, against any as.
sumption of power over US, such as is
claimed by the Executive branch of our
government; and, j, being our exclusive
province TO make the law, we demand
from those who decide and execute the