Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-06
LEGISLATIVE CORRESPONDENCE.
How the Senate Was Organized.
SENATOR COMINs' EXPLANATION

The following letter to the Gold Hill
Meas will be of interest to our readers
CARSON Jan. l, 1877.
The Senate mel and organized to-day
and it was organized by the Demo
Gratis. the Republicans not having q
chance for u struggle. The politica
status of The members was supposed
to be twelve Republicans, twelve Dem
ocrats and n Independent. The In.
dependent is Mr.. Ross, Of Washot
county. who is supposed to have Re
publican leanings, and it was thought
that the Republicans would at leas,
have a show to make the fight. Mr..
Dickinson, of White Pine, is III the
East and failed, to put i'll an appear
ance when the Senate Mas called to
order at ii O'Clock to-day by the Lieu.
tenant Governor. This reduced the
number of Republicans to eleven,
still giving the Republicans a chance
for a tie if they could get Ross, with
the casting vote vested in tue Lieuten
ant Governor. But even about this
vote being SO vested there is a consti-
tutional question. At II rate, when
the Republicans tried to slave off the
oikuiiILuIiOb " oil CllOtt ~ iiosO III
the names of the thirteen hold-over
Senators called by the Secretary, they
signally failed. The object of this
move was to AXE a vote on adjourn
ment, which they thought they might
carry. They had no ground TO stand
on this proposition, however, and
consequently did not get away with it.
After the Senate was called to order,
Senator Cassidy, the
Leader Of the Democratic Side,
Made a motion that the Senate proceed
to elect a temporary Secretary and
temporary Sergeant alarms, to which
Senator Edwards, of Ormsby, offered
an amendment that the hold-over SEN
ators proceed to elect those officers.
Mr.. Cassidy strenuously objected Ia
this amendment and claimed that all
persons preserving certificates of cleo
ton were prima Jacie Senators and en-
titled to a voice in the organization OF
the Senate. Mr.. King rose TO a point
of order, aud wanted Cassidy ruled
out OF the deliberations of the Senate
as an interloper. But Cassidy knew
something the Republicans did not
know, and was not going to he ruled
out if he knew himself. What Mr..
Cassidy knew developed itself in the
course Of time. All argument and all
moves by the Republicans were of no
avail whatever, and Mr.. Cassidy's mo-
ton for the appointment OF temporary
officers was put by the Chair aud car
ried, the members all voting. The
result of the vote was h election of
}. Ii. McClinton, of Esmeralda (Re-
publicanl, as temporary Secretary, n
Richard Guiberson, of Eureka, as
temporary Sergeant-at- Arms. Mr..
Edwards then moved that the Secre-
tary call the roll OF the hold.over SEN
ators, to which, of course, Senator
Cassidy objected, insisting on the
names of the Senators elect being
likewise called. The Chair ruled in
favor of
The Democratic View
or the question, and ordered a call of
the full roll, to which all Senator's
both hold over and elect-responded,
with the exception of hat everlasting
Mr.. Dickinson of White Pine. who
was, no body knew, where. Mr.. Ed
wards, on the conclusion of the call
ing of the roll, moved an adjournment
till IL o'clock A. NJ. Tomorrow, on ac-
count of to day being a legal holiday
and a non judicial day. This propo-
sition was likewise opposed by the
Democrats, speaking through Mr..
Cassidy. their mouth. piece, aud MIR.
Garrard, of Esmeralda, the second
best man.; and the Chair was so i'm
pressed with the force of the argu-
ments of the gentlemen hat he or.
| 1arnI th1 xya a,At tNDAl ~ ln rnl1AI
on the question. The roll-call resulted
in a vote of l3 in the negative to III in
the affirmative, Ross voting with the
Republicans; and it was here that
what Mr.. Cassidy knew and what the
Republicans did not know began to
develop itself. What Mr.. Cassidy
knew was that Mr.. Comins, OF White
Pine, elected as a Republican, was go
ing to fall down or the Republicans.
Magnnnimity.
The Democrats in the Senate elected
two Republicans-McClinton, for Sec
rotary, and John Church, for Commit
tee Clerk. They had probably Eeen
taking fiaxseed tea, which has an OF.
feet to loosen the skin.
I learn this evening that Mr.. Com
ms reasons for voting as he did in the
organization of the Senate were that
he considered he owed his election to
Dan. Patterson, a Democrat, through
whose influence and work here
received the small majority which
elected him; and that, feeling himself
under obligations to Patterson, and
considering it a certainty that the Re-
putlicans had no chance to organize
the Senate, went with the Democrats
in order to insure the election of his
friend to the position of Assistant Ser
geant-at.Ar Arms. The friends of Mr..
Coinins assert that he took no part in
the Republican caucus, and made no
pledges to act with them; and offer for
him the excuse that, as an organiza-
ton by the Republicans was impossi.
nlc, he did the best he could under the
circumstances. and secured the cleo
ton of two Republicans who were ac-
corded positions, one of them the i'm
por.ant position of Secretary of the
Senate. TOBY GREEN.
A Marrow Escape.
Miss Mary Anderson, a sister OF j.