Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-01-28

COLUMBUS, o., Jan. 25.-At 3.45
o'clock this afternoon, the Democratic
members of the Ohio state senate filed
INTO the senate chamber, accompanied by
their lawyers and Others, and were greeted
with tremendous round of applause.
The lobbies were crowded with interested
spectators. They got to their seats in an
instant and tried to obtain the floor first.
With them came all the clerks and other
officers of the senate, who had carried of
the journal, bill boxes and other records
of the senate last Friday and kept them
since that time in the safe of Bot
Brothers saloon on High street. As soon
as Chief Clerk Vallandigham took his
desk Speaker Entrekin and ex-Speaker
Hodge occupied chairs to the right and
left of Lieutenant G Governor Kennedy to
coach him in his rulings, while General
e. f. Noyes, Warner M. Bateman and
others aided the Republican senators in
their proceedings Two hours were again
consumed in fighting when the two bodies
again split with more bad blood than
ever.
The special order of the hour being the
hearing, in open senate, of the four con-
tests, the Republicans demanded that it
be proceeded with as the Democrats
entered and constituted quorum. The
latter Immediately began dilatory pro-
ceedings--the making of long speeches
and points of order, privileged questions
and the like, and finally demanding call
OF the senate, which showed every one of
81 senators in their seats. The chair
ruled that, as there were no absentees to
send for and nothing further possible
under the call, it was exhausted.
The Democrats held that the Senate
could get out from the call only under
motion to that end, and appealed from
the decision of the chair. ALI of the
Democrats voted nay and the II Republi-
cans aye, but the chair held that the mo-
ton on the appeal affected the four con-
testants whose cases were to come up of
once as the special order, and, if further
proceedings were not dispensed with, the
contested cases could not be heard, and
so he ruled that they could not vote but
they all voted on the appeal, the clerk
paying no attention to the chair in direct
ing that their names be not called. Amid
misses, cheers, bowls and oaths from the
lobby, Lieutenant Governor Kennedy an
nounced that by vote of II to 16, ma
jority of all entitled to vote on the ques-
ton, the chair had been sustained.
The confusion which followed was so
| great that it was hard to tell what was
done. As n matter of fact the appeal was
withdrawn, and the vote to dispense with
further proceedings under the call was
declared carried. Then there was a
terrific fight over the order of business.
The chair held that the contests were the
special order. There were two Journals
of proceedings, and the Democrats in
sisted that the first thing in order was to
determine which was the legal one and
approve the same.
After long struggle, vote was taken,
which the chair announced as II TO 16 in
favor of taking up the special order,
deciding that the four interested con-
testants had no right TO vote thereon.
There was the usual appeal. The clerk
would hand up to the president the vote
20 to IL, and it would be announced II to
16, with a repetition of the disorderly
scenes in the lobby.
After the announcement that the chair
was sustained II to 16 on the order Of
business, Kennedy said that the hearing
of the contests was before the Senate as a
special order, and Mr.. Pavey moved that
paper sent to the clerks desk to be read
be adopted as the rules governing the
contest, being the same rules adopted by
The last Democratic Senate governing q
contested case then pending, The Demo
Gratis then began rising to questions OF
privilege. and points of order until IN
hour was consumed and an appeal again
taken from decision Of the chair. The
clerk refused 70 read the rules sent TO his