Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-01-10
NEBRAsKNs GOVsRNoRsHlP.
Back-Number Tbayer Undertakes to Keep
Governor Boyd Out of once.
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tBy telegraph 10 the Dispatch.l
! LINCOLN, NEB., January 9.-EX-Governor
| Thsyer applied to the Supreme Court for
a quo warranto restraining Governor Boyd
| from exercising the functions OF his office.
| Judge Maxwell stated to Thayer's attorney
that inssmuch as their petition admits that
| Boyd is Governor their petition ls un-
| tenable. Maxwell believed Boyd to be
! Governor and refused the writ. The Su-
preme Court then adjourned till Tuesday.
The Board of Public Lands and Build
| ings is in session, and has notified Thayer
| to vacate the Governors rooms, or tho
board would officially designate another
room to be the Governors headquarters.
| Thayer is locked in his room with friends.
some of whom advise him TO submit peace
| fully, and not have 20 be elected dishonora-
bly,. At 1890 Thayer requested the crowd
| TO stand back from his door, and said "
will not surrender until the proper tribu-
nal declares that shall"
Boyd's first official act was to approve
the bonds of the newly-elected state
officers. John ID. Higgins, of Grand Island,
was appointed private secretary. In the
Senate lieutenant Governor Majors is pre-
siding.
Governor Boyd has ordered Adjutant-
General Cole TO report to him for direc-
tions and to dispense the militia on duty.
Governor Boyd and and fifty of his friends
have taken possession of the rooms of the
Board of Public Landsas his headquarters.
Acknowledgement Hastings has refused TO
file any papers in the Supreme Court for
Thayer.
CONFLICT oP AUTHORITY.
LINCOLN, NKB., January 9.-The first
conflict of authority took place this after
noon, when kilograms were received by q
member of the Legislature and trans
mitted to Governor Boyd stating that an
Indian outbreak would take place in the
northern part of the State tomorrow and
asking that the militia now at the front be
placed SO as TO repel attack.
Governor Boyd ordered Adjutant-Gen-
eral Cole to make preparations for the out
break, but Cole refused to obey, stating
that he would take orders only from Gov
ernor Thayer. The Office of Adjutant-
General was declared vacant. and soon
after Governor Boyd appointed General
Victor Vifquain TO the position. The State
forces on the frontier now have two COM
manders. and it is impossible to tell which
they will obey. The ianitors of the State
House and Mail-Carrier Lane have gone
over TO Governor Boyd, and it is said that
the gas and steam will be turned of IN
Governor Thayei's Office.
BoYD's POSITION.
Governor BOYD has nothing to say about
his case except that he knows he is citi-
zen. has been legally elected and qualified.
and intends TO act at all hazards. He
issued O requisition for a prisoner
to-day and performed other Off
cial acts His friends claim that even if
Boyd was not legally naturalized citizen
he is nevertheless a citizen of the United
States, because he was a citizen of the
Territory of Nebraska and when the
State was admitted into the Union
III Il 30 tnracfa1 xufth
full citizenship. Others say that
il is the design OF Boyd TO take Office and
keep the case in the courts during the
greater part of his term. Intense interest
is felt in the situation. but all parties re-
main cool and are determined that there
shall be no disturbance pending official set
Element of the controversy.