Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-03-12
Prospect Was Better at Frankfort
This Morning.
POLICE ON GUARD IN TEE 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 adj
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 over the approval of the journal of
yesterday, under which Senators James
and Walton were expelled. 1t was ap-
proved by party vote.
Sena tors Walton and James came over
this morning. but did not go to the senate.
They at once entered tn, house unmoleSted
ready to demand the right to vote if 10y so
doing they could elect a 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-
publicans to his action. MIR. Dunlap
promised Mr.. Boyle, the republican NOM
inee fer Senator. last night that he would
be sworn in today.
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-
ctsed for permitting Jack Chinn and his
followers to create the riot precipitated
yesterday.
The Louisville Evening Post (democratic)
in long editorial under the heading OF
"OrganiZed LaWlesSneSs,' says:
'"rhe ringleaders in this scheme to elect
Blackburn, not by force of numbers, but
much on the liberation already shown
them, and they may cross the line which
marks the point where patience ceases to
be virtue The situation is a 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 Blackburns 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 be the source. of the states law,
were in the possession of mobs. which set
ct defiance all law. Turbulence, ruftian-
ism, madness, anarchy reigned, and that
blood did not flow and death crown the
orgy of passion was miracle not to be ex
planned by the absence of instruments of
death and desperadoes to WELD them. 1t
was an QUIT age upon the fame of a state
which never before knew such disgrace: /.
was a mockery of civilization. a prostitu-
ton of political methods to the ends OF in
sane partisanship and british barbartsm.
1t Will be condemned by good citizens ev
erywhere, whether democrats or republic
cans"
LOUISVILLE. March PA special to the
Post from Frankfort, says:
The capit,l is under constabrlary rule
this morning. Mayor Julian ordered about
twenty extra policemen to reclaim on duty
n he rntnpIa 0f The c0nifA1 They
der command of Chief T0hin, with instruc-
tons to keep the rotunda absolutely clear.
This course was decided en- by the mayor
after consultation with the governor, who
said to the mayor that If Frankfort was
uEable to afford police protection to men,
bers he intended to do so If it took every
state guard in Kentucky.
At 1890 o'clock everything was quiet,
ard there were no indications of clash.
Shortly after the house opened Repre-
sentative Kaufman walked down the aisle
and Logan to gather up his papers about
his desk Mr. Dunlap was not present
and Walton Cunseated yesterday by the
cemocrats) were in the house chamber,
re ady to be on hand when the joint ses-
sion began.
Representative Speed republican) 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
should Re moved to place where order
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 a protest. Mayor
Julian, who was on 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
would precipitate trouble.
The republican leaders claimed that both
James and Walton had 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
only difference between the unseating Of
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 hand in case the trouble breaks
out.
The corridors were filed 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
ell persons in the upper corridors to go be-
low, and 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, apd these are now
icing slowly forced out and down the slair-
way. Among those in the senate cloak
room are Cllinn, Lillard, Williams ThomD-
son, Roach, Blackburn and 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.
When this fact became known it served