Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-05
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HE CONIPROmISE.AT COLUMBUS


 l A Committee Equally Divided Nm PoI- 1tics To Settle Matters, With Allen G. Thurman md Richard Harrison To Decide Disputed Questions.
 COLUMBUS, Feb. 4.-When the Senate l met this afternoon Senator Van Cleaf pre- I scented the following resolution agreed to by the conference committee and it was adopted unanimously:
 Resolved, That the Committee on Privi- leges and Elections be and is hereby author ized to appoint from it's members sub-com-
 mittee of six, equally divided politi-
 all matters relating to the contest
 ed election cases from the first
 senatorial district, and also recommitments
 of the same. Said subcommittee shall pro-
 ceed without unnecessary delay to take tssti-
 mony in the said contested election cases,
 and is hereby authorized and empowered to
 employ stenographers, to subpoena witnesses
 and to examine them under oath,
 to take dispositions before notaries public and justices of the peace;
 to compel the attendance of witnesses and require the production of papers, poll books, tally sheets, ballot boxes, ballots and all oth- CT matters pertaining to said election cases, shall report their findings, together with the testimony taken, to the Senate at the earli- est time consistent with thorough examina- tion. Provided that any three of said com mittee shall have the right to make report, and a report may be made by member or members thereof agreeing to the same. Objections to evidence before said committee shall be made at the time it is of fered, and'when made shall be noted. And when said subcommittee of privileges and elections comes to make it's report and finds it cannot decide such objections the same shall be reserved by said subcommittee and submitted for decision to Allen G. Thurman and Richard Harrison of Columbus, whose decision shall be final both with said sub committee and with the Senate; and the pa pers and evidence on the part of the contest ors now in the hands of the committee on priv ileges and elections shall be turned over to said committee which shall be held by said sub- committee as evidence in said cases, subject to all objections as to relevancy and compe- tency provided for as above, with the right to recall and cross-exanine said witnesses. When three members of the sub commit tee on privileges and elections shall agree upon the calling of any witness, or up on the taking of any testimony, they shall be called and examined. No action of the Senate shall be taken upon any contested case or cases. or upon any matters relating thereto, or upon any matters of difference re- lating to the journals of the Senate, until said subcommittee, or an equal division thereof, shall have made report of the evi- dence to the Senate, and until the confer ence committee appointed by the two politi- cal divisions of the Senate shall have agreed upon the rules for the trial of said cases and all other matters of difference, or notice that a branch of said committee of conference shall have been discharged be given to the other branch and one day shall have elapsed after the giving of said notice.