The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-03-16
THE WEEKLY PIONEER ll AND DEMOCRAT iCRA

I" factious minority" would be withdrawn.
Mr.. KENNEDY was willing to apollo
gize to any individual who felt personally
aggrieved, but was not willing to withdraw
the preamble. gar7 - aas.
Mr.. HEATON then submitted substi-
tute for the preamble and resolution Of Mr..
Kennedy: ~ .ss'7 a,r
RESOLVED, That 1t is the sense of this Senate
that no amendment should be submitted with
q view to incorporate the same in the Consti.
tuition of this State, unless such proposed
amendment has been carefully prepared, and
thoroughly considered by three several read.
ings in each branch of the Legislature. and
then receive the signature Of the Governor.
RESOLVED, That the resolution entitled con
current resolution proposing amendments to
section of article of the Constitution, and
pI DIVIDING for the submission of the same to the
people, bears evidence upon its face, of having
been imperfectly and hastily drawn, that it
only received % votes in the House of Repre-.
votes, and that we deem we have performed q
solemn duty in resisting by all fair means in our
power, such an innovation upon the constitu
tional rights of the people, as the incorpora.
ton in it of such resolution, so imperfectly
drawn, and containing sentiments s0danger-
RESOLVED, That our present Railroad diff.
culties should be settled without incorporating
any more Railroad bills in the Constitution.
The resolutions were laid on the table and
the President declared the Senate adjourned
sine die.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
THE FINAL GRAND F1zzLE.
The House met at IL o'clock to close the
eyes of the defunct body. A committee
was appointed to wait upon the Governor,
and inform him that this remarkable body
was about to adjourn, and to inform bis
Excellency that they were prepared to re-
ceive his farewell communication. The
Governor had nothing to say.
Mr.. ROBERTSON called the attention
OF the House to the fact that the supple-
mental election bill which had passed both
branches of the Legislature, and had been
enrolled, had never been delivered to the
President of the Senate or to the Speaker
of the House for their signatures, and he
charged that it was the design of the en-
rolling committee and their advisers, who
were the leaders of the Republican party,
to prevent by trickery and villainy the bill
from becoming law. Mr.. R. explained
that the bill referred to defeated the object
of the original election bill of the session,
which had been stealthily iBterpolated by
Mr.. Secombe so as to give the Secretary Of
State the power to determine who should
be members of TIE legislature, and which
supplemental bill, drawn by Mr.. R. and
passed by both branches, provided that the
canvass of votes should be made and certlfi.
Gates given to members Of the legislature
in their districts. as heretofore. Mr.. R.
moved that the enrolling committee should
be called upon for the supplemental bill.
1t was stated that they had left the city.
Mr.. r. then informed the House that he
had been in pursuit of the bill in question,
in the Office of the Governor, Secretary's
office, to the enrolling committee of the
Senate and the Office of the enrolling clerks
of the House, and could not find it !; be said
that it was the deliberate intention of
leaders of the majority in this Legislature
to prevent this bill becoming law. Mr..
R. was preparing resolution to censure
the Enrolling Committee, when the Clerk of
the Senate appeared and announced to the
House that the supplemental election bill
had been amended by the Senate 1t ap-
pears there was an immaterial change of
three words, made about the middle of last
week, which had never before been an
nounced to the House, and now there were
about twenty members present, this being a
trick to defeat the bill-the Clerk of the
Senate having sent the bill to the Enrolling
Clerk instead of back to the House, in order
to defeat it, no doubt.
Mr.. Robertson then said-Mr. Speaker,
there are some honorable men among the
Republicans of this House, but those who
have ruled and managed its transactions,
seem resolved to maintain to the last mo-
ment OF the session their we'll earned repu-
tation for mendacity and dishonesty these
l denounce as knaves. shake the dust of
this House from my feet and leave them.
Mr.. r. then turned bis back on the House
and left it.
In about ten minutes the Clerk of the
Senate came into the House and asked that
the supplemental election bill should be
returned to the Senate.
The Speaker asked the unanimous con-
sent of the House, which was necessary for
the return of the bill.
Mr.. SECOMBE (tLe leader and con-
coctor of all this rascality) objected.
In a few minutes after Mr.. SECOMBE
stepped out of the House, when
MIR. SANBORN moved that the bill
should be returned to the Senate, which was
agreed to.
The hiding place of the bill, up to this
time was unknown to the Democratic mem>
bers of the House. 1t could not be found.
But the Republicans, alarmed at the conse-
quences of their detection, and exposed ras-
cality, broke open the desk of the enrolling
committee, where it was secreted, took it
out and sent it back to the Senate. The
key of the desk had been entrusted to
Secombe, the author and engineer of the
meditated fraud. r
The Senate then receded from their YER
bal amendment, and the bill we suppose has
become law so that the secretary Baker,
will not have the power to elect future leg.
islatures.
A number of resolutions of an unimpor.
tant character, were passed.
Speaker OOGGSWELL, after delivering