The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-10
The NEBRASKA ROW.
The MIDDLE Over the Governor
ship Continues.
THAYER ON HIS HIGH HORSE.
He Still Refuses to Surrender His Office to
Boyd-The First Conflict of Au-
thority Occurs.

LINCOLN, Neb, Jan. 9.-The morning
session of the legislature consisted in
wrangling over the minutes of the joint
convention which were badly mixed On
account of the confusion. This work was
unfinished at noou.
All OF the newly elected state officers are
in possession OF their offices except Gov
ernor Boyd who is kept out by Governor
Thayer on the ground that he is ineligible.
Proceedings in the senate this afternoon
were not of much Importance. A movement
was made toward limiting the employees to
| about half the number given places last SEES
sion. Several bills were introduced. An
attempt was unsuccessially made to APP
prove the minutes of last session. This
business was sill pending when an ad-
| iournment was taken until tomorrow.
In the house an uproar was created by a
motion to appoint a committee to wait upon
the governor and ask for his message.
Amendments directing the committee to
wait upon Governor Thayer, Governor
Boyd and Governor Powers were proposed
| in rapid succession and this matter had not
reached focus DIT the time of adjournment.
a resolution directing the preparation OF
a bill appropriating SlU0, 600 for the relief OF
the drought sufferers near the Colorado
| line, was adopted with enthusiasm.
! The gubernatorial miX-up still continues.
! Governor Thayer still holds the fort against
| Governor Boyd as reported in these dis
| patches yesterday. His objection is that
| Boyd was never naturalZed and is therefore
| Ineligible. The board OF public lands and
buildings, however, to-day assigned Boyd
| quarters III another part of the capitol and
he began acting as governor The first con-
| tiict OF authority occurred this afternoon,
! when telegram was received stating an
Indian outbreak was feared in the north
ern part of the state and asking that the
militia now at the fort be placed 50 as 10
repel an attack. Governor Boyd ordered
! Aciu tant- General Cole to make prepare
lions but Cole replied he would take or
GERS only from Governor Thayer. Boyd
thereupon declared Cole ousted, and ap-
pointed General Victor Viquain to the po-
sition The state militia on the frontier
now has two commanders, and it is impos-
sible 10 tell which they will obey. The jan
| itors of the state house have gone over to
| Boyd, and it is said the steam will be
turned off from Chayer's Office tomorrow.
Th2yer to-day petitioned the supreme court
| for a quo Warranto writ to determine
Boyd's position. The court will decide
next Tuesday. In the meatime Thayer has
issued public statement saying he wishes
the supreme court to decide The matter be-
fore he vacates his office. Boyd has moth
ing to say about his case except that be
is a citizen. His friends claim even if he
was not legally naturalized he is a citizen
! of the United States, because he was cit
izen of the territory of Nebraska, and
when the state was admitted into the
union all of It's citizens were invested with
| full citizenship. All the parties to the
struggle are keeping cool.