Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1872-02-28

CourC, In the order to Obtalr
a mere partisan advantage
One such was found in th,
person Of Senator Gage, O
Toledo, who frankly informed
his political friends that he
would not participate in any
such revolutionary act. Every
pressqre was brought to beaI
upon him by entreaties and in.
tiniidation. Both failed ant
iust before the vote was to B,
taken he purposely left th,
Capital and notified his col,
leagues. that he should not b.
present at the final. decision
lie naturally supposed thai
this would insure a triumph
for legal right against usurp
alton, inasmuch as the Senate,
after his absence, stood eighteen
Democrats and seventeen Rad
icals. Tp addition, the latter
had the Lieutenant Governor.
The unsorupulous leaders were
now obliged to change their
tactics, and, if possible, con-
trive some way by which sey-
enteen Senators could oatvote
eighteen. The reader would
think this an impossibility.-
But mark the sequel. Up to
this time no member had dues
toned the right of DR.. Kemp
to vote on all preliminary ques-
tions connected with his case,
until the resolution itself, de.
claring him not member, was
before the Senate. This right
to vote is recognized constant.
ly in Congress and all State
Legislatures, and by exercising
it a Republican Senator, Mr..
Gray, Of Philadelphia, has just
maintained himselfin the Penn
sylvania Senate, that body be-
ing equally divided like ours.
The game of the tricksters was
to induce Lieutenant Governor
Mueller, a man grossly ignor.
ant Of all parliamentary law,
and a mere puppet in the hands
Of a caucus, to refuse to allow
DR.. Kemp's name to be called
by the Clerk! This accom-
plished, they anticipated the
vote would stand seventeen to
seventeen, when the Lieutent-
ant Governor would promptly
award the seat to Sayler. The
Democratic Senators saw thro'
this movement and attempted
to thwart it.
A motion was made by Sen.
ator Holden, of Perry, to post
pone the consideration of the
question until the fourth Wed.
nesday in March. The Lieu
tenant Governor decided this
motion out of order. DR.. Jen.
ler, of Crawford, appealed
from the decision of the Chair,
which appeal the President of
The Senate refused to put. This
was an act Of unprecedented ty-
ranny, and which, in effect,
dissolved the Senate as
a representative body. 1t
have justified extreme
physical resistance on the floor,
for it was a revolutionary move.
ment that could only be met
and foiled by a counter revolu,
tionary ones A motion was
then made to adjourn, and up
on this also the tyrant who
was in the chair refused to- al.
low DR.. Kemp to vote, and
when his decision was appealed
from by Mr.. Daugherty, of
Fairfield, he again refused to
put an appeal, thus constftut-
ing himself an absolute mon
arch.
Finding the extraordinary
to which the Radical
were willing to- go,
the Democratic Senators, eigh-
teen in number, unanimously
retired from the Senate, leav-
ing that body without a quo
rum, and thereby incapacitat-
ing it entirely from doing any
mischief, This, for the time
being, would have been the
end of the matter, or until the
seventeen, who were overrul-
ing eighteen, came to their
had it not been for the
fact that Senator Wright, Of
Hamilton County, refused to