The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-30
,rrom the Arkansas State Gazette.)
,pKlNsAs STATE LEGISLATURE.

GEN SMITHS REFUSAL TO AhLo" II ~ LIE
0H'" ASSEMBLE.
.bo 9th dav of July, (the day fixed
on ~ rosolution of the General Assembly
oE Us State of Arkansas, Tor the meeting OF
OF tne o Houses,) the following members OF
the e Sa"ate and House OF REPRESENTATIVES,,
the o ",eJ in Little Rock, to Wit; Hon. >.
con T0llovs, of the Senate, ana HOT. .; II.
Elm T. R. C. Newton f. d. o al Pomrs ann B.
sane : 1Medlock, OF the House oi Representa-
. tives. nrevious to entering upon
N Inesiness, in order to preserve the peace
any avoid unnecessary conllco WIN militia I1
d. anu minority of the Government OF tne uni
~ Iyl ae States, the following communication
. teu addressed to Gen. Smith commanding
wa district of Arkansas:
su' IT, LITTLE Rock, Ark, July s, 1857,
LII 10 O'Clock A. NJ.
D,1. The General Assembly of this
81 tbe Winter session, adjourned to re-
oI,', on the Sth of July.
c on.s the adjournment an order was issu-
1 e.on, tbe CommandingG General of this
e. E;s tl forbiddmg it to RESEMBLE.
DI s,,hSeonent to this order the Attorney
oars1 Of the United States had published
w Union declaring that military officers
an not authorized to vacate civil offices,
d." "roont upon trial and conviction OF occu-
pants. od nor,hors If the Genera,
,,iambly of Arkansas respectfully desire to
; hsCN whether the assembling of the Legis-
i h4U will be prevented by you. as military
in a,n of the State, should its mem
Iors attempt to convene according to ad-
V Thee is much unfinished business mate
-;olIv affecting the. interests OF citizens, which
. .hnr deem it their duty TO complete. They
Do not desire any conflict. however, with
tbc military force, nor any breach OF the
neoce. inasmuch as the Legislature is
mere pere civil body, with no powers Of resist
'n Hence we have deemed it advisable, in
hehalf of the Senate and the House of Rep
rospntatives. which branches respectively of
.ba General Assembly it is our duty to keep
alive by adjournment from day to day, and
Ir sending for absent members until quo
7nm may be had, to ascertain from You if
onr pacifc efforts to that end would call
forth military interference.
# copyenient. an answer is requested by
twelve o'clock NJ, the hour fixed for meet
ing.
Twenty-second District; John r. Eakin,
Representative Hampstead County; F. J.
Cameron, representative Dallas County; B.
S. Dedlock, Representative Saline County;
R c.. Newton, Representative Pulaski
County
Rct Brig Gen. C. H. Smith commanding,
&c, Headquarters.
Which communication was shortly re-
turned with the following Endorsement:
H'D'QR's SUB-DIsTRTcT OF ARK, !
LITTLE Rock, July 8, '67. !
RESPECTFULLY returned In the absence of
other Instructions, the order of Brevet Major
General Ord, commanding Fourth Military
District. forbidding the reassembling of
the legislature of Arkansas, will certainly
beenforced.
b. command of Brevet Brig Gen. C. II.
Smith.
Samuel NJ. Mills, First Lieutenant, Adiutant
Twenty-cight Infantry, Acting Assistant
Adjutant- General
Whereupon the undersigned members of
then Senate and House of Representatives
of the General Assembly of the State of Ar
kansas, in behalf of themselves and of each
OF said houses, and OF the people ol AEkau-
sas, their constituents, do most solemnly
protest against such military impeachment to
the discharge of their duties, under the Con-
stitution and laws Of the State Of Arkansas,
and the Constitution of the United States;
and do insist that the General assembly has
the right to convene now, or at any time
hereafter when said impeachment may be re-
moved.
And further, the clerk and Secretary of
the House and Senate, are requested to
spread upon their respective journals copy
of these proceedings and protest; and that
copies of the same be transmitted to the
President of the United States, to Congress
and to Gen. E. o. C. Ord, commanding the
Fourth Military District and that copy
be furnished His Excellency, Isaac Murphy,
Governor Of the State of Arkansas, with the
request that the same be filed in the office of
the Secretary of State
A true and complete copy of proceedings
and correspondence.
Attest: E.. JINZEE
Assistant Clerk House of Representatives.