The sun., 1891-01-20
A CRISIS IN CONNECTICUT.
UNEXPECTED MOVE IN THE STRUGGLE
FOR THE STATE OFFICES.

says that ho Will Use All tho Power
Vested In tho Governor to Keep the Men
the People Have Elected Out OF once.
HARTFORD. Jan. 19.-Anothsr move In tho
game the Republicans and Democrats are
playing for the State offices was made to-day.
move that was altogether unex xpected by the
public. and perhaps by the Democratic lead
ers. The move came from the Republican side,
and was made by the de facto Governor. Nor
gan g. Bulkeley. Mr.. Bulkeley issued q procla-
nation, In which he says:
ut having come to my knowledge that certain per.
soma without authority Of the law have combined to
demand. take and hold tho chief executive Offices Of
this state and to perform the functions thereof claim
ing possession of said Offices under and dec
iarAton to the Senate of this State while tho
Of votes therefor under consideration by the General
Assembly for the purpose Of ascortaining II any per
sons have been legally elected TO succeed the present
incumbents and such claims, demands and attempts
to take and hold said offices being unauthorized Illegal
and preiudeial to the good order and peace Of the
State, and tending TO confusion In the Administration
Of Its government;
therefore, by authority vested In by tho Constitu
ton maintain the laws enacted in pursuance there.
of do hsrsby command ali such psrsons to dssst
from their unlawful acts and from interfering with
any Of suoh executive officers md all citizens OF this
State not to recognize acts Of such pretended on
and aid abet them In their unlaw fu acts
ana XIV nouce tuht IN AOsenco OF any CON
stitutona finding and declaration by tho General
semby Of tho legally chosen executive officers OF the
State, aud every such attempt to enter upoa
form the duties Of said ocers by any persons
will be resisted by ali the authority vested in under
the Constitution and laws Of this state.
This Is an official declaration by Mr.. Bulke-
10y that hc will not recognize the action Of tho
Senate last Tuesday in declaring the Demo.
cratic candidates for the State offices elected
nd cyro ourip fhar In, h,,f ft I'M,
The proclamation Is generally assumed to be
directed particularly against Lieut. Gov. Al.
! sop. who. on being sworn in. took his scat In
| the Senate and presided over that body on
| Tuesday last. 1t is believed that tho Repub-
| licans will attempt to put him out whom
| the Senate meets again tomorrow morn
ing. The hod-over Lieutena ant. Governor,
| Gen. Merwin who is also the Repub-
lican candidate for Governor. will be sent
into the Senate by the Republicans to preside
there. This will result In o collision between
Merwin and Alsop. The Senate will refuse to
recognize Con. Merwin on the ground that hs
has been succeeded rs Lieutenant Governor
by Alsop. Whatever power Mr.. Bulkeley may
have will be used to keep Alsop out of the chair
Of the President Of the Senate. The Demo-
crntic Senate can refuse to do any business
| with Merwin In the chair. and can take ro-
| cesses and adyournments from time to time
Things are likely TO be very lively about tho
Capitol to morrow. Meanwhile the tailed
| Committee on Elections appointed by the
| House hos had several meetings The Repub-
| lican members Of the committee only have ut
tended tho meetings. the Democrats having
refused to have anything to do with the So
called investigation. This committee claims
| TO have made out O case 1t is snid that
enough evidence of Illegally rejected ballots
| hpa haap phfa m n od m Shou hat to
for Governor actually received a majority
over all. The committee held q meeting
to-day. when the Chairman said that
the work was completed. He would not
say whether tn. committee will report
! to the House tomorrow. The Investigation has
been farce. at which the Democrats smile in
dersion. They take no interest in 1t. for what
the committee would do was u foregone con-
clusion. So the solution seems as far of as
| ever. The spectacle presented is that Of five
duly elected State officers kept out Of ofllce by
a resolution Of the lower branch OF the Legs-
lature and the present Republican incumbents
| The state Constitution IL being distorted BY
tho Republicans to obtain semhIance Of
/ one Of the oldes; and most conservative States
AT noon tomorrow each House votes for
| United States senator. The Senate has 10
lepu blican majority; The Republicans unani-
| ago. Tho Democratic caucus met Tonight
| but voted to make no nomination for Senator
rumors Of an attempt Mt a TRADE against Mr..
| Plat, but tho members refuse to talk, except
| that they agreed to vote Is they choose IN tie
| House tomorrow and the caucus at night.
In the aouss Tomorrow. should the Con:
Esctons GomMtsS " in i.yoE
can who had the most votes but was not de-
| clared elected because OF for" on the bal
lots, and, should the iiouse seat him. the Re-
| publican majority will lie Ii instead OF "A.