Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-01-17


no names oi representatives. for the FIVE cit
les above enumerated appearing on said roll
on the fir: "Wednesday of January. the AS
sistant Clerk of the preceding House Of Rep
resentatiyes, the Clerk of said preceding
House being present proceeded to call the
names on the certified roll above described
whereupon one hundred and thirry-fve per-
sons answered To their names. Attention
was then called b. one OF the persons so re-
spending TO the vacancies appearing upon the
reading of said roll
y motion then made that the repre-
sentatlvcs from said five cities. appearing BY
the returns from said cities 10 have been
actually elected should be permitted to par
ticipate in the organization of the House
The Assistant Clerk refused to put the mo-
ton and refused to entertain an appeal Mo-
ton was then made that a committee be
raised to inform the Governor and Council
that quorum was present and ready to take
the oath pom that question call Of the
yeas and nays was demanded and it was so
taken ard there were s4yentv-threc votes in
the affirmative and none in the negative
Attention then called 10 the fact that no
quorum was present. Motion was then made
to adjourn. which said Assistant Clerk refused
to entertain or put. and The same was put by
the mover and declared carried. Thereupon
number of the members left the hall The
Governor and Council appeared to administer
the oath One of the members summoned
called the attention of the Governor to the
fact that no quorum had voted to qualify, bur
the Governor declined TO notice this act on
the part Of the member summoned. There
upon the Governor proceeded to administer
the oath. After the rolls containing the oath
were signed the Governor announced, that
scventy-six persons summoned had sub
scribcd the oath; among whom were the
persons previously enumerated by name as
appearing on said roll except Lewis Voter
and Daniel Snow. The announce mcnt ofthe
Governor that seventy-sx persons had sub
scribcd the oath was doubted bv a member
who had subscribed the oath. and Il repeated
demand was made that this announcement
should be verified by reading the names of
those who had subscribed. but the Assistant
Clerk declined so 10 do. Protest was made
against the administration of the oath before
it was administered. Thereupon an election
of Speaker was attempted and John e. Talbot
received seventy-two votes, no other votes be-
ing thrown.
On the next day sixty members summoned
and whose names appeared on the certified
roll applied to james u. Ianson. who
claimed To be President of the Senate. to be
VnlilUcu. ana ne rt1nSeu III With. 10 ADMIN
lister to them the oaths required by law.
The facts connected with the alleged or
ganizai;on of the Senate on tn, first Wednes
day of January, 1850, are as follows: 4
certified roll was furnished hv the Seer, tarv
of the State to the Secretary of the proceed
ing Senate, on which were the names of TWEEN
ty-thrce persons properly summoned and
who appeared to be elected a. shown on the
face of returns. together with the names of
Daniel W. True. Edward \. Gibbs and VIII
liam K. Field. of Cumberland county: Ru-
dolphin, F. Thompson Of Franklin county:
James L. Talbot Of >hineton county:
Isaac T. IIob-on of Lincoln county; Ira s.
libbrv and John q. bennett. of York coun-
" and nj ten O'Clock in the forenoon on said
day. said Secretary OF the preceding
Senate. called the names on the roll and each
one responded
Thcrupon one one of the members proper
" summoned called attention to the fact
that the names above enumerated on the roll
had been substituted for the names of An
drew IIawcs. Henry {. Brewer and David
Duran of Cumberland county: Geo. X. Fer
nall of Franklin county; Alden Bradford of
Washington county Andrew X. &. Smith of
Lincoln county; Jeremiah ". Dearborn and
George H. Wakefield of York county. who
appeared hv the returns TO he elected, and
moved that their names he substituted on the
roll for those first above enumerated The
Secretary refused to entertain the motion.
the oath was then administered by the Gov
crnor and Council. the motion was immcdi-
atclv thereafter renewed and the Secretary
again refused to entertain the motion. An
appeal was then taken to the Senate. the
Secretary refused to put the question. pro-
test was then made that unless the Substi
properly summoned and having plurality of
the Senatorial votes in their respective coun-
ties would refuse to participate in the orgari
cation Of the Senate. No attention having
been paid to this protest, said eleven mem
hers did not participate in the further pro-
ccedirgs. The remaining twenty persons
proceeded to vote fer President of the Senate
aud james ID. l.amson received twenty bal
lots which were cast by twelve members prop
crlv summoned and by the eight persons first
above enumerated.
Public protest was Immediately made by
member duly summoned. against the cleo
ton of James ID. Lamson as President of the
Senate because he had received the votes OF
but twelve persons lawfully summoned.
The remainder of the officers of the Sen
ate were elected in the same manner and bv
the same persons As the President.
On the twelfth day of January, 1850. the
persons claiming to be legally elected mem
ocrs of the Legislature. but having present
less than seventy-six in number attempted to
meet in Joint convention for the purpose of
Witnessing the administration OF the oaths tn
James ID. Lamson. 10 qualify him to exercise
the office of Governor together with twenty
members of the Senate. only twelve of whom
appeared to be elected by the returns. On
the same dav sixtv-two members of the House
t. whom James d. Lamson. claiming to he
President of the Senate had refused to adj
minister the oath and who were properly
summoned together with John r. Eaton. Will
liam II. Thomas. \. +. Andrews. David y.
Norton. Henry G. Baker. Charles A. Rolf
4. B. Cole and Robert French. Cyrus y.
Thomas. Hiram A. Stewart and John Burn
ham previously mentioned. together with the
REPRESENTATIVES of the cities of Portland.
Lewiston. Saco. Rockland and Bath. met in
the Hall of Representatives aud organized by
the choice of Speaker, Clerk. and the other
officers after being qualified by taking the
oatlrs prescribed by the constitution before
William VI StrattoL. a Clerk Ut Courts for
kcnncbcc county. and authorized by detlimu>
nrotcs,atem to administer oaths according 20
law. The Spenlc rer,i;ed ii ghty two vot $.
The Clerk received eighty votes. the As>l>-
t.nt Clerk r,cei, ed cirhty-oue votes. After