Morning journal and courier., 1891-03-20
STILL ANOTHER AMENDMENT,

q debate on the Seymour amendment was resumed in the senate to-day and opposed by most of the democrats. Senator Thayer, dem., of the Tenth offered anoth- CT amendment to the Judson bill, which will be considered next week.
 The Senate.
 The senate convened at ii 8. m.
 The Seymour resolution was at once called up, and Senator Holden, dem., of the Seventh began the arguments of the day. He did not favor the Judson reso- lution, as it was not fair one in his esti nation, nor did he entirely favor the Seymour resolution which, in certain
 sense would, as he held, recognize
 Governor Bulkeley. In conclusion he said
 that whatever the returns show should be
 declared by the general assembly, but do
 not believe that if the returns were wrong
 the declaration would stand. Under quo
 warranto proceedings the errors could be
 corrected without further discussion at
 this moment Twill take the position that
 settlement is possible. The people of
 the state have elected us to settle just such questions and we should not deprive them of the state officers they have elected. I believe that the state officers were elected and qualified, but they are not in posses
 sion and the people are kept from the fruits of the last election. The senate should do what it can to rectify this wrong.
 Senator Davis, rep, of the Eighteenth, next took the floor and for half an hour argued in favor of the Judson resolution as fair and just offer of settlement to the democrats, and in a certain sense 8 4@ | ~k
 tion Governor Bulkeley's name, but merely refers to the person administering
 the office of governor.
 Senator Cleveland, dem., of the First,
 did not favor the Seymour resolution, nor
 the Judson bill. He argued for some
 time on the constitutional view of the
 trouble, which as he claimed the senate
 had carefully followed since the opening
 of the session, and he laid the blame of
 the present deadlock on the republican
 members of the house He also thought
 that enough republicans would eventually come over to the democratic side to de-
 clare Judge Morris elected.
 Senator Fox, dem., of the Eighth, next
 took the floor and argued until 8 recess was taken at o'clock. During this argu- ment which did not favor the Seymour amendment, he said: The Judson bill is objectionable because there is no limit of | time within which a finding shall be made
 by the court. Pending this, the legally l elected governor is out of office. The ! hearing would drag on for weeks or
 months, and the re6nding would go to the supreme court on questions of law. How | long would that court hold it? In ordi nary legal practice there have been most | wearisome delays in the decisions of this 1 court. Continuing, Senator Fox discussed | the Judson bill at considerable length, l and quoted in illustration the story of t'Troy and the Wooden Horse" This Jud- l son bill is gift from the Greeks. If there | is any doubt as to the majorities for the 1 democrats, why not bring into considera- | tion of the doubt the fact of the large plu- 1 ralities they receiveds As to the Seymour proposition, he objected that it created 8 "paper governor" ''man of straw" If Judge Morris goes into the governorship, he should go there as full governor, on his honor to do nothing he should not do. If we cannot trust such man as Luzon B. Morris, we can trust nobody. He should
 be more aggressive He should have gone 1 to MT. Bulkeley and said: ''I have been ! elected governor of this state,
 and demand the office." It might create hot blood, but believe the people would l say Amen I admire the pluck of my republican friends in fighting for what tucy Dt11SFe IS TlSlt OI1uC1p1o Morris thinks it beneath his dignity to come to Hartford to take any part in this matter. I think it might have good eff feet if he met and talked with our republi- can friends MT. Staub might not have been comptroller if he had not done so. Judge Morris is as much entitled to his of fee as MT. Staub Nobody went back of the returns in MT. Satub's case, and the republicans went back of their principles in finding him elected. But they say, "Oh we couldn't keep him out. He had 1,600 mai 5brity." Then is that to be the rule, that ho nan can have office unless he has q majority of 500 or mores
 AFTER RECESS.
 The senate re-convened at 3 pm, when Senator Twitchell, dem, argued to some length on the Judson and Seymour bills, neither of which he favored entirely, al though he thought both might have their good points. He also thought the senate had done it's constitutional duty and should not be charged with having been 8 l useless body since the senate first con- vened.
 Senators Mead and Bridge, reps, closed the discussion, both being in favor of adopting the Judson bill and not the | amendment, as introduced by Senator Seymour.
 Senator Thayer, dem., of the Tenth, in troduced the following as second amend ment to the Judson bill.
 STATE OF CONNECTICUT, GENERAL ASSEMBLY,, Resolved, by the senate, That the Seymour | substitute for house bill No. 155 be amended by
 striking out sections l, 2, 3, 4, and and substi | Section 1. Section a5s Of the general statutes l is hereby amended so that the same when amend I cd C6oI1 1rOo1 ac fN1
 l Section 253. In the election of governor, lieu tenant governor, treasurer, secretary and comp sary for choice; and if no person has a l majority of the votes given for either of
 said offices, the general assembly shall fill the eral assembly shall fail to declare elected, or to elect any person to either of said offices on
 the first or second calendar days of it's session, the persons who shall have received the greatest
 number of votes respectively, for said offices at l the general election held on the Tuesday after shall, respectively, be the governor, lieutenant
 governor, treasurer, secretary and comptroller: passage and shall apply to the persons voted for at the general election held on the Tuesday after l the first Monday of November, 1890
 The above resolution was tabled for printing, and the senate adjourned until next week, Tuesday, at 12 o'clock noon, at
 which time the Seymour resolution will | be put upon it's passage.
 l LEGlSLAIlVE NOTES.
 Senator Mead, under the impression
 that the senate had adjourned until next
 week, went to his home in New Canaan last
 evening, but was recalled in time for to- days session.
 l Senator Cleveland said very emphatically
 yesterday that for himself he could not
 accept any compromise short of an
 acknowledgement by the other house of 1 the Democratic officers.
 1 At 5 o'clock Wednesday the senate rec
 commended the vote passed earlier in the
 afternoon to adjourn for week out of
 compliment to Senator Seymour, who ex-
 pressed an earnest desire to have his
 amendment passed upon.
 Death of Josiah Weed.
 MT. Josiah Weed, an old resident, years
 ago in the hardware business on Chapel
 street, near Gregson alley, and for the last few years a real estate dealer with office in
 Smiths building, Chapel street, died yes
 terday of pneumonia, aged about seventy. | OBITUARY.
 1 The Late Miss Lillian Post-Mother l and Daughter Dead.
 l Many friends mourn the death of Miss
 Lillian Post, who was for the past three