Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-25
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. COMBININg TO ADJOURN. The StaIwarts and Democrats
 Joining Forces. HALF-BREEDS BOUND TO STICK, Determined to Remain in Session
 all Year. POSITION OF THE PRESIDENT. Anxious Fer an Election of Re-
 publicans.
NEW YORh.

l I :" 4OOns
 | The Usual R Result-No Materia1Change in ] the Voting at Albnny-The Saratoga | Programme Abandoned--Stalwar Combining with the Democrats to Ad- l journ-The HaIf-Breads Bound to Stick ifit Takes all the Year-President Gar 1 field Anxious for the Election of Repub- licans.
 l ALBANY, June 24.-But one ballot was talk
 en in joint convention to-day for United | States Senators, Mir. Forster moving to ad-
 journ after it had been taken, and the stall
 warts with few exceptions joining with the Democrats carried the motion-76 to 59. On the Conking ballot Wheeler had 45 votes,
 Potter A, Conkling 30, Lapham 13, there be- ing five scattering On the Platt ballot the
 ex-senator boiled 27, Depew 45, Herman 45, Cornell z, thirteen votes being scattered.
 The convention then adjourned.
 Assemblyman Potter, of Saratoga. has given up his idea of moving the joint con vention to Saratoga. He finds the following provisions In volume l, section B. page 447
 of the Revised Statutes, Banks edition:
 Whenever the seat of any such United states>
 Senator shall become vacant before the expiration of the time for which he elected another Senator
 shall be elected in his room within days place where it shall then be sitting"
 MT. Potter is of opinion that the United
 States law providing for the election of Sen ators supersedes this in so far as the ten days clause is concerned, but as the clause relating to the place is not in conflict with the federal law it must still hold.
 Conkling and Platt went to New York on
 the 2:40 p. m. train. Pairing has been going on to-day, and Assemblymen have been leav- Ing the city at such rapid rate that it is probable that the vote tomorrow will be re- duced to the lowest figure yet attained. The
 anxiety to adjourn is increasing In the bal
 lotlng to-day Mr. Brooks plainly said that the Democratic policy was te secure an ad- journment as soon as possible. He said the balfotlng had shown conclusively that an election at the present session was impossible, and the contest could not be settled except by an appeal to the people. Mir rBrooks' po- sition on this question received no opposition from any half-breeds, and was indirectly ap- proved by Draper, an Albany stalwart The half-breeds all opposed the attempt at adjournment, and said an elec- tion must be held if the session be prolonged until the end of the year. It may be accepted as settled that the stalwarts and Democrats have agreed together to fight for an adjournment and secure it as soon as pos sible by any means in their power The half-breeds have resolved to fight the ad- Journment programme They. have deter 1 mined to have passed if possible concurrent resolution to put an immediate end to all fur ther legislation this session and confine the business to that of electing Senators. It is believed that such 8 resolution would pass. If 1t should, then it's first ef- feet would be to lessen the at- tendance of Democratic members. They would consider themselves absolved from the duty of attending the session by the act ending legislation. These Democrats have openly argued all along that the ques- tion of electing Senators never did belong to the present Legislature and have asserted their willingness to get rid of the question in any way possible. It is known that they have sympathized with the half breeds and considered them entitled to the Senators. If the above should pass these Democrats would
 go home and let the fight take care of itself Their absence would just about reduce the total vote to figure making the half-breed strength sufficient to elect.
 It is now probable that the report of the Bradley investigating committee will be the occasion for an attempt to bring about break of the deadlock. The indications now are that three reports will be made. The first four stalwarts on the committee will present a majority report. This will be long and fully prepared, and will take the ground that the Bradley charge has been sustained. It will go further and dwell upon the general | state of corruption alleged to have been shown as existing in the present contest. It will attempt to show that this corruption has been all oh one side. Chairman Scott told the agent of the National Associated Press to- night that the report would not be made | for several days yet, probably not until the end of next week or the beginning of the | week after. MT. Skinner will make a minor l ity report showing that the investigation proved nothing but Sessions innocence of the Bradley charge and the non-existence of cor ruption in the Legislature. Messrs Brooks and Shanley will make another minority report. { This will be judicial and take the ground that none of the charges have been sustained. Mir. Brooks report will contain suggestion that | in view of the gravity of the charge of bri- bery, the ease with which it can be made, the injury of it's effect the public interests, the odium' it attaches to legislative proceedings l and the violence it causes to public opinion, some stringent legislation should be enacted making it penal offence of the gravest char | acter punishable in the severest manner for ] anyone in future to make charge against 8 \ legislator unless the charge is clearly and ! mistakably sustained. l NEW YORK, June 24.-The Eoeni71g Post has the following dispatch from Washington: | There is 8 report here that the President at l the conferences which have been held at Long Branch with members of his Cabinet | has been taking into serious reconsideration the | Senatorial situation in New York, and that 1t l is the wish of the President that the Legisla- | ture shall elect two Senators before the ad- journment whether they are called stalwarts | or half-breeds, provided that they are not 1 the two Senators who resigned their commis- l sions and surrendered the United States Sen | ate to the Democrats. There may be some | thing in this report. It is vouched for by persons who hold close relations with the President and who ought to know what they
 are talking about. A gentleman who talked | with the President 8 short time before he left for the seaside says that President Garfield ! cherishes no resentment for any of those who have seen fit to cooperate with Mir. Conk-
 ling, and that he greatly desires that the Leg l islature, at it's present session, shall end the 1 factional contest by the election of two Re- I publican Senators The same gentleman says
 l that the President does not anticipate that,
 should the Legislature elect two so-called
 | stalwart Senators, they would be persons l with whom the administration might not hold
 l friendly relations. With the precedent of
 Conkling and Platt before them, the adminis-
 tration does not think that the coming New
 York Senators will be likely to attempt to
 place themselves in open opposition to the | President and to all their colleagues in the
 Senate.
 The visit of Representative Frank Hiscock
 here yesterday was mysterious. It is be- I Iieved that he was closeted with Secretary
 Blaine, and that his trip had reference to the
 situation at Albany.
 The New comet-Observattons Taken at Various Places.
 l NEW YORK, June 24.-A comet has become