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benefit of a grandson of Mr. Monroe should be 

 considered. Now, sir, he is absent, and I object 

 to any further consideration of the bill." 



The bill was then laid aside. 



Subsequently, on June 15th, Mr. Whyte said : 

 "I ask to take up the bill (8. No. 1191) for the 

 relief of James Monroe Heiskell, of Baltimore 

 City, Maryland." 



The President pro tempore : " The question 

 is on the passage of the bill as amended." 



Mr. Garland, of Arkansas: "I offered an 

 amendment to the bill under a conviction that 

 it was high time to get rid of section 1218 of 

 the Revised Statutes, and I judge that was the 

 view also of the Senator from Vermont [Mr. 

 Edmunds], who really invited the amendment, 

 as stated by the Senator from Maryland [Mr. 

 Whyte]. I did not offer it with a view of ob- 

 structing or weighting down the bill, because 

 this is a very meritorious and very worthy young 

 man, and I am very anxious that he should be 

 relieved. If there is any difficulty in the way 

 of passing the bill as amended, I appeal to the 

 Senator from Wisconsin to withdraw his objec- 

 tion and let us pass the bill for this young man, 

 who was hardly old enough really to have in- 

 curred the disability from which we now seek 

 to relieve him ; but if that can not be done, I 

 think we had all better shake hands on this and 

 pass the amended bill, and relieve all of this class 

 from the operations of section 1218." 



Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin: "I withdraw 

 my objection." 



The President pro tempo re : "The Senator 

 from Wisconsin withdraws his objection. The 

 question now is, Will the Senate give unanimous 

 consent to reconsider the vote by which this 

 bill was ordered to a third reading ? Is there 

 objection ? The Chair hears none, and the vote 

 by which the bill was ordered to be read a third 

 time is reconsidered. The question now is upon 

 the amendment offered by the Senator from 

 Arkansas [Mr. Garland]." 



The amendment was rejected. 



The President pro tempore : " The question 

 is, Shall the bill be engrossed and read a third 

 time?" 



The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a 

 third reading, and read the third time. 



The President pro tempore : " Shall the bill 

 pass"? 



The result was announced yeas 29, nays 12 ; 

 as follows : 



YEAS Bailey : Beck, Brown, Butler. Call, Cockrell, 

 Davis of Illinois, Davis of West Virginia, Eaton, 

 Groome, Hampton, Harris, Hereford, Jonas, Maxey, 

 Morgan, Pendleton, Pryor, Randolph, Ransom, Sauls- 

 bury, Slater, Thurman, Vest, Voorhees, Wallace, 

 Whyte, Williams, Withers 29. 



NAYS Allison, Anthony, Blair, Booth. Burnside, 

 Cameron of Wisconsin, Dawes, Kirkwobd, Logan, 

 McMillan, Saunders, Teller- -12. 



ABSENT Baldwin, Bayard, Elaine, Bruce, Cameron 

 of Pennsylvania, Carpenter, Coke, Conkling, Ed- 

 munds, Farley, Ferry, Garland, Grover, Hamlm, Hill 

 of Colorado, Hill of Georgia, Hoar, Ingalls, Johnston, 

 Jones of Florida, Jones of Nevada, Kellogg, Kernan, 

 Lamar, McDonald, McPherson, Merrill, Paddock, 



Platt, Plumb, Rollins, Sharon, Vance, Walker, Win- 

 dom 35. 



So the bill was passed. 



The bill was received in the House, but not 

 acted upon. 



On June 15th the President sent to the Sen- 

 ate a message vetoing the bill vesting the ap- 

 pointment of deputy marshals for elections in 

 the United States courts. 



On June 16th both Houses adjourned. 



CONNECTICUT. The session of the Gen- 

 eral Assembly began January 7th, and ad- 

 journed March 25th. The Speaker of the 

 House of Representatives was Dwight Marcy. 

 Lieutenant-Governor Gallup presided over the 

 Senate. 



No questions of exciting interest were 

 brought before this Legislature. The business 

 of the session was accomplished in a smooth, 

 methodical manner, without haste or delay. 

 Most of the work was done in committee. 

 Many of the more important subjects of general 

 legislation were postponed for future consider- 

 ation. In some of these the two Houses had 

 failed to concur, in others the reluctance to- 

 ward premature legislation, which was strong- 

 ly manifested in both Houses, prevailed. One 

 or two weighty acts were recalled and rescind- 

 ed after they had passed both houses. Party 

 spirit was excited by the action of the majority 

 in two cases of contested elections and in the 

 repeal of an act of the last Legislature affecting 

 the representation of Middletown; but none 

 of the succeeding acts of the Assembly were 

 tinged with partisanship. The most important 

 measures passed were the ratification of the 

 boundary-line agreed upon by the New York 

 and Connecticut commissioners ; a constitu- 

 tional amendment providing that Judges of 

 the Supreme Court shall be nominated by the 

 Governor, and the nominations submitted to 

 the General Assembly for approval; a more 

 stringent law regarding the incorporation of 

 joint-stock companies ; and bills making special 

 appropriations of magnitude. 



The amendment to the Constitution, to be 

 submitted to the people, is as follows : 







The Judges of the Supreme Court of Errors and ot 

 the Superior Court shall, upon the nomination of the 

 Governor, be appointed by the General Assembly in 

 such manner as shall by law be prescribed. 



The power to both select and appoint the 

 Supreme Court Judges is at present given to 

 the Assembly by the Constitution. The reasons 

 for taking the nominating power out of the 

 hands of the legislative majority are that men 

 ambitious of becoming judges may intrigue to 

 procure their nomination in the party caucuses 

 of the Legislature, and no personal respon- 

 sibility attaches to any one for nominations 

 which may be arranged on political or personal 

 grounds in the secret conclaves of the party. 

 The high standard of character sought in the 

 choice of a Governor, and the reputation which 

 he naturally wishes to maintain, would prevent 

 his nominating judges upon purely political 



