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JOURNAL 5 J: q)1 u'uw VOL.. 9. NO.44 SAJLEM, OHEGOT,PBT3XAT, FEBRUARY 1, 189T. DAILY CAPI TAL Mitchell or Btisf Pro All Legal Quibbles Are Cast Aside to GET MITCHELL ELECTED Twenty-Seven Seats to Be Declared Vacant, CANNOT GET FORTY-SIX IN, So They Will Proceed to Elect With Only 32. AS A LEGAL QUORUM OF 63 And Send Mitchell to Washington With Spurious Documents, Dr. J. N. Smith threw a rotten egg into the Benson house this niorntng when lie inquired of Huntington about the committee apppolnted to see whether the legality of their proceed I ng could not be taken into the courts. Huntington replied that the com mittee went to work to make up a test case but a certain gentleman in the interest of a certain candidate told the committee to drop the mat ter and the committee had never met again. This was an admlslon that tbeMit chell managers were afraid to submit the legality of theBenson house to any court in Oregon. It created a sensa tion. The Mitchell or bust combination 'Hold their final seance at 10:30 tonight in thelegislative chamber of the house and will attempt to give him a seat with or without a quorum. The sen ate adjourred over to Monday after noon just as though there were no Benson house in existence. Chairman Brownell has ruled and the conven tion has proceeded on the theory that It could not proceed to take a vote on senator unless a lawful quorum of a majority of the ninety members wee present as required by the act of con gress regulating election of senators. Now the result of this theory is to force the Mitchell managers to declare certain scats (27) vacant,and then pro ceed to elect with a majority of joint assembly composed of 33 representa tives and 30 senators, or a majority of 03, which would bo 32. If Mitchell can get 32 votes tonight he will be armed with a good enough certificate, if duly signed by the joint officials to go to Washington and claim his scat. President Brownell will not have to reverse his ruling, that in the absence of 46 no vote on senator can be taken, because after the Crawford resolution passes it will only require 32 to make a quorum of both the house and senate. This will allow Mr. Brownell to adjust his political conscience to the necessity of the case and do no violence to that elastic integument of his statesmanship. JOINT CONVENTION. At 12 o'clock President Geo. C. Brownell called to order and following were present and answered to rollcall JOINT ROLL CALL. Benson, Bridges, Brown, Brownell, Chapman, Conn, Crawford, David, Driver, Dufur, Gratke, Gowan, Gur dane, Harmon, Hogue, Hughes, nope, Johnson, Jennings, Langell, Marsh, Merrill, Nosier, Patterson, Price, Palm, Rigby, Smith, Somers, Stanley, Thompson, Thomas, Taylor "Veness, Reed 35. Letters were read from Vaughn and Mitchell, that they would be present thi evening; also from Hudson. Wag ner came in at close of roll call but was notcounted. Harmon moved to dispense with reading the journal. Johnson moved to adjourn to 10:30 tonight. Both motlqns carried. The Benson bouse will .meet at 7:30 and adopt the resolution declaring 27 seats vacant and at 10:30 the ballot on senator In the double rump joint con vention will be taken. gram THE TWO HOUSES. Both houses of the lowor house held sessions, The Davis House adjourns from rky to day, and will continue to do so until permanent organization Is ef fected. BENSON HOUSE FRIDAY. The Benson bouse met at ten a. m. Mr. Benson in chair. Boll call showed 20 present as rollows: Benson, Bridges, Brown, Chapman, Conn, Crawford, Dayld, Gratke, Gur dane, nogue, Hope, Huntington, .Tell ings, Lake, Langell, Marsh, Merrill, Nosier, Palm, Rigby; Smith, Somers' Stanley, Thomas, Thompson, Veness, 26. Journal of Thursday was read. Somers arose to dpeakto the Craw ford resolution, unseating the opposi tion. He read from notesshowing that no such cpndltion of things had ever prevailed in any legislature In any state of our country. Who shall he blamed? Those In their seats or those who have refused to attend. Had this house the right to declare seats vacant? If this house had not that power who had that warrant? Because the governor alone had the right to issue a warrant for a special election, that was not an aigumcnt why we should not declare thfi seats Vacant. Sec 472, Cushing'slaw of practice of legislative assemblies, declared If a member failed to qualify his seat could be declared vacant, and these resolutions were an official notice to the governor that they were vacant. Let these men go home to their peo ple and receive the censure which it is also the duty of this house to admin ister. The measures recited in these resolutions were not binding on all members who voted for them, but outlined the general policy of lpgisla- tlon on which all here were agreed. It did not commit any man to any bill there mentioned. THE OTHER SIDE. Huntington questioned the right of this house to" go forward with this proceeding to declare vacancies. This house had this power or it had not. If they had not the power it was an inane and useless thing to at tempt to pass them. It seemed to him that if there was a vacancy it was for the goyernor to determine if there was one. The house was die Judge of the election and qualification of the members thereof. Sec. 2551 code was the section on which this proceeding was based. It was a well settled principle of law that a court abhorred declaring a forfeiture, and any con struction of law was to avoided declar ing a vacancy. This house was not a court. Sec. 2552 declared that failure to execute an official bond caused a vacancy but It did not exist unless de clared such by the governor. This house had the same right to declare these members dead that it had to declare their seats vacant. Would the finding of this house create a fact that did not exist. Failure to take the oath of office did not create a vacancy unless that fact is declared by proper authority and before a proper tribu nal. These members did not have to file their oaths here. We could not prove that they had not taken the oath of office. Theyl could take it before any magistrate. Were we not called upon to pass on a matter most serious in its nature with no evidence before It? There was not enough evidence here to convict Id the most trivial lawsuit. Other considerations might properly have recognition be fore a caucus, but not here. To ac complish a political result these men had pursued a revolutionary course and he had not one word of defense. At one time a committee was ap pointed to ascertain if this matter could not be detemlned in the courts. The committee never roported. The committee were told It was not de sirable to test the legality of this bouse In the courts, The hold-up members were not without grounds to stand upou, and could find a mote In the eyes wa were directing upon the opposition, tfe are not blameless, Nosier asked why there hud not been a test case made to take this matter Into court. Smith replied that thetu Was a committee appointed of the" lawyer members of this house.. Why had not Huntington submitted n minor ity report ? Huntington said the committee had met and he had proceeded to investi gate and he had Brown, of Morrow: I raise the point of order that there Is a motion before the hou.-e. ' It was voted to fix (he time to ad journ at 7:30 p.m. HunMngtnn resumed his statement-. i He had proceeded with the Work of making up a cuse, but that ceriain gentlemen In this state not members of this house, but interested in the candidacy of a certain gentleman for United States senator were- doubtrul about taking this matter into court. Lake asked if the speaker had not come Into a caucus! and made a verbal statement.. He said he might have done so. The house refused to adj mm. Crawford moved to defor consider- t I tlon until 7:30 this evening. He wanted all the membeas to have the full forty days to come In and qualify. ne was willing to stay twenty days If, needed to enact some remedial legis lation. On this question the roll was called David of Gilliam, charged that it was u high crime to deny to any man the right to legislate here unless a man' voted as some one else wanted him to. (Applause of Mltchellltes.) What right had 27 men to hold up this legis lature? These men could not main tain their position. The eyes of the people of all Oregon.and of the whole world were upon them, Brown, Chapman, Hogue, Merrill, Smith, Somers and Veness voted, nay. The others voted aye. The house adjourned to 7:30thiseve ning. BENSON HOUSE THURSDAY. Roll call showed 20 present. Craw ford's resolutions read as special order. Benson moved to amend so as to in clude a primary election In the list of promised reforms. Adopted. Hogue offered further amendment, that the members named as having forfeited their seats be forever barred from being candidates for re-election. (Laughter.) Ruled out of order. Thomas moved to strike out word "exorbitant" before the word fees. Carried. Conn moved that further considera tion be ffxed for Friday morning. Car ried. Somers oflered resolution for a com mittee of three on mileage and per diem of members. Adopted. Somers, Jennings and Gratke were appointed. SENATE FRIDAY MORNING. Opened with prayer by Rev. J. P. Farmer. The committee on judiciary re ported favorably upon S. B,'82 the county salary bill, with extended amendments. After an hour's faith ful work, the amendments were adopted, and the bill' advanced to third reading. Selling moved that when the senate adjourn it be to 2:30 o'clock Monday. Carried by the following vote: Ayes: Bates, Carter, Dawson, Ges ner, Hobson, Holt, King, Mackay, McClung, Mlchell, Mulkey, Patterson of Washington, Selling, Smith, Wade, Simon 16. Nays: Brownell, Calbreath, Daly, Driver, Dufur, Gowan, Harmon, naz eltine, Hughes, Johnson, Patterson of Marlon, Price, Reed, Taylor 41. Senator Smith stated that he voted as he did to give the house a chance to organize. He later moved recon slderatlon, which was lost. Adjourned. Or the 35 applicants for teachers' certificates, only 11 succeeded In pass ing the examination which took plrce In Pendleton, Wednesday. Thursday and Friday, of last week. Six of tho 35 6trove for flrstelass certificate, and all failed to make the necessary per centage. Mrs. S. A .Randle.wlfe of the princi pal of the Santiam academy of Leb anon, died very suddenly at her luroo in this city this morning, of heart trouble. She had been In poor health all winter. The body wlljbe buried In this city Friday. RAYS, Directed Upon rJpa Oregon LegUUture and j Lobby, Nothing Is more contemptlblo than a Jlar, but or all' Haw a paid one Is the wbrst. ' t ' Can It) be tfi'afc President) David Stqrr Jordan 13 it materialist and dont know ItfrV,. Hello! AnfUtiie Crawford resolu tion was a paid ad. Wasn't it drawn up In thepush office V . The Journal has candidate for the senate. filename Is Consistency, it don't care what party he belongs to. The Statesman s$Hl Insists Mr. Cor bett Is ouly the very exceedingly worst man In OregonJnolltlcs. This lets Jo Simon out. ' - , They waited until they thought It was perfectly safe too late to hold an election before they declared the seats vacant. J , V The German Reichstag, parliament, Is In a deadlock, and all over perqui sites. Nat over j.50 of 400 members can be" forced to atyend. , Mulkey, Jones and. Patterson still lives, in spite of the ferocious on slaughts on their political virtue in the Hired Morning Liar yesterday. When it comes to the Mitchell push hiring women to scatter hairpins In the stairways of the Eldridge block bregou politics has. got both very low and extremely dirty. - . A number of senators who voted ngainst o,dj0unlng over to Monday at 2:30 did so under the Impression that the senate wanted to adjourn sine die. None, hut Mltcliellltes wanted that. When the Investigating committees which have been ordered by the sen ate begin to got In their deadly work there will' be no corner on white Wash; however It may;becomea trifle scarce and high. " - - - i Iky Patterson Insists that. the "boss who has grown rich and fat furnish ing groceries to state institutions" means him. Nobody over suspected tliat iky aspired to be a boss, and of course everybody knows that he never made a bean on state groceries. r The Journal would like to give Iky Patterson credit for being ccnom ical, but It might lead some people to think him a Populist. The fact is he made almost a Populist record on some things. The Salem Statesman is- not a prophet exactly, but one thing is true: All It has prophesied from day today came just as true as what it said would happen the day before. But no one should blame It. Its prophesies were all paid for. It is but justice to Mr. Mitchell to say that he Is not wholly a demagog. He has been only two-thirds a dema gog. He has advocated, a single stan dard and a double standard, but he has not yet alto advocated lrrcdecm-1 able flat money. Suggsetion is made in Stato Treas urer Metcham's report, that the nearly $20,000 collected last year from the gross premium Insurance tax be transferred to tho general fund. It ought to be put In the common school fund. It Is now put in tho irreducible school fund and no one living will ever get any benefit of It. Tho number of strangers who un - ceremoniously dodged about the sen- and ex-members Innumerable, and the senators who were not consulted by outsiders, today, were few Indeed. It Is not generally known, but It is a fact, that Senator Mitchell paid Geo. Brownell's railroad fare from Kansas about live yearn ago, before the people, of Oregon, made him an Honorable. The .senator may also buy(?Jhlma ticket to return. Consistency thou art a Jewel Indeed 1 TUB UCY. . ! " -", -uv. ... t-ii..ii... eniiAnl liua Int.rnriiif-wl n hill UlMumj "-"'"I -v.-.. - ... in tho senate to give ins school the J right to Issue state diplomas, he the kingpin of the A. P. A's. aro opposed to church and state I And tna1, i You can gamble on It that If Jon- ' athan Bourne's house ever is sworn 1 and adopts a resolution it will follow I .. . !...l,.r. In Hin c.l. Unas If , ti-lnntha flln,r Ttitmnn. necessary vu u.m& .v....e v...w..- journal; 'X" Ucs to the scats they now profess to be so anxious to occupy. Tho constitution requires the sen ate not to adjourn more than three days at r time until by a Joint resolu tion with tho house It agrees to ad Jourh sine die. Tho house Is required until permanently organized to ad journ over from day to day, and can not adjourn sine die until permitted to by tho senate. The latter cannot at the present status act with tho un organlted house, so It looks as though both would have to Rlt sine die. Wanted: A Self acting concentra tor; one that will act very promptly and 'with great persuasive power. It must oe furnished immediately, and it must have sufficient capacity to bring tho scattered forces of the Ore gon legislature entirely -wiium its grasp and reduce thorn down to but ono Idea, that Is the election of United States senator. A very good prlco will bo paid for one that will act prompt and show desired results. Ap ply to the office of the old established firm of J. H. M. & Co. The official State (sman) Liar this morning has a scarehcad: ''Lake takes his seat In the joint convention." He was sitting there at his scat when the roll was called, but did not answer and was notaparticlpant.and was not considered as particatlng and no one imagined such a thing. The Liar also says Simon had a petition signed up to make his senator. The school boy method of getting men to sign up and then frame their names In a standing ad, Is practiced by only one faction of this house. As a prophet the organ of John .Holdup Mitchell and Chas. Walkaway Fulton has reached tho end of Its string, but as a liar It surpasses Itself from day to day. PHILIPPINE ISLAND3 REVOLT. Losses of Leaders Have Told Heavily Upon Them. New York, Feb. 19. A dispatch to tho Herald from Manila says: General La Chambre, who has oc cupied Santo Domlngo,is now advanc ing on Sllllng.Cornell and Marina and will attack tho rebel forces within three days. The number of troops employed Is not published. The bat terles employed aro two Krupp bat teries of eight centlmetcrles, one bat tery of nine and two mortars of 15 centimeters. With General Lo Cham bre is General Marian, who tukes one battery of nrtillery of eight centime ters. From all reports It would seem that If the Spaplards uro lucky enough to inflict a decisive clmtslso.iuent upon the rebels in Cavlte, the entire levo- lution will collapse. The absence of a real leader must tell upon tho rebels, and all their principal men urc cither In the fortress here or have been shot by tho authorities. Francisco Rojas, the millionaire and friend of General Blanco; Rlzal, the doctor and idol of the Philippine Indians; Luna, tho artist whose picture won a gold medal at tho Parlsexposltlon.and every other native or half-caste of wealth or In fluence In the Catlpununor Inner cir cles of conspiracy, which tho nutlves created for their own purposes Inside the lodges of Masonry, Into which tho Spaniards cntldently Initiated thorn years ago,are In the tolls of the law and may be shot uny day. An Immense amount suffering has been Indicted on their families by i I . mU!c mlBL'ufded men In dozens of cuseg , e9tates of U(We jrapicntcd went, and people formerly opulent are I reduced to poverty. Evemsorae native Catholic priests arc among tho pris oners, seven ut least having been tempted Into the plot. The machlnutlons of the rebels seem to have permeated all quarters, and they have taken In their withering ' grasp native and hfllf-brceds Jn every 'station of life, from the millionaire ' property-owner, local governor, government clerk, official doctor or professor in college, to the mostlg- , norant aim pourew HBiicnnmi mm u- l mestlc servant In foreign or Spanish employ. Indeed It would be dlfllcult to tlnd a parallel for such widespread iacnery. CJJCk otoiuca. n to rit li il ii && wry J ! N Mitchell Writes a -Lelftr. To the Republican Joint Con ference WITHDRAWING HIS NAME Declination With a Big String to It. HE ARRAIGNS THE OPPOSITION As a Scheme. to Injure the Republi can Party. AND ELECT BOURNE SPEAKER, His Pathetic Farewell "Procured" The Latest. The Journal has secured an ad vance copy of a .what Is practically John II. MltchcH'ct furewell address to tho people of Oregon. A PRIVATE CIRCULAR. Senator Mitchell has had printed, today, a circular letter setting forth his claims to election And rovlowLsg all tho details of the situation. It recites that on and boforo Janu ary 14, forty-seven Republican mom' bors of tho legislature, being more than a majority signed a call for a caucus whloh was held at 7:30 n. m. of that day. The call and signers aro Mien soir lorin. Ho then. arralngns tho fourteen Republicans who declined to go Into the caucus and who have refused to support tho caucus nominee. Q?Iip letter recites how Senators Car ter, Gesncr and Mulkey gave their as sent to tht caucus, though unablo to bo present. Of those who were pres ent and not present, 47 In all, Mitchell claims he was tho nominee. Thoso qualified are: Senator Simon. Bates. Mackay, Selling, Patterson of Washington and Mitchell, and ronro- sentative Huntington. He also names seven Republican representatives who have not qualified: Bayer, Davis, Hill, Maxwell. Povey, Jones, Dayls, j-iiese 14 aro Kepuoiicans. CIIARQES A COMBINATION. Mitchell then charges; " A combina tion therefore exists between this small minority of Republicans who refuse to be governed by . tho will of tho majority, and seven of whom have failed or refused to qualify, and the representatives of tho Populist party, ana or tno bimetallic party, all of whom havo refused to qualify, tho uvpwca purposcas i unuerstanu ooing lirst the election of Jonathan Bourne, and secondly, the defeat of your nom inee ror senator. The history of politics since the be ginning of government fails to furnish u parallel in any stato to the situa tion thus presented. i The spectacle presented Is that of a minority realizing their luck of power 10 aictate ana control in tno selection of a speaker of Mio liouso of represen tatives and in tho choosing of u United States Senator, deliberately refusing to qualify and tako their scats In the house, tharcby intending to prevent the presence of a quorum, and absolutely blocking tho election of both speaker and senator, and leg islation as well. Such a procecdlng,whatover may bo the motive of thoso promoting lt,tonds strongly and Inevitably and toward anarchy. It is a mo3t danger ous menace, not only to the integrity of tho organization of the Republican party, hut to the very existence of our government, both state and national. It Is a proceeding that should receive the unqualified condemnation of ev ery law abiding citizen of all political parties. Thoso who give Itthelrcountenanco or support, either directly or In fere u tlully, or whatever party affiliation deserve to be classed with the ene mies of law and order. To permit It to bo established as a precedent would be to set in motion an clement of dis cord and and disintegration that will eventually sap tho very foundation of our political Institutions. In view, however, of tho present status of the United States senate, and us jt will be after the 4th of March next. It Is of the utmost Impor tance that Oregon should at this time electa Henutor. This fact must 1)0 appreciated by aycry true Republican, Tho Republican party Is infinitely greater than any other man. Its In terests are paramount to thoso of any other Individual. It Is your duty to elect a Republi can senator, and In your power and, while, us your nominee, 1 personally am ready and willing, as. you all know, tc stand by and with you for the Integrity of party organization and the maintenance and perpetuity of the rule of the majority, still I do si ro to say to you now, In this public manner, that while I believe that the minority should not be per mitted to dictate to the ma jority and that there la now u prlnclplo Involved In this contest which Ik Infinitely greuterthan the Interest of uny one Individual, yet as I have repeatedly stated to each of you Individually during the last thirty days, I do not claim to control your Judgment or assume any right to dlroot vour forces. Therefore when ever you can see your way clear to I ououso & Republican senator other than myself then you must nut furono moment permit the fact of my nomination or of niy candidacy to stand In the Way, In other w'ortlsi I ilm lit your liundstyou nave muuc tuc your nominee, uo Willi mc as you please, ana l win oo cimicnc. iw your whole duty, to the Republican party, the state of Oregon, and the nation. You know full well tho character of the combination against you and the Influences through which It found Its origin and ' by which it has been maintained. Exercise your best judgment, keeping steadily in view tho best Interests not only or the Republican party, but of the state and nation. John H. Mitchell. An unusual Incident occurred near Fossil the other day. Beuber and French sawed a tree measuring 13 feet, In diameter, and though they sawed until the teeth of tho saw t panic through on the opposite side, J,hc tree was free from all support, thongh they pried and chopped and wondcrcdand talked, still that tree stood there, and. stjll the saw re mained pinched. At lass they were obliged to go home, leaving the tree standing on Its stump. Next day tho tree was down. It had apparently sprung or slid rrom its stump, strlk, ng perpendicularly in tho sandy, soil at first, making; u hole live feet dcep( and as far across. THE GREATEST COMBINE. Thrlco a Week New York World, Weokly Cincinnati Inquirer-and Weekly 'Journal fortfaaYeat. . - Do you want thoj.Frco -Silver Clh clnnatl Inquirer and weekly Cap tal Journal? Our club rate Is $1.40 for both. Do you want a irold standard miner with The Journal? Then take tho Thrlcc-a-Weck N. Y. World, Our club rate Is 81."7G for both. Three papers for $2. The Weekly Journal. 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