The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-18
VICTORY FOR REPUBLICANS.

Governor and the Majority House.
TOPEKA, Kan. Fob. 1.-THE develop
ments of the day are regarded on all sides
as q decisive victory for the Republicans.
Even the PopulIsts. with chsgrin and
openly expressed Indignation at what some
of them call the Governors weakness. ad-
nit that the Republicans have triump phed
for the time, at least. Peace was re-
stored by the acceptance by the
Governor and the Republican House
of q compromise proposition for the
cessation of hostilities. By the terms of
this proposition the Repu blIcans secure un-
disputed possession of Represen tative Hall
In the Capitol, the main point for which
they havo been struggling. The Populists
secure the hollow privilege of meeting un-
disturbed in some other place.
The failure of the Populist plan to drive
the Republicans from Representative Hall
after they had barricaded themselves there
Wednesday morning. was due TO the refusal
to obey orders of the very force upon which
the PopulIsts had depended to carry the
plan iuto execution-the State militia.
Consequently the P0pulists were compelled
to sue for peace. The Governor claims the
Populist have carried their point, which
was the prevention of the arrest by the
Republican House of Chief Clerk Rich of
the Populist House, which started all the
trouble last Tuesday.
The events of the last few days and
their final result will have no effect on the
unfortunate legislative muddle. There
will be no amalgamation of the bodies The
Populists say the POpulist House Will 60
right ahead making laws the same as if
there were no such thing as courts no mat
ter what the courts may do. The Senate
will continue TO recognize the House and
the Governor will sign the bills passed by
1t. Should the bills be declared to be in.
valid by reason Of having been passed by
an illegal house, then, say the Popullsts,
the blame will rest up0n the courts. In
case such q thing comes to pass. the State
institutions. the colleges. asyl lum. schools.
etc., would doubtless have to close.
Both Republicans and POpulists contin-
ued consideration through last night of the
amended proposition OF compromise sub
mitted by the Governor yesterday after
noon. At 10 o'clock this morning the final
conference was held. The meeting came to
an end att P. NJ. and the Republican com.
mittee returned at once to the House and
made the following report signed by the
Governor and the three committeeman from
the House:
1t being the understanding that the house pre-
sided over by Mr. Dunsmore has secured hall
in which to meet the house presided over by Mr..
douglass shall remain in possession of Repre-
sentative hall undisturbed and unmolested. The
house presided over by Mr. Dunsmore shall in
like manner be undisturbed and unmolested in
possession of the hall which 1t has secured, and,
II so desired, 1t may select room in the State
house Tor Its meetings, other than Representa-
tive hall.
In the way of explanation of the propo-
sition the following note was added, which
was signed by the Governor end the COM
m!tteemen:
Tba ma lnran do ali hv
ling and George L. Douglass, ID. W. Eastman
and j. X. Cubbison as Il committee OF the House
OF Representatives, presided over by George L.
Douglass and hereto attached. Is not to be con-
strued as q recognition by either the Douglass or
DunsmOre House of the legal organization or
character OF either OF such houses by the Gov
ernor or the Senate, and shall not be used in
court or In any legislative body as evidence for
entered unon the iournaI or other record of
either the Douglass House, or the Dunsmore
House, or the Senate.
Governor LowellIng sent word to the
Populist House of the result of the confer
ence. and instructed Acknowledgement
ArtZ to prepare TO call off the dogs of war.
Finally. at $50 o'clock. Governor Lowell
ing cent word that the troops had been
withdrawn and ordered home. The Gov
ernor dictated the following statement to
an Associated Press reporter this after
noon:
The Populist party has taken no step back
wards To the Republican House has been
ccueu III TIE interest OF harmony tne possession
OF Representative hail. Capitol building. The
concession of the hall is not an admission on the
part of the Populists or myself that the Repub-
ncan Is the constitutional House. The Populists'
House will now proceed without fear of m0lesta-
ton TO any of it's officers members by arrest or
other means TO the transaction of business
Bloodshed has been averted. This means tho
crowDing triumph of the Populist victory.
The Senate, to-day. took no action upon
the bill passed by the Populist House yester.
day. empowering the Governor to remove
for cause the sheriff of any county at any
time. The entire tine of tho Senate was
occupied in discussing a bill providing for
the removal of the capital to the interior
OF the State, whioh the PopulIsts desire.
Many and varied com plications W ill arise
out of the dispute between the POpuiists
and Republicans as to which House 10 the
legally organized and constituted body.
The latest developments are announced to-
night. Brigadier General HeItinRer stated
that Col. j. w. 4. Hughes will be court
msrtialed. The ground for the court
martial proceedings will be based upon the
refusal of Colonel Hughes to obey the in
structlons of the Governor To eject the Re-
publican members OF the lower branch of
the Legislature from Representative hail.
1t ia not unlikely that other court-martial
proceedings against other officers for fail
ing TO report at Topeka upon the instance
of the Governor will be instituted. The
blow to the Kansas national guard. which
sas.
Corpse OF q Leper Dissected.
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