Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-26

says: Three companies of troops and gat-
! ling gun garrison are at the State House.
APPEAL PROM PILLsBURY.
Pillsbury says in the Daily STANDARD this
morning:
Men of Maine the next article on the programme
is disperse by force the Legislature convened in
| Union 4 ALL Are you, Us free men, willing to sub
NIT to this outrage See to 1t that your representa-
tives protected This is the eliminating outrage
inflicted the Democrats and Greenbackets by stall
| wart pmps Of the Republican party. Who is the
4 man who will now step out OF our ranks and side
with the eowardly men entrenched in the State
| House, who tremble at the sound OF their own
voices, and do not feel safe unless backed by the
bayonets of the State militia? Let the end be what
! it may, history will read that Corporal Davis was
the first man in the State of Maine to authorize an
array OF bayonets at the state House to keep from
| its portals citizens OF the commonwealth.
Adjutant-General Beal, Major Captain
Sewall and other military men are in the
| State House.
| WARLIKE MOVEMENTS AND RUMoRS.
Every military company in Maine is under
arms. A Gatling gun is at the State House,
which faces the front door and could sweep
the stone tagged terrace with death hail.
The Fusion Governor, Smith, hints that tAe
Republicans may get all the fighting they
want. Captain Blick, of the Fusion staff,
says that all he asks for is to be arrested. 1t
is reported that case of carbines iss ecreted
at his downtown office. A. T. Gould, legal
| adviser of the Fusion government, char
acterized the moving of troops here as de-
plorable blunder, and sure to rebound to the
political advantage of the Fusionists. 1t is,
he says, the biggest blunder yet made by the
Republicans.
All the military in the State will be here by
night if the Fusionists carry out the plans
they are alleged to have matured. The Fusion
Legislature met in diminished numbers this
morning. Speaker Talbot told reporter
that his House needed protection more than
the Republicans. The Fusionists show I'M
mistakabe signs of nervousness over the state
of affairs. Secretary of State Sawyer, of the
Fusion Government, is out of the city.
Should the Fusion Legislature go to Bidde
ford, it is likely to find the doors of any hall
it may engage guarded by soldiers. No
fooling any longer" is the Republican talk
to-day. The State House is converted into a
sort of barracks. Stoves are in the cellar to
cook army rations of beef, etc, for troops.
In the Adjutant- Generals Office they have in
formation which is said to fully justify the
calling out of the militia. Governor Davis is
strongly urged to at once disperse the Union
Hall Legislature and the Fusion Government
By Sunday night the troops will all be under
arms. Republican authorities assert that if
there is a civil war the responsibility rests on
the Fusionists.
WHAT A POLITICIAN THINKS.
CHICAGO, January 24th.-F. A. Pike,
member of the Republican Advisory Com
mittee of Maine, is stopping at the Grand
Pacific Hotel, on his way to San Francisco to
spend month two. He says the Repub-
licans of Maine are in the right, and are
strongly intrenched in their position, and that
the Fusionists have no chance for success.
He thinks that Senator Blaine will be the
strongest candidate before the Republican
Convention at Chicago.
REPUBLICAN LEGISLATURE.
AUGUSTA, January 24th.-The Republican
Senate met and Immediately adjourned until
Monday afternoon. In. the House the Com
mittee on Judiciary passed an order to in
quire what action, if any, is necessary to
prevent any person from falsely pretending
to assume the functions and duties Of any of
the State offices.
An Act in relation to State seals, public
records and documents, and to certain public
officers and their duties, came up on its pas
sage to be engrossed.
The following preamble and resolutions
were adopted:
WHEREAS Information is received that certain
persons have been engaged in enrolling and enlist
ing men in manner and for purposes unauthorized
by the laws of this State and whereas, the enlist
ment and organizations tend to the disturbance of
the public peace and to disorder and revolution;
therefore
ResoLued, That a JOINT committee of seven, on the
part of the House, with such as the Senate may
join be appointed for the purpose OF investigating
the truth of such reports, and to ascertain what
action, if any, should be taken; and make report
of their doings to the House said committees to
have power to send for persons and papers
Adjourned till Monday.
FEARS OF RIOTS.
Boston, January 24th.-Ar Augusta, Me-,
special says 1t is feared, in case the Fusion
Legislature is dispersed, riots will break out
in Lewiston and Biddeford. State troops
will continue under arms until further notice
Governor Davis will not issue proclamation
commanding the Fusion Legislature to dis.
perse until he has exhausted every peaceful
resource, but will not give an undue amount
of time for cogitation.
PAID INTO THE FUSION TREASURY.
Boston, January 24th.-A special from
Biddeford says: Ferguson Haines City
Treasurer, sent S22, ,0O0 the amount of Bid
deford's State tax, to White, Fusion State
Treasurer.
FUSION LEGISLATURE.
The Fusionists met to-day in Union Hall.
The ranks are thin, as many have gone home.
Dickey offered the following order, which
was passed: That committee of one from
each county be appointed by the House, with
such as the Senate may join, to prepare
memorial to Congress and an address to the
| people of this State, setting forth the facts
relating the organization OF the House and
! Senate on the first Wednesday of January /;
all the facts relating to the choice of Gov
| ernor, also members of the Council and State
officers and all other facts connected with
the Legislature which may be deemed of i'm
portance by the committee
ingalls, of Wiscassett said that in submit
ting to the Court we should understand that
every man of the organization shall remain
here until the decision of the Court is re-
ceived.
The House then voted to send the questions
to the Justices of the Court.
The Senate voted to concur with the
House.
A communication was received from the
National Greenback Committee of New
Hampshire advising the Fusionists to stand
firm to the bitter end, and if need be, fight
for their rights.
Both branches adjourned until Monday
| next.
THE SITUATION STILL CRITICAL.
CHICAGO, January 24th.-A Journal Wash
ington special says that private dispatches
received to-day by Maine congressman from
Augusta, say that the Republicans do not
consider that all danger or trouble is over
that there was a very cunningly arranged plan
on the part of the Fuslonists to get control
of the State House last night, which was ex-
posed by one of their number, who was afraid
it might lead to bloodshed. The opinion pre-
walls here that there will yet be stirring times
in Maine, and that it will be necessary foI
Governor Davis to take determined action to
prevent the Fusionists from attempting to
get control of the State House by forcible
means A number of leading Republicans
who have been discussing the matter to-day
are of the opinion that the crisis has not yei
been passed, ard that the Democratic leaders
are not going to yield without first making
trouble and perhaps the shedding of some
blood.
INTERVIEW WITH GOVERNOR DAVIS.
AUGUSTA, January 24th.-Governor Davii