St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-09
THE AFRICAN SHOWS
His Head in the Scheme to
Adjourn the Legislature
Six Weeks or So.
It Is Not to Promote the Ad-
vent Of Statehood, as
Some Suppose.
1t Is to Secure Control Of the
Funds in the Hands of a
Combination
That Has Made Up a Slate to
Fill All the Offices Upon
the Change.
Sneoial to the Clone

Special to the GLOBE.
JAMESTOWN, N. Dak., Feb. S.-A
good deal of interest has been excited
in jamestown by the bill introduced in
the council by Walsh, of Grand Forks,
providing that the legislature shall
take recess of six weeks, from Feb. 90
to March 25. The intention is to pigeon
hole all appropriations until after adj
journment, and rush them through in
the ten days which wOnld remain of the
session. A number OF plausible reasons
are given for the scheme, which vary
slightly. according to the politics Of the
persons they are intended to benefit.
To the ordinary farmer the specious
prospect is held out that it would nat
urally assist in the speedy admission of
the territory if the legislature should
be in session at the same time as con-
gress, and the unSophiSticated granger,
in his desire for statehood, agrees that
by all means it is desirable for the leg
iSlature
TO TAKE RECESS.
OF course it never occurs to his SIM
pie mind that even supposing that
President Harrison should decide to call
impossible for the call to be issued and
for it to assemble and organize IN time
for it to do anything in the way Of ad
mission of the territories in the three
weeks between the Inauguration and
March 25. Even if this were not fatal
objection 1t is difficult to see what help
the legislature would be in the matter.
A measure has already passed both
houses providing for a constitutional
convention for North Dakota, which
will assemble in case this congress
should not take action in the matter. Ii
an extra session of congress is held it
cannot admit North Dakota, because no
constitution has yet been adopted, al
though they might hasten by few
months the admission Of South Dakota.
The real reason, however, for wish
ing the legislature to adjourn until after
the Inauguration of Gen. Harrison is to
be found in the desires of these who ex-
pect to hold office and ,I
HANDLE THE PUBLIC, FUNDS.
Tt is pretty we'll known, in fact, by
this time that a regular slate has been
made up which WILDE put through if
this measure is adopted. The plan is
to have the legislature memOrialiZe the
president to remove the present gov
ernOr during the first week after the in
auguratiOn. in which case the whole
scheme will go through as slick as but
ter. The gentleman vino has the guber-
material bee so badly buZzing in his
bonnet is confident that he possesses Suf-
ficient influence upon the president to
secure his appointment, and the differ
ent offices have been appOrtioned out
by him among his supporters. The es-
sence of the scheme, of course, consists
in immediate action being taken before
the people become aware of the way in
which they are being bartered about,
and no time is to be allowed for protests.
1t is hoped that memorial from
the legislature would be sufficient to
overcome the natural objections OF the
president-elect to such a violent and
unusual measure as the
REMOVAL OF A GOVERNOR
during the first week Of holding office:
and the parties who have been promised
offices under the new governor are
now doing their best to stir up as much
ill feeling as possible against the pres
ent executive. in order that the legis-
lature may be worried into adopting
memorial sufficiently virulent to insure
their purpose. The experience gained
while holding Office in former years,
and in newspaper work, has enabled
this scheme to be elaborated without
having attracted more attention than it
has yet done, but it is sincerely to be
hoped that the present positions of the
two last governors of the territory will
not be reversed in this way, as that
would, indeed, ''be jumping out Of the
frying pan into the fire.