The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-04
LEGISLATIVE MIDDLE.
No Visible Signs That the Crisis in the
Ohio State Senate Is Close
at Hand.
Republicans Meet In the Morning and Re.
main In Their Seats all Day-The
Democrats Attend In the
Afternoon.
THE AFTERNOON SESSION.

THE AFTERNOON SESSION.
COLUMBUS, o., Jan. 26.-The opposing
forces in the Ohio Senate faced each other
in the afternoon, clinched. INDUCED In nu-
merous bouts in which neither side was
successful in gaining a throw and then adj
journed to renew the contest another day.
The Republican Senators, whose session
commenced at ten o'clock in the morning,
aid nothing beyond approving the journal of
Saturday. During the afternoon they went
out in squads to dinner, but Lieutenant
Governor Kennedy, fearful of a coup d'etat,
preferred to keep his seat and solaced him
self with IN humble lunch of crackers and
cheese and so the hours passed.
Three o'clock came and with It the first
signs of public interest. Crowds of men
and women began to flock into the chamber
until ever available loot of ground outside
of the charmed circle was occupied, while
out in the lobby hundreds tore around In a
vain attempt to gain adlnittance to the over
crowded chamber.
At 3:47 cheering and clapping of hands
or the outside heralded the approach of the
Democratic Senators, who, in single-f file with
slow military tread and amid renewed mani
festations of enthusiasm from the inside,
entered the chamber and took their seats.
The roll was called and every member re-
sponded. The presiding officer announced
that the order of the day was the contest of
the seats of the Hamilton County delega-
ton, but he had scarcely concluded when
Mr.. Cable, Democrat, was on his feet with
a motion that all further proceedings under
the call be dispensed with.-
Mr.. Conrad, Republican, antagonized this
with the point of order that the call had ex-
hausted itself and then the music began,
both sides put forward their best speakers,
and citations of presidents flew thick and
fast. Senator Fassett enlivened the pro-
ceedings by calling attention. In stentorian
tones, to the fact that Allen o. Meyers was
interfering with the members" and shouts
of ironical applause greeted the presidents
announcement that tie sergeant-at-arms
would see that the members were protected.
Finally, when the Oratory had exhausted
itself, tile point Of order was decided well
taken. An appeal was moved and vOcifer-
ously seconded. but the chair, after a pro-
l0nged consultation with Speaker Entreken
and ~ex-Speaker Hodge, who sat on either
side of the chair and posted him throughout
the session, decided that no appeal could be
made.
This decision was again made the basis
for an appeal Finally, when matters were
drifting into a condition of helpless COIL
fusion, Senator Sullivan, Democrat, threw
oil on the troubled waters by explaining
that his side was contending for an estab-
lished precedent rather than seeking a mode
of obstruction. Tliereupon the chair with
drew his ruling and the resolution to dis
pense, etc.. was carried.
In ordering the ~rOllcall the president in
structed Clerk Vallandigham to omit the
Senators from Hamilton County, but the
only response of that official was to call the
names in question with an extra ring of his
sonorious voice. A second time the chair
announced the order of the day. Again
this wa a~ntagonized by Mr.. Cable, who
called for the reading of the journal.
After a heated discussion the chair an
nounced that the Senate had been in session
since ten a. M. and that the journal had
already been disposed of. An appeal was
taken and the clerk again failed to omit the
Hamilton County delegation from the call.
He, however. pursued his former policy and
his record showed that the appeal had been
sustained by a vote of twenty to seventeen.
The sheet was handed to the chair. who.
after erasing the votes of the Hamilton
County delegation announced that the APP
peal had been lost by seventeen to sixteen.
Instantly there was a howl of displeasure
from spectators and Democratic Senators
and a dozen of the latter jumping to their
feet protested that the clerk made the record
and that the simple duty of the chair was to
announce that officials figures.
In the midst of the tumnlt Senator Pavey,
Republican, made a few remarks which
were almost inaudible, upon the order of the
day, and sent to the clerks desk a vOlumni-
Gus roll of manuscript containing provisions
for the trial of the contested cases. Before
had resumed his seat, Senator Cable rose
tO a nrocfion af hioh pri1xo o-d NJ,
Pavey yielded the floor. Mr.. Cables ques-
ton was sent to the clerk to read. but the
ruled that Mr.. Pavey's paper was first
in order. The Democrats. contended that
by yielding the floor Mr.. Pavey had tempo
withdrawn his paper, but the chair
held otherwise. BedIam enstled.
Responding to loud requests, Clerk Val
landigham, I'm his lOudest tones, commenced
to read the question of privilege. In still
louder tones, the chair demanded that he
should cease, at the same time pounding his
desk until it was in imminent danger of
being slivered to atoms. For several min
ntes both struggled for mastery. but the
clerk finally gave way. Amid an indie
scribable din, countless appeals were taken
and declared out of order, while Senator
Payey still further complicated tile situa-
ton by asserting that he had never yielded
the floor. This, in view of the fact that the
president had recognized a dozen speakers
after MIR. Pavey had taken his seat, wal
with shouts and irOnical applause,
loud and long continued.
Once more the clerk made an effort to
read the question of privilege and again the
presidents voice and mallet were brought
into play. Finally at 5:15 a half-dozen
in union moved an adjournment
until Wednesday at four p. M.
The chair held that the motion was not in
OfAer. out the clerk proceeded to call the
roll, the chair meanwhile exerting his lungs
to their fullest capacity. The vote showed
to seventeen for adjournment, and the
naine had scarcely been called when the
seized their coats and hats and
hurried from the chamber with'a three time
three, Clerk Vallandigiam. loaded down
the journal and other documents, fol-
suit.
When order had been restored the roll
call was ignOminiOusly consigned to the
basket by the chair. who then read
the rules of order for the conduct of the
cases as presented by Senator
Payey. They were quickly adopted by the
seventeen Republicans remaining and a mo-
lion to adjourn till this morning was put
declared carried.
Then it was remembered that a motion to
lcCoi'S"toi 1ic previous ItSOluilOu III OTu6T
10 clincl it had not been made. Upon a
suggestion to that effect the chair decided
that the adjournment had not gone into
effect. The motion to reconsider was put
and lost; another motion to adjourn was
carried, the Republicans slowly left the
and the business of the day was at
Ri end.
The feeling among the Democrats last
night was exceedingly bitter, and they de-
clare their intention of fighting it out on the
same line il it takes all next summer The
OH the other hand hold that
every action taken by the president was
based OH constitutional precedent and prom
ise that the next full session will be equally
Iuteresting.
mo ~SURRENDER.'
COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 81 The prospects
mat all armistice might be agreed upon be-
tween the opposing factions in the Senate
faded away with the advent of dusk last
night and the Democrats rave hoisted mo
flag, while the word has gone
put along the Republican lines that here
after all the arts of parliamentary war will
invoked and that no quarter will be given
Dr taken.