Show MAIXE Armed Guards In the StateHouse State-House ThoHnprcmo Court Wrestling With the Disputed Dis-puted Question BostonIAn Augusta dispatch to the Advertiser says it is reported on good authority that democrats have arranged for contesting tho seats of a number of republican and that in case they should determine to settle the election caes before be-fore doing anything else they would turn oat another republican tor every one of those counted out whom they saw fit to admit and thus preserve their majority The first number of E F Pillsburys new democratic daily paper the Standard appeared today It has the following concerning the legislature Tho coming session of thck iaiaturc will be one of the most important interesting and exciting ever held in the state For tho first time in twentyfouryoars the opponents of the republican party will be in a majority in both branches and in ontrol of the government gov-ernment Specials from Augusta states that the approaches to the state house are closely guarded and that armed men are also posed in various parts of the interior of the building for the purpose cf affording the authorities any protection that may bo needed Augusta Me ITho armed guard nt the State House is there only in the nighttime night-time and then nut to keep away anyone who has business at tho capitol Ihe authorities explain that such free is deemed prudent on account of threats made in public meetings and otherwise of forcible resistance to the regularly constituted con-stituted authority It is very quiet there I now nothing of public interest having occurred Fusionists and republicans will bo here in largo numbers by Saturday Satur-day It is expected the decision of the court at Bangor on the question at issue will be rendered by Saturday The Kenebec Journal says tho intensity of feeling among republicans in regard to tho great wronpattcinpted has not abated in the least They regard it with tho deepest indignation as a crime above all political crimes ever committed in this country and and one that will never bo submitted to but they have confidence that there is as much honesty and manhood man-hood among the men counted in by the governor and council that some of them will refuse to become partners to the great infamy which they are invited to share and in this way tho nefarious scheme will be defeated Bangor 2Chief Justice Appleton has summoned all tho associate justices of the supreme court to assemble in this city tomorrow to-morrow to consider the questions propounded pro-pounded by Governor tiarcelon Boston 2Tho Heralds Augusta special says It appears that not a single member of the executive council agreed with the governor in his determination to ask aa opinion fromjho Supreme Court Pillsbury too was strongly ouposed to tho plan but the governor backed by Mr Gould made the concession to public pub-lic sentiment but it is safe to say that the governor agrees with the council that he act on ot tho council is completed and certificates issued The questions are so framed that it is expected answers favorable favor-able to fusionists will bo given and if by any chance contrary resultshould take place nothing can be done about it Probably Morrill will concur in th s opinion One of the fuson senators elect Isnnc S Hobson a Lincoln County greenbscker of republican antecedent has grieved his fusion friends here by declaring that the sole business tholegis lattice after organizing ought to be the adjustment of the question of disputed seats and that nothing else should be done until that is finished Hobson is one of the counted in himself Fusion managers man-agers insist that the election of governor and state officers must bo proceeded with and election cases deferred as usual To settle the contested scats and complete the fraud and bribery investigation contemplated contem-plated would be to leave everything at loose ends and the state without a governor gov-ernor for weeks if not months p |