Show DEMOCRATS ON OM TOP the tribune announces that the democrats in the senate asserted their strength on the first day of the legislature that they were in the saddle from the start and defeated the first partisan measure that came up the special session drafted a bill which the republicans favored and the democrats opposed it passed first second and third readings by a strict party vote president cannon then declared it passed the constitutional section requiring lu iring a bill not printed to have a two thirds ity to pass it was then sprung by the democrats and by force of numbers the republicans voted the constitution to be constitutional unconstitutional un and the president so BO declared it after a recess of half an hour durin during 0 which the angry P republicans pow wowed bowed in one corner the session was resu resumed nied and the action of the senate reconsidered and the bill lost thus with the odds of 2 to I 1 against them the democrats won a victory |