Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1881-06-07

At 1910 the joint convention adjourned
| until tomorrow noon.
It was expected that owing to the extern
sive pairing there would be no quorum with
4 which to take a ballot to day. The first
| Joint ballot showed an excess above quorum
| of only 10 votes this seemed to surprise
both Democrats and stalwarts, who apparent
| " expected the absence of asquorum. Their
presence was due to the exhortations of the
half breed leaders, who spent Saturday night
l and Sunday in most active efforts to break
| all pairs possible made by half These
exertions were inspired by fears that if any
legal day were allowed to pass without a
| quorum at the joint conference there could
be no ballot and that failure to-day would be
| such violation of the laws governing cleo
lions as would deprive the present Legisla-
| ture of power to elect and throw tho election
into the, next Assembly. AS that would virtu-
| ally put the issue before the people in the
fall election and SO give the stalwarts an op-
portunity to make close canvass of the State
with the chance of securing majority in the
| next Legislature favorable to the return of
| Conkling and Plat, the half-breeds turned
| out in force to prevent what would probably
prove their ultimate defeat
Quite sensation arc Sc in the Senate this
| morning when Mr.. Eidman presented petit
l ton from 8, 100 Republican voters of the
Eighth Assembly district in New York CITY,
as follows:
''The undersigned respectfully petition the
Legislature to return Messrs. Conkl1ng and
| Platt to the United States Senate
Mr. Eidman acted as if the names were not
genuine, and on being examined the fact was
| shown that the petition was signed entirely
| in red ink and by the same hand. The poll
| list had evidently been copied utterly regard
| less of truth. Mr.. Woodin called attention
to the fact and Mr.. Eidman did not deny it,
| He said that he was handed the petition by
| person whom. he supposed to be trust
| worthy. He had not even glanced at its con-
| tents or he would not have presented it, as
on examination he found it an apparent at
| tempt to deceive the Senate.
| In the joint convention Mr.. Woodin Of
| fered rules as follows to govern the proceed
| ings of the convention:
Rule l. The Joint Assembly shall meet at 10 o'clock
meridian, of each day except Sunday until the cleo
cies now existing by reason of the resignation of
Thorn c. Platt and Roscoe ronkling, or until the
| final adjourr nent of the legislature
Rule 2 "A motion to adjourn If carried shall ad-
journ the Joint Assembly until the following day
Sunday in which case the Joint Assembly shall be
declared adjourned till the following Monday at
1 m.
Rule 3-Neither of the preceding rules shall be re-
scinded or suspended except by the affirmative vote
of thirds of al the membe elected to the Legis
lature and after day notice of intention to
| movefor such resembling of suspension.
Mr.. Woodin moved that the rules lie on
the table and be printed. Carried. The in
| PRODUCTION of Mr.. Woodin's resolution was
| surprise to the Conkling men, but it is not
| expected that any Republicans oppose
them, because to do SO would put them in an
| attitude of promoting some conspiracy, or of
| wishing to attempt some trick like the one
| on the part of Speaker Sharpe last Saturday,
| when he moved to adjourn without mention
| ing the time of the next meeting This might
| have been afterward construed to mean
| final adjournment 1t is thought that there
| will be scarcely any opposition to the rules
| when they are called up tomorrow.
This is the eve of what may probably
prove crisis in the Senatorial contest. All
indications point to fight tomorrow, a bit
ter fight and the first in the contest This
| will occur over the Woodin resolution. The
| rules as worded have no ground for ambigu-
| GUS Interpretation, and if adopted will com
pei a ballot or final adjournment. Three
different plans to prevent a ballot have
been attempted already, each time
by stalwarts. The first was made
last Thursday. TIL Mr.. Raines, stall
wart, offered a concurrent resolution in the
Assembly that if the Legislature adjourn the
next day it should adjourn until the follow
ing Tuesday. This caused debate, but was
finally carried in the House by vote of 81
| to 55, all votes in favor having been cast by
Democrats and stalwarts and all those against
| by half-b breeds. The resolution had to be
transmitted to the Senate in separate session
and concurred in by them before it became
effective The debate in the House had at
tracted the attention of all Albany and the
half breed leaders in the Senate started an
investigation. They learned that the stall
warts had consulted high authorities, includ-
ing Conklng and ex-senator Thurman, the
latter by cable as he was in Europe at the
time that these lawyers had all advised tn at
the law governing elections of Senators Or
dained that at least one ballot must be taken
on every legal day during the session of the
| Legislature, and that the allowing of legal
day to pass without ballot would be such a
violation of the law as would deprive the
present Legislature of the power of subse-
uuently electing and throw that duty upon
the next Assembly, and that the stalwarts
despairing of electing their candidates at
| present meant with the aid of the Democrats
| to secure lapse and take the elections to the
polls in the fall. Thereupon the half breeds
resolved to defeat the concurrent resolution.
which they did on Friday. Still resolved
upon adjournment the stalwarts on
on Friday attempted another means of Sc
curing it. Mr.. Sharpe on that day and on
Saturday offered a motion that the joint As
sembly adjourn. He had been advised that
| 6uCn q mO6lOn II cdrrl60 WOulQ De Q6lQ IN law
sine die adjournment and would remove
from the present Legislature the election OF
successors to Conkling and Platt. On each
occasion that he offered the motion Mr..
Sharpe nearly succeeded in carrying it, as
many voted for it on the superstition that ii
meant simply to adjourn until the following
day at noon. He was defeated Saturday by
the suspicious which his apparent interest in
the motion excited. As described in the
National Associated Press dispatches third
plan to prevent ballot and so throw the
election out of the present Legislature was
, tue extraordinary pairing process in.
Laugurated Saturday by the Democrats and
stalwarts. This scheme embraced the idea
of securing enough pairs to reduce the at
tendance in joint Assembly below a quorum,
which was 81. It. was held that no ballot
could be taken without quorum, and that
| if pairing were extensive enough to prevent
quorum for one day by defeating ballot OF
that day would cause forfeiture of the
power to elect on the part of the present
Legislature and throw the election to the
people The pairing had gone far enough
to reduce the voting to 81, just Is above
quorum, when the half breed leaders became
alarmed, and Desperate exertions put a stoI
to it. They succeeded in having present 1O(
votes, 10 above q quorum. These various
schemes to draw the half-breeds into volun
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