Indiana Senatorial Contest

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Excerpt from Indiana Senatorial Contest: Speeches of Senators Collamer, Trumbull, Seward, Hale, Fessenden, and Harlan, Delivered in the United States Senate, February 14, 1859Lknow there is a pretence that the members in Indiana assembled legally, and what is it? The pretence is, that the Constitution of the State of Indiana requires the Speaker to Open and publish the votes for Governor, in the presence of both Houses of the General Assembly. That was done early in January. The returns for Governor of Indiana were sent to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, who, early in January, Opened them, and declared the result, and his having done so affords a satisfactory reason to the Sen ator from Ohio for a joint meeting of less than a quorum of either House, and less than half the members of the Senate, some time in February, in defiance of a resolution of the Senate, to make United States Senators.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.