The Placer herald., 1861-01-19
LegislatiYe.

The Legislature, during the week, has been
mostly occupied in repeating its labofs of the
week previous-doing nothing. The Senate ad-
journed from Saturday until Tuesday, and upon
ra-assembling, concluded as formerly that they
could not transact any business until the organi-
cation of the House. On Wednesday Senator
DeLong presented q petition of citizens of Yuba,
county asking that the resolutions of censure
upon Senator Broderck, for his action upon the
Lecompton measure in Congress, be expunged
from the journals of the two houses The petit
tion was Withdrawn, however, until both Houses
should be organized
The House continued balloting for Speaker,
through Saturday, Monday, Tuesday and We'd
nesday without an election. On Monday, in Or
der to test the sincerity Of the Breckenridge men
in their expressed desire to secure an organza-
tion by the presentation of the name Of some
Douglas man who was not Objectionable to them,
Mr.. Harris, (Doug.) of Buttc, presented the
name of Gen. Wood, (Doug.) of Plumas coun-
ty-thereupon the Breckinri ge members chang
ed their votes from Mr.. Shownlter to Mr.. Wood,
| and in conjunction with other Douglas men who
left Mr. COnncss. cast on the subsequent ballots
during the day. from 20 to 81 votes for Wood.
The vote of Mr.. COnness ran down from 81 to
20, TaTSO \R'p.) uelU HIS nSual vote ..
Throug ghout Tuesday the vote generally stood,
Wood, 80; Conness, %; Fargo. II. On We'd
ncsdny, Mr.. Conness. seeing the impossibilty of
his own election withdrew. and placed in nomi-
nation Mr.. Burnel. (Doug.) Of Amador. Mr..
Fargo, the Republican nominee expressing de-
sire to see an Organization effected, withdrew his
name, and placed in nomination Mr.. Tilden,
(Doug) of Butte. Mr. Tlden declined the hon
or-he could not receive the nomination unless
coming from his own party. Mr.. Fargo then
withdrew Mr.. Tilden's name we'll as his own
declnation. Fourteen ballots were then taken
Woods highest vote reaching 80; Burnell 8
23 and Fargos Is. The House adjourned. the
belief prevailing that Thursday would bring the
contest to close.
On Thursday, the Senate met, appointed a
Committee to wait upon the Governor and in
form him of the organization Of that body. and
adjourned In the Assembly, Fargo (Repub.)
withdrew as candidate when the House pro-
cceded to the l09th and last ballot for Speaker.
The whole number Of votes cast were 76; neces-
sary to Il choice, 80; Mr.. Burnel (Doug) had
40 Mr.. Wood (Doug) &c. Mr.. Burnell was de-
clared elected. Before the vote was announced.
Mr.. Smith, (Bell and Everett) from Tulare
changed to Burnel The election was secured
by the entire Republican force going over to
the COnness wing of the Douglasites. The fol-
lowing is classification of the vote
For BuraeU-Adams, Cotrin, Conness Dem
niston, Dougherty. burst. Eastman. Green Hen
derson. Hill, Hunter. Lippncott, Mundy, O'Bren,
Powell Smith OF Placer. Tilden. Waldron, Walter
and Wright, (Douglasites.) and Avery, Banks,
Blair. Briggs, Campbell, Cherry. Clark Council
man, Crocker Fargo. Flanders. Ford Hartman,
Morgan. Porter, Spence. Titon. Title and Will
ley, (Republicans) and Smith, Of Tulare, (B 4 f.
Total 40.
For Vood.-Buell. Childs. Coleman. Curtis.
Foster. Hagans, Harris. Harrison. Horrel, Miller.
Morrison. Piercy and White (Douglasites) and
Amyx, Baechtel, Bradley, Chandler. Gillette
Gordon, Gregory Hanson. Haun Holman John
son, Kungle, Kurtz. Lalor, Laspeyre, Magruder
Montgomery Patrick. Ross. Scott Showalter
Sorrel. and Wood, Of Yoo (Br okinridge) To-
tai SO.
Messrs. Burnell, Covarrubias, Stearns, (absent)
and Wood, of Plumas. did not vote.
After the installation of the Speaker. the
House completed its organization by the election
of J. NJ. Anderson Chief Clerk j. w. Scobey.
Assistant Clerk; Mike Gray, Sergeantat Arms;
H. A. Lease, Assistant Serg ant at Arms; Ed
ward Corbett. Eugrossing Clerk; and H. G. Kibbe,
Enrolling Clerk. This is the same ticket nomi-
lated at the commencement of the session by the
Douglas caucu.. The three parties put in nomi-
nation their candidates, but enough of the Re-
pubicans upon the second or subsequent ballots
for each Office would go over to the Douglas can
1dates and secure their election. The ballots
show that the Breckenridge men stood TO their
own candidates After the appointment of a
to inform the Governor of the organ |
zatOn, a motion to adjourn prevailed