Autobiography Volume 3 circa 1865-1866
On this day the Legislative Assembly met for the first
time in the State House at Filmore. Both hHouses
organized and adjourned
Next day I met with the Council at
one o'clock and at 2 o'clock we met in joint session. The
Governor appeared and delivered his Message. One
thousand copies of it was ordered to be printed and it
was resolved that one hundred copies of the Minutes of each
day should be printed for the benefit of the two houses
The Secretary Almon W. Babbit arose and insulted the
Assembly to a great degree by threatening that their bills
should not be paid if they printed that number, and
he wished to dictate to the Assembly what they should
do which was out of his province
The Governor arose and gave
the Sectretary a severe lashing with his tongue and said
he ought to be kicked out of the house as a poor miserable
dog.
