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man of the committee, said to the other
two members when we had tackled the
measure: Gentlemen. this Is a pretty i'm
p1rtant move. 1t is kind Of wild train
on single track, aud we've got to keep
our eye peeled or we'll get in the ditch
It's a new conductor making his first run.
| He don't know the stations hardly, and
he feels as if there was spotter on every
coach beside Female suffrage changes
the management, and it may put the
4 whole outfit in the hands Of a receiver IN
year. We can't tell when Wyoming
Territory will be side-tracked, with 10
of female conductors running the train,
and IL female master-mechanic, and fe
male division superintendent aud a lot o
gildy girls at the brakes tell you we
want to consider this thing pretty thor
oughIy. OF course we get our tim'
check when the session closes, and we
don't care much but if Wyoming gets
hot.box hereafter, or telescopes some other
Territory, folks will point US out and
say there's where the difficulty is. We
sent a choice aggregation of railroad
men, miners and cattle men doAn her,
TO Cheyenne thinking we had carload
of statesmen to work up this thing for
Us; and here we are without any law or
any gospel in the whole domain. I'm
in favor of the move, and if the rest OF
you couple on with me, we'll hand in our
report an get our orders
The stockman didn't have much to
say. lie Just said Mr.. Chairman, ]
don't talk very much I'm poorly cal
culated to paralyze the throng with ma
tive eloquence tell you, talk is mex
pensive, anyhow. agree with the chair
that we want to be familiar with tn,
range before we go wild like a lot Of
Texas cattle just of the trail, travelling
hundred miles a day and filling ourselve'
up with poison weed and olher peculiar
vegetables. We want to consider what
we re about. and act with some judgment
When we turn this maverick over TO th,
Governor to be branded we want TO know
hat we're corralling the correct animal
You can't ariat a broucho mule with q
clothes line sometimes aid after we've
run this bill in and got it in the sbute we
might wan to pay four or five good men
to help rs let 90. However, shall vote
for it as it is, and take the chances on the
round up. Passing a bill is like buying
brand on the range, anyhow You may
tally ahead and you may get everlasting
" left with little withered bunch Of
Texas frames that there is no more hore
Of iatting than there would be Of fatting
a vclocipede.'
The member from the mining district
said Mr.. Chairman, don't know what
kind of a fist the women will make OF
politics, but I'm prepared TO invest with
The surface Indications 1t may be a true
fissure move and it may be a doggon slide
We can't tell till we 20 down Oh it. All
we can do Is to prospect around and see
that we comply with the United States
law and the law Of the district about 10
cations. Then Two more years will show
whether we've got mineral in place or not.
If it works all right the next shift that
comes To the Legislature can DRIFT aud
slope the blamed thing and get the wealth.
We don't expect to declare any dividend
the first year I'LL take some time to
show what there is in the measure and de
clare dividends. My opinion Is that wo
men can give this territory boom that
will make her the bonanza of all creation.
We've got mighty pretty blossom rock
already, and, ii we manage it right, Wy
oming will be quoted on the boards in a
mighty short time. was in California
years ago. up in the hills, looking for a
placer, and run into a camp in a
gulch where there wasn't woman, aud
hadn't BEEN one seen for two or three
, years. At first they thought it was pref
ty fine, it was 50 quiet aud life was J Ike
dream. After a while, though, the men
got down at the heel. They got so de-
PRAYED they wore their clothes a year at
a time aud threw their dust away on any
fool that came along. By-and-by Yam
kee school ma am and her brother went
. into camp for health, and everything was
lovely. The boys braced up and had
s,me style about them. They saved tbeil
dust aud built up the town. My opinion
is that the mother Of a statesman is Der