Cleveland Morning Leader

The Proroguing of the Illinois Legislature.

The Chicago Tribune of Thursday brings us full details of the summary disposition which Governor Yates made of the Copperhead Legislature at Springfield.

In the first place the entire late session was totally unwarranted. The adjournment at the end of the late session was illegal and their assembling on the 20th inst., is pronounced "a gross infraction of the Constitution."

The whole of the late eight days' session was spent in the most abominable legislation for public and private plunder. The passage of bills was openly bought and sold. Bribes were as frequent as votes.

A dispatch to the New York World says that the Governor's proclamation of prorogation was intended to defeat the $100,000 appropriation for sick and wounded soldiers. Nothing could be more glaringly false.

On the other hand, the Republicans had given the Democracy every opportunity to pass all measures for the benefit of the soldiers, and for carrying on the Government of the State, but they refused to do anything, except pass swindling bills of one kind or another for the benefit of private individuals and corporations.

As a final test of the disposition of the Copperhead majority, a Republican moved, on Wednesday morning, to take up the appropriation bills. A Democrat moved to lay the motion on the table, which was done by a vote of 46 to 16, not a single Republican voting for the motion.

This vote demonstrated a determination, on the part of the Democrats, to adopt the example set by the Copperheads of the Indiana Legislature and pass no appropriation bills. This vote decided the Governor in his course.

The opportunity offered to the Governor was the disagreement between the two Houses as to adjournment. The Senate agreed to adjourn on the 5th of June. The House substituted the 23d of June. To this amendment the Senate refused to agree. The House then defeated a motion to request the Senate to return the resolution. This showed a clear case of disagreement.

The Governor thereupon sent in the following message, which was read amid great excitement in the House:

"To the General Assembly of the State of Illinois:

WHEREAS, On the 5th day of June, A.D. 1863, the Senate adopted a joint resolution to adjourn sine die on said day, at six o'clock P.M., which resolution, upon being submitted, on the same day, to the House of Representatives, was by them amended by substituting the 22nd day of June and the hour of twelve o'clock, in which amendment the Senate thereupon refused to concur; and, whereas, the Constitution of this State contains the following provision, to wit: "Sec. 13, Art. 4. In case of disagreement between the two Houses with respect to the time of adjournment, the Governor shall have power to adjourn the General Assembly to such time as he may think proper, provided it be not to a period beyond the next constitutional meeting of the same. "

AND WHEREAS, I FULLY BELIEVE THAT THE INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE WILL BE BEST SUBSERVED BY A SPEEDY ADJOURNMENT, THE PAST HISTORY OF THE ASSEMBLY HOLDING OUT NO REASONABLE HOPE OF BENEFICIAL RESULTS TO THE CITIZENS OF THE STATE OR THE ARMY IN THE FIELD, FROM ITS FURTHER CONTINUANCE:

Now, therefore, in consideration of the existing disagreement between the two Houses, with respect to the time of adjournment, and by virtue of the power vested in me by the Constitution, as aforesaid, I, Richard Yates, Governor of the State of Illinois, do hereby adjourn the General Assembly, now in session, to the Saturday next preceding the first Monday in January, A. D., 1865.

Given at Springfield, this the 10th day of June, A. D., 1863.

Signed,
"RICHARD YATES, Governor."

The Tribune congratulates the people of Illinois in the following decidedly uncomplimentary language:

"Unless Governor Yates falls at work and prorogues the Penitentiary, there is no way that he can again release an amount of assembled rascality equal to that set at large among the people by his Message of prorogation yesterday. A feast of vultures, a buzzard roost, a convocation of carrion crows, may be named as mild ornithological symbols of that now defunct body, only yesterday the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Illinois. The gathering, and its adjuncts of lobbies, and strikers, and blowers, of all degrees of baseness, may be safely put in competition with any that ever met at Albany, and we think that at that point all comparison should rest, for we do not wish to be too hard upon these men."