The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1863-06-13
Illinois Legislature.

| Iournment on the 22d inst, the Oehate re-
fused to concur in the amendment, andso
the matter hung until the morning oil the
| 10Th. when, as the senate was called to
| order at the usual hour, it was found that
all the republican members except Messrs:
Ogden. Mack, and Dummer had left for
( home The usual order was made for the
| Sergeant at arms to hunt NY and bring In
the absentees, and that fuDctionary hav-
ing reported that they had left the city,
| and while awaiting further orders, the
Governors Secretary appeared and pre-
| sented the following message:
ITO the General Assembly of the State
of Illinois:
Whereas, on the Sth day of June, A.
D. 1868 tho Senate adopted Joint resolu-
ton to adjourn sins die on said day at
o clock, p. m. which resolution, upon be-
ing submitted, on the same day, 10 the
House of Representatives. was by them
amended by substituting the I'D day OF
June aud the hour Of II clock, in which
amendment the Senate thereupon refused
to concur; and whereas the Constitution
of this State contains the following pro-
vision, to wit:
SEC. l3. ART. T. sin case of n disagree
ment between the two houses with respect
to the time of adjournment the Governor
shall have power to adjourn the General
Assembly to such time as he thinks pro
per, provided it be not to 4 period beyond
the next constitutional meeting OF the
same.
"And whereas, FULLY believe that the
| interests o. the people of the State Will be
| best subserved by speedy adjournment,
the past history of the Assembly holding
out no reasonable hope Of beneficial re-
suits to the citizens of the State or the ar
nv in the field, from its further continu-
ance:
Now, therefore, in consideration of the
existing disagreement between the two
houses, with respect to the time OF ad
journment, and 10y virtue of the power
vested in ma by the Constitution, rs afore-
said, !, Richard Yates, Governor of the
State of Illinois, do hereby adjourn the
General Assembly, now in session. to the
Saturday next preceding the first Monday
in January, A. D. 1865.
Given at Springfield, this the 10th day
Of June, a D. 1863
(Signed) RICHARD YATES, Governor.
1t Gov Hoffman read the message,
''prorogue
The same message was presented in the
house and read by the Governors Secreta
ry.
The democrats at first showed tokens
ofopposition to obeying the mandate but
the republicans Immediately rising and
leaving their seat, the majority were help
less, and:the house, without formally adj
journing, dispersed.
Thus the legislature Of Illinois is at an
end. 1t is extremely difficult TO say what
the motive fthe republicans was in thus
/ forcibly terminating the session. There
was an Immense amount Of business in a
nearly finished state that cosld have been
disposed of in few days, while no often
sivc political action by the majority was
apparently threatened
The bill appropIiating 100000 for the
relief of the sick and wounded soldiers
was lost by the failure Of the Senate and,
. House to agree on an unimportant amend
meut.
! vote cf thanks to Illinois officers and
soldiers in the field passed. both houses
unanimously.
! We JeAere the congressional apportion-
ment bill, vetoed by the Governor, passed
both houses ''over his head" The geneI-
: al appropriation bill seems TO have passed
but no other bill ofany Importance passed
/ both houses.
/ The republicans having determined to
leave at all events, it may be 9 matter
/ of little Importance, AS to the continuance
| of the legislature, whether the Governors
prorogation was legal or not but that it
was not legal is too plain to need argument
! The constitution gives the Governor pow
er to prorosue the Legislature only on
their disability to agree on day of adj
journment. Before there can be such a
disagreement, the two houses, or at least
one of them, must have first exhausted
the usual means OF arriving at an agree
ment and the last resort usual in such
case is a conference committee. There
/ had been no such committee appointed In
I either house. Then the Governor must
have official notice of the disagreement,
and it is conceded he had no such notice.
1t was only another of those acts Of open
defiance of the constitution and laws which
have become SO rife among all our repub-
lican rulers in these days, and which,
more than the rebellion itself, are sarpinS
and undermining our free Institutions
! Before separating. the democratic MEM
! bers ofboth houses got together and drew
up an address to the people, in which the
nature of this high handed outrage by
the Governor is clearly ssA forth and pro-
perly characterized.
The Chicago papers announce the Third
! Grand Gift Concartr Of the G. cat Mestern