Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-03-04


greater oracle than Blackburn. for ~ a
member Of the house OF renrrsen'a-
tiv's he has fought speaker Red biz
terly aud furnished the chief vent-
hole for democratic thunder. But
this same Springer wss member of
the forty-sixtf congress and assisted
Blackburn II, the debate on tie
Tucker amendment. In speech re-
ported officially In the coDgre. sinusl
record for January %, 1850. Mr..
Springer .aid:
What does the constitution say I?
See. 3. Article ]. SAWS: Each house
shall be the Judge Of the elections, re-
turns, qualifications Of its own MEM
bers, and msjority Of each shall con-
stitute a quorum 10 do business A
majority .hall cnns'i ute n quorum TO
do business. That majority do not
vote, but they must be here. II The
majority IL here the quorum IL here.
and " by tine rules Of the house We
have determined That fact, then We
have majority ready for business.
Nothing could he palmer or more to
the point than the utterances Of these
two discinles of democracy. They
have shown plainly that a member
who dare mt absent himself bodily
through fear of arrest by COMPETENT
su'horify cannot absent himself iheo
reti"allv bv sitting in his seat and re-
fusinp to vote. No mater what rre-
epderts for snch a course may have
ob'sinad. the idea IL ,enuphsnt TO
every thinking person. In orr state
senst /. the republicans by elec'ing
eight senator's snd q lieutenant COVER
nor, had gained in that bodv q right
ful and legal majority, and tn deprive
that party Of what the people Of the
state he'd decreed was their right, the
eight democrats. sfter refusing for
tweDty-four days TO take the oath OF
office, then sought n play the dummy
act. Can any fsir.miuded person with
full knowledge of the si,us'ion gues.
tion the Justice. or the absolute right
of L'eutepant-Governor Ricksrds'
ruling?
Mr. Myers argument wherein hr
cited a suppo.itious case Of the msjor-
ity party being laid up with the
"grippe" so ss TO deprive them
of both msjority and quorum,
being thereby at the mercy Of the
minority, who could proceed
to enact legislation inimical to
the majority, IL all bosh; worse
thsn that II il twadrla. Whenever a
party In any legislative sssemblsge
through the accidents # death. sick
mesa or unavoidable absence, loses i's
msjority, IL then becomss. through
pure force Of numhsrs. the minority.
aud must accept with equsnimitv the
advorss legislation that the then ms.
jority is able To enact. AZ in the
present congress, the republican ma.
jority Ia so small that death or sick.
meas is liable at any time to wipe II
out an 4 with 1t the number requisite
to make quorum. hut II Ia the pur-
est nonsense to claim that II this
should happen. the remaining repub
Iicans could by sitting like dummies
10 their seats. put stop to oil lsrisla.
tion and deprive the democrats # the
power to enact laws. that providence
had thus empowered them with. If|
the party in power cannot maintain
Its msjority In the delIberativs ses-
sions Of the body to which II pertains.
ther II has no majority. and must put
no with whatever bad luck or the in
difference Of It's members subjects II TO.
We particularly desire that the peo.
pile Of this county shall give this mat
ter due investigation and reflection.
for the acts Of the two psriies In the
state senate during the recent .ession
OF the Legislature Ia 10 be- prominent
Issue in the next campaign, snd II Ia
proper that every man who votes
should thoroughly understand IT,
Don't let II get mixed up with the
wrsngle between the two lower houses.
In them there was question ~ TO the
right Of membership Of soms Of the
members. but 10 the senate there was
no question. Eight democrats and
eight rspuolicans were elected without
any suspic,on Of doubt. The senate
vas regularly organised and for Ninety
days the eight rspublIoAns made every
EFFORT IN thsir power 10 perform the
duties thslr constitusns had elected
them 10 perform. end for ninety days
the slght democrats trisd BY svssy
spsclss Of nllihustsring 10 prevent the
psrformaucs Of thess duties, end
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