"New York Daily Tribune: Commotion in Illinois

New-York Daily Tribune

Friday, June 12, 1863.

COMMOTION IN ILLINOIS.

On the 8th inst., the Senate of Illinois, by a vote of 14 to 7, resolved to adjourn without day at 6 that evening. The House overruled this by substituting for the 8th the 22d inst. The resolve, thus amended, was returned to the Senate, which disagreed to the amendment - 12 to 11. In this dead lock, they adjourned for the night. Now the State Constitution expressly provides:

Sec. 13. 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.

Gov. Yates hereupon next morning adjourned the Legislature without day.

Hereupon The World sees fit to say:

"The Republican Governor of Illinois has deliberately undertaken to prorogue the Legislature of that State for two years, or in other words to suspend the Constitution and proclaim himself the sole representative of the power of the people. This is substantially what was done by Louis Napoleon in those famous days of December, 1851, which made him first dictator and then Emperor of the French. He abolished the legislative assembly of France just as Governor Yates has assumed to abolish the Legislature of Illinois, and upon an exactly similar pretext, that its course was dangerous to the public welfare."

-It seems unaccountable that any person who can write intelligible English should not realize the absurdity and inevitable falsity of the foregoing. Louis Napoleon's coup d'etat was effected by a military insurrection, whereby the law was overpowered by sheer force. Gov. Yates's act derives all its efficacy from the Constitutional provision above given. It is valid because it is legal, and only to the extent of its legality. Had it been what The World sillily imagines, the Legislature would have simply laughed at it, and proceeded with its deliberations.

Gov. Yates Offers Ten Thousand Men to Repel Invasion.

St. Louis, Thursday, June 25, 1683.

The Democrat says that Gov. Yates of Illinois has offered the Secretary of War 10,000 men to repel invasion.