Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-29
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. A PEACEFUL DEATH Of the Fusion Legislature at
 Augusta. ADJOURN MENT TlLLAUGUST Members Going Into the Legal Body. OTHERS REFUSE TO JOIN And Expect to Preserve Their
 Organization.
 NEW ENGLAND.
ADJOURNMENT TlLLAUGUsT
OTHERS REFUSE TO JOIN
NEW ENGLAND.
Maine.

The End-NO More Dual GOvernment- The FusiOnists Adjourn Till August The Capitol Cleared of TrOOps-Last Acts of the FusiOnists- Re- quested to Stick-But They Can't See the Use-Many Favor Joining the
 Legal Legislature-Othsrs DesirOuS
 of Preserving Their Organization
 Some of Their Officers Still Holding
 Out.
 AUGUSTA, Jan. 28.-Peace has settled down
 upon Augusta and all danger of disturbance is
 past for the present The fusionist Legisla- ture having learned from the court that they
 will not be regarded as even nucleus from
 which alone 8 legal Legislature can come, have wisely concluded not to undertake to make laws which will not be recognized, and ad- meantime to the call of Governor Smith, who went to his home at Oldtown to night and will not attempt to act as Governor at present. Secretary of State Sawyer is acting under direction of counsel. He is undecided whether or not to give up the State seal and relinquish his claims on the office to which he thinks he was elected. Treasurer White said tonight that he would not turn overhis ofico to the Republican Treasurer until he is ordered to do so by the Supreme Court. He says he has no objections now to the Republican Con- mittee on Finance examining his accounts if they desire to do 50. Attorney General Mo- Clellan and Adjutant General Folsom both claim they were legally elected The former approves the course taken by the Legislature and has hopes that the case will go before Congress in some form or other. This would happen if Senatorship should become va- cant and both Legislatures should elect. At torney General Mcclellan says he has not the slightest doubt but that in such case the United States Senate would seat the member elected by the fusionists.
 The Republican Legislature is settling down to business, and an effort will be made to make up for lost time.
 All the troops but the Furburn light in fantry were sent home to-day. These will probably go tomorrow. The charge of the Capitol will then pass into the hands of B. F. Harris, whom Governor Davis has appointed superintendent of public buildings in place of Dr. Lancaster. The fusion committee will is sue an address to the people, and memorial ize Congress.
 The fusion Legislature met this morning in Union Hall. No business was transacted in the House. That body took recess until four o'clock. All persons, including the reporters,
  that all newspaper reporters be excluded.
 Inthe Republican Senate to- day the Commit tee on the Judiciary was instructed to inquire as to amending the Constitution of the State by abolishing the Council providing for the cleo ton of an auditor, and constituting the heads of departments the advisers of the Governor. In the House Messrs. Hill of Corinth and Mil liken of Burnham-fusionists took their seats.
 The fusion Legislature adjourned to the first Wednesday in August this afternoon, af- ter secret session lasting two hours. About three-fourths of the members were present. The others did not expect to receive an answer from the court before tomorrow, and so had not returned to town. There was full and free discussion of the situation. The members were generally agreed that the best thing to do under the circumstances was to go home and not take seats in the other Legis- lature. Thomas Plaisted, Thomas B. Swan and Robinson of Thomaston, strongly advocated keeping up their organization. Thomas Ingalls,, of Wis cassett, and Major Dickey, of Fort Kent, were as firm in their belief of the legality of their organization as ever. but feel it their duty to go into the Legislature which the court has recognized. Major Diokey said it was impos- sible for him to get the sentiment away up in Aroostock county in less than two weeks and he though it safer for him to go into the other House. Speaker Talbot claimed that the oath he had taken as a Representative made it impossible for him to go into the other house. Fully half the Senators will take their seats with the Republican Sena- tors.
 The House instructed the committee to in- vestigste charges of attempted bribery of members to continue their investigations, and the following committee was appointed to take evidence during the recess concerning frauds at the last election Representatives Robinson of Thomaston, Swan of Minot Bradbury of Norway, Staples of Parsonsfield and Plaisted of Lincoln. Some members left for home on the night trains and many others will go tomorrow.
 The Republican committee to investigate the reports of the enlistment of men contrary to law began their work this afternoon. The witnesses examined were Mayor Nash and City Marshal White. They reviewed the connection of the city authorities with the the session and said they were told that Captain Blacks troops, employed by Governor Garcelon, had kept up their meetings since the Republicans got pos session of the State House, and that other companies were organizing at Biddeford, Au- burn and Lewiston, but of these things they had no personal knowledge. They understood were to be armed and prevent the inaugura- ton of Governor Davis. One HsrloY Hall, who claimed to have belonged to the compa- ny, had told White this. Some of the compa- ny were ex. convicts. Mayor Nash volunteered the information that the fusionists could never have organized on January 7th but for the presence of his officers. He was there by re- quest of Governor Garcelon. He justified his letter to Governor Davis requesting him to call out the troops as precautionary meas ure. The place where Blacks men drilled I0fh feafifiad wa Rre6hr1rv