The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-09-07

was mere figment OF the Legislative,
imagination, invented for the occasion
and that its actual location in the coun
ty named was problematical. being a.
yet the football Of factions within It'll,
faction that had passed the remova
bill.
A year later, at meeting Of the fourth
Legislative assembly, the quarrel broke
out afresh. Governor lizard had resign
ed, and Richardson, his successor, haC
not arrived, and Secretary Cunning was
again in the chair. Nine days prior to
the expiration Of the session, on the 18th
OF January, bill was introduced for the
removal of the capital to Florence. The
various tactical distractions in the
minority, engineered by such rising
young statesmen as DIR. Geo. l.. Miller
president OF the council, and A. j
Poppleton and j. Sterling Morton in
the house, made it impossible to accom-
plish the object without strategy. The
strategy resorted to was simple. bu,
startling. On the morning of the 9Th
MIR. Donelan of Cass placidly rose in his
place and moved that we do now adj
Journ to meet at Florence tomorrow
morning at the Usual hour" Speaker
Decker, who was one of the removers
put the question from the chair. as
though 1T was the most natural thing in
the world to meet at Florence to morrow
morning; and the motion prevailed. and
the speaker and all but thirteen mem.
bers of the house picked up their hats
and left the chamber. The thirteen
held the fort, elected Morton speaker
pro tenn, and gallantly affected an adj,
journment TO meet again on the morrow
at the old stand
a similar scene was Transporting in the
council. DR.. Miller, in the chair. re,
fused to put the motion to adjourn tC
Florence, and it was put by Reeves OF
Otoe. declared carried, and eight coun-
cilmen stalked out into the cold world
and prepared themselves for an eternal
exodus to the village up the river. AS
to this emigration Douglas county was
again divided against herself. Bowen
and Allen, the one representing Flor
ence, and the other standing for that
cruel Juno, Bellevue, whose lofty mind
still resolved vengeance for the judgment
of Paris and her injured beauty, we're
the leaders in the race, and behind the
twain marched Bradford and Reeves of
Otoe, Kirkpatrick of Cass, Stafford Of
Dodge. and Furnas of Nemaha.
Governor Richardson arrived about
this time, TO find two capitals and two
legislatures in full blast, and himself
the unwilling arbitrator Of the war. He
promptly refused to recognize the Flor
ence legislature. though it had the mai
ority in both houses. The forty DAYS
limit OF the session broke up both bod
les, and they each adjourned. leaving
the business of the session undone. and
the territory without code of criminal
law, and thus ended the first and last
attempt recorded in history to attach
the removal of a seat of government to
motion to adjourn until to morrow
morning.
The consequence was an extra session
not long after, in 1859. at which much
business was done, and in which Mr..
Daily of Nemaha introduced a bill to
abolish slavery in the territory, but dur
ing which the capital agitation slumber-
ed and slept.
The legislature met on the 18th of
May, and the lines were quickly drawn