Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-27
AT HARRISBURG.
TIE srEwAkr BILL xEsECrED.

TIE sTEWAKT BILL KEJECTED.
sharp Passages In the House and Senate
The judicial Apportionmene Wranele-
A Narrow Escaps-Adjourning for
Three Full Days.
Mr.. Macfarlane reported the House
(Stewart) congressional apportionment bill
from committee with negative recon-
MIR. Wallace moved to place the bill on
the calendar.
Mr.. Gordon pleaded for favorable con-
siderati0n of the motion, and said it was
not Democratic bill in any sense. It
was Republican in conception, in motive
and intent, but it had been accepted and
passed by Democratic House. II the
Senate would now accept the bill as it
passed the House, the session would be
speedily brought to an end. he urged all
the Democratic senators to vote for Mr..
Wallace's motion and pass the bill finally,
if the Republican senator's would accept 1t.
Mr.. Lantz objected to the bill because
it proposed to absorb the Lebanon county
Republican voto by the Democratic ma
jority Of Berks, to which that county was
attached. He said the bill was unfair in
many other respects, and he hoped the
report of the committee would be sustain
ed by refusing to place the bill on tho
calendar.
Mr.. Hess in lengthy appeal to the Re-
publican senators, asked them to join the
Democrats in passing the bill proposed to
be placed on the calendar. He favored
setting aside all former theories of appor-
tionment and act in practical business
1>a ckpo tod
by passing the Stewart bill.
concessions that had been offered came
position to-day is exactly the same as it
was at the early part OF the session. which
was to give the Republicans II congress-
men and the Democrats II. It was folly,
he said, to talk of abandoning all theories
in an apportionment, right or wrong, as
suggested by Mr.. Hess, and that when he
once believed theory to be correct he
would support it in the face of all OppOsi-
ton.
Mr.. Davies opposed placing ths bill on
the calendar, because the measure was
unfair and unjust. He contended that all
concessions had come from the Republi-
cans, and that the Democrats indulged in
the hope that by keeping the Legislature
in session some Judas might be found in
the Republican ranks to create division in
the solid phalanx of thirty Republican
senators who were opposed to the bill.
Mr.. Gordon said he could see no Objec
ton to the bill-the districts were con-
tiguous, compact and relatively equal in
population. He asserted that eight
Republicans at various stages of the
present session (four in the Senate and
four in the House, had favored the Stewart
bill, and said he felt certain that these
eight would rapidly grow into many times
that number until an apportionment was
passed. He added that the Legislature
would be kept at Harrisburg until the law
was complied with.
Mr.. Stewart, referring to this remark,
said he regretted that an arbitrary execu
tive should attempt to take direct issue
with the people. $" will resist" he con
tinued, any or all invasions of the peO-
pls's rights, by an arbitrary executive, who
would attempt under the guise of a great
constitutional protector to coerce this
Legislature to do what cannot be done"
He hoped the vote to place the bill on the
calendar would be not only significant but
decisive, and when it should be taken let
it be understood distinctly that all further
useless argument will cease, and an early
adjournment follow.
Mr.. Herr said the subject had already
been worn threadbare. 1t was tho heighth
of folly to continue debate which would
be as feeble and idle as the winds that
blow over a barren surface. The vote to
be taken was to be accepted as decisive,
and that Democratic hopes would never be
realized by the passage of bill which
vain hope dictated might result from
Democratic threats. He closed by Saying
that the Republican senators would not
desert their positions until the angel, with
one foot on the sea and one on land, de
clared that time was no more.
After further discussion by Messrs.
Hughes and Sutton, the Senate refused to
place the bill upon the calendar by the fol-
lowing vote
Yeas-Messrs. Biddis, Emery, Gordon,
Hart, Henninger, Hess, Humes, Kennedy,
King, Laird, Nelson, Ross, Stuart. Sutton,
Vandegrift. Wagner, Wallace and VOL
verton-1S.
Nays-Messrs. Boggs, Cooper, Davies,
Greer, Harlan, Herr, Hughes, Keefer,
Lantz, Longenecker, McCracken, Mo-
knight, Reyburn, Sill, Smiley, Smith,
Stehman, Upperman and Mylin-19.
The following named senators Wore
paired.
Pairs-Messrs. Patton and Adams, Lee
and Hall, Shearer and Aull. Humes and
Grady.
Senators Emery and Stewart voted with
tho Democrats.
At the afternoon session the judicial
apportionment was considered and the
Senate decided that the conference com
mittee had not exceeded its powers in
making the bill. Stewart, Cooper, Hughes
and McCracken expressed opposition to
ths bill Wallace held it to be constitu-
tional.
Before final action was taken the Sen
ate adjourned until Monday evening next
at 8 o'clock.
House OF Representatives.
The House agreed to appoint . now
committee On legislative apportionment
and Speaker Faunce named Messrs Nc
Crum and Blackford, (Democrats) and Lee
and Thompson (Republican). Mr.. Ziegler
offered the following: Res0lued (;f the
Senate concur), That Committee, con
sisting of five senator's and five members
of the House, be appointed and denom-
mated free conference committee, whose
dpttJ it shall be to take into consideration
the subject matter of organizing and de
fining the congressional districts of the
state, as contemplated by law, and report
by bill or otherwise, said committee to be
governed in their action by the parliamen
tary rules governing free committees of
conference"
The resolution was agreed to and sent to
the Senate where it was buried.
The judicial apportionment bill then