Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-05
GARCELON INTERVIEWED.

ucan Hrecedents Governing the Duorun
Question.
GARCELON INTERVIEWED.
WATERvILLE, Me-, Jan. 4.-Gov. Garcelol
spent the day in this town. He was callet
upon this evening by a reporter and in
formed that the opinion of the suprem,
judges had been printed. The reporter ther
asked the Governor if he had received tn,
opinion of the court, to which he replied
that he had not, that he had not been il
Augusta since 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon
The reporter then informed him of the gen
eral points as expressed in the opinion O.
the court, and asked if he, the Governor
should recall those certificates he had ISSUED
and which now, under the opinion of the court
appear to have been illegally issued, Ito which
the governor answered: 81 have no authori
ty for knowing the opinion of the court anG
cannot tell what 1 shall do"
In answer to the question whether CaI
tain Lewis, of Pennington, had returned hi
certificate of election, declining to serve
under the same, the governor said he had moi
received it and did not know anything about
it.
Reporter-Do you apprehend any violence
at the inauguration of the new legislature
Governor have no means of knowing.
do not think the people are foolish enough
to resort to violence.
QUORUM.
PORTLAND, Jan. Am Augusta dispatch
says the quorum question has been settled
by precedents that sixteen is a quorum. The
Senate in 1S47 organized with eleven, in
1851, with fifteen, and in 1864, with thir.
teen. In latter years, Chief Justice ShipIey
and Appleton, his associate, sustained that
point. They also held that each house
could compel tho attendance of persons who
had received the governors certificate before
as well as after being sworn IN. It is also
said that Spout of Skowhegan is already in
Augusta and will take his seat.
EFFECT OF THE COURTS DECISION.
AUGUSTA, Jan. 4.-The decision of the
court have been discussed freely by crowds
upon the streets and at the hotels and else
where to-day. The Republicans are greatly
excited and jubilant, and regard it as con-
summate triumph for their cause. The
opinion is freely expressed in the best in
formed circles that the opposition cannot
stand up and defy the court. It is the opin-
ion of leading representatives that the gov
ernor can Edo no less than cancel the Ger
tifcates issued to persons not elected
according to the decision of the court. The
Fusionists have no definite plan
matured and it will be difficult to develop any
tonight, as not more than twenty members
are present in the city. The number pres
ent is about the same as in ordinary years
when nothing unusual was pending. A few
Democrats say the governor had no business
to submit the questions to the court, that
he had done his work according to the con-
stitution and laws and should have rested
the case there.
D. G. Pike, leading Democrat, says
Garcelon belittled himself by taking any
notice of Morriil's letter. He had corr
pleted his work and that ought to have been
the end of it.
r. w. Black, leading Greenbacker says
that the court went out of its way to
answer questions not put to it.
Col. VIM. Deckey,a member of the legisla-
ture, says the decision of the court will have
no effect upon the organization of the legis-
lature, as the certificates have already been
issued. This is understood to be the posi-
ton Pillsbury will take in the Standard TO-
morrow morning.
Others say the opinion of the court is o
farce and will be replied to word for word.
Three counted in members have already de-
clared they will not participate, and it is
thought that the opinion Of the court will
have its effect upon other certifcated mem
bers to the same end, as there is not a single
case of the thirty-seven that this decision
does not fully cover.
Hon. James G. Talbot, of Washington
and Isaac I. Hobson, of Lincoln, the count
ed in Senators, have already stated that they
of the court be against them.
it will be the first instance of the kind in the
history of Maine. It has been ascertained
that the executive department in more than
fifty cases since Name was State, has ask
ed the judgment of the supreme judicial
court in important questions of law, and
never in single instance has it been disre,
garded
D. Parker, member of the governors
COUNCIL, oe1enoeo MS position on THIS matter
and says he acted .conscientiouslyiand honest
ly. He has not read the opinion carefully
and could not give an opinion as to the re-
suit.
The secretary of the State government
says he is not sufficiently familiar with the
law to say whether the governor and council
could review their action.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A Young Boy Frozen to Death at Fall
River, Mass,-Railroad Bridge Burned
Death from Observation-Disclosures
RAILROAD BRIDGE BURNED.
CINCINNATI, Jan. AT half-past two
o'clock this morning the railroad and turn
pike bridges at Millersburg, Ky. ,on the Ken
lucky Central railroad, we're discovered or
fro ond wara wholly dacfropod T,oqc