Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-11-16

 For the True Den

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 Mr. EDIroR-I have recently obtained a copy of the journal of our State Senate. which adjourned on the 21st of February last; and in casting my eyes over the pages thereof, l notice the following resolution:- "Resolred That the committee on the judiciary be required to examine the question of the pav that each member shall be entitled to receive under the law. during the present General Assembly and make report thereon at their earliest convenience ''
 And then, a few pages further on, I find, in response to the enquiry instituted in the foregoing resolution, the following report of the committee-Col. CRAIGHEAD and Judge GOULD dissenting:-
 MT. Gaines, from the committee on the judi ciary, made the following
 REPORT:
 Mr. PRESIDENT
 The Judiciary committee to whom was referred Senate resolution, to inquire into the question of the amount of pay the members of the Senate as members of this eneral Assembly, shall be enti tied to receive for their services as such members have had the same under consideration and would most respectfully
 REPORT:
 That the committee are fully satisfed and clear in ther opinion, hat this General Assembly IS tle same fhat mel and assembled, under the constitution on the hrst honddy of November, Ai D. 1858: aud that no recess Matmay hare been takcn at anu te has ia any manner affected its constitutional eristence opd af Me same IS one entire session. pertectinq the un hntshed business begun at the commencenent And that no recess that may have been taken, has in any manner effected the per diem pay or mileoee. and that the members of this General Assembly are entitled to their per diem pay and one mileage. ls l.. al tp,t tl1. rlol- , Assembly, GAINES.
 Chairman"
 You will observe Mr. Editor, that have marked the orgumentatiue part of this re- markable report, for italics, anl I admit that the positions assumed in the argument. are all sound and logical but for the life of me, l cannot see, that they have the re- motest bearing upon the inquiry propound- ed. But, sir, had the learned committee resorted to argument something like the fol- lowing, 1 think their stride from their pr7m'ses to their conclusion would not have been so uiolent-" That tie committee are fully sati$tied Mat from the 23rd day of De- ceneber, 1858, hU Me 17M day of Januory, 1859, there were A days, vhich beinq multi plsed by S4 makes Me amount of S96. mul- hplying acdicA Jy 100-Me No. of members -ond you haye $9600, and Mis being e sn'oH iten, % 5e a5stracted from Me entire tar- paysng population of the therefore, the members of this General Assembly, are entitled to per diem pay for the said 24 days. etc.
 Who doubted that this was the same General Assembly which met and qualified on the first Monday of Nov. 1s5s?-cer- talnly there is no doubt expressed in the resolution to which the report is response! but ST. state it as a perfectly tenable posi- tion' that It was not only the same General Assembly then, but that 1t is now, and will continue So to be, up to the first Monday of Nov. lo6O-that the Hon. Tom. Fletcher IS president of the Senate, and Mr. Du Wall speaker of the House of Representatives, ana will even go farther-and say. that Ii a contingency should now arise, which would make it proper or necessary, and dov. Conway should, by proclamation, convene the General Assembly on the first Monday of next January, itwould be right, legal, and constitutional then, for the General Assembly, to take up any measure or proposition, which may be found on the Journals before me, yet undisposed of, and act on it, either by rejecting or matur- ing 1t.
 Now l ask the distinguished chairman oi the committee, ,-if this contingency were to arise, and the Governor should so con- vene the General Assembly, would he, up. on resolution like that first quoted, make report, that this being the same General Assembly which met on the first Monday of Nov, 1858, therefore the members are entitled to per diem pay for and during the recess since the twenty first day of February last" l pause for reply from the noble Senator from Chicot, Drew and Ashley. SALINE RIVER.