The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1886-02-03


caucus They had reaNOn 70 believe that /
propositions for a compromise would be |
submitted by the Democrats, but after walt !
ing an hour and a half they realized that |
they had their labor for their pains. There. |
upon they adopted q resolution sustaining
the various positions taken by the presiding
officer. Kennedy, at Mondays session and
prescribing a plan Of action for to-day.
Each Senator was required 10 assent 70 a
strict Injunction Of secrecy, but it is learned
that the programme provides that upon the
full Senate being called to order the chair
will rule that the journal had been read and
approved at the morning session, and that
no motion that does not relate TO the Hamil-
ton County contest can or will be enter
tained. This of course, will precipitate
another scene Of disorder.
AS for the feeling In the caucus It Is best
expressed In the language Of Senator Ford,
who said last evening to the United Press
reporter: 1--WE have decided that hence on
we will hit straight out from the shoulder.
We will consider no compromise; show 40
mercy; grant no quarter. We are In for the
fight, no matter what shape or form hOstIl-
tiles may assume. We want the order Of
the day and we will have It or nothing"
The Democratic caucus occupied more
time than did that of their opponents. In
into a half-dOzeu hours. George L. Con.
verse and FOllett we're there to advise and
counsel lust as Ex-Governor NOyes had per-
formed a similar service for the Republic
ans The formal session was largely taken
up with a free-fOr-all debate, which evil
denCed so unanimous an opposition to any
thing approaching a compromise that it was
not considered worth while to clinch It with
a formal resolution.
An adjournment was then taken until to-
day and in the formal session which fol-
lowed the fact was developed that many
Senators favor one of two very clearly de-
fined lines Of policy.
The first Of these is to quit the Senate
chamber Immediately upon the first ObnOX-
ious ruling of the chair. taking with them
the clerk sergeant alarms and other Otii-
cials and to resume session in a hall hired
for that purpose.
This would compel State Auditor Kiese-
wetter In allowing claims, to recognize one
or the other of the Senate wings as the true
and only Senate. The wing denied funds,
whiCh-the Auditor being a Democrat
would probably be the Republican wing,
would thus be forced by writ Of mandamus
to go to the Supreme Court for the judicial
decision on some Of the rulings Of Lieu
tenaut Governor Kennedy, and the decision
two is the trump Senate"
The other proposition Is that Immediately
| following the roll call this afternoon the
paper attempted to be presented Monday by
| Senator Gable, providing for the appoint
meut Of a committee to investigate the re-
! latOns between the presiding officer and the
| Senate and for the appointment of a President
| pro teRpOre, pending a report from this
| committee, be again introduced. The chair
/ would Of course rule it out of order, but the
| clerk pursuing the previous tactics
| would call the roll and announce the twenty
| to seventeen vote ThereupOn the Demo-
| Gratis would move the election of one Of their
/ number, probably Senator o. Neill as PTeSi-
| dent pro tenn. and the ayes and nays would
| be called in the same manner as before and
| announce the result A demand would then
! be made for the surrender of the chair, fail,
| ing in which an adjournment might be
| taken as provided for in the first proposition,
1t is probable that one or other of these
! plans will be adopted at the caucus, but
| whatever their fate the simple fact that
| they have been mOOted and received COnsid-
cradle support indicates the strained COndi.
ton of affairs. Local interest in the situa.
! tiOn has largely increased and last night the
corridors of the Neil House were as ami.
! mated as though a hOtly contested State con
|
Letters and dispatches by the bushel, moi
only from Ohio but from many other States
| are pouring in on Senators from both sidel
of the Senate commencing their relative
positions and cOnseling them to stand by
their guns. It is conceded by both Repub
licans and Democrats that to-day will be &
critical one, and the temper on both side
over Mondays proceedings is so bitter tina
the exercise of considerable calmness anC
moderation may be necessary to prevent
climax which both sides Of the chamber
may regret when sober second thought sue
ceeds the existing feeling.
The rooms Of the Jackson Club, Demo
cratic were packed to sutfocatiOn last even
ing in response to a call for a special meet
ing to consider the Senate difficulty. BY
unanimous vote it was decided TO convene
mass indignation meeting Of the citizens a
the City Hall tonight, and a committee wa
| appointed to request ex-senator Allen g
Thurman to preside.
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