The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-01-24
Last Nights Dispatches.
MAINE
The Republican conspirators likely to be
brought up with short Turn-Things
not as Lovely as Blaine Imagines.

not as Lovely as Blaine Imagines
/ BOSTON, Jan. 23.-An Augusta specia
says: The fusionist treasurer, White
who refuses to deliver the keys Of the sub
treasury to the Republican treasurer
| II olbrook. began to day paying small sum
to such OF the fusionist Legislature a
chose to apply therefor The money i
not state funds, but part of subscription
funds. High Republican authority guar
anteed thelstatement that Treasurer.W hit
| will be put out of the treasury by forcibl'
means next week, and that if the bank
where the state moneys are deposited
refuse to recognize Treasurer Holbrook'
drafts legal proceedings will be begun il
order to vindicate Holbrook's title to tht
Office.
| At the afternoon session Of the fusior
Legislature the report of the Committee
on Questions, to be submitted to the
now that the court would not recognize
any laws that we may make, but under
our present condition we should have tC
submit the question and then, like good,
| aw-abidine citizens, submit to the deci
sion, The questions sent to the court by
the other body were theoretical, but these
cover the facts at issue. After further
discussion it was voted to lay the questions
on the table till Monday.
The statement drawn up By the com
mittee of the fusion Legislature, to be
submitted to the Supreme Court, details
and defends the action of Gov, Garcelon
and Council and cites the opinion of the
Supreme Court of the United States
and other authorities to show that the
fusion Legislature is legally organized
body.
BOSTON, Jan. 23-An Augusta special
| tonight says: The whole situation has
since ll:l5 o'clock entirely changed. By
tomorrow morning three companies OF
infantry, the Capitol Guards of Augusta,
the Auburn Light Infantry and the Gard
ner companies and the Androscoegin Light
| Infantry will garrison the state house. At
| l1:1O Governor Davis and Inspector
General Tilden arrived at the Adjutant
Generals Office. In three minutes Gov.
Davis authorized this startling but well
| justified military movement. 1t was q
timely act. The military were
out of patience with the politicians who
who have for several days had dominant
| influence at the state house. This has
| been the most sensational of any night
| since the complication, but rumors OF
| stirring events TO come were not baseless.
| The fusIonists militia are and have been
| drilling down town in this city and it has
| been asCertained to the satisfaction OF mill
| tsry authorities that a concentrated attack
| upon the state house YVES likely to occur
any moment. A plot to burn the resi-
dences OF the leading Augusta Republicans
was discovered tonight Triangular bits
OF "a per marked the doomed residences.
| They were tackled on after dark and were
| soon preceived by the vlgilant police Had
the Governor not given his order for call
| ing out troops tonight the military men
| ut the state house were ready TO abandon
watch, which was likely to result in an
| ingiorous ending. Order for the militia
were given out by Gen. Cham berlain.
Assistant Adjutant General. Chamberlain
Assistant Adiutant General. for the reason
that part of the militia would not. or it
was feared would not obey Governor
| Davis order. The Capitol Guards garri
son the state house 10 night and partly
ralieved the worn out police, who have
| been without sleep for many hours, A
special train is ordered to- night from
| Lewiston, Probably the most aggressive
movement of the state government will be
| to disperse the fusion Legislature and
arrest every fusionist official who persists
in plaving at government.
! Those who imagine that the fusionists
are inactive aud have abandoned their
cause are laboring under a mistake. While
| the government is not alarmed they fully
grasp the situation aud will make the
state house perfectly impregnable. The
| first military company that ever entereG d
| the state house marched ia at midnight to-
night, as capitol guard. Messrs. Pills.
bury, Blood, Cumming aud others are
known 10 be cniistiDg men in every county
in the state. Men are collected in the
country towns ready for j. L. Smith s
call Capt. Black, OF Augusta. is drilling
meu nightly
Mayor Nash addressed the following
note to Governor Davis to night:
In view of the threatening attitude OF
persons hostile to the present government
of the state, | feel constrained to say to
your Excelency that / fear my civil police
will be unable to sufficiently protect pub
| lie property at the capitol, or even hold
possession of the building itself against
such force as the public enemies seem to
be rallying to bring against it.
The following : is the substance of the
questions to be submitted to the court by
the fusion legislature:
!. Was the organization of the Senate
and the election OF the President and
| Secretary thereof on the first Wednesday
in January. 1880. illegal and in accordance
with the constitution and laws of the state ?
2. Was the organization of the House
of Representatives. and the election of
Speaker and Clerk, thereof on the first
Wednesday of January, 1880, legal and in
accordance with the constitution and laws ?
3. Were the bodies of persons who held
their meetings on the evening of the 18th
day OF January, competent to organize a
senate and house of representatives. for
the state of Maine, to constitute the Fifty
ninth legislature, and were they legally
organized as such. and do they constitute
the Fifty-n legislature. and were they
| legally organized as such, and do they con-
stitute legal legislature under the con-
stitution and laws of the state2
4. If the senate organized on the first
Wednesday in January, 1850. was not
legally organized, is that body conven-,
ton of senators elect by or through which
a senate may or must be organized, that
body having adjourned from day to day
from said first Wednesday of January to
the present time?
S. If the house of representatives or
ganized on the first Wednesday inJ anuary
1880, was not legally organized, is that
body convention of members of the
house of representatives elect by or
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