, 1888-03-03
NOTWITHSTANDING.
Appropriation Bill Passed Over the
Governors Veto.
Several Speeches on the Subject
in the House.
The Councilmen Daily for Three
Hours and Vote 10 to 2.
Arrival of the Negative.

AT ll:30 o'clock yesterday forenoon the
sergeant at rms of the house announced
a message from his excellency the gov
ernor The order of business under con-
sideration was the third reading and pass
age of bills. Speaker Pease was announc
ing the result of a vote when the govern
or's emissary placed a large official envel-
ope and a heavy roll of manuscript the
rejected enrolled acton his table. When
the matter in hand had been disposed of
Mr.. Roberts moved that the house take a
recess OF ten minutes. Carried.
A. the expiration Of hat time order was
restored, and Mr.. Currier of Carbon
county. who was absent, excused for the
remainder of the morning session.
Mr.. Van Devanter's motion hat the re-
turned appropriation bill and accompany
ing veto be given immediate consideration
was adopted.
THE question is" said Speaker Pease,
shall house enrolled act No. II, known
here as house bill No. 76, pass this body
Notwithstanding the objections of the gov
ernor2 Are there my r~emarks?"
81 would like to say something on this
subject" remarked Mr.. Hooper of Crook
county, as he arose and glanced over the
first page of a written speech. The orator
from the north delivered with good effect
a sarcastic TRADE against Cheyenne, mod
eled alter j. Proctor Knott's famous
Duluth speech, the flood of witticism
and irony heard in the house of repre-
sentatives at Washington, Jan. 81, 1871.
when the St. Croix and Lake Superior
land grant bill was under consideration.
Knott's effort made the country grin.
Mr.. Hooper's speech evidenced that he
was ably presenting his side of the ques,
ton. The gentleman marvcled that
the a%ncients we're willing to die
before seeing Cheyenne, that Alex
ander had halted before conquering
Wyoming's capital, and ventured the as
sertion that the NEUROLOGICAL golden
orchard of the Hesperide was but another
appellation for the beer gardens about
Cheyenne. In conclusion, Mr.. Hooper
touched on the question in a really good
argument-from his standpoint. The
present capitol building was sufficient in
size, being already a roomy and imposing
structure Of which every citizen should
be proud. A smaller appropriation would
suffice to complete the university. A
penitentiary was not needed at present,
and the money used in establishing a
territorial hospital and poor farm would
be u%selessly expended.
Mr.. Cummock followed the gentleman
from Crook. Why" said he, referring
to the Evanston asylum and repeating the
governors objection, should $50, 900 be
appropriated for the purpose of complet.
ing a building already finished" The
Cheyenne lawyers who drafted this bill
understood their task. The effect of this
infamous measure, he had been reliably
Informed, was to give Uinta county some
thing and yet nothing. The funds ap-
propriated would never legally become
available.
Mr.. Summers, another member of the
Uinta county delegation, did not love his
own district less, but hated Cheyenne
more. The amount to be expended on
the Evanston asylum was satisfactory to
himself and probably t o.his constituency,
but he would not support a measure to
rob the people of other localities even
were his own baliwick enriched.
Mr.. Rummel, johnson county, was the
third obiector. He was sorry that these
spacious halls were too cramped for the
supporters of this generous bill. This
capitol was a most magnificent ediice. 1t
was already complete and an architectural
beauty. If the people of Cheyenne de-
sired its enlargement let them construct
it without the assistance of disinterested
taxpayers.
Mr.. Van Devanter made a brief speech,
replete with sound argument, in support
of the bill. AS the gentleman from
Crook had remarked Cheyenne was in a
remote corner of the territory. What of
it? 1t was the largest, richest and
most substantial corporation in the com
monwealth, with bright prospects. The
national capital was not in the geographic
cal center OF the Union, and In the pres
ent condition Of affairs a territorial capt.
tai in a central location was impracticable.
The county of which this much abused
city of Cheyenne was the seat Of govern.
ment paid more than one
third of the taxes of Wyoming