The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-07-01

mOst anspleioas fset 70 the welfare q
tie territory. tiat the learned ehief jas
ties and 4 can snn0snes, = ne do an
nOunes. that he eyldencs ia the case
establishes tia idsnfity 81 ths ReS stat
ute With ~lAdnlil4bls dsArnss. 4 pro-
essd 70 explain BY . brief summary ths
grounds Of this conclusion.
The bin. which became the new stat
ute. was designated as council die. No.
g. Five previously introduced fee and
compensation bills were merged into
No 65-all introduced In the council
In this g, Is introduced. was an Also
lutte repeating section, numbered "a:
when the bill finally passed, it had
moved down six sections, and became
No. 40, remaining unchanged except as
TO lis number.
In the committee Of the whole in the
council-the only COMMITTEES Of the
whole, which sat on the bfll-a new
No. 81 section was Inserted, and was
adopted by the council on the report Of
that committee; this was the FIRST Of
the six additional sections: the house
inserted the other Eve, namely, sections
SO. 80, 81. 80 aud 80, and the senate
concurred I'm them: the literal text Of
the six additional secticss appears by
the ,onrn.I. "a ,hs two hoasss which
we're nut N s-vlsene.. and thev contain
mo aa.li6catIoa AZ seetion 40 The
committee of the vhola renorted other
Amendment. which xe,. IN .ection. N
of the ORIGINAL hill and the eonncil
adopted them-in fact adoptea the re-
mort without change The house
amended otherwise tban bx said svs
new sections. and the council eon-
CURED. None of those further amend.
ments I'm the house and eouncII inter-
fere with section 40 II a true that tbe
witness /. w. Meldrum testi6es hat
in the committee of the whole. Mr..
Holiday. OF the council. novel an
amendment 10 notary fees which xva,
passed by the committee and adopted
as A part Of lis report by the couneil
but does not appear in the text
Of the statute as printed IN
the sesslon laws AT mare IA,
but what the amendment va,
Mr.. Meldrum testises that be doe,
not knox. except that among otbe,
things II allows a sfteen cent folio fee,
Mr.. Holiday testi6es that be moved
the amendment. but has no recollection
thai n passa5 Mr. whiteh.ad n.
chief clark NJ the cauncil testified thu,
Mr.. Halliday made the motio,. that h.
rWhiteheadl MA. than IN M. seat ,yh,s.
pered To the members near him In n.
front row not 10 allow n 10 mass. and
that n was voted down. mai his reco,
~Iection m mi. matter was CLAIR ana
po.itive The copnc;I ,oprnal corroho.
rates Whitehead because IL contains
the text Of the COMMITTEES O,
the whole report. and the Int.
tar shows no mel amendment. we
are To presume that the journal. n,
made nm mt The close Of tho day,s ses.
sion. Mt which the report was adopted,
was i'm the due courye of Legislative
practice read the next morning. and
because left unchanged WAS apnroved
of as read. the journal ia n record Of
the b,abest solemnitv: and IL must con.
troll AZ aoainnt n witness who ia M,
only unsnpported Init Ia coptradicte
nv another M Mt least an anna, means q,
observation.
This reduces the case 10 the inouirv
what ware those amendments which
ara conceded 10 have been made In
the council between the adoption of the
committee of the whole report and the
Transmission of the hill 10 the house,
the proof al 10 which is confined 10 the
evidence of Whitehead and Medium.
whose yeracity we do not doubt,
Whitehead testiaes to. and identifies
three-one in section 3. limiting thu
sherifr,s fees. as collector of taxes. to
81. 500: one In section 8. providing tina,
the register shall receive no fee for ser.
vice TO the county as register: and one
I'm section -. making the maximum
Justices costs in criminal cases s15: the
Identification Of these tbree amend.
ments by this witness is explicit and