The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-02-08

decision which was overruIed. Other
motions were made in quick succession,
and with design IN that direction. The
asse mbly room
BECAME PAEDIMoNIUM.
The chair ruled that his decision coald
not be appealed from. and upon the
proposal to elect new chairman, de-
clared he should keep his seat until
Burkhart took it. For the space of
about two hours there was deadlock
Members walked about the hail with
their hands in their pockets, or slipped
upstairs, where q large amount of
"taDglefoot" had been stored. Tragedy
Kurtz leaned against the register and
exclaimed: What shame upon the
| conscript fathers of Idaho" Occa-
sionally he became seized with sud.
den inspiration and talked in silvery
strains of Cato, Pompsy. Casius
Brutus, Cleopatra from whim, it is
said, he was DESCENDED sired bv Mark
Anthony. Speaker Burkhart unfolded
huge map showing the proposed dis
poliation of Alturas. and called mern-
bers to him in groups or siugly and
with cane in hand pointed out the con
dition in which division would Ieave
Alturas. This is called his four hour
speech Mintzer, the little Lemhi
preacher, mounted upon O sheet OF
paper, exclaimed: Mr.. Chairman,
Mr.. Chairman, say, it is IL O'Clock
and the legislative day has ex bred. "
George Sams1n, printer from Owy bee +:
We're elected for sixty days. and
when that is up we expire" During
the laughter that succee ded this sally
the chairman commenced reading the
bill by sections, and taking votes
thereon. A few
IMPORTANT AMENDMENTS
were made, and at length the whole bill
was adopted by large majority. The
time was now about ] O'Clock In the
morning. and motion was made that
the chairman report the bill back to the
House with q recommend tioh that it
should pass. To n AXE such report was
the work of about two minutes. but
the honorable gentleman from Boise
who represents lturas, waited time
in which to mediate, and sat in his
chair as immovabls as a piece of
statuary-his dark eyes fixed Oh.
vacancy. He was seen to move once,s
and then he whispered to speak pr
Burkhsrt who nodded Time wore on
and the members, firing of youth and:
beauty, began to caucus. The bottles
on the upper floor held out remarkably
well, and the continued tramp, tramp,
tramp, on the uncarpeted stairs be-
came monotonous. the spectators had
learned the way, and lobbyists, mem
bers and all were soon on very faG-iIia
terms. Towns people and M mbers
alike recognized your reporter. and he
was met with remarks like, "BuZ, you
sized 'em up right on the start" 'Buz
this beats all the Legislatures Idaho
has ever had" 'Buz, you have Il PFC
nic." None were NOR loud IN exclain.
ing against the assembly than the ma-
jority. AZ lensth the majority mad.
up their minds to each sign the report
and present it to the House. While
this was going on, and Tragedy Kurlz
was entertaining the ouse wi
choice oratory, wringing in all the
statesman heroes, gods. etc, OF the
Roman Empire, Chairman Bruner SLID
cut
WITH THE BILL IN HIS POCKET.
OF course, the committee being with
out a bill could not report. Then
came curses loud and deep, talk Of Ss3s
pulsion, etc., and q madden lot of men
than the majority has not often been
seen. The sergeant-at-arms was sent
after Bruner, but he, too, was from
Alturas County. The House waited
I h,a pafn pf he
officer. Atlength he came and reported
that he was Unable TO fild the'delln-
uuent. Finding no more could be done,
the assembly adjourned until l o. III .
At such time MIR Bruner made his ap-
pearance with The bill, which was N
crossed and passed on Sat rdsy las, :.
What will be its fate. it is Impossible 10
tell. The ms jority in the House do NOT
understand very well how to WELD IT, cir
| power. There is a molten for recon
| sideration in upon the interest of both
sides, which will probably be dispose d
of on Monday the 4th. fine Council is
supposed to be largely in favor OF
division.
Every means possible has been re-
sorted to with the view of killing this
bill-fair as well as unfair. Just before
it came up in the committee, the
speaker, who is HALEY man. excused
| Davis, of Oneida, from service during
the rest of the session-it being uldtr-
stood that he was in favor of division
he also excused Bruner, as herelnbe
fore stated. These were things he had
/ NO RIGHT TO DO. ~,~-. ,-.-.--
bat were within the province of the
House only. All decisions having an
force or vitality as relates to the issue
were unfair, and sometimes absurd
Nothing but a. decisive msjority has
saved the bill thus far. There are only
four days left for the enactment OF
laws. There will not be many, and the
body has kept pretty well up with the
bills.
Rev. Mintzer, of Lemhi, introduced a
bill, one day last week. having for It's
object the abolition of the. Office of
Territorial superintendent of common
schools. This is personal matter en-
TREY. One year ago last fall Governor
stevenson went to Salmon City to in
augurats
MASONIC LODGE
where he met his old friends, embrace
ing leading citizens of Lemhi, such IS
Colonel Charles A. Wood, Colonel
George L. Shoup, Hon. A. J. McNab
and other leading citizens of the