Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-01-26

The drama in the Ohio senate was en-
acted precisely as fhe eGLoBE-REPuBIIc had
indicated 1t would be. 1t was an admira-
Die piece Of work in every respect for the
cause Of right and republicanism. 1t played
itseif. as II were.
The republicans met at ten O'Clock. the
ihaur b which the senate had adjourned from
SATURDAY The democrats prowled In and
round. the state-h0nse till toward four
O'Clock. the hour 10 which they alleged
themselves to have adjourned the senate
from Friday. Then they hunted their hole:
from which they emerged to enter the SEN
~ chamber iinpressively at the hour
The republican seventeen. with Kennedy
In the chair, had held the position all day.
without recess. and had made no attempts
to bring in the absentees, as the democrats.
provided with writs of habeas corpus, had
hoped they would. Therefore when, at
foar. the twenty filed In and took their seats
they found the senate in session. The roll
was called and the thlrtyseven members
responded TO their names.
= 4 democrat moved that further proceed
mgs under the call be dispensed with. The
motion was not entertained, inasmuch as
the chair decided, the call had exhausted it,
self. all the senators being in their seats.
After considerable wrangle over this de-
cision. democrat made motion that the
clerk (Vallandigham) read the journal.
The republicans resisted this, maintaining
that the order Of the day was the consider
s&ien Of the HAmilton-county election case !:
and the chair so ruled
Z The dennc1sts appealed from the decision
of the chair, and in putting the question the
chair instructed the clerk (vallandighsm)
not to call for the senators from Hamilton
county. since the question was one relating
20 their case. on which they had no right to
vote. The clzk disobeyed the instruction
and called them with the rest. Presi-
dent Kennedy took the call-sheet corrected
II lIy jomifting the four names. and an
nounced the result to be that the chair was
snaained. 1. ~ Is. The audience, which
was immense, spplsuded. and the democrats
hewed
Then Senator Pavey presented a series of
rules for the government of the senate in the
HamRton-county election cases. The paper
bad bsen sent 70 the clerk. Mr.. Pavey hav-
ing A,e floor. when the democrat Cable rose
to question Of privilege and sent up
series of resolutions. The clerk undertook
to read Cables paper before he had read
TH1ou.ss hs,e v.as ra,,,,x.d A.. s,os,<.. h,- th.
chair, who decided that Pavey's had the pre-
eedence and must be read first.
Thereupon democrat made motion to
adjourn and called for the yeas aud nays.
and the clerk (vallandigham) called the
rol, in spite Of the presidents command to
dssist- vallandigham handed up the roil-
call clip to Kennedy. who tore it to pieces.
and AAnouAesd that Mr. Pavey had the floor
and that the president (himselfl would read
tbs nles proposed by that senator
While the president was reading. the
clerk slipped out of his desk and consulted
Allen o. Mycs, and the democratic senaton
slipped out Of their seats and left the
chambsr. When The president had fin
ished tAe reading, he put the question
on their adoption, and what was left Of the
senate- -towit the seventeen republican,
voted ~, and there being no nay vote. no
adjosznnAenk and no proper evidence lex
cept aspicion from the empty chairs)
that tli$ senate was not full, the president
declared fheE carried unanimously.
Therehpon the senate adjourned till 10
O'Clock this morning. leaving the repub-
licans on top in the open day and the demo-
errfS in n vary email hala