The Montana post., 1868-12-25
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4 The people a: Myntana hads, vaEpe
idea that majority OF the iegIs>
iaturs -wouft endeavor ttis winter.
20 amend or repeal many OF the lame,
inadeq aatc audi oBaoxioas laws aOn
th,. statute books. They had hoped
measures 'ot public importance wouid
conltueDti tAIrrns-lves TO their attention
and ,Iehb..r:tt,. considerable and tliat
an era oi reform and economy would
date from the Fifth Legislature. Cir
cumstances. 80 tar. show how misplaced
were such hopes Instead OF legislation
looking TO decreased facilities OF eom-
munica,ion, and riddance from the
burden of enormous tolls, we see such
bills introduced as the Silver Bow and
Medicine Lodge road bill, by the enc
mics Of the measure, weighed down
with a $4,000 appropriation to swamp
il. W. see the Extra Compensation
Act, by which the Legislature is plum
dering The Territory daily of 5000 or
500, still in force, and the House ad-
journins turns itself loose on the street,
with nothing to DO. while the Coun~
Gil consumes a session in personal in
vective and recrimination about bawdy
houses Not content with having or
gauized the Houses under combine
ton put up" TO control lhe capitol
question. the leagued majority of legis-
lators, whose thoughts DO not rise to the
level of considering the public welfare,
and the first duty TO the Territory At
large, grovel along in the narrowHess
of plunder questions, in which there is
chance of local ACKNOWLEDGMENT and
notoriety. Deer Lodge county, which
owes the location of the Penitentiary in
It's county seat. and whose members
should be prompted 10y every sentiment
of honor. gratitude and justice to feel
friendly 10 Helena. shoves up a candi>
date tor unenviable honors. who. To
serve unworthy interests, throws into
the ring. just as it might get TO work,
that bone OF contention. the capitol
question in the shape OF bill locating
the seat of government at Deer
Lodge The report of the minority of
the Committee favoring the bill has been
adopted by the Council, Indicative OF the
vote on the bill To say this is treach-
erous ingratitude on the part OF Deer
Lodge is putting il in very mild turms.
That delegation traded its vote to Edg>
erton county last year for the Peniten>
tiary. bnt now it is envious of the pros
perity anu growth of Helena, and finding
the Madison delegation down with the
same fever they truckle together ia the
same bed. The penitentiary Is not yet
built, and the vote of Madison will keep
it there Madison believes the people
would not ratify the set removing the
Capitol TO Deer Lodge. and it would
thus remain where IL is, and so Madison
votes with Deer Lodge and carries the
removal would not be approved and
Virginia be left in the cold
The Niobe of Notions,
Crownless and roiceless in her childish woe.
farther removed from the capitol than
if even located in Helena Or, is it
agreed by Deer Lodge that this act shall
be repealed in the last days OF the ses>
sion, when the penitentiary act cannot
be amended Helena does not need
either She has permanency of business,
energy, solidity, wealth and population
sufficient without requiring that drop
IN the we'll to give her show of vital-
ity. Helena is the natural metropolis
of settled Montana by her location and
facilities for ACCESS, and has demonstra-
ted il must be so for many years at least.
Her representatives have sought to keep
the Capitol question in abeyance until
the important measures OF the session
had been given attention. Bot it has
been forced upon them in this effort to
combine, by outrageous barter and sale,
the representatives of country towns to
divide up the spoils among themselves
in pure maliciousness of spirit towards
Helena. Every advantage that can be
aduced in favor of any other locality
Helena possesses pre-eminently. and if
considerations of public convenience and
honesty can have anyweight, Helena will
expect her legislators to now lay aside
other matters until this is disposed of.
to break up the nelarious designs and
vicious schemes of her enemies and To-
cate the seat of government here where
IL legitimately belongs. ui-lli' 1910
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