The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1885-02-27
THE RUMP.

week passed Joint or concurrent res
olution to adjourn last Friday night at
IL o'clock. On Friday at l2 o'clock,
noon, the two houses met In joint con-
vention to ballot for senator, and the
balloting was kept up until about 8
o'clock when motion was made and
carried that the convention should ad-
journ at i o'clock. This was done in
order to enable the house aud senate
to separately finish up some unfinished
business before dnal adjournment at IL
o'clock. When Ii o'clock came no
senator had been elected and resort was
bad to trick to enable republicans an
ether chance to elect. So when tho
joint convention adjourned and each
house met separately TO 6nish up un.
finished business, resolution was intro
duced in each house to rescipd the
joint resolution by which each house
had agreed to adjourn on Fr day night.
This resolution was declared carried in
each house by viva voce vote, although
the ayes and noes were vigorously de-
manded by all the democratic members
present, and both houses adjourned 10
meet Saturday morning ct 10 o'clock.
Democrats refused to recognize the val
idity of this revolutionary proceeding,
and not one appeared in either house on
Saturday, The republicans repaired to
the house and Senate chamber at 10
o'clock bat there was no quorum present,
as it requires two thirds Of each house
to make quorum. Each house ad-
burned to ll:45 o'clock when they
again met without quorum, although
all the democratic members were in the
city aud might navs been brought in
by the sergeant-at-arms If tho body had
been legal one. The two houses then
met in Joint convention and took one
ballot for senator but tho vote was
scattered, no one receiving moro taAn
two or three votes. The convention
then took recess until 1 o'clock p. m.,
when they me. again but several repu5-
licans refused to have anything further
to do with tbs "rump" affair. Aftsr
considerable wrangling the convention
voted to dissolve aud each house aftor
being called TO order attempted 70 ad-
journ sine de. All these meetings on
Saturday OF the two houses and tho
joint convention wore the most funer-
alike appearance aud were regarded d
generally as farces of the most ridieu-
lous kind. As showing how the whole
proceeding was regarded we quote a.
follows from the ge,os, a strong repub-
lican paper
"The fzzle in the effect Of the Joint
resembling resolution leaves little for the
Republicans to brsg of. Il would have
been better to have stepped out of
Salem with downright defeat which
every one would understand, than TO
make a break for q rump parliament
and "peter out" at last. The biggest
clock in the world could not increase
its value by striking thirteen whea
O'Clock came. There Is q fitness in
everything even in being whipped.
The whole Senatorial tangIs and the
resultant humiliation is the righteous
of the i'll treatment Mitchell
received at the hands of his party two
years ago, and it will be wonder II
the effect does not go on with cumula-
tive force and turn the State over to the
Democrats. The anti-Mitchell attempt
to PCT him in the attitude of trying 10 |
play into the hands Of the Democrats
Iinds its answer and refutation in The |
matter as it stands. Ii the State goes
10 the Democrats who is to be blamed
Not the friends of John III. Mitchell, |
surely, but those who performed, behind
he scenes, in the great dog-ia-the-
nanger act, by which means 9 Rspubli-
an Legislature failed to elect Sen.
tor"
This would rupture any party and
he republican party, and many people
hink it will result in turning over the
Itate to the Democrats at the next state
lection.