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Here we stuck for about three weeks, having a tie vote on every test question. Mr. Parsons would not say positively how he would vote on the bill, on its final passage, but hoped we could get along without him. I don't think the stick with him was so much on account of Corunna's influence as that of Governor Seymour.
A day had been fixed for taking the vote. I spent an hour with Parsons ■at his room the evening prior. He seemed greatly troubled; I could get nothing definite from him, but he said he hoped I would be satisfied with the result. The next day came, and he was not in his seat. I went to his room about 11 o'clock a. m. He was very sick and vomiting. He said he could not possibly go to the capitol that day. He appeared as if under the operation of an emetic.
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