, 1884-03-04
THE BILL.
Branded and Mutilnted In the Roun,
Up-The House OF Representatives..

W. ~ Va NN1.
| Yesterday afternoon the long expect
ed battle In the house of representative
!, was fought, and it was short, sharp an
decisive. All day long friends of th
bill had been hard at work, and in tn
meantime those opposed to the bi
were by no means idle. It looked YER
much, however, to the usual observe
that the anti-mayerick men were losinI
ground, and that they would not sue
coed in heading off the bill in committe'
Of the whole. When the house resolved
itself into committee of the whole
Mr.. Smith In the chsir-Mr. Groes
beck. arose and announced that he and NJ
Allen had agreed to swap seats for the
afternoon IL there was no objection.
MI. Quealy objected to this, but
what his reasons were, did not very
clearly appear. The ''swap'' was how.
ever made, and it was whispered around
that the gentleman from Albany wal
going to turn loose" ETC., in which
they we're however doomed to be dis ap.
pointed. The reading of the bill was
proceeded with very quietly, until the
fifth section vas reached, when Mr..
Deloney arose and moved to strike out
the entire section.
Mr.. Teschemacher Opposed the
amendment in a brief speech.
MI. Deloney arose again and pro-
ceeded to explain why he desired to
have the section stricken out. 1t was
unconstitutional as it provided that a
man could not roundup his own cattle
at certain times during the year.
MI. Tescbmacher replied to this and
commended that If anything was uncon-
stitutional it was to damage your neigh
boris property and injure it by ''work-
ing" the range at the wrong time of
year.
Mr.. Groesbeck wanted to have some
body ''rise and explain'' about this
working" the range. He didn't know
very much about that business himself.
He was willing to tell what he knew
about many things, but he wanted
somebody to tell him about something
that he didn't know.
Mr.. Teschmacher then explained at
considerable length what the ''work-
ing" the range meant.
Mr.. Quealy said that this section was
unconstitutional and that it was in
tended to give the 'bloated monopo-
lists" Qaughter) as he termed it a
chance to get away with the poor man.
Here a certain gentleman from the
council, who had come in to hear the
debate, skipped" out of the door EVIL
IDENTIFY in disgust.
MI. Ford made quite a neat little
speech and explained his views on the
subject. He vas opposed to striking
out the section.
Mr.. Groesbeck then moved an amend
mend to the motion to strike out the
section, which amendment provided
that nothing in the section should pre-
vent butchers from gathering cattle
for local use. Mr.. G. proceeded to
make a few remarks, but be seemed to
be of the opinion that he had a bigger
job on his hand than he bargained for
to quiet the trouble waters by pouring
oil on the turbulent sea.
Mr.. Seaton, who had previously made
a few remarks, here arose and replied
to the supporters of the bill in q
very forcible speech and explained his
views in a logical and pointed manner,
which was quite a surprise to everyone,
as Mr.. S. is a very quiet member,
scarcely ever having a word to say.
Mr.. Teschemacher followed with
some additional remarks of the same
tenor and purport of those he had be-
fore made.
Mr.. Downey here arose and pro-
ceeded to explain his position. The
section ought at least to be amended
and yet it was not one tenth part as
bad as others in the bill.
The debate then ran on for some
time, after which a vote was taken IN
1IOCoDCCh . 4Cub duu buO OIL z
was lost.
The vote was then taken IN the mo-
ton to strike out section s and the
motion was carried by a close vote.
1t looked then, of course, that the
bill was doomed, and very quickly after
followed a vote by which section 6 was
also stricken out. The crisis was now
passed and soon the reading of the bill
was through with.
Mr.. Teschemacher then arose and
went on to state that now the obnox.
ious sections had been stricken out he
hoped that something would be saved
of the bill. 1t was now a maverick
bill, pure and simple, and he therefore
moved that when the committee rise
they report the bill back with the rec
ommendation that 1t be passed.
The motion was lost.
Finally a motion was made and car
ried that when the committee rise the,
recommend hat the bill be recon
NIT to II special committee of on,
from each county in the territory. Tn
following constitute the committee Il
whom it was referred, to-wit: Messrs
Coad, Grant, Seaton, Snider and Nick
erson
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