Bismarck weekly tribune., 1889-12-20
Scattering shots.

Scattering Shots.
WHAT has become Of that flicker. tail
gopher bill? Permit no flirting with that
bill, Mr.. Roney, for the eyes OF the world
are upon you.
The second round Of the LaM0ure- Ord
way mill having been delayed. the legisla-
tors will please knock all the fun they can
out of the prohibition bill.
SIMON FRASER Of Fargo, whose prohibi-
tion enthusiasm has made him cOnspicu-
GUS character in the great reform move
ment in Fargo. arrived yesterday to assist
Brother Pollock in his fight for the passage
of the irOn-clad prohibition bill.
The senate chamber will be crowded at
10 O'clock to-day at which hour the pro-
hibition bill will be a special order. lis
seriously announced that this is positively
the farewell appearance of this bill in the
house.
The suddenness with which Representa-
tive Selby checked the progress of the
public school land bill yesterday and placed
it in cOmatOse condition from which it
cannot recover until after the holidays, is
another proof Of that gentleman's ability
to make It lively for his foes.
Now that President Harrison has start
ted in on the North Dakota appointments
we confidently expect to hear q magnifi-
cent roar 20 up from the Red River Of the
north to Sentinel Butte and from the Cana
dian line to the seventh standard parallel.
The real fun has just commenced.
The republicans Of Montana having
won at last, the thirteen democrats of the
North Dakota legislature must not be
Judged too harshly for any wild, revenge
Montana squabble has been q distinct and
prominent issue in North Dakota for many
weeks.
REPRESENTATIVE WALSH has intro
duced bill authorizing the adjutant gen
eral to loan 100 condemned muskets to the
Grand Forks university that the young
men may practice. The fact that con-
demned guns are asked for leads to the
suspicion that the management of the in
stitltton IS desir0us that the pupils shall
not be able to shoot too we'll.
The people of Bismarck hope that the
prayer of the legislature for the mainten-
ance of Fort Lincoln as military post will
be .granted, and having enlarged and
improved it, they earnestly hope
that Major Powell be permitted
A more agreeable or accomplished gentle
man is difficult to find, and while main
tanning the dignity of the army in its high
est sense he is courteous to, and popular
with civilians.
Nor did Representative Estabrook lose
sight of the band wagon. His brother who
is superintendent of public instruction
of the state Of Michigan was at one time an
instructor of United States Senator Casey
and sends a letter, paying that distin-
guish gentleman high compliment. We
are thus inspired to remark that the Esta-
brooks generally ''get there" whether in
base ball or politics.
SENATOR LAMOURE went to Fargo Sat-
urday night and returned Sunday evening
on freight, having been in too much of a
hurry to wait for the passenger train: On
started for Mount Clements, Michigan.
The fact that as soon as these gentlemen
discovered that they were in the same
town, they started in opposite directions as
fast as steam could carry them, is not en-.
cOuraging to those who expected to see a
| fight.
If MIR. Roberts, the author of ssRoberts
Rules Of Order" could have seen the speed
and grace with which the Dakota senate
made parliamentary law yesterday by a
vote of Is to IL, he would 20 out and throw
points of order at himself for having
worthy of note. Mr.. LaMoure raised the
point Of order; President Dickey did not
care to decide; he called for the expression
of the house as to whether or not the point
was we'll taken; the house voted that it
| was, by majority Of three and the point
was declared parliamentary law. And
still men will persist in wasting money
Rules.
| THREE HONEST MEN.
[Slyboyicus, Hayseedius and Ganctimonious-
members of the legislature after the chareee of
bribery in the United States senatorial conteet
| were made.
Slyboyicus: Whittier away. Hayseedius? Why
dost thou run?
Hayseedsus: Aud can it be that good slyboy-
icus
Hast not the awful accusations heard?
| OF how with bribes some solons have been won
Whilst foul corruption stalks within our halls?
Then why dost thou with wonder-eyed surprise
Stand back when hoaest men thou dost now see
fastening to hunt the vile corruptors down?
[Aside.] NJ heart beats quick! NJ thoughts are
in ia whirl,
The very air seems filed with M accusers!
| Oh for an hour with him whose treach'roue
hand
Gave DER the haunting lucre unto me,
That might tell him how would return
The damned corruptor-the father of M sin
But for-egad the truth doth in M burn
have it not-yea gods, I've blown it in"
Slyboyicus: Pure callous-palmed Hayseedius
the news learned
And it did give me most dnmfounding shock.
swear by all M honor, I would give M all
It by some magic power could the veil remove
And thus permit fair Truth, confront the sun
That We might know the depths of this intrigue.
lAsidel Oh gods Of wit pray thee give me words
To hide the prodding secrets Of M heart.
Which now rebel and to M conscience shout:
I'VE smother mere! Come. william. let us out!
[Aloudl And thou. sweet sanctimonious- what
sayesti thou! fs.
Dost thou not wonder at this monstrous tale
OF how some brethren Of our honored class
Have by corruption broken vows Of mass?
sanctimonius: In sooth. dear friends. the rumor
came to me tlis
A from m' morning prayers refreshed, / rose.
To say that I was stunned. bsnumbed and dassd
But teebly states the blow that struck M soul