The daily gazette., 1881-04-11
THE END.
now THE LEGIsLATURR ADORNED
SINE DIE ON SATURDAY.

SINE DIE ON SATURDAY.
AT Dover, Saturday morning the ses-
sion Of the Legislature was occupied in
the reporting Of enrolled bills and the
passage ofthe act for the payment of
claims against the State. The final adj
journment was made at 2.30 O'Clock p.
m.
In the Senate, Mr.. Belts, with few
highly complimentary remarks, offered
resolution Of thanks to Speaker Rust,
upon the adoption Of which the Speaker
responded, as follows:
SENAToRs-In the performances of the
duties which have devolved upon me as
speaker OF this body, while errors may
have been committed, can assure you,
gentlemen, they lhave been errors Of
judgment and not Of the heart.
II Is true that some Of the important
measures thai have been before us have
produced conflicting opinions, but they
have been honestly entertained aud
honorably supported, as, in our judg-
ment for the best interests Of our con
stiluents; and as human action must
ever be more or less imperfect, the use
fulness Of all our measures can be deter
mined only by timo and experience.
| The labo's OF the session havo been
arduous and rather tedious. II we have
succeeded to some degree in so amending
and so revising the laws as to suit the
wants of the people, an important work
has been don; and tTuet our honest and
faithful efforts To serve the State by our
acts may be correctly appreciated.
1t affords me pleasure To say that your
extreme courtesy and indulgence haye
made the duties Of the chair compare
lively easy, and in the expression of
thanks for the honor conferred ia choos-
ing ne to preside over this honorable
body, 1t 10, assure you, gratifying to
know OF your approval Of the manner in
which have endeavored to perform the
duties incumbent upon me.
| We are now about TO separate; to leave
this hall aud return to our homes. My
desire is that you may long enjoy health
and happiness and upon your return to
your homes, may ind your friends and
families well, with chsertul and joyful
voices TO welcome you To their COM
paDionship.
Our thanks are due our highly esteem
ed chaplain lor his efforts to commit us
to the protecting care Of an all wise Pro-
vidence; to our industrious and accom-
modating clerk tor the efficient aid rer-
dered in the faithful discharge of all his
duties: to our sergeant alarms, for the
modest and affable manner in which he
has discharged the duties pertaining 10
his Office, and last, though by no means
least, to our intelligent and obliging lit
tie messenger, who, by his winning
smiles and correct department, has en-
deared himself to our hearts and me mo-
ries.
In conclusion, senators, Let me say thai
l hope each and all of us may bear in
grateful recollection the hours We have
passed together, and that they will live as
! green spo,s In our memories. With the
= hope that the richest blessings of Hea-
ven may rest on all, now in pursuance
Of the Joint resolution passed by both
houses of this General Assembly adjourn
the Senate sine die.
, IN TaE HOUSE.
TN. Williams offered the customary
resolution of thanks TO the Speaker In
the House, ,and in reply Speaker Williams
! said
GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF
. RRPREsENTATIvks- affords me the
greatest eradication to return my warm
!, | est thanks for the compliment you have
. bestowed upon me, by the expression OF
: your approval Of my conduct as your
presiding officer.
=, On taking my seat as your speaker
an honor AS unexpectedly received as II
= was gracefully conferred-l felt that II
would be only through your kind indul-
gence In overlooking or condoning the
errors and shortcomings, which would,
!, of necessity, emanate from my entire
d lack of experience in parliamentary pro
Z ceedings, If l should achieve any degree
d of success in the endeavor to discharge
the onerous responsibilities of my posi-
, ton and l should now esteem myself
r derelict In duty II should fail to ex.
2 press my grateful acknowledgment fol
. your kind regards aud confidence mani.
= tested by my election, and day by day
0 repeated throughout our entire session
= or If should omit to say that this las
Il expression of your kind. partiality ha:
found deep aud lasting Judgement il
= nv heart !; or in thanking me, as yoI
' have done, for my conduct 10 this chai
n YOU are at the same lime really thanking
n each other for the beautiful spirit o
: harmony and good feeling which ha
"a characterised each Of you, not only II
q your official acts as members of this hon
orable body, but in all you
\. intercourse with your speak
= er and with each other as gentlemen.
y During the long and tedious aud
y sometimes, vexing labOrs of a session 81
protracted with It's numerous and EN-
barrasting responsibilities. may no
cav that each and all Of us have bee
prompted by an ardent desire to d
" what we respectively believed to b
10 nebt. We have often differed, widel
IN IL may be, upon the various and pei
ID picking subjects Of our deliberations
but 1 believe there is not enc of ou
number who will not accord TO his fe
low members the credit Of being inhu
enced by motives as just aud honorabl
Do as those which governed his own actor
~ If there should have been an unkin
cil act performed, or one unkind void spu
IS ken by any, which has q tendency
at create i'll faeling, for q moment, may
II. not now safely say that 1t has been eve
rd more evanescsut than the occasion tn
on invoked 1t, and may we not all hoI
. o,a that such word or act has been forev
''e forgotten as we'll as forgiven
Many Of us met here as strangers
b,s each other. A portion ofus have difie
IN ed, and possibly may always dia
from another portion In political vle'