Morning journal and courier., 1891-01-14

report cannot alter the result Of the re- turns of the state canvassers.
 We have not taken this step hastily. We now call these gentlemen to take the offices to which the people have chosen them.
 MORE SPIRITED DEBATE.
 Senator Clark of the Twenty first, rep, arose and seconded the motion of Senator Shumway, and said that he was entirely opposed to the resolution as presented. Senator Fox, dem., of the Eeghth, fol- lowed by saying: The gentleman from the Sixteenth says the whole mystery is dis covered. What mystery? The senate has been here ready to discharge it's duty to tho state, while the other house has gone away and blocked the wheels of business. Can that house extend the first day so as to defeat the will of the people, which is higher than the legislature? The senate has been ready to settle this controversy | amicsbly, but the house has refused. The senate has proceeded in the regular course. The house has deserted it's duty. We have declared the democratic candi- 1 dates elected, and we now call upon them to come forward and perform their duties. THE RESOLUTION ADOPTED. A yea and nay vote was here taken and the resolution was passed by a vote of six teen to seven, Senator Cleveland of the First not voting.
 ALsoP TAKES THE OATH. Shortly after the vote had passed and before the surprise caused by the reading of the resolution had abated Dr. Alsop edged his way through the dense crowd which filled all the available standing room and walked to the speakers desk, where Speaker Read, after introducing him to the senators, administered to him the oath of office and he was declared the ieutenant-governor and as such took his seat in the chair as presiding officer of the senate.
 Senators Shumway and Clark, reps, here asked to be excused from the com mittees to which they were appointed and as a matter of courtesy they were excused on motion of Senator Pierce, dem.
 GOVERNOR BULKELEY STAMPS THE PROCEED ING IN EMPHATIC TERMS. Senators Seymour, dem., Robertson, dem., and Davis, rep, were then appoint ed committee to wait on the governor, Morgan G. Bulkeley, and ask him to be present in the senate chamber at the in- duk Ol uuSO AOIIlS. 1u1S CIcdGSO quite laugh and sensation among those present, and when the committee returned and made their report it was listened to with great interest. Senator Seymour made the report, which was as follows: "We communicated our mission to gov ernor Bulkeley and were asked by what authority we came. We%replied that we were not prepared to reply, having re- ceived no instructions from the senate. We wore requested to say to the senate that his excellency regarded such a step as this unauthorized and revolutionary, ,and that any person inaugurated in the senate this afternoon would not be recognized by the present state officers as entitled to l their ofices."
 On motion of Senator Pierce, dem., the | report was accepted and the committee were discharged.
 | JUDGE MORRIS FALLS IN WITH THE PRO- l It was o'clock when Judge Morris en- tered the senate chamber from the lieuten- ant governors room, escorted by Senators Twitchell and Butler, and made his way to the speakers desk amid the applause of those present. Dr. A1sop, or the senate's l AAOooSAAoAo- ofOAhO4 ,lCiO OCotCC ClO SCAoGO1 to rise and then he introduced Judge Nor ris and gave to him the oath of office. l MORE oATH-TAKING. | Judge Morris then took the chair and
 waited while Senator Pierce (dem.) of the Fourth administered the oath to J. J. Phe- Ian as secretary, MT. Sanger as treasurer and MT. Staub as comptroller. The senate then adjourned on motion of Judge Morris
 until next Tuesday at 10:30 o'clock. 1 OFFICES
 AS soon as the senate adjourned the
 crowd quickly left the capitol with the e1-
 ception of the so declared newly elected
 state officers, who with their attorneys
 were closeted in the lieutenant-governor
 room. The next move made was on the
 part of MT. Phelan who proceeded to the
 secretary's office, and in few words in
 formed Secretary Walsh that he having
 been duly declared elected secretary of the
 state of Connecticut and having taken the
 oath of office, stood ready to rieleve Secre-
 tary Welch of the trouble of further car
 ing for the state's welfare. Secretary
 Walsh, however, replied that he did not consider MT. Phelan as elected to fill that
 office, as he had not constitutionally been
 declared so, ,andthe oath of office and action of the senate according to his ideas of the constitution failed to make him secretary. l MR. WALSH DECLINES TO SURRENDER. l Mir. Walsh added that he should decline to surrender. The secretary and MT. Phelan then shook hands, and the two parted without an ill natured word having been spoken.
 l NICK STAUB TRIES IT ON ALSO.
 From here the crowd which had gathered at the rumor that the newly declared off cers of the state were to demand their of | fees, proceeded to the comptroller's office, | where MT. Staub was conversing with MT. l Moore, the comptroller's clerk, in the ab- | sence of Comptroller Wright, who is i'll at his homo, while Editor Burr of the Hart ford Times was present to assist MT. Staub in any action he might take.
 NICK PARLEYs WITH GOVERNOR BULKELEY AND GETS A REJoINER.
 While MT. Staub and MT. Moore were conversing Governor Bulkeley put in an appearance, and to him Mr. Staub said: Governor, am here as you may know to say that have been duly declared elected as comptroller, and am here to demand my office.
 Governor Bulkeley's reply was to the same effect as to the committee of the sen ate, who waited on him to attend the inau- guration of Judge Morris, that he consid- cred it revolutionary proceeding and should advise all the state officers not to surrender their offices under any such de- mands.
 MIR. BURR INTERPosEs WORD. Here MT. Burr attempted to enter into 8 discussion with the governor in the con- stitutionality of the proceedings of the sen ate in regard to the election of MT. Staub, but to this conversation the governor re- fused to be a party. MT. Staub then wanted to know if he had not been elected by majority of 1,60O people, and did not have right to the office. To this MT. Moore said that he had informed MT. Staub of the contents of letter from Comptroller Wright refusing to MT. Staub the office. Governor Bulkeley here said that he should, as the governor of the state, maintain order at any event and see that the rights of the people were pro- tected.
 MT. Staub then humorously said to the