Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-08

Narrow Escape of Coalition Senator
from Expulsion.
| In the Virginia Senate on Wednesday
n orning, Senator rownes. (Coalition), of
Meckleuburg. offered the following:
hereas the General Assembly of Virginia is full
| ~ lmpre>sed WIN the importance of abliShIng
| It's up emacs over the JudicIar, aud txecu i've
Departments of The Gu, Eminent by inspiring The
fol mer vain Wholesome ure AL Of The pow er with
which tue people have Invested their Representa-
tives. and b, giving To tue latter clear evidence
that tins General Assembly will bro * no opposi-
ton 10 Its Will; and whereas the press of public
business makes II tXpedient that the should be
| special JOINT committee charged with I'll duty OF
| p opnSlhg such fu Their legislation as shall be re-
| q"sitt To accomplish such deslrab es lis.
ReSOtced bu the Senate (the House cone Irriug) !.
| That joint committee oil two On he pat of the
sena and three ON the part of the louise be ap
puIt What 1urther legislation. If any, eau be devils
ed for more effectually convincing the Judiciary
that they must con1Oi m their Sentiments and off
ca actions to the pc itica views If the mai rity of
the General Assembly, and the Governor til 1t he is
expected and required to approve and sign all bills
| sent t. him by the General Assembly.
MT kolhtr rose To point or order, and
said that he considered tue paper an insult
to the whole Legislature. Such iudlgnuy
should not ba allow Ell To pass by unnntlc+d,
and lie thought the matter should be looked
into and proper steps be taken.
| Mr.. Meredith: l had hoped that the
naJoTliy would treat very eineerly and
ieEuelly the gentleman from MeckIen-
| burg. as lie tod us not long ago that
whenever he left home in his county he
was afraid he would never return except
| III his c. flu. [ presume the gentleman
| VINO SO III tely Was afraid to go abrr ad lest
| somn dire disaster should befall him has
| now plucked up courage To come tn the
| senate anG, according to my mind, offer
| paper which is an insult to every member
| OF This body, whether of the majority or
| minority
Mr.. ToWnes: | didn't mean any insult.
SAID Was elected twice before I got in,
and that this other gentleman (Rue) was
| elected twice. 1t seemed to me the major
| lGy were doing the same thing. | hope it
| may please the Senate to allow me to
withdraw the paner.
Mr.. Meredith: The gentlemac's explana.
| ton
Yfr Jaigaesi ! 1T paa Withd raH it..
| to make ID mott N TO withdraw while an
9th gentleman Mr. Incredibly is on the
| floor.
| M. Meredith: The gentleman explain
| alton adds insult to injury. L repeat this
Is AL insult no5 only to the m j 'rily but
to every M mber. The resolution contains
| matter, " nc i'll Il bill or answer in chan
| Gerry ID cOurJ would Determine highly 1m-
| proper. IL is an insinuation nrend.d 20
| ,veTshadoW all tn. laws of decencY. This
resolution r~q ltr.s inv.ItigtFir. [ think
| may say the gentleman ought 70 be ex
PEELED. If had introduced such pap
IT H. citing upon the minority [ should tx
| p-ct such IA 4 and | would deserve it. |
will not insist upon that point but [ do
,sist the Senate sh all protect its digaity
| ard self! espect
| Mr.. ToWnes said that he had no idea
| what he contents of the paper we're when
| tie offered it, that it had ben handed to
him by Il gentleman, and he presented it
Without really knowing what the resoln-
tion contained. He did not intend to offer
an insult to the body, and hop-d und-r
the circumstances the Senate would allow
him to withdraw the paper.
A CATS PAW.
Mr.. Glasgow said Inc Senator from
Nj cklenburg has purged himself OF any
purpose to offer ffence to this body He
had not acquainted himself with the con-
tents OF the resolution ffered by him.
He has been made cats paw of by som e
member of this body. Now, sir, what
member of this body Can sit silently by
while TIE Senator from Mecklenburg is
writing under the torture of his scorched
member? Let him declare himself If
be be man, let him bar his own share
of the affllction he has Brought on the
member from Mtcklenburg. For that
member feel nothing but Compass on and
personal kindness.
At this point Mr.. Rogers arose and said
that he was tbs person who gave the pa
per To the Senator from Mecklenhurg :;
that it was gwen to him (Ropers) by an
outsider, and he casually glanced over il
| and gave il to the Senator from Neck
lei burg to present. Had he known its
contents he would not have given it to
| him.
Mr.. Wickham said: think the ends of
justice have been attained when the gen
'ltman says he did not intend to offer an
insult to this body, Considering that he
| is new member and inexperienced, [
think that he ought to be excused; he
HIS done all that one gentleman can re-
qulre of another when he said that he
meant no offence by what he said. We
should 9ccept his apology and end this
unpleasant scene.
Mr.. Heaton | hope that the leave to
Withdraw his resolution will not be gran
ted. An insult has been offered to this
body ia res ,lu5ion whic he - presan-
ted, and he has refused to give the name
of the author, eIeby assuming the re-
sponsibilry ard / think this Information
as to who was the author ought to b.
given to the Senate. If the gentleman
came FIR m that county where his life was
in constant danger, think that he ought
80 bA protected here and in his home
from ku kInx. &C., and if he IS inc 10 lbl-
of aking care of himself. Think aguar-
dian ought to be appointed for him. 1t
appears from what the Senator from Pc
rsDurg has said that the paper was
handed around from one to the other utl-
I'll il got to the hands of the verdant
member from Mecklenburg. who offe, ed
it, | think, sir, that this matter ought
to be stopped. The Senate ought to step
this thing. If this was the only thing of
this kind this day | would be in favor OF
| excusing the Senator upon promises of
gof d behavior in the future; but, sill r..
there was another indignity as contained
in q resolution offered by this 81 nator. /
hope thus matter will be invest igatpd.
trust that we will go out of ibis Senate
preserving the digniy of our body.
Mr.. HAaton then off red the foil wing
That the resolution offered by the sena.
tor from Mecklenburg be referred to the
Committee on Privileges and Elect ions.
with power to send for persons and papers
and report upOn the same as to thu au-
thority thereof, and any other matter in
connection Herewith.
The vote S taken and he reso' button
was rejected by the following vote:
AYE~.-Messfs. Berry, Glasgow, Hea-
ton, Hurt, Keez-li, Koner. Me edith.
Newberry, Petit, T~yman, Wa wick
Wing firld-12
NoEs.-M essrs. Bnrhdna, Barnes, Bliss,
Brown, CruGapler, DIggs, Flanary, Fl+t-
cher, Gdines, Grim, LybrOok, Norton,
Powell. Trout, Wickham-15.
Cnalrt ionists in italics
MIR. T"wpes was then allowed to with
draw the paper.
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