Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-05-13
THE STEAL.
REPgBLIoAN Ewes ARE BEING
OPENED.
They Now Realize the Recent Ipfam,
at Columbus.
Fast is the Moose Being frightened
About the Necks ofthe Political
KevoIutionists and Soon
They Will Swing.

AD0ut tnt NtCkb Oh INC EOtttlCal
KevoIutionists and Soon
They Will Swing.
Especial Dispatch TO the Enquirer.I
COLUMBUS, OHIO, May 9.-Kennedy's
remnant" will probably remove all
the Sergeauts-at-Arms and clerks to-
morrow and appoint others in their
places. The only thing that will re-
strain them is the fear that they are
not yet oa solid ground.
Some Of them were hunting for Miss
O'Bagan, the engrossing clerk, last
night to get the keys to her desk, but
did not find her. The failure of the
gang to get hold of the Senate journals
, within the last twenty-four hours has
doubtless saved the Grand Jury some
work.
Republicans tonight are conceding
that there IL some doubt. about the le-
gality of yesterdays proceedings, but
that it is all right, since the Supreme
Court Is Republican. 1t is positively
stated that Judges Minshall and Spear
promised committee of the Republi-
can caucus that they would sustain
them il they carried out Judge Vests
Louisiana plan. This gives one clear
idea of the nom aartisanship Of Re-
publican judiciary.
If the Democratic Senators prolong
their trip week or ten days, and let
the revolutionists have their own sweet
will, they will hang themselves for
keeps.
The "remnant'' will disrupt the Re
publican party in the State If the DEM
ocratic Senators will stay away. The
thieves are already quarreling over the
division of the State for Congressman.
They were brought to unanimity In
perpetrating the steal. They will go to
pieces over the division of the spoil.
People are wondering why General
Noyes left here on Thursday afternoon,
and think 1t strange that after his Flor
ida experience he hadn't the stomach
for the louisiana method.
| IF the proceedings of yesterday In the
Senate Chamber were not miserable
farce and travesty upon legislation,
then they have the force and effect of
law. They must be regarded as one or
the other. There is and can be no half
way.ground. There can be no compro-
! mise between the two antipodal facts.
If we take the journal for their charac-
ter they are the merest farce imagina-
! BILE, for 80 far as the journal itself
shows with regard to the proceedings
seating the four Republicans, there was
no one present in the Senate except
Lieutenant-G Governor Kennedy, Rev
Meisse and "Mr. Paveyn the lattel
constituting the entire "Senate.n
Were the proceeds farce, then9
1 ask of the Republicans, and they in
dignantly answer, "NoW
"Have they the force and effect 0
law?' / again ask them and the,
chorus, "Yes!"
Now, let US analyze these answer
\ and what they imply. If the proceed
. ings have the force and effect of Law
i (which they must have if they stand a
, ally, then the requirements are numer
! GUS, positive and direct, that the journ
i al record must show that there was no
!. only one Senator present, but at leas
nineteen of them voting affirmativel,
7 upon the proposition.
v The exultant slogan of the Republi
. can revolutionists that the record doe
o not show that quorum was not pres
Z ent, and therefore the proceedings cal
!. not be impeached, amounts to nothinI
4 with men who revere government Q
!, law.
! They seem to forget that a Legislative
!, journal which shows nothing, show
too much. The truth of the matter ia
I that every Legislative act, having th
J force and effect of law, is db Snitio void
! unless the journal afiirmatively show
that quorum Of the body was presen
7 and all the Courts of the country hav
so held without a single exception.
The journal of yesterday covering
t these proceedings records the fact tina
d but single Senator was present, and
Is does not even show that he voted.
s Ii one Legislative act. having tn
It force and effect of law, may be mad
0 to stand without the Journal of th
: body showing affirmatively and by
! recorded vote that there was quorum
e present and constitutional majorit
il voting in favor oft, then all Legisla
) tive acts Of a similar character, or il
+ fact, any acts, may be done in th
g same way.
y Suppose, therefore, that an act appro
y priating $500, 900 Of the peoples none
! was declared passed without the journ
.t al containing any record that quorum
9 was present and that constitutions
It majority had voted for it, does any ma
Q hold that the money could be legall
3 drawn from the treasury There ar
.s probably a few Republican idiots VIII
o would hold that it could in the hope
9 that they woa,d get share of 1t, bu
z no sensible man would.
The Court would abrogate the acl
and on what ground? Because tn
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