The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-02-12
IN STATE LEGISLATURE.
Neither Branch Transacted Any
Business of Importance.
The Finance Committee TO Hold a
Meeting Tomorrow-Ambrose Was
Speaker Today.

Two OF the honorable Senator'S re-
sponded to the State House bell today and
came to order when Governor Brown
sounded the gavel. They retired in good
order on motion of Senator Ryan of Cum
berland for an adjournment to Tuesday
morning at ii O'Clock.
In the House.
The House chamber was more bumer-
ously tenanted. AS many as a dozen put
in'an appearance, but Speaker owen was
engaged in court. There was an interval
OF waiting and then Clerk Conley seized
the gavel TO enforce silence. He called
for nominations for speaker pro tenn. and
Ambrose West was the unanimous choice.
He didn'ts order the tocsin of triumph
to be sounded, but was coached
by the clerk to order the
roll-call. After that formality was COM
piled with and the announcement given
that there was no quorum present, AM
brose inquired IL there was any commit
tees TO report. He failed to get response
and Martin q. Parks of Richmond moved
to adjourn. The motion prevailed and
Ambrose decended from the throne TO re-
ceive the congratulations of his colleagues.
The Contract for Literature.
Clerk Conley announced the award Of
the contract for supplying the newspapers
TO the House TO Representative O'Suilivan
of Valley Falls. There were ten competi-
tors, and they offered TO supply literature
until May ID, estimating the length of the
session from previous years, and taking
no thought OF possible proroguement.
They, doubtless, looked upon the interval
as a sort of recess, and the yeomanry will
have their papers and magazines mailed
to their farmhouses Just the same.
The Finance Committee.
Chairman Hayward OF the finance COM
mittee has called meeting for tomorrow
at the rising of the House. Adjutant
General Dyer has been summoned to di-
gest the appropriation for the militia
which, it is claimed, Is $500 in excess of
last year. The increased expenditure is
thought to be due TO rifle practice, and
this branch of the service is not thought
to warrant any such outlay. Some of the
committee see no reason why the target
shooting should not be engaged in at the
regular encampment rather than at the
State Range at Sassafras Point.
Democracy's Orators.
The list of Democratic orators i'm sup
port of the judiciary committees resolu-
tion, returning the Governors message
unread to the Senate, has been selected.
First and foremost is Champion Honey,
followed by DIR. Garvin, p. j. Mccarthy,
p. ii. Mulholland, Ambrose West,
d, as clincher, the Honorable
FraDklin p. Owen, speaker. If the minor
ity fail to take up the gauntlet, the list
may be cut down materially. Such fiery
advocates as Mccarthy and Mulholland
court violent opposition TO put them at
their best, and as they look to the gallery
for inspiration, they ought to be enabled
to illuminate ad libitum.s 1t is doubtful
whether the exercise OF their
utmost ingenuity will stir up the opposi-
tion to engage in mud singing. II such
is the case, the tactics of the revolutionists
will not prove remarkably diverting' CIR
sensational, and the bul-pen will be the
abode of disgusted and wearfed humanity.
just arrived from London Eng, two cases uu-
lined tunndultorated. sec Fraser spice BoSl Nat
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