The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-11-25

/ S0Oo060OKs
A Commission That Prssumes to Expound
the Law-senators Who Own
Fine Houses.
WAsHNoToN, Nov. "A. - Especial. 7 - Il
looks a. IL the hitherto republican states Of
Michigan and Wisconsin had been made re-.
liably democratic by the late elections. F.
II. Hosford, secretary Of the Michigan dem
ocratio committee, has returned TO Wash
inRton. He said: I'VE have never since
1854 had democratic legislature. Now we
have eighty democrats in the lower branch
and eighteen in the upper. with majority
on joint ballot of twenty-five. In the last
Legislature we had but Ave democrats in
the upper house and hardly a score in the
lower. Our majorities are all in the cities.
Detroit gave 1000 democratic majority;
Grand Rapids, Bay City, Saginaw and half
| dozen other towns are democratic. We
shall redistrict the state to our own advan-
taRe, just 40 the republicans have for theirs,
and as under our constitution no change
can be made in tan years, we have got q
dead sure thing until after we have chosen
| successor to Senators Stockbridge and
McMlllan.'
"Who is going TO succeed Stockbridge?''
| "Don Dickinson, beyond all doubt. He
IL the foremost democrat in the state. He
stood at the helm whom there was no party
organization-not 30 much as an address
book and not dollar in the hands Of the
state committee. Il would be the sheerest
inRratitude now to 20 back on him. The
election takes place year from next win
ter. II is hard to say who will succeed Nc
MILAN, but it is safe to say that his suoces-
sor will be democrat. think Michigan
will 90 democratic in 1892"
The first decision that is at all judicial in
character on the legality of Speaker Reeds
quorum-counting methods appears in the
action of the general board of appraisers on
the case OF New York firm that protested
against the assessment of duty, at the rate
Of 35 per cent. ad valorem, and IS cents
per pound on certain ''worsteds.'' It was
claimed by the importer that the goods
were manufactures composed wholly or in
part Of worsted, and not composed in part
Z - w$Sss Luz N1fA AuuU0 Su0 pOluV8 Q1-
rectly against the Mckinley bill that no
quorum was pressnt ia the house IL Msy
whom the bill passstithat body, and that fo,
the speaker to declare that quorum waa
present was in violation of the copstitu-
tion. The board of appraisers assume jur-
isdiction and decide the case az If they
were judges wearing supreme court robes
and beyond the peril of appeal or review.
They went to the record of the house and
found the following entrv.
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Az ne % npeanel' me caetk wy announce
not;na sna "GS Iho - ,n, GnDeas @ pfes1ne ana not
sewa.,t sUst az ne olerk Feau. Nnefe Ioiiows
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- no oPeaAoI: Inc nAmes OF tne MEM
oethar ~; ss;+, Iaa % %SevenSy-nse 1 ~ AL to-
se;neI ovE W.:n - ~ aH0 voslnE IN tne amrmatlve,
De.ns ~ ~ ~, more tnan quorum neces-
,Na.! ,saay a unues ~ she consstutlon 70 transact
Dus.noss, elo cnaIr makes Eme t!, IoilowlnR an
..o. l.o1noelnens " tle voGe: Ine yeas are 13o,
nays ,y, none' snu .ue o.ll ID PASSED.
Inc poard femarkinR IN its decision that
the question is one purely of constitutional
law. and must be decided from thia h;oh
atard-roirt .rt;ra,,, -. ese,, -a!s'-
49, 49, =. .,. 1Ay r..l1
oaee llaple 70 Pc engendered by political
considerations then proceeds to its aFgu-
ment. The point on which the case is made
m tnr,, ia vvhathor %ha h,r.a ho. Al. .,.,-.-