Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-03-13

[ the legislature decided otherwise Z,
: after the taking OF one vote upou
? question of minor Importance an
: one which has very little bearing II,
ON the final decision. the conyentio
adjourned till tomorrow morning
The Alexander report from III
contest committee. which recon
nlends the seating OF Lieutenant
Governor Mcdonald. on the groun
That there was so much fraud in tn
November election that no one ca,
tell who was legally elected govern
or of Colorado. and that as he receIy
ed an undoubted plurality of tn
votes he should be declared entitls,
to the Office. occupied most of tn,
attention of the session.
The question was presented as fol
lows; AT the opening OF the session
Representative Thomas moved tn,
adoption of the majority report, II
favor of seating Mr.. Peabody. TbI.
was amended to substitute the minor
ity report in favor OF Adams, and
then Bromley moved the substitution
OF the Alexander report. The poin,
OF order was raised that this report
was out OF order. and that as this
was contest between Adams and
peabody, that 1t would not be posi-
hle to seat anyone else. Lieut. Gov,
ernor Mcdonald, the presiding Off.
Ger, ruled that II was impossible 10
consider the names of anyone beside
the contestor and contestee in this
case, and that therefore the report
could not be considered. An appeal
was taken from this decision and
after many delays a vote was taken
on 1t, resulting in the sustaining of
The appeal-42 to so. During the de.
bate Mr.. Alexander and then Mr..
owen tried TO have the report amend
ed so as TO leave out the recommend.
alton to seat Mcdonald. and to sub
stitute declaration that the ofIlc,
OF governor was vacant, thus allow
Ing Mcdonald to take tne seat
Many explanations OF the action of
the convention are given The
Democrats say II shows that the Me.
Donald forces are in the ascendant.
or that 1t means the seating Of Ad-
ans. Others explain the matter by
SAYING that according to the rules of
the house. the report Of the minority
members of committee should al.
ways be considered first. and that
the members of that body took 1t as
an afront TO try to cut out the con
sideration of any minority report, es-
pecially on sucn short notics.
or course, the action of Mr., Nc
Donald is watched with much inter.
est at this time. He mas already
stated several times that II is abso-
'utely Illegal to attempt to place in
he subernatorial chair anyone beside
either Mr.. Peabody or Mr. Adams.
and stated so distinctly this morning
when ne ruled out the consideration
of the report for him. The lawyers
on both sides stated in their argu-
ments that no other names could be
considered. The statement In the
Post to the effect that Joel F. Vale
had stated that Mcdonald could be
legally seated has been shown to be
pure falsehood, as he positively re-
fused to be interviewed by the Post
reporter who at once concluded from
this fact that Mr.. Vale thought the
law to be as the Post stated
The vote shows that here are some
Republicans who know tnat Adams
was not elected on Nov. last, but
for reasons best known to themselves
do not want to have Mr.. Peabody
seated. When they find that II is an
absolute impossibility to seat Nc
Donald. they will be forced TO al
showdown. and then the only thing
they can do is to vote for Gov Pea
body
The committee appointed to inves-
tigate the bribery charges met last
night and heard evidence on both
sides. The committee adjourned to
meet this morning. hut owing to the
session of the convention the meeting
was put on until this evening, As
soon as the charges were made by
Morgan. the Denver papers at once
began to try the case. and have
trumped up n large number OF stor-
les about Morgan in order to influence
the action OF the legislature on tho
case. II 1t had been Democrat who
charged corruption by a Peabody par.
tisan. he would have been lauded to
the skies as nero and anyone who
questioned his motives would have
been traitor and a scoundrel Of
the black-st sort. But the shoe is
on the other foot, and instead every
kind OF outrageous attack has been
made upon Morgan. Meanwhile the
charges OF corruption against tne Re
publicans nave almost entirely cess-
ed. r. P.B.
DENVER, March 1O.-The senate