Evening star., 1896-03-17
SANG THE DOxOLOGY
Rollicking Good Humor at Frank
fort.
SESSION CLOSED With NO ELECTION
Troops Still Garrison the State
House.
G E n S U RING RADLEY
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Evening Star
FRANKFORT, March 1.-THE sun shone
down upon a peaceful scene IN the little
| town of Frankfort this morning. The ex-
citing proceedings Of the past few days
seemed to have cooled down entirely and
| IL it were not for the fact that the boys in
blue paced back and forth in front Of the
capitol building with guns on shoulders
no one would have thought there was any,
thing out of the ordinary going on. 1t was
evident even before the legislature met for
| the last time that there would be 10 legis-
lation of consequence passed. The feeling
| between the democrats in the senate and
the republican house ma jority was so in
tense that all he pc of agreeing upon any,
| thing was gi0n up. The revenue bills
| stood no more chance TO get through than
| if they had never been introduced. Many
| members of the house and senate crowded
| the office of the auditor all morning get
ting their per diem for the session in order
that they might get out of town and homs
at the earliest possible moment after .ha
| adjournment.
meeting of the senate majority invests
eating committee last night made it GER
| tain that there would be lively times in
| that body, and perhaps inflamma tory
speeches made by the Blackburn leaders.
Just before 10 o'clock Senators James and
Walton walked into the senate chamber,
and stepping up to Clerk Cromwell, asked
him for their certificates showing that they
We're entitled to salary for the entire ses-
sion.
| Cromwell said: Il will give you the
vouchers up to and including February IL,
but for no longer"
| The senators declined to take this, and
Immediately said that they would have the
| lieutenant governor give them the certif-
a. ho hav alt hat
| the auditor would issue them warrants"
Almost n Fight.
| This morning a personal encounter that
would certainly have resulted in the death
of either or both men, had 1t not been for
| the intervention of Gen. p. Wat Hardin
and others, occurred just outside the Capt.
! tol Hotel.
| About $50 o'clock Col. E. p. Gather of
the second regiment, State Guard. was
| walking up to the hotel when he met Jack
| Chinn. Col. Gather said:
How are you, Jack?'
Gather was passing Oh when Chinn re-
piled:
| 'D-n you; don't you speak to me-" and
| at the same time made movement for his
| hip pocket
| Before a weapon could be drawn Gen.
| Hardin rushed in between the two men and
| succeeded in preventing a fight; not be-
| fore Col. Gather. however, had said to
d
time, sir; it don't matter whether you
| speak to me not
| The courage of the two men is too we'll
known to need anything further said Had
| the fight commenced, it would have been
one to the death, as each man is dead
| game.
When the story of this encounter became
| known, it created great excitement and
| many said that it was but a beginning of
hot times between the friends of Black-
| burn and those who upheld the course of
the governor in calling out the militia.
In the Senate.
| The senate opened quietly. The clerk
started to read the journal 1t was dis
| pensed with in order to allow the commit
| tee on enrcllments to report. At least half
| a dozen enrolled bills were read. Senators
| hurried to and fro, while they were being
| read and held quiet conversations with each
| other. Senator Goebel is at work in his
room in the Capitol Hotel writing up the
| report of the senate investigating commit
| tee.
Outside in the corridor a detachment of
| troops stood around the iron railing, with
| guns on the floor. Some were reading the
| morning newspapers, while others gazed
| idly down on the large number of unfor-
| tunates who had not the necessary pass en-
| titling them to get upstairs. Capt Gaines
| of the McCreary Guards again stood at the
| foot of the stairway and closely scrutinized
| the passes of all who entered the building
| The assistants of the sergeant-at-arms Of
| the senate did not make another attempt to
| enter. They did not even attempt to enter
the capitol building. The sight of the militia
| was evidently distasteful.
Stormy House.
The house had another stormy beginning
this morning. Rev. Grider, the republican
member from Casey county, opened the
house in prayer, and sent up a most elo-
| quent appeal for peace and harmony, and
the hope that the session would close
| without bloodshed At the close of the
prayer Mr. Barnett of Ohio county offered
| a resolution indcrsing the action Of the
/ governor I'm calling out the militia. Mr..
Howard of Butler county moved the pre-
vtous question. In moment almost every
democrat In the house was on his feet
demanding to be heard. The speaker ruled
that the previous question had been order
! ed and no speeches were in order. This
| did not silence the democrats, and at least
| half dozen speeches were made at the
same time in the greatest of confusion.
| during which bayonet rule, carpet baggers,
soldiers, militia, anarchy, cowardice and
such epithets were thrown at the repub-
| Ncans. The resolution was adopted by
| yea and nay vote of 81 to 45.
To Fine and Imprison Bradley.
1t has leaked out that a meeting of
| Blackburn democrats is to be held tonight,
| at which addresses are to be delivered by
| Senator Blackburn, Gen. Hardin, Ollie
James and others, in which they will claim
| that the fact that no United States Senator
| was elected at this session is great VIC
| tory for Blackburn. The meeting it is
| said, will be an opening of the free silver
campaign in Kentucky. No doubt Gov
| Bradley will come in for n good share of
| abuse. The report of the senate Investigate
| ing committee, according to Senator Goe-
| bel, will not be ready until after the Joint
session. 1t will be lengthy and score the
| governor numerically. One story has it
| that the committee will recommend that
the senate fine the governor $500, together
| with Imprisonment for six months. That
| this is contemplated is shown by the
| mark of member of the committee few
| minutes ago He said: The committee
| has power to recommend such punishment
| as you have just suggested" The only
| thing that will prevent such report being
! made is the fact that it is known that
number of democratic senators will not
| consent tc it.
| Sang the DoNolOgy.
The joint session assembled today as
! peaceably as yesterday. A feeling of better
| huRior porvaded the house. The occasion
| a-,ia--c1 hy a pnrrher of ladies uho