Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-08-01
JUDICIAL APPORTIONMENT.
The House Accepts the Confer
ence Bill, But the Senate
POStpOneS 1t.

had very lively session this alter
noon over the question of concurring
in the report of the conference commit
tee submitting judicial apportion-
ment bill The matter brought the
| LAWYERS to the fore, who talked and
wrangled all the afternoon about the
Constitution, and few who were not
LAWYERS took hand at the discussion.
1t was nearly I O'Clock when result
was reached and the first real step
taken in the direction of the apportion-
ments. When the report was laid be-
fore the House Sponsler took the floor
and spoke long and earnestly against
the bill, which he said covered every
subject connected with the judiciary.
Sharpe denounced the bill in unmeas-
ured terms and said it had evidently
been framed for veto.
Administration Spokesman Amer
man came to the rescue after the bill
had been battered for over an hour by
Sponsler and Sharpe, and made a
speech in advocacy of the measure,
couched in apologetic terms. He did
not claim that 1t was right or construct
ed on correct principles, but only that
it was the best that could be had. He
said it would save the people in the
aggregate $150,0OO by dispensing with
twelve Associate Judges at four dol
lars day.
THE BILL BITTERLY AsSAILED.
Ziegler pitched into the bill right
and left as an outrage upon the people
of Butler county because Lawrence
was attached, while Beaver, with less
than the requisite population, was
made separate district. He styled
the bill a monstrosity and asserted
that the Shiny snake of the Beaver dis
trict had been crawling the halls of the
Legislature since last January.
Emory, of Lawrence, assailed the
bill as bitterly as Ziegler, Bullitt op-
posed the bill and replied sharply to
the remarks of zimmerman. Upton
II. White moved to recommit the re-
port to the committee, which motion
brought out Mcdonald, of the commit
tee. in defense OF his report. He grew
excited and pounded the desks and
pranced about in very lively style for
an old man. He claimed that the bill
was honest, fair and constitutional, and
in support of this position cited Sena-
tor Wallace and Attorney General
Cassidy and said that he would put
their judgment against the lofty pre-
tensions of the brilliant genius from
Perry (Sponsler). Colborn said the
bill was full of unconstitutional pro-
visions and that, for instance, Beaver
had been treated like kingdom, while
Butler had been robbed of her rights
and Lawrence had been trampled un-
der foot. Sterrett, Crawford, Collins
and PARCELS all supported the bill, the
latter holding that it was this or moth
ing, now or never. Whites motion
to recommit was lost by vote of 60
ayes to 7S nays.
The question then came up on con-
currence 1t was very doubtful wheth-
er the required l01 votes could be OBJ
tanned and some of the friends of the
bill wanted to adjourn, but Speaker
Faunce determined to put it through.
After all the names bad been called
and the Speaker had voted it was dis
covered that only SO votes were re-
corded in the affirmative. BY dint of
hard work one more vote, that of Hig-
gins, of Schuylkill, was secured, and it
was cast amid the objections of twenty
members, who were on their feet vocif-
Grating that Higgins had no right to
vote under the rules Parkhill, of AL
legheny, then changed from no to aye,
and this made hundred McCrum,
of Crawford, who had voted no." as
he claimed, for the purpose of moving
reconsideration, then asked leave to
change Bullitt challenged his right
to do so and inquired whether he voted
under a misapprehension McCrum
did not reply and the Speaker said it
was presumed he voted under misap-
prehension. This did not satiafy Bull
litS, and he persisted in repeating the
question and demanding an answer,
the Speaker rapping vigorously with
his gavel meanwhile.
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Finally McCrum said that he had
voted under misappreheDsion, and he
thought the bill would be defeated,
and he desired to move a reconsidera-
ton. This was not satisfactory to
Bullitt and his sympathizers and they
expressed their dissent The Speaker
raped them down. McCrum's vote
was counted, making the constitution
al number
THE Republican party in Pennsyl-
vaEia must run back through many
years of it's history before it will fin |
a ticket whose approval is so general,
so wide and emphatic. All shades of
Republican opinion unite in commend
ing the methods and praising the re-
suits of the Convention which nomin-
ated Niles and Livsey.-Philadelphia
Press.
THE Pittsburgh Com Gazette says {:
"Geo. A. jerks, the last Democratic
candidate for Supreme Judge before
| Silas Clark, was a carpenter, and so
awkward that he averaged four fingers
and thumb of his left hand in rags
all the time. He read law, and six
years ago made such speech before
| the Electoral Commission that Simon
Cameron seized him by the hand with
the enthusiastic greeting: jerks, l
don't like your politics, but as Penn
sylvanian, am proud of you Isaac
Gordon, from the same county of JEFF
ferson, was moulder until he spilled
hot metal in his shoe He was lamed
i for life and couldn't work at his trade,
so he read law He is now on the Su-
preme Bench of this State
THE Clarion Democrat says: Our
old newspaper friend, Clark Wilson,