The San Francisco call., 1905-01-07
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"The session will not adjourn and
members will keep their seats" called
the Speaker.
SENATORS LEAVE HOUSE.
"All in favor of adjourning will say
aye" called the Lieutenant Gov
ernor. "All opposed, no."
The "ayes" and noes" came in
about equal volume and then down
came the gavel of the Lieutenant Gov
ernor with vicious slam.
THE ayes have it and the session is
dissolved"
Whack! went the. Speakers gavel.
The noes have5it and the session is
not dissolved" he said.
THE members of the Senate will
leave the House, said the Lieutenant
Goverhor, and quickly walking from
the Speakers stand he strode up the
aisle waving his gavel over his head
as though he was leading an infantry
charge.
All the Democratic Senators and a
; number of the Republican Senators
followed him.
Several Republican Senators re-
mained in the House and took part in
the proceedings held there until the
final adjournment.
The doors were then locked and no
member was permitted to pass out.
Again and again Representative
Frewen raised the point of order that
no proper joint session was being held,
and every timet the speaker declared
him out of order.
Representative Griffith then pre-
sented the protest from Governor Pea
body, which was read by the clerk. 1t
covered the history Of the recent cleo
tion in Denver and suggested to the
Legislature that it was the duty OF
that body to make a complete inves-
tigation of the election. 1t protested
against the canvass of the votes until
the investigation had been completed
and the number of legal votes for each
candidate had been ascertained.
GOVERNORS PROTEST READ.
Accompanying the protest was a res
olution presented by Griffith urging the
appointment of a committee of ten from
the House and five from the Senate to
investigate the vote and report daily to
the Legislature, with final report not
later than Monday afternoon.
The reading of the Governors protest
lasted but about a minute, when Rep
resentative Frewen raised the point of
order that it was not german to any
subject under consideration. He was
declared out of order, raised his point
of order again and once more was de-
clared out of order. He appealed from
| the decision of the chair and the Speak
! er refused to hear his appeal.
Representative Street moved an ad-
journrnent and the Speaker would not
entertain it. Street insisted that his
motion was in order according to the
rules. He was informed by the Speak
er that this was a Joint session and no
rules had been adopted for the control
of joint session.
/ After the reading of the resolution
+ Griffith demanded a roll call. On It's
adoption several members made
speeches explaining their views. the
Republican Senator Morgan declaring
that he only voted "aye" because he
did not wish to ally himself with the
Democratic party, but he wished to say
that the presiding officer of the Senate
/ had been insulted by the House. The
resolution was adopted by vote of 81
! ayes and i no, the negative vote being
cast by the Republican Senator Wood.
Seventeen Republican Senators were
present and voted for the resolution.
Throughout the roll call Representative
Street constantly urged the point of or
der that no quorum was present and
was constantly declared out of order.
Street finally sat down. After the
adoption of the Griffith resolution a
motion to dissolve the joint session was
carried. Speaker Dickson then called
the House to order and it promptly ad-
Journed.'
Lieutenant Governor Haggott and his
followers assert tonight that five of
the Republican Senators who We're in
the Joint session to-day will remain
away tomorrow and prevent a
/ quorum.
The Wolcott Republicans. whose
leader Is Lieutenant Governor Haggott,
have demanded certain concessions
from the Peabody people as the price
4 Of their assistance. These things are
j reported to be the privilege of naming
4 the two new Justices of the Supreme
Court and getting half the Guberna-
torial patronage. The Peabody people
arc not willing tonight to agree to the
request.