Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-12-29
LEGISLATURE
JUST ONE
WEEK AWAY
Promises to Be One of the Most
Remarkable Ever Held.
SOME LIVE QUESTIONS UP
Prohibition and Election Laws
Will be Storm Centers---
Houses on Opposite
Sides. Inauguration

Two weeks from today the fifty sew
enth general assembly of the state of
Tennessee is due to be called to order
in its two branches. The senate will
be called to order by Hon. E. W..
Thomas, clerk of the last senate. The
clerk of the last house, Hon. Edward
B. Martin, is a resident of another
state, and this task will likely devolve
upon Fred T. Wilson, assistant clerk.
The first thing, after invocation,
will be the calling of the roll of the
members elect, having certificates,
these members elect being sworn in.
Notices of contest may then be filed.
There will be at least one contest in
the senate-that of William York
against J. P. Davis, in the Third dis
trict. There will likely be one or more
contests in the house, each branch
passing on its own contests. Speakers
are to be chosen also on the first day,
as we'll as clerks. Following organiza-
tion an adjournment will be taken un-
til the next day.
From all signs the coming session
of the general assembly is destined to
be in many respects the most remark
able ever held in Tennessee. Certain
ly for the first few days there will be
the most absorbing interest in the pro-
ceedings, for vital questions will be
settled.
On the face Of the final returns, the
administration democrats have major
ity in the senate. and will, if they
hold together be able to organize the
senate by safe majority. Inthe house
the fusionforces have majority larger
than that of the administration demo-
Gratis in the senate, and hence on joint
ballot to elect United States senator
to succeed Senator Frazier, will have
a majority OF few votes. Both sides
claim to be able to control the election
of the next senator.
One notable feature will be the in
auguration of Capt. B. W. Hooper,
republican, as governor The vote two
years ago was canvassed by the joint
session on Jan. 1, fourteen days after
the opening of the legislature, and
Gov. Patterson was inaugurated on
Jan. 81. It is presumed that Gov.
elect Hooper will be indicted into
Office about the same interval after the
opening. For time there was heard
talk that the senate would refuse to go
into joint meeting to canvass the
vote until late in the session thus
keeping the new governor out until
near the close of the deliberations of
the law making body but the best OPP
inion is that this will not be tried but
that Capt. Hooper will become govern
or in due course of things.
The following is the law for the can
vass of the vote taken from the acts of
1895:
"The majority of the members of
the two houses of the general assembly
of the state of Tennessee shall, on
day of its regular session to be by it
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in the hall of the house of representa-
tives for the opening and publishing
of the returns of the election for gov
ernor, as hereinafter provided, and to
determine the election for governor of
Tennessee and declare the result.
ga majority of the members of each
house shall constitute quorum, and
the speaker of the senate shall preside.
Every member shall have one vote,
and the majority of the votes cast
shall prevail on all questions to be de-
5ermined by the joint convention. The
Joint session may be adjourned from
lime to time, and rules of order may |
De adopted and altered. A minority |
hall have the power to compel the at
enhance Of absentees by arrest on
issued and signed by the
peaker of the senate, executed by the
ergeant -at-arms of the senate, or any
aerson authorized by the joint conven-
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