Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-03-14

here, who knew and loved her for her
estimable characteristics, and the sad
news cast a deep sOrrOW over all. The
/ deepest sympathy was expressed for the
afflicted Senator and his family.
HOUsE-1LARCH 8.
The House concurred in all amend
ments made by the Senate to 81. B. S67,
which was reported by the House Com
m1ttee on Temperance.
! Mr.. Bond secured advancement on the
calendar Of his new Mutual Life Insur-
ance bill.
! Mr.. ClOgstOn procured some action
/ upon the Joint resolution relating to
/ change of the constitution relating to the
/ judiciary.
Mr.. Roberts procured the same action
for his bill to create a chair Of pharmacy
IN the State University.
/ MI. Faulkner prOCuredth same action
/ for bills relating to sale Of state lands.
/ Mr.. Overmyer's resolution was adopted
which directs the Price Raid Commission
| to file a detailed statement Of such claims
| with the Auditor.
Mr.. BurtOn's resolution was adopted
authorizing the Attorney General, in the
/ exercise Of his judgment, to dismiss the
actions against ex-State Treasurer Sam
uel Lappin.
Senator Rush's S. @. R. asking for PEN
/ siOns for ex-prisOners of war was
| amended raising the rate asked for from
/ So to s. per month, and'adOpted.
Mr.. Roberts resolution constituting
! Governor, Secretary of State, and Attor-
/ ney General a commission to inquire
/ into losses by the Quantreu raid, was
adopted.
The House met after dinner, with
! Speaker pro tenn. Burton in the chair, and
at once proceeded to business by having
read the following report from the Judi
ciary Committee, to whom was reported
! the communication from eX-GOv. Click
relative to the pardons issued during
his term of Office:
Mr.. SPEAKER: Your Committee on the
/ Judiciary, to whom was referred ex-Gov.
| Clicks report of pardOns granted during
the years 1888 and 1884, for investigation
/ of the validity of the reasons therein
assigned have had the same under con
| sideratiOn and instruct me to make the
following report:
First-The reasons for granting par
! dOns in cases of misdemeanOrs for viola
ting the prohibitory law, as assigned by
/ said eX-GOV. Click, as those assigned by
! the applicants for pardons, and in many
/ instances in disregard Of the cross petit
| tons and remOnstrances Of the best class
! of citizens, as they appear from the pa
! pers and recorded in the Executive
Office.
Second-From the records Of the case
/ which arose in the May term, 1884, Of
/ the District Court in the county of Saline,
now on file in the Executive Office, in
| which pardOns were granted by said eX-
| Gov. Click, the structures upon the Judge
and officers of the Court, as assigned by
| said Ex-Governor Click, do not appear
| to have any foundation in fact.
! Third-EX-GOve Click, in granting
/ the most of said pardons for violation Of
said prOhibitory law, find the papers and
! reasons in such cases nov on file in the
| Executive Office abused and misused the
pardOning power by exceeding the au-
/ thOritY in him vested.
! Fourth-If the reasons for the par
| dOns in the Marion, Ellis, Saline, Lyons,
/ Nemaha, Mcpherson and COWley cOun-
| ties cases, and IN the case of Blackman,
| of Shawnee, be true, they furnished
good and sufficient grounds for new
| trials. and Executive interference in
such cases for the reasons assigned is an
| unjust, unreasonable and unWarranted
/ interference with the rights, privileges,
/ duties and powers of the Judiciary of
our State, a condemnation of what he,
/ the Governor, without cause, supposed
would be the decision of the Supreme
! Court.
The Judiciary is a coordinate and in
/ dependent branch Of our Government
and in no way responsible to the EXeCu-
/ tive department, and Executive inter
/ ference ought never to be had, tor the
! reasons assigned in the befOre-mentiOn-
| ed cases until the remedies prescribed by
/ law have been exhausted, and such in
! reference is clearly an abuse Of the par
| dOning power. j. B. CLOGsTON,
The Winfield imbecile bill was defeat
ed.
Several regular appropriation bills were
/ passed and some local ones.
The evening session was spent on the
appropriation bills.
sENATE-MARCH f.
In the morning the report of the com
mittee Of the calendar was discussed and
adopted.
Senate bill No. 212, an act to provide
| for the organization, government and
| compensation of the militia of the State
| of Kansas, and for the public defense,
| was passed while the cannon was firing
/ in honor Of the Inauguration ofPresident
! Cleveland.
Resolutions were offered by Senator
! ii. B. Kelly looking with pride upon the
record of the Republican party as con
shutting the grandest period in Ameri-
/ can history, etc. When he offered the
resolutions he remarked that the same
guns that fire to-day in honor of Demo
cratic success, were fred at the Nation a
few years since.
Senator Lowe opposed the resolution
and said: feel in duty bound to resent
and denounce the declaration Of the Sen
atOr from Mcpherson, that the guns we
now hear being fred in honor Of the in
| auguratiOn of Grover Cleveland as Pres
ident of the United States are like the
guns fired upon Fort Sumpter, as unpa-
] triOtic, un-American and unworthy to be
uttered by any man in this Senate or in
! this State. The language does the Sena-
tors well known American ideas injus-