Morning journal and courier., 1891-01-07
THE NEW GOVERNOR.
Some Comments Of the State Press on
 the situation.

the situation.
 From the Hartford Courantl
 The situation is without parallel in the political history of this Gland of steady habits" where fair play has been always reckoned as the first essential of conduct, and justice as worth more than party ad- vantage. This time we have a senate dem ocratic by ten majority and house repub- ncan by sixteen majority, and in case of failure to agree there is a deadlock. The occasion calls for citizenship, not partisanship; for actions with reason for them, not for stubborn inac- tion.
 By the face of the returns, which every citizen in the state knows to be wrong, Mir. Morris, the democratic candidate for governor, has an ap- parent majority of twenty-six votes. But all that is known of this alleged majority is that It IS
 the n f97 instead of 179. That is a mistake which IS acknowledged on all sides. So far & as dl that t only one of number of errors, each one or wnicn is proof that, whatever is right, twenty-six ma It Is notorious as we said yesterday, that sev- eral thousand prohibition votes with TOT on them were counted, and several hundred 1nsss z like them rejected on account of the same "for. " Obviously all should be treated alike. Every fair l minded person will grant that Nov, the aqtess, tss
 
 supreme court and will be decided in the latter ! part of this month On it depends the question
 Morris has ae | the court declares them legal away goes MT: Morris shadow of majority. Wouldn't 1t iook ! redicuous if Mr. Morris were seated by re1ectng flor" ballots and in afortnight the court should declare such ballots legal? .,.. ! together immaterial how the people voted Whether MT. Morris has or has not legal ma, jority is of no account If by rejecting legal gal create for him show of majority, that IS 1 enough; he must be seated, They would make
 They insist that they wili listen to nothing that
 tsem it sH is %orrs last and every time and The republicans, on the other hand, only ask that the actual result be ascertained what did
 repubcans H % only T demand now that befere deciar ing Morris elected the precaution be taken Of That is the situation, and the republicans most certainly will not seat Mr. Morris until they do get the facts.
 The Hartford Post says of ''The Inevita- ble in the Senate:" The time is evidently close at hand when some thing decisive will be developed out of the pecu liar condition of things in the United States sen ate. But fifty working days of the session re- financial measures and others considered of i'm. portance are waiting to be taken up. There is no good reason why they SnOulQ not De- Inoro mas been abundant discussion and consideration of the pending measure Everyone who wants to know knows exactly what 1t is and will not know any more if every southern senator talks himself | into the larynigitis.
 But the majority is met by considerable pro- | test against in any way preventing this deliber- ate waste of time on the ground that it will en- l dan ger the privileges of the minority. If it is one of the privileges of the minority to control | the majority it ought to be endangered. This | is common sense and we don't believe that | the people will extensively support anything 1 else.
 caucus will be held tonight prohsbly to | settle the question. Any effective measure. that is one that will give the majority opportunity I to do anything without the consent of the | southern democrats must, necessarily be ! radical. A measure such pro posed by Senator Hoar last session, one | which admitted of vote upon all l amendments of which notice might be | given at the time of moving the cloture would
 be entirely useless with the opposition in such an l unreasonable temper. One democratic senator l announces himself ready to offer amendments | enough to keep the senate busy till March 4. He l might offer Hudibras, the Encyclopedia Britan. nica, the Revised statutes anything, and plead that the minority were being gagged if objection was made.
 Something radical is, of course, required for such obstreperousness as this. There is no use giving bird medicine to a horse. If the majority Senators want to do anything or expect to do anything let them turn on their clOture in full | stream. If they do not they may as well go home and take the remainder of the session easy | while the democrats run the senate to suit them