Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-06-02

Joint resolution OF adjournment until
next January at Providence, reported the
following significant substitute resolu-
tion as showing the conservative and
non-revolutionary course of the Demo-
cracy:
ask the supreme Court upon certain ques-
tions of law
Whereas, at the present session OF the
General Assembly the Senate has refused
to Join the House OF Representatives in
grand committee for the purpose OF count
ing and declaring the votes cast for gen.
eral officers at the election held
for such refusal that since
the organization of the said House, that
body has unseated certain of its member
and seated a person not elected, thereby
changing the character Of the grand COM
mittee,
Resolved, That His Excellency, the
Governor, be and he hereby Is requested
to ask the judges of the Supreme Court to
give their opinion upon the following
questions OF law, each House being repre-
sented before said conrt by counsel at a
hearing which shall be given upon said
questions:
"If the House OF Representatives, after
before notifying the Senate of the organi.
zation, and before requesting the Senate
to meet the House in grand committee,
proceeded to strike from the list men
toned In section IL OF chapter l ,19l of the
public laws passed May %, 1893, the name
OF sitting member and placed thereon the
name OF a person who, In the opinion
OF the Senate and of Ave judges of the
Supreme Court, is not entitled to a seat
In said House; and that also, after the
election of Speaker and clerks, and before
such notification, and before such request,
did also strike from Its roll OF mem bership
the name OF another person, which, In
the opinion OF the Senate also ought to
have been allowed to remain thereon, is
the House so organized "a constitutional
body for legislative purposes, and is said
House OF Representatives a constitutional
body for the purpose of forming a part of
the grand committee; and is the Senate,
by reason OF said changes I'm said list,
absolved from the duty prescribed In sec
tion OF article OF the constitution to
join with the House In grand COM
mittee for the purpose of counting and
declaring the votes cast for general OFF,
GERS, after notification OF organization by
the House OF Representatives and a re-
quest from 1t given Immediately after
such notification to join 1t in grand COM
mittee for the purpose aforesaidH"
The House passed the substitute resolu-
tion by party vote after some opposition
was made by Messrs. Wilson and Allen.
A message from the Senate was at this
point recesved which was to the effect
that the Senate refused to meet the House
In grand committee for the reasons as
published yesterday and alluded to In the
foregoing resolution.
Representative Brown of Providence
characterized the action of the Senate In
sending that message to CO. ordinate body
with equal constitutional powers as the
Senate, as insolent and insulting.
e It was sent back to the "august" Senate
with a resolution of the House ATTACHED
which was to the effect that the Senate
had no right to criticise the actions OF the
House, or, In other words, the Senate was
told to mind Its own burned business.
By this time the Senate had passed
another joint resolution OF adjournment
on the ground that irreconcilable differ
ences prevailed between the House and
the Senate which were likely to produce
long and fruitless session, and therefore
the Legislature should adjourn until jan
uary, 1894, In Providence.
The House declined to consider this
resolution when ii was transmitted by
Judge Warner, the Clerk of the Senate,
and instead took a recess until 2 O'Clock.
The Senate, upon learning that such a
course was adopted by the House, also ad-
journed, and at present writing he leaders
on each side are In close consultation.
What may transpire at the afternoon
session Is at present entirely problemati-
cal. HARCoURT.