Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-01-19

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with all further proceedings under the call.
% - not 10 disturb the senstofs who are
indispossd, and to give TO the senators
present and the officers Of the Senate q
chance to 60 home and get thsir breakfast,
70 a. to get back 1t 10 o'clock.
Vance said that be would s1pplement
that statement by . mlttef Of Statistics.
There we're just Is senators present., and
seven Of them were Democrats.
That 10 Why vs are 1t sizss and ssvsns,
Edmunds remarked, With laugh.
Yes. said vance, and the Democrats are
the sevens.
Ssvyer-ws have our reserve forces in
the cloak room.
vsnce-Either the proceedings under the
call should stop, or your reserve forces
should be in their seats vide awake and
duly sober for the Transaction Of business.
Edm unds demanded the yeas and nays on
Gofman's motion, and the result was
yeas, s; ns-s %.
As " se.s showed that no quorum voted,
the Senate fou-d itself again in the same
endless round OF which It had been revolv-
ing for the last six hours. The roll had to
be called, and this time only "a senators
answered to their names, showing that there
had been more departing than arriving sem
ators.
At 7.2o. when there we're five Democrats
on the floor and only one Republican,
Casey, Daniel rose. aud with wave Of
his hand and . word TO "the senators on the
other side," moved an adjournment. The
move did not succeed, however, for Casey
rushed for and obtained allies from the
cloak room, and Plat, who was in the
chair. declared the motion lost.
Aftor that there was another dead iull
until . S0.when. . quorum having appeared.
Faulkner proceeded with his remarks
But the cold, bleak, dfizEly morning which
greeted the Senate after i,s weary night
session was not conducive to eloquence,
and Faulkner, who had boldly and patiently
held his post since IL o'clock, rested him.
self somewhat by liberal quotations from
the Law books. But, Notwithstanding his
long vigil, Faulkner WAS in good voice,
and, when not quoting from his books,
spoke with earnestness. He paid his
especial alteration to the features Of the
bill, which, he claimed, conferred upon the
csnvassing board power to carry on their
operations under the returns.
Al 10 05 Harris rose to Z parliamentary
inquiry. He desired to know whether the
journal would show that there was legis-
lstive day of Jan. II, and, il 90. when that
legislative day began. The standing order
was thst the Senate meet at ten o'clock.
The presiding officer (Frye) said he was
of the opinion that there would be no such
legislative day as the 18th.
Faulkner resumed the floor, but con-
cluded at 10 30, having held the floor for
almost IL hours.
Daniel followed in opposition to the bill.
The men who stood foremost in offering
this bill to the American people and float
ing over it the flag inscribed "honest cleo.
tions," said he, had always exhibited a.
much psrtisanship and enthusiasm for their
own party as had ever been exhibited by
any other equal number of partisaps. Ii
was not true that the Democratic party had
ever been the advocate, the maintainer or
the patron of dishonest elections.
His great object to the measure was that.
with Its passage passed away from the
country the strongest and most enduring
guarantees of honest elections that it was
possible for mankind to frame.
There could not exist a better guarantee
Of honest elections than that under which
the country had existed for . century, and
under which, up to the present time, there
had never arisen bloodshed between the
sections out Of any election; nor had any
election been SO tainted with dishonor,
fraud or force that it had not been within
the power Of the people, with the machin.
cry they now possess, to settle the question
smicably, and without disturbing the great
republic in its onward strides.
pagn 30 al
he quoted some remarks made by Senator
Hoar at the time of its establishment,
declaring that they contained refutation of
the very policy with which he was now en-
gagged in deluding a very small portion OF
the American people.
Quoting from letter written by Senator
Morrill, of Vermont, at this time, giving his
various reasons for favoring the commits
sion, he cited the 10Th reason, ''thst II
would bring the Republican party out of
the valley of DEATH 1t was needless to
give the other IA reasons. He feared that
the argument the senator used then must
have some effect on his mind now.
Recurring to the bill, Mr.. Daniel said
that the Democratic party could never sup
port such measure, because, by so doing,
it would 6isband itself aud abrogate every
principle it had ever professed or prscticed.
In his humble judgement, he did not be-
lieve that the Republican party, in all its
history, ever did, or ever could, do a worse
days job for itself than by arrsying itself
behind this bill and parading it as its work
to the American people.
If he we're nothing but partisan; IL he
were willing to see the ship 60 down in
srier that he, as wrecker, might gather
something of its cargo; if he were an Iago,
who desired to accomplish some evil object
on his opponent, he would pray that this
bill might pass. And IL, under the weigh.
of this bill, the Republican party should
fall, it would "fall like Lucifer, never to
rise again"
At this point Daniel yielded to Stewart,
who gave notice of motion to recommit
the bill with instructions to the committee
on privileges and elections to go amend it to
provide for the election Of members OF
Congress on days when no other election is
held in the several states, and to provide
for separate and independent registration OF
such electors as are qualified to vote for
members of Congress.
Daniel. continuing, referred incidentally
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