The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-01-28

TIKI QUtSTlDNs.
AUGUSTA Ian % 3-The statement drawn
by the committee of the Fusion LEGISLATURE,
10 be submitted to the supreme court, details
and defends the action of Governor GarcelOn
and the council. and cites the opinion of the
supreme court of the State and other authori-
ties to show that the Fusion Legislature is a
legally organized body.
THE FUsIoNIsTs STILL ACTIVE.
AUGUSTA, Me-, Jan. 23.-Those who imagine
that the FuSionists are Inactive and have
abandoned their cause. are laboring under q
mistake: while the Government is not al
armed, they fully grasp the situation and viii
make the state House perfectly impregnabie.
SOLDIERS At THE STATE HOUSE.
The first military company that ever en-
tered the State House marched IN at mid
night TO night-The Capital Guards.
DRILLING MEN.
MessTs. Pillsbury. Blood. Charming and 9TH
ers are known TO be enrolling men in every
county in the State. Men are collected la the
country towns ready for j. l.. Smiths cali.
Captain Black, of augusta, is drilling men
nightly.
LETTER FROM NASH.
Mayor Nash addressed the following note TO
Governor Davis tonight:
In view of the threatening attitude OF per-
sons hostile to the present government of the
state, / feel constrained To say to your excel
lency thai T ar nay civil police force will be
unable 10 sufficiently protect the public pro-
the building itself against such TOrce as the
public enemies seem TO be willing and able TO
bring against IL.
(slgnedl CHARLES +. NASH.
THE CAUSES OF ALARM.
There are suspicious circumstances which
lead To the alarm, viz. crowds of men are col
lecting at various points: the continuance of
organization among the Fusionists: raising of
money to sustain them in their action: as.IfV-
lty of Major j. J. Smith; holding ont of Saw
yer, who claims to be secretary of state; drill
incendiary talk of the Green back Labor
Chronicle, of Auburn, that the State
House must be taken, though it
with the military authorities, Governor Davis
became fully convinced OF the seriousness OF
the situation, and that the position OF Mayor
Nash was perfectly sound. He, therefore, or
dered TO the state House the apital Guards
and the Richards Light Infantry, VINO at
o'clock this morning we're there. The Auburn
Light Infantry will leave that placs for the
pital at2 O'clock this morning. and other mil
itary forces VIII be brought here, if necessary.
LIVELY STATE OF AFFAIRs-DAY1s CALLS ONT
THE MILITIA-TROUBLE EXPECTED
Boston, Jan. 25.-The Herald Augusta spe-
cial to night says: The whole situation has
since - minutes past ii o'cl ck suddenly
changed: By to-morrow morning, three com
gusta, the Auburn Light Infantry,
and the Gardiner companies and
the AndroscOggin Light Infantry will garri-
son the state House. AT 10 minutes past IL
o'clock, Governor Davis and Iospector GeneT-
al Tiden arrived at the aC jutant generals
office. In three minufes Governor Davis
aut 1orized this startling, but well-iustlfied
military movement. 1t was timely act. The
military authorities were out OF patience wi n
the politicians. who have for sever al days had
dominant in hGence at the state HOu
TnIs has been the most sensational OF any
night since the complications, but the rumors
of stirring events 10 come were not baseleSS.
The Fusionists' militia are, and have been q,
drilling down town IN this city, and IL has
been ascertained to the satisfaction OF the
military authorities, that concentrated
attack upon the state House was likely
to occur at any moment. \ plot to
burn the residences of the leading Augusta
Republicans was discover d TO- night. Trian-
gular bits of paper marked the doomed resi-
dences. Tney were tackled on after dark, and
the governor not given his order for calling
out troops tonight military men at the STATE
House were ready TO abandon their watch
which was likely TO result In
an iuglorious ending. The orders
for militia were given out by General Cham
berlain's 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 garrison at the
state House TO night, and the party relieve
the worn out police, who have been without
sleep for many hours. a special train is or
dered tonight from Lewiston. Probably the
most aggressive movement of the State gov
ernmenJ will be 10 disperse the Fusionist Leg
iSlaturc and arrest every Fu-tonlst official who
persists at playing at government
Information ofthe operation of FusionistS
comes from reliable men in each county. The
design is TO take the House. The prompt action
OF Governor DaYis will avert all trouble. Men
are known to be ready ut the call OF Smith
from Lincoln and Somerset counties, who are
TO take sleighs across the country. The prompt
action OF Colonel Peaks prevented movements
in Piscataquas county,
TIE QUESTIONS 0r THE FUsIoNIsTs.
AUGUSTA, Jan. 2S.-The following is the sub
stance OF the questions to be submitted to the
court the Fusion Legislatures:
the election of prf silent and secretary there
of, on the first Wednesday in January, 1880,
legal and in accordance with the const tuition
2. Was the organization of the House of
Representatives and the election OF speaker
aud clerk thereof, on the first "Wednesday in
January, 1850, legal and in accordance with
the constitution and law?
3. Were the bodies of persons who had their
meetings on the evening of the 18th day of
January competent 10 organize Senate and
House OF Representatives Tor the State
of Maine, 10 constitute the fifty-
legally organized as such, and do they
constitute legal Legtsls ture under the consti-
tutional laws of this state?
4. II the Senate organized on the first
wednesday in 1870, was not legally organized,
Is that body convention OF senators elect by
or through which senate may or must be
organized, that body having adjourned from
day TO day, from said first "Wednesday of jan
uary to the present timer
D.. If the Hou,e OF representatives organ
ll@u on tue nrse wednesday of January, 1850,
was not Legally organized, is that body a con-
vention of members of the House of Repre-
sentatives elect. by or through which House
that body having adjourned from day TO day,
from said firsJ Wednesday of January t0 the
present time?
ARRIVAL or MORE TROOPS AT AUGUSTA.
BosTON, Jan. 23.-An Augusta special says:
Richards Light Infantry, of Gardener, has
| just arrived, at a. m, and marched into the
| state House. A Gstling gun VII be here in
the morning. All the arInories in the state
are under guard. The Republicans mean TO
| hold possession, and IL the State troops are
not adequate the president will be called on
| for aid
Boston, Jan. A.-The Herald's special says:
Three companies of troops and Gatling gun
| from the garrison st the State House Pillsbury
says in his daily Standard this morning:
"Men of Mafue-The next article on the pro-
| grsamme is to disperse by force the Legislature
convened in Union Hall. Are you, as frs e
men, willing to submit TO this Outrage? See
| 10 IL that your representatives. are protected.
This Is Gu ninatiOn ofoutrage inflicted upon
Democrats and Greenbackers by the stalwarI
pimps of the Republic an party. Who is the
man who will now step out of our ranks and
side with the cowardly mea intrenched in the
State House, who irembIe at the sounds OF
their own voices and do not feel safe unless
backed up by the bayonets of the State militia
Let the end be what IL may, history will read
that Corporal Davis was the first man in the
state of Maine TO authorize an array OF
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