The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-06-03
NEWPORT'S LAST DAY.
The Legislature Will Adjourn Till
June Ia.
THE WORLDS FAIR EXPENSES
Speaker Capron Added to the States Rep
resentation-Mayor Honey, Represen-
tative Honey and Lawyer Honey--Mat-
ters In tho Senate and House To-Day.


Mayor Samuel r. Honey should at once
see the Hon. Representative Samuel X.
Honey and ask him to consult with At
torney mt Law Samuel X. Honey, and OBJ
tain for him some information that will
be of use to him in the brief time that he
is TO be permitted to hold Office.
If what the people Of this city say is
true, then he will be plain Attorney
Honey after the next city election. The
peo pie are firing of his idiosyncracies and
his erraticisms. He is forever putting
not foot, but both feet into it, the "it"
being trouble. He loses friends faster
than he makes them. and he has lost
heavily since the day he counted himself
into Office as representative and destroyed
the ofiic ial ballots that tie iniquity Of
that count might not be disclosed.
Pooh Bah Honey has been parading
himself in the House, this week, as a de-
fender of the Constitution of the State.
He pompously notified the members of
the Grand Committee on Tuesday, that
he had been making a careful study of the
constitutions of several OF the States, and
TO prove his assertions that he had delved
among dusty tones, read copious extracts
from the organic laws OF our sister States.
What is the matter with his posting
himself on the provisions OF our ow n con-
stitution
What manner OF n lawyer is he?
He has made himself perfectly ridicu-
lous in the eyes of the humblest layman
in the Legislature, for he has proposed
something which Is purely unconstitu-
tional
He has presented resolution to refer
the memorial presented by the citizens of
Newport, In which they ask that the
Honey outrage shall be remedied by the
unseating of the Democratic usurpers, TO
u joint special committee, to consist of
two senators and three representatives.
1t is bad enough that when the Honey
resolution is analyZed that there should
be disclosed the fact that no provision is
made, after the committee has made it's
inquiry, that the committee shall report
TO anybody ut any time.
But Mr.. Honey has not discovered that
the Constitution explicitly declares that
each branch of the legislature shall be
the sole Judge of the qualifications of its
members. The Senate members of his
proposed committee could not act on the
election or qualifications of the House
members from Newport, neither could
the House members recommend anything
to the Senate, concerning Senator Under
woods seat.
The Republicans decided, last night, to
allow Mr.. Honey To speak his piece out
to-day, but not to let him talk too long,
ana not to answer him unless he made
glaring misstatements of facts or incor-
rectly quoted the law. They will possess
their souls with as much patience as the
circumstances of the case and the man
who is speaking will permit, and after
Messrs. Mccarthy and Mulholland have
Grated" will briefly inform Mr.. Honey
where the breaks are in his constitutional
fence and then will relegate his resolu
ton of reference To high shelf in the
darkest corner Of the political closet and
pass the original resolution OF reference
TO the House committee of elections,
where, and where only it can go.
Aud then Brer Honey, he will sit
down!
Senator Underwood's case, and later on,
when the legislature convenes at Provi-
dence, will let something drop in the
vicinity of Foster. There, when the vote
was counted it was declared that the
electors had made no choice of a senator.
The polls were at once reopened and the
present incumbent was elected, but by a
hand ballot.
This was clearly mistake and there
can be but one thing done. The Demo
cratic senator will be retired and bis Re-
publican opponent will be seated in his
stead. The Democrats are not expecting,
have nos di imed of such a turn OF affairs,
but il Is coming.
In the Senate. yesterday afternoon, with
the exception of one matter, everything
considered pertained to acts OF incorpora-
ton. The one exception was resolution
appropriating $4,000 to pay the expense
attending the presence of Gov. Brown
aud his personal staff, and three members
of the Senate and five members of the
Hnnaa fha nnanlnU nf the Wnrl1fs 4
Columbian Fair.
The resolution was referred back TO the
committee on finance for amendment,
striking out the provision for the atten-
dance OF members of the legislature and
reducing the appropriation to $500.
The speaker of the House facetiously
declared that he would not take his life
in his hands by appointing five members
10 go on that pleasure trip. He would be
afraid to 20 out nights for fear the other
sixty-seveu members would ambuscade
him fof sighting them, and he did not
want his innocent blood on their hands
furthermore, he had other use for his life
current than decorating anybody with il.
AS for Gov. Brown, he was not prepared
to pass his summer in n steel-lined tur-
ret, neither cared he TO have his excursion
train wrecked at the Gaspee street station
by the infuriated thirty-three members of
the left" Such g. procedure on their
part would be undigniiied, besides, the
Senators might jar his nerves.
Seriously. II was considered that there
was no need OF creating a junketing COM
mittee, hence the amendment of the reso-
luton.
At this writing, 6 a. m, everything
points to an adjournment this afternoon,
aud in time to take the o'clock boat for
Providence. AS arranged by the Repub-
licans early In the session, In fact as the
programme was laid out at Providence
last week, no business has been or will be
transacted to-day. other than that per
tanning to acts of incorporation and a few