The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1894-01-31
The Republican Senators Occupy a Van
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The Republican Senators Occupy a VAN
tage Ground That Is Impreguable.
Elisabeth Journal.
The Republican Senators are in a
stronger and more advantageous position
then seems to be understood.
10 the first place, they are In the ma
jority. In the second place they are fully
recognized by the House Of Assembly.
In the third place, they not emily hold cre-
dentials to their offices, but the originals
or duplicates OF these same credentials
| are on file in the office OF the Secretary of
State, and they have taken the cath OF
office aud are Senators In every sense OF
the word. In the fourth place the AT.
torney General aud Governor have recog.
nized them as Senators.
| Now let US suppose the House and the
eleven Republican Senators get to work,
as they undoubtedly will next week.
| Ia Vie House there are forty Republic
cans TO nineteen Democrats. In the Sen
ate, eleven Republicans to ten Democrats
Every bill passed will receive the major
| ITO OF votes OF both houses.
That's the constitutional requirement
| and the Governor who refuses to receive
bills passed, puts himself in bad position
The courts, too, will hardly feel like de
| claring, on the tecbnicality Of temper
| airy organization of the Senate, that bills
having received a majority of the vstes o.
all the Assembly and all the Senators are
not law in the constitutional sense of the
| term.
There are fifty enc Republicans and
only thirty Democrats. 1t will be mos
| revolutionary proceeding II any Stat,
official or the Supreme Court itself should
| declare that bills in themselves constitu
tional and receiving fifty-one votes, o.
| two -thirds of all the members of the Leg
| islature, are not laws because of the Nm
warranted, unprecedented and Infamous
usufpations of nine Democratic held over
members.
There Is another matter which give
the Republicans strength. They haze de
| tetmtued not to adjourn sine die. TIL,
Legislature will therefore be in continuous
session throughout the entire year. The
Governor cannot, under these conditions
appointany officials ad interim. The whole
Coprtof Chancery will be blocked; severa
| places on the Supreme Court bench will
be vacant, and unless the Governor ap.
proves OF the appropriation bills passed
by the Republicans, there will be no
money to pay salaries or carry on the
State Institutions.
The advantage which the Republicans
have in this condition OF affairs is out
lined 10 Hen. Cortlandt Parkers advice to
them ::
"Pass the bills most pressing, such as
the race-track repealers, &C., also repeal
the statutes which permit the Governor
and other State officers TO control aud APP
portion pubic appropriations, and thus
tying their bands and preventing the Trea-
surer and Comptroller from signing war.
rants for officers salaries.
with forty-four Republican members
forty Assembymen and four hold-over
Senators, about whose title to their seats
there fsih6 question-elect a Republican
State Treasurer aud Comptroller, and
then inform all the banks all over the Stale
where funds are deposited, OF the action ;
al the same time warning them of the risk
which they will assume II they honor
drafts or warrants upon public funds
from the Governor, State Trea>Hrer or
l. will be seen at once that although
the Democrats seem, on The surface, TO
have the best OF the situation, the Repub-
licans have really put themselves in a
very strong position and have forced the
enemy to defensive actien.
The very fact that Governnr Werls
wants to 60 to the Supreme Court with
his Conformation" aud his "quo warrauto"
is an evidence OF weakness, an evidence
that tue conspirajors see the trap into which
they have bindly rushed, and are trying
to get out OF 1t.
The Republicans are in the right. There
Is no doubt about 1t, not even 10 the
minds of Governor Werts and Attorney
General Stockton. Aud they have the
majority. What is more, they have now
the vantage ground in their favor, and
have tngral sentiment back of them. ;