Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-03-12
A ABRIGHTEROUTLOOK
Prospect Was Better at Frankfort
This Morning.
PCL1CE ON GUARD IN TIE CAPITOL
Authorities Are Determined to Pre-
serve Order.
INDIGNATION IN KENTUCKY

FRANKFORT, Ky, March 1.-THE pros
pect for peace and order was brighter this
| morning. and it may be that the further
disgrace of the states name will be ad-
verted. The governor has been appealed
| to in the name of order to protect the name
of Kentucky, and at conference between
| the governor and Mayor Julian it was
agreed to exhort every means to this end.
The local authorities are first to act, and
| then the militia.
The senate spent the morning in wran-
Cling ever the approval of the journal of
yesterday, under which Senators James
and Walton were expelled. 1t was :,p-
proved by a party vote.
Senators Walton and James car1e over
| this morning, but did not &C to the senate.
They at once entered the house unmOlest ted
| ready to demand the right to vote if by SO
doing they could elect republican United
States Senator.
The joint session assembled as quietly as
| of yore. Dunlap did not appear at the bar
OF the house to be sworn in this morning,
| as was expected although he was in the
city, and there is much criticism by re-
publicars as 10 his action. MIR. Dunlap
promised Mr.. Boyle. the republican NOM
| inee fer Senator last night chat he would
be sworn in toGay.
General Condemnation.
Condemnation came from all points Of
Kentucky this morning concerning the
scenes in the capitol yesterday, The Black
burn people are put on the defensive, and
the Senator himself is being severely criti-
cised for permitting Jack Chinn and his
followers to create the riot Irecpitated
yesterday.
The Louisville Evening Post (democratic),
in a long editorial under the heading OF
"OrganiZed LawlesSness." says:
laa1 1.rS n fn ole
Blackburn, not by force of numbers, but
by personal intimidation are counting too
much on the toleration already shown
them, and they may cross the line which
marks the point where patience ceases to
be virtue. The situation is menace to
peace. and a disgrace to the state and the
age. The assumption that the people may
not throw off the Blackburn yoke without
answering for it to Blackburn's retainers
belongs not to kentucky and the nineteenth
century, but to the days of feudalism.'
The Courier Journal says, editorially:
The legislative halls of Kentucky, sup
posed II ne the source of the states law,
were in the possession of mobs, which set
ct defiance all law. Turbulence, ruffian-
ism. madness. anarchy regned, and that
blood did not flow and death crown the
orgy of passion was a miracle not to be eX-
planned by the absence of instruments of
death and desperadoeS to WELD them. 1t
was an outIage upon the fame of a state
which never before knew such disgrace; i.
was mockery of civilization, a prostltu-
ton of political methods to the ends Of in
sane partisanship and british barbarism.
1t VIII be condemned by good citizens ev-
erywhere, whether democrats or republi-
cans"
LOUISVILLE, March PA special to the
Post from Frankfort, says:
The capt. is under constabulary rule
this morning. Mayor Julian ordered about
twenty extra policemen to remain on duty
in the rotunda of the capital. They are un-
der command Of Chief Tohin, with instruc-
tons to keep the rotunda absolutely clear.
This course was decided On by the mayor
after consultation with the governor, who
said to the mayor that If Frankfort WAS
urable to afford police protection to men,
bers, he intended to do so if it took every
state guard in Kentucky.
At 1870 o'clock everything was quiet,
and there were no indications of clash
Shortly after the house opened Repre-
sentative Kaufman walked down the aisle
and began to gather up his papers about
his desk. Mr.. Dunlap was not present
when work was begun. Senators James
ard Walton (unseated yesterday by the
ready to be on hand when the joint ses-
s'on began.
Representative Speed Tepubican) sent up
a resolution providing that whereas the au-
thorities of Frankfort and Franklin county
had failed to suppress lawlessness, and
mob violence had attempted to obstruct
legislation, Therefore be it resolved. that it
is the sense of this body that the capitol
and protection will be guaranteed"
The speaker ruled the resolution out Of
order.
Indications of Trouble.
FRANKFORT, KY, March 12.-As soon
as the democratic leaders found that the
two members of the Senate, James and
Walton, had secured admission to the house
chamber, they raised protest. Mayor
Julian, who was hand with extra po-
licemen, was asked to see that the SEN
ators went peaceably from the floor of
the house before the joint assembly con-
vened, in order that all trouble might be
prevented. The mayor refused to act, but
said that it was within the power of the
house, if it chose to do SO, to eject the two
men.
Senator Bronston argued for some time
with the mayor. but was without effect.
The solution was very critical Because the
democrats declare that if an attempt was
made by the two ex-members to vote 1t
would precipitate trouble.
The republican leaders claimed that both
James and Walton had a right to the floor
of the house, and some of them were not
slow to say that they would vote in joint
assembly for United States Senator.
Adjutant General Collier said that the
Kaufman in the house and the declaring
vacant of the seats of James and Walton
in the senate was that Kaufman was le-
gally unseated, while James and Walton
were not.
1t is expected that the adjutant general
will take a hand in case the trouble axis
out.
The corridors were filled with an even
more desperate set of men than was pres
ent yesterday. The men in the corridors
were guarding the door of the house cham
Der. and the outsiders looked with longing
eyes through the glass doors. Walton and
James were sitting side by side in the left
hand corner of the chamber, where it
| would be exceedingly hard to get at them
| in case Of an attempt at expulsion.
Clearing the Corridors.
Special police just before noon ordered
eli persons in the upper corridors to go be-
| low, and a dense mass Of men are now
gathered in the lower corridors IF the cap
itol A few are still left in the cloak rooms
| Of the house and senate, and these are now
being slowly forced out and down the STAIR
way. Among those In the senate cIoak
reom are Chinn, Lill2rd, Williams, Thomp-
| son, Roach, Blackburn and a number. OF
special policemen. No attempt has been
made to force clear the senate lobby of the
crowd now in it.
| When the senate filed into the house
| chamber to ballot for United States Senator
| Mr.. Dunlap had not arrived upon the floor
| or qualified.
J When this fact became known it served