Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-10-06

\ PROTEST.
DsmOCgaIiC senator. Drnnunce the Action
Ot the senate


Oi the senate
Immediately after the reading Of the
journal in the Senate Friday, at HlI-
| Iisbugg, Senator Wa lace rose 10 quts
ton Of privilege and offered the annexed
| protest whi2h was placed upon record
4 quorum Of the Senate being present,
Tuesday, October ,, 1888. tho minority
thereof were IN their seats and GesirOus
of proceeding with the public business for
which this extra session was called, when
the majority in Obedience TO orders OF a
party caucus adiuurUcd the Senate, re-
fused 70 allow us 30 be heard and forbade
any action to bU taken.
Against this proceeding and against
similar adjOurnmeuts from Tuesday until
Friday aud from Friday until Tuesday
without the transaction Of any business,
we do sO!emuly protest as a violation as
well Of the rights of senators as Of their
constituents, and in disregard Of the com.
ity of intercourse thaC should exist be-
tween the Senate and the House oi Repre-
sentativeS.
We do most sOlemnly protest such 40
tiOn is revolutionary, for It defeats the
orderly process Of government.
II is a fragrant neglect OF our duty to
transact the public business for which wo
were convened.
II closes the mouth Of those chosen 10
seats in the Senate and denies representa-
ton TO those who selected them.
1t refuses to permit discussion of the
grave question at issue, and substitutes
caucus dictatiOu for the forum Of free
speech.
1t forbids comparison Of view between
senators upon measures looking to appOr-
tiOnments, prevents compromise aud
insists upon the iron rule OF party dis3i.
pline.
1t shuts the door Of tho Senate chamber
against committees of conference and
other parliamentary modes of commuui.
cation between the Senate and its CO.
equal body, the House OF Representa-
tlVes.
II reverses the precedeutS of more than
one hundred and nifty years.
1t eOpardizes the entire delegation from
the state in the next Congress.
1t tends to multiply the relations Of the
state to the federal government, aud if
carried to its logical sequence by major
ity of the states would paralyze If not de.
stroy the government.
1t ignores the sworn duty made manda
tory by the state constitution and refuses
even TO try to perform that duty.
1t retains in full force partisan appor-
tionment based upon the population of
1870, and denies just representation to the
changed condition of many pOpulOus
localities.
IL violates the letter of at least one pro-
vision of the state constitution aud the
meaning and spirit OF many others.
Ii is subyersive of that obstruction of
the power of government which tho con
stitution has ordained and established, for
it tends To accumulate in tho Senate an
undue share ofpower, and
Its adoption places the other depart
ment of the government under senatorial
dictation and removes all questions out If
the domain of argument and reason.
For these reasons we do most earnestly
protest against the action of the Senate
and ask that this, our protest, may be
placed upon it's journal.
The foregoing was signed by W. Henry
Sutton, w. NJ. Nelson, Alexander Patton,
Jeremiah s. Hess, Eckley b. Coke, ii. j.
Humes, VIM. A. Wallace, $. O. Wagner,
John ID. Biddis, J. IL. Ross, Edward II.
shearer, @. A. Vandegrif, ir., VIM. w.
Hart. John G. Hall, James Gay Gordon, ).
+. Wolyerton, Charles +. King.