The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-24
drawn by committee Of the Fusion Leg


drawnb by o committee ofthe Fusion Leg
islature to be submitted 10 the Supreme
Court, details and defends the action ol
Gov. Garcelon and Council, and cites the
opinion Of the Supreme Court State and
other authorities to show that the Fusion
Legislature was legally organized body.
Following is the substance Of the ques.
tions to be submitted to court by the
Fusion Legislature:
First-Was the organization Of the SEN
ate, and election Of the President and Sec.
retary thereof on the lst Wednesday OF
January, 1880, legal and In accordance
with the constitution OF the laws OF the
State?
Second-Was the organization OF the
House OF Representatives and the election
OF q Speaker and Clerk thereof on the 1st
day OF January, 1880, legal and In accord
ance with the Constitution and law?
Third-Were the bodies Of persons who
twelve days in January, competent to
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Representatives OF the State OF Maine to
constitute the 59th Legislature, and were
they legally organized as such, and do they
constitute the 59th Legislature, and were
they legally organized as such, and do
they constitute legal Legislature under
the constitution and laws OF this State?
Fourth-If the Senate organized on the
first Wednesday In 1880, was not legally
organized, Is that body a convention OF
Senators elect by or through which Sen.
ate may or must be organized, that body
being adjourned from day to day from the
said first Wednesday OF January to the
present time?
Fifth-If the House OF Representatives
organized on the first Wednesday Of jan
uary, 1880, was not legally organized, is
that body a convention OF members OF the
House OF Representatives elect by or
through which House OF Representatives
must be organized, that body having ad-
journed from day 10 day from said first
Wednesday of January to the present
time.
GARRIs0NING THE STATE HOUSE.
Those who imagine that the Fusionists
are inactive and have abandoned their
cause are laboring under a mistake. While
the Government is not alarmed they fully
grasp the situation and will make the
State House perfectly impregnable. The
first military company that ever entered
the House marched in at midnight-the
Capitol Guards.
Messrs. Pillsbury, Blood, Charming, and
Others, are known to be enrolling men in
every county in the State. Men are col
lected in country towns ready for j. L.
Smiths call. Capt Black, OF Augusta, is
drilling men nightly. Mayor Nash ad-
dressed the following note 10 Gov. Davis
tonight:
In view of-the threatening attitude OF
persons hostile to the present government
OF the State, l feel constrained to say to
Your Excellency, that fear my civil po-
lice force will be unable to sufficiently pro.
tect public property at the Capital, or
even hold possession OF the building itself
against such torch as the public enemies
seem to be willing and able to bring
against 1t.
[Signed.l CnAs. Z. NASH.
There are suspicious circumstances
which lead to alarm, viz: Crowds OF men
are collecting at various points, the con-
tinuance OF organization among the
Fusionists and the raising Of money to
sustain them In their action. the activity
OF Major ]. L. Smith, the holding out OF
Srwyer, who claims to be Secretary OF
State, the drilling OF secret clans OF armed
men and the incendiary talk OF the Green
back. Labor Chronicle OF Auburn.
THAT THE STATE HOUSE MUST BR TAKEN,
though it costs 1000 lives. From con-
sultation with the military authorities,
Gov. Davis became fully convinced
of serious situation. and that
the position Of Mayor Nash was per.
fectly sound. Hethereiore ordered to the
State House, the Capitol Guards and
Richards Light Infantry, who at o'clock
this morning, were there. The Auburn
Light Infantry will leave that place for the
Capitol at 2 o'clock this morning, and
other military forces will be brought here
II necessary.
Information Of the operations oil the
Fusionists comes from reliable men in
each county. Men are known to be ready
at the call OF Smith from Lincoln and
Summers counties, who are to take sleighs
across the country. The prompt action Of
Col. Peakes prevented movements in Pts