New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-05
4 CONNECTICUT ASS.

Another fool has dubbed up. In the adJoln-
inc State of Connecticut they have been Tor
some time in a haf-organlzed and thorough!
disorganizcd way trying to cxtncae themselves
from the legislative embarrassment OccaSl0hcd
by the action Of an accidentally Democratic
senate. which took upon itself the power ana
responsibility of not being merely department
Of the State but of being the State itself. II der
tho advice of feathcr-hcadcd lawyer the State
Senate Of Connecticut little more than year
ago shoudered the responsibility on itself, which
by law was divided with It's co-ordinate body, OF
declaring who was the legally elected Governor
The majority in that body took upon ITSELF not
only the power of governing it's own action but
the power of directing what the House OF Kepre-
sentatives should and ought to do. Out OF hand
it said and put itself on record as saying, thaO
it alone was the judge of election returns, ana
all legal and constitutional questions relating
thereto. and that what it said should 60 And
so. having registered in formal way It's judg-
ment to that effect, it proceeded to call up the
Democratic candidate for Governor, who under
the law was not elected, and swear him In as
Governor A. performance which only accentuat-
ed the Stiffness of this casual majority by max
ING an otherwise respectable New-llaven lawyer
ridiculous.
Meantime the minority in the House Of Repre-
sentatives was engaged in strenuous endeavor
to turn the somewhat serious proceeding OF the
election of State officers into common every
day farce They were in minority, 70 be sure
but they had a notion that they might possibly
stay it out, and worry the majority into acq'n-
csccnce in the utter lawleSsncSs Of the Senate
proceeding. 50 they INSTRUCTED business. Foltl-
nately u gentleman was Governor VINO had'
besides staying power, general sense that ne
was in place under certain well-deiIncd c0nSutu-
tional and statutory provisions which, over ana
above all other considerations, hndelcd him from
weakly giving way TO a successor who under
took TO succeed without title or warrant. lie
STAYED and stands justified in staying by the
decision On the highest court; by It's unanimous
decision. in which is included the vote of at least
one Democrat whose political orthodoxy has never
been attacked and whose personal character Is
beyond reproach.
And now tho minority in the Connecticut
House have taken a lesson from David i. llil
and undertaken 10 organize n minority into an
active and acting coordinate legislative body
An infatuated statesman by the name OF Walk
or. who reprc~nnts-or thinks he docS-the town
of Hartford, has SCI up House Of Representa-
tivcs with a Speaker and other officers having
all the appearance Of legitimacy; all tho out
ward seeming of official character; and he pro-
POSES. after the manner of David i. Hill, to run
the State of Connecticut. He has wcll-diSci-
plincd party 10 help him, and he docs not lack
the Astounding elf-consciouSneSs and confidence
Of his great exemplar, David Il. Hill. But we
are very much mistaken in our estimate Of the
general good sense of the people Of Connecticut
If they do not presently rise up and bounce this
prepsterous person with the remark: "Oh,
get out You're an ass :"