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PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. 



names of representatives for the five cities above enu- 

 merated appearing on said roll. On the first Wednes- 

 day of January the Assistant Clerk of the preceding 

 House of .Representatives (the Clerk of said preceding 

 House being present) proceeded to call the names on 

 the certified roll above described, whereupon one hun- 

 dred and thirty-five persons answered to their names. 

 Attention was then called by one of the persons so re- 

 sponding to the vacancies appearing upon the reading 

 01 said roll. 



A motion was then made that the representatives 

 from said five cities, appearing by the returns from 

 Raid cities to have been actually elected, should be per- 

 mitted to participate in the organization of the House. 

 The Assistant Clerk refused to put the motion, and 

 refused to entertain an appeal. Motion was then made 

 that a committee be raised to inform the Governor and 

 Council that a quorum was present and ready to take 

 the oath. Upon that question a call of the yeas and 

 nays was demanded, and it was so taken, and there 

 were seventy-three votes in the affirmative and none 

 in the negative. Attention was then called to the fact 

 that no quorum was present. Motion was then made 

 to adjourn, which said Assistant Clerk refused to en- 

 tertain or putj and the same was put by the mover and 

 declared carried. Thereupon a number of the mem- 

 bers left the hall. The Governor and Council ap- 

 peared to administer the oath. One of the members 

 summoned called the attention of the Governor to the 

 fact that no quorum had voted to qualify ; but the Gov- 

 ernor declined to notice this act on the part of the mem- 

 ber summoned. Thereupon the Governor proceeded 

 to administer the oath. After the rolls containing the 

 oath was signed, the Governor announced that seven- 

 ty-six persons summoned had subscribed the oath: 

 among whom were the persons previously enumerated 

 by name as appearingon said roll, except Lewis Voter 

 and Daniel Snow. The announcement of the Gov- 

 ernor that seventy-six persons had subscribed the oath 

 was doubted by a member who had subscribed the 

 oath, and a repeated demand was made that this an- 

 nouncement should be verified by reading the names 

 of those who had subscribed ; but the Assistant Clerk 

 declined so to do. Protest was made against the ad- 

 ministration of the oath before it was administered. 

 Thereupon an election of Speaker was attempted, and 

 John C. Talbot received seventy-two votes, no other 

 votes being thrown. 



On the next day sixty members summoned and 

 whose names appeared on the certified roll applied to 

 James D. Lamson, who claimed to be President of 

 the Senate, to be qualified, and he refused in writing 

 to administer to them the oaths required by law. 



The facts connected with the alleged organization 

 of the Senate on the first Wednesday of January, 1880, 

 are as follows : A certified roll was furnished by the 

 Secretary of State to the Secretary of the preceding 

 Senate, on which were the names of twenty-three 

 persons properly summoned and who appeared to be 

 elected as shown on the face of returns, together with 

 the names of Daniel W. True, Edward A. Gibbs, and 

 William B. Field, of Cumberland County ; Eudolphus 

 P. Thorny 

 of Washim 

 County :, 



County ; and at ten o'clock in the forenoon on said 

 day said Secretary of the preceding Senate called the 

 names on the roll, and each one responded. 



Thereupon one of the members properly summoned 

 called attention to the fact that the names above enu- 

 merated on the roll had been substituted for the names 

 of Andrew Hawes, Henry C. Brewer, and David Du- 

 ran, of Cumberland County ; George K. Fernald, of 

 Franklin County ; Alden Bradford^ of Washington 

 County ; Andrew E. G. Smith, of Lincoln County ; 

 Jeremiah W. Dearborn and George H. Wakefield, 

 of York County, who appeared by the returns to be 

 elected, and moved that their names be substituted 

 on the roll for those first above enumerated. The 

 Secretary refused to entertain the motion. The oath 

 was then administered by the Governor and Council. 



The motion was immediately thereafter renewed, and 

 the Secretary again refused to entertain the motion. 

 An appeal was then taken to the Senate ; the Secre- 

 tary refused to put the question. Protest was then 

 made that unless the substitution moved was made, 

 eleven members properly summoned and having a 

 plurality of the Senatorial votes in their respective 

 counties would refuse to participate hi the organization 

 of the Senate. No attention having been paid to this 

 protest, said eleven members did not participate in the 

 further proceedings. The remaining twenty persons 

 proceeded to vote for President of the Senate, and 

 James D. Lamson received twenty ballots, which were 

 cast by twelve members properly summoned and by 

 the eight persons first above enumerated. Public pro- 

 test was immediately made by a member duly sum- 

 moned against the election of James D. Lamson as 

 President of the Senate, because he had received the 

 votes of but twelve persons lawfully summoned. The 

 remainder of the officers of the Senate were elected 

 in the same manner and by the same persons as the 

 President. 



On the twelfth day of January, 1880, the persons 

 claiming to be legally elected members of the Legisla- 

 ture, but having present less than seventy-six in num- 

 ber, attempted to meet in joint convention for the pur- 

 pose of witnessing the administration of the oaths to 

 James D. Lamson, to qualify him to exercise the office 

 of Governor, together with twenty members of the 

 Senate, only twelve of whom appeared to be elected 

 by the returns. On the same day sixty -two members 

 of the House to whom James D. Lamson, claiming to 

 be President of the Senate, had refused to administer 

 the oath, and who were properly summoned, together 

 with John E. Eaton, William H. Thomas, A. F. An- 

 drews, David N. Norton, Henry C. Baker, Charles A. 

 Eolf, A. B. Cole, Bobert French, Cyrus A. Thomas, 

 Hiram A. Stewart, and John Burnham, previously 

 mentioned, together with the representatives of the 

 cities of Portland, Lewiston, Saco, Eockland, and 

 Bath, met in the Hall of Eepresentatives, and organ- 

 ized by the choice of Speaker, Clerk, and the other 

 officers, after being qualified by taking the oaths pre- 

 scribed by the Constitution before William M. Strat- 

 ton, a Clerk of Courts for Kennebec County, and 

 authorized by dedimus potestatem to administer oaths 

 according to law. The Speaker received eighty-two 

 votes ; the Clerk received eighty votes ; the Assistant 

 Clerk received eighty-one votes. After organizing, 

 the following members, Isaac Hanscom of Lebanon, 

 Edward K. Hall of Newcastle, Bobert W. Loring of 

 Bobbinston district, George S. Hill of Exeter, Frank 

 C. Micherson of Linneus, and Oliver P. Bragdon of 

 Gouldsboro district, were admitted by resolution to 

 act as members prima facie of said House of Eepre- 

 sentatives. 



On the same day, in the Senate Chamber, eleven 

 members properly summoned, together with Andrew 

 Hawes, David Duran, Henry C. Brewer, of Cumber- 

 land County; Jeremiah W. Dearborn, George H. 

 Wakefield, of York Countv ; George B. Fernald, of 

 Franklin County ; Alden Bradford, of Washington 

 County, the facts concerning whose election have been 

 hereinbefore stated, met together and were called to 

 order by Jeremiah Dingley, a Senator elect from An- 

 droscoggin County, on whose motion Austin Harris, 

 Senator elect from Washington County, was chosen 

 to preside as Chairman, and Charles W . Tilden was 

 chosen Secretary pro tern, upon resolution. Andrew 

 E. G. Smith, of Lincoln County, was admitted prima 

 facie to a seat. 



Upon motion the members elect present proceeded 

 to make a permanent organization by the election of 

 President, Secretary, and other officers. Joseph A. 

 Locke of Cumberland was chosen President, receiv- 

 ing eighteen votes, and Charles W. Tilden was chosen 

 Secretary, receiving nineteen votes. 



The members were qualified before election of offi- 

 cers by taking the oaths prescribed by the Constitu- 

 tion before William M. Stratton, Clerk of Courts for 

 Kennebec County, and authorized by dedimus potes- 



