The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-03-14
WARREN.
He Visits Helena, and Tells the Readers
of the Inter-Mountain Some Things
About the Legislature.

That jolly and able republican, Judge
Chas. S. Warren, has written two letters
from Helena to his home paper at Butte,
and some of his paragraphs are good
enough to reproduce, which we do be-
low:
We arrived at Mecca yesterday; the
shrine that all true to the faith worship
at. We landed a stranger; tonight our
credit is good at Marks and Preuitt's,
and no longer do we feel like singing
s.what are the wild ave saying, sis
ter?n No longer do we feel that Butte
is the imperial city of the north. No
more shall we say that Helena is a scrub
town. We have been Hospitality re-
ceived. and were even invited out to
dine for a week in Advance.
Something singular about the house;
there is not a bald-headed member in it.
< \ X Hickman, of Madison, may be
considered as the leader of the republi-
cans in the house, while O'Grady, of
| Silver Bow, and Comfy, Of Lewis and
| Clarke, dispute the honor among the
democrats. With all due respect to the
gentlemen above named, in the opinion
of the public here Hon. John f. Forbis,
of Silver Bow, wears the blue ribbon as
being the most l~eyel-headed, square-toed
and Conscientious member in the house.
Silver Bow county may well feel proud
over the record made by him. He is no
longer a boy, no longera plug politician,
no longer does he go at the beck and call
of a lot of pot house politicians, but is
the statesman of the assembly, over and
above all others in either house to-day.
Settle, of Choteau, was pointed out to
me from the bench in the gallery. He
is, in appearance, the John A. Logan Of
the house.
The above extracts are from n letter.
The other is written in a different vein.
The business of the legislature is rum
ming along very smoothly, and through
the providentiaI presence of | @. Baker,
J. J. Healy, ct al, all attempts at cor
ruption have been prevented or fore
stalled. Among the bills introduced to-
day were the following:
BY Cox, a bill compelling the COVER
nor to pardon all the horse thieves out Of
the p~enitentiary.
BY Hamilton, a bill making it a felony
for any republican or Independent dem
ocrat or other respectable gentleman te
run for the legislature in Dawson county
BY Stuart, a bill providing for the con
fscation of all copies of the generally
: accepted authorities on parliamentary
!, law and order found within this terri
J tory.
By Witter, a bill to compel Cox to de
part from his usual diet of cocktails
also a bill to provide for his reinstate
ment in the army with the rank ant
!. pay of a acknowledgement.
, By Cox, a bill to reimburse Hubbel
from the territorial treasury for the los
sustained in furnishing Custer count.
with bridge lumber for $3.50 perthousant
when he might just as well have receiy
: ed $500.
t In the house the following bills wer
: introduced:
BY Comfy, a bill for the relief Of tina
: poor starving wretch, A. NJ. Voolfolk
also a bill giving him discretionar
s power to fix his own rates for publ
4 printing also a bill providing for tn
!, payment to said Voolfolk of the sum {
s., 900 for printing done for the Missouri
= legislature in 1865.
ii BY Forbis, q bill compelling Mantl