Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1892-09-26
TO RIDE ROUGH-SHOD.
What the Republican As
sembIy Will Do
IN THE NEWPORT CASE.
Plan Mapped Out by Brayton For the
Special Session.

In little more than a week tho General
Assembly will meet in q special session
which at the present time, it Is thought,
will not last moro than four or fvo days.
The session will be a thoroughly politi-
cal one OF most extraordinary nature.
The Republicans intend to pass, with
the aid of the cloture rule, bill that will
provide heavy penalties for alleged nom
observance of laws in the city OF Newport.
Ii is learned from an exceptionally good
authority that, first OF all, the Republi-
can majority In the Assembly will incor-
porate the new ward division of Newport
made by the Legislative commission. This
is to be done by amendment.
Either special law or charter amend
ment will provide penalty for not order
ing an election according to custom, and
also for failure to designate the ward poll.
ling places and sending out tho necessary
and customary notices to be posted about
the city.
The penalty In each instance IL to be
fixed at sl0OO fine or six months impris-
onment, one or both, TO be inflicted in the
judgment Of the court.
The Mayor, the members of the Board
OF Aldermen, the City Clerk and all others
to whom the duties OF calling and pre-
pairing the machinery for an election I'm
the city Of Newport may be delegated arc
to be made subiect!to the heavy penalty.
Full opportunity is also to be given for
proceeding by madamus before the time
o..
has elapsed.
The charter will be amended 80 that it
shall provide that on or before a certain
time the regular election machinery shall
be set in motion. In the event that thisi IL
not done the Mayor and Aldermen may bo
summoned to court early enough to bo
compelled by the judicial authority to call
a regular election and provide for 1t In
every detail.
The Republicans will pass a bill to pro-
vide for the special election in Newport
and from present indications the leaders
intend to have everything dovetailed to-
| gether pretty we'll when they meet In the
extraordinary legislative session week
| hence.
The leading members OF the judiciary
committee OF the House of Representatives
| have had several conferences and fully ap-
| proved the several matters relating to the
city of Newport, which are here for the
nrst time made public.
Senator Aldrich, who has taken a deep
interest in the Newport political muddle,
Is also very emphatically in favor of the
proposed legislation.
According to the programme, the Re
| publicans are to have a special municipal
| election follow quickly after the legisla-
tive session, and the hasty Inauguration
| of the newly elected government prior to
the Presidential election.
The party which succeeds in carrying
the city at the special election will have
the Board OF Aldermen las its canvassing
board in the Federal contest.
Evidently the Democratslare aware Of
some important things in connection
with this case, which the Republicans
have not yet perceived, for they say the
leaders of the Republican party In tho
General Assembly cannot straighten out
the Newport tangle in meeting of the
Assembly, even backed up by the cloture
rule.
The Democrats say, too, that the session
which convenes here so hurriedly may
not be ended at the time OF tho tPresiden-
tial election. They charge that in tinker
Ing with the charter OF the city OF New
port at the special July meeting, the Re-
publicans made the mistakes which
caused the lapse Of the Irregular Newport
city election.
Within the week when the special ses-
sion Is held, the Democrats and Repub-
licans will hold their State conventions.
The friends Of Mayor Honey OF Newport
look for something very bitter In the way
Of an attack upon him, both from Cover
nor Brown and upon the door Of the Gen
eral Assembly.
Mayor Honey is also expected to respond
| in the press and from the platform. He
will have the fullest opportunity, al
though debarred from meeting the charges
| against him in connection with tho New
| port affair upon the floor OF the House oi
Representatives, to which body he was
elected, and from which he was unseated