Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-05-31
AT NEWPORT TODAY.
Senate AdJourns After Fifteen-Minute
session.

Senate AdJourns After Fineen.Minute
Session.
From our special correspondent.
NEWPORT, May 81, 1890 p. m.-There
will be no election for State officers today
and probably none tomorrow either. The
Senate remained I'm session only 10 min
utes, during which time they passed the
plurality election resolution passed by the
last Legislature and ordering its submis
sion to the people on November 22. 1t was
not sent to the House, however, as the
Senate has not yet made up its mind to
recognize the House. After the passage
OF this resolution the Senate adjourned.
The House OF Representatives met at
9:45 o'clock and completed It's roll. A
resolution was passed directing Represen-
tative Clark of Newport to notify the
Senate that the House had completed It's
organization and was ready to proceed
with the business of the session. Mr..
Clark, after going to the Senate chamber,
returned with the announcement that the
Senate had avoided the notification by ad
journing.
The House then passed resolution In
vitiDg His Excellency the Governor aud
the Senate to meet the House in grand
committee tomorrow morning to count
the votes cast for general officers and also
to elect other State officers.
Representative Allen of East Greenwich
moved that the House notify the Senate
that the House is disorganized and not
ready to do any business. His motion was
ruled out Of order as impertinent.
Representative Garvin OF Cumberland
presented a resolution for submitting the
question OF holdinga constitutional con-
vention to the people on the fourth Tues
| day In November. This was passed by a
vote Of 81 to 3, Messrs. Allen, Wilson and
Stephen Greene being the only negative
| votes cast.
Representative Honey presented an act
providing for plurality elections for all
officers not named in the Constitution,
such as mayors, aldermen, councilmen,
| and other like officers. This he said
would relieve the City OF Pawtucket,
which was now holding monthly elec.
tions In one ward there.
This was opposed by Representative
Wilson OF East Providence, as II would
plunge cities into crime and that they
wouldIfet, b up in State prison, same as the
Chicago officers. The act was passed, as
Mr.. Honey said that MIR. Wilson inti-
mated that the bill would merely create
charges OF plunder.
Mr.. Garvin introduced bill for 5i-
hour law.
The House adjourned at few minutes
past noon.
The Democrats mean to go into grand
committee tomorrow, or know the reason
why. They did not attempt, however, to
form grand committee by the coming
together of the House and Senate Demo-
Gratis as at rst proposed, the confidence
in the Supreme Court sustaining them In
that position being shaken. They claim
that the very act passed by the last Legis-
ture in its dying hours, and specially de-
nominated as mandatory, declares that
the Senate shall meet the House OF Rep
resentatives I'm grand committee.
Tho Democrats therefore propose that
that the Senate either meet them or vio-
The Republicans still insist that the
House has initiated revolutionary acts by
unseatiDg legally elected members and by
appointing the posse OF guards headed by
Captain John Waters, thereby giving
them ample reason for refusing to meet
with the Democratic House, who by this
time tomorrow may be classed by Gov
ernor (Holdover) Brown and his advisers
ss insurg sDts or worse.
A bill is to be introduced limiting or
dinary sessions of the Legislature to fifty
DAYS and special sessions to ten days with
mileage at cents per mile and three
dollars day for ordinary members and
five dollars a day for the Speaker and the
salaries OF all other State officers to be
regulated by General Assembly.
HARCoURT.