Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-06

OF course, out OF courtesy to the mover
Col. Sanders was appointed chairman o
the committee.
The next day the COMMITTEES reported
After naming the several committees tt
which portions OF the message were referred
we find the following:
"Sixth-That SO much thereof as relates
to tho encouragement OF railroad construc
ton in the Territory OF Montana, with tn,
accompanying communications oftheP iesi
dent OF the Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany, be referred to the Committee on In
ternal Improvement.
[Siened] SANDERS, Chairman"
1t may be as we'll to state right here
that W. F. Sanders, who happened to b.
built that way, was Chairman Of that
Committee on Internal improvements. II
was understood that the House would
pass an exemption bill of the character
wanted, but the sticking point was to get
it through the Council. There was the rub,
And ii it had not been for the Juggling and
shillyshallying," OF which the New North
west complains, in the Council, an exemp'
ton bill would have passed both houses,
been signed by the Governor and become q
law, aud not q dollars worth OF the Utah
d Northern in the Territory could be taxed
until the year 1896. But thanks to that
"shillyshallying" strawberry party at Ben.
ton the people have the road without Ell.
empting it from taxation.
Bnt to the record again. Col. Sanders ia
a good general and so he attacked first the
stronger citadel, knowing full well that the
weaker would surrender at the overcoming
OF the former. On the tenth day Of the
session Mr.. Hotter, of Lewis and Clarke,
who was heart and soul with Col. Sanders
on this exemption proposition, introduced
in the Council C.. B. s. can act to encour.
age railroad construction in the Territory
| of Montana" The bill was now fairly
launched and now came the strategy to de.
feat it in the Council. It was found that
upon counting noses that if it were pressed
to a vote with Conrad, the member from
Chateau absent and who was opposed to
it, and with Kenyon, the member from
Deer Lodge who was lying in his room with
a broken leg, and who was also opposed to
it, that the bill would pass the Council, it's
opporess lacking one vote to defeat it. At
this stage OF the proceedings Sedman, from
Madison, who was opposed to the bill, in
PRODUCED the following:
"Resolved, BY the Council. the House
concurring, that the Council shall for the
purpose of taking any vote upon any bill
relating to the exemption of any railroad
from taxation or subsidizing the same, ad-
journ to the room of R. T. Kenyon, at the
old st. Louis Hotel, Helena, in order that
he, as a member of the Council, may be
permitted to vote thereon"
On motion of Sanders-a brother of the
Colonel-the resolution was made the spe.
cial order for the next day at IL o'clock.
But the opponents OF the exemption meas.
ure, knowing full well that ADVANTAGE
would be taken OF the absence of Conrad
and Kenyon to rush the bill through, con.
cluded to 60 after Conrad, and when the
President called the Council to order the
next forenoon it was found that no quo
rum Was present-the. strawberry party
was out. The sergeant-at-arms of the
Council was sent out to hunt up the alb.
~sentees, but they couldn't be found, and
were not found until they came back with
Conrad.
Soon after Sedman's resolution was
taken from the table, and as it required d
two-thirds vote to suspend the rules, it
was lost by z ayes to 5 noes, Kenyon be-
ing absent. The exemption measure, after
being dallied with for several days, was
finally placed upon it's final passage on the
twentieth day of the session AMI lost by
ayes 4, noes 8. The motion to reconsider
the vote by which the bill was lost and to
lay that motion on the table was carried
by z ayes to 5 noes.
That settled the business Of the session,
and the second day afterwards it adj
journed sine die. Appended to these pro.
ceedings ie the following:
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF MoNrANA,l
HELENA, M. T., July 23, 1879.
l. James H Mills. Secretary of Montana,
do hereby certify that the foregoing Jour
nal OF the Council of the extraordinary
session of the Eleventh Legislative Assem-
bly, OF the Territory of Montana, is a full
and correct copy O. the journal now on
file in my office.
lSigned.] JAMES H. MILLS,
Secretary OF Montana.
far the correctness OF The MINERS
assertions is conclusively established. To
those who attended that session and to |
the writer, who was present as an attache /
OF the House during every day of the sit /
tlngs Of that body, it was as patent that |
Colonel Sanders al the head and front of
that exemption scheme as that the sun ap=
pears in the morning. This fact cannot be |
successfully denied or put aside.
In answer to the direct question put by
the New Northwest to the editor of this
paper, he would say that he is not running
Tor any office and is not aware that anv
number of the read
ers OF The MINER are particularly
as to the opinion he then or at
my other time entertained upon the ques.
OF subsidizing railroads or exempting
hem from taxation. But if it will in apy
manner odd to the happiness OF our es-
'eemed Deer Lodge contemporary to learn
low the editor of The MINER has always
TODD upon the question of railroad sub
ldles, etc., he shall have that information. |
have never cast a vote for or written
word in favor OF subsidizing railroads.
during the extra session of the legislative
'ssembly referred to we were the Helena ,
of the Husbandman and /
HE MINER. MI. Sutherlin, of the former, |
an testify concerning our opposition to l
oil. Sanders exemption scheme, and if the = :
'mented George B. Johnston were alive h
e could state how we stood upon that 9
roposition and upon the question of sub
dy in general. The editor of The MINER b
wv FL Dorado County and Placerville, it's .
at OF justice, in California, swindled out :
$500 900 in the form of a subsidy to a a
'ilroad corporation; and if he ever had 81
garded subsidy with favor that little ex- q
'rience would have cured him CT advocat- IL
g it. And now will Capt. Mills please tell
how many sides of the subsidy orex-
nption questions he has favored.
looks very much as though Gen. Miles g
rs got himself into hot water with the
overnment. We believe, however, the U
'neral will come out all right. It is
'rdly possible that the authorities at s
q ohinOfnn -0,r1I norG-~ h:-L-