Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14
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Is it a good thing for the people?
Yes. ~
Is it a good thing for Governor Miller?
Well, now, let's see-this is not so easy
to answer. 1t would be a good thing for
an executive, provided there we're no po-
litlcal promises unpaid, but if the bill
passes how will Brothers Winship and
Bosard and Anderson be given control of
the state university?
What will become of the Camp combina-
ton for the control of the asylum at
jamestown?
Where will be the ,Bentley-Jamison
promises for the pe%nitentiary?
OThat the bill is an economical measure,
everyone admits, but if it passes, what will
become of the board for the control of the
jamestown asylum under pledge 10 elect
tuition? , ~@2& '.
How will Arney Haugen be made presi-
dent of the university board?
It is said that If Governor Miller signs
this bill nearly every political promise
that he has made must be broken; that it
will be impossible for him to stake care of
his friends" and that the machine for his
denomination Will be thrown seriously out
of gear:
Whether or not it is true that the COVER
nor has the situation sized in this manner
1t is impossible to say, but the rumOr that
has leaked out from the Inner circle to the
effect that he will veto the bill, is the foun-
dation upon which the suspicion rests.
on, 1t is an Interesting stuny-this hon
not until the last turn of the wheel is
made. the masks removed and the true
faces revealed, will the unsophisticated
and confiding yeOman know whether he
has been resting on the bOsOms of his
friends or s!umbering serenely in the arms
of his enemies.
1t is nearing the Showdown"
A scoRCHER.
There was no business transacted in tho
senate yesterday, but several committee
reports were submitted for consideration.
and among them was n from the commit
tee on vetoes, dealing with the governors
veto of the bill providing for taxation
in unorganized counties. This report
shows that the bill is not only constitu-
tional but that the features to which the
governor so very strenuously objects are
already on the statute books. When read
in conjunction with the governors veto it
is racy.
1t is strange teat it remained for a veto
committee of the legislature to discover
that for the purposes of taxation the unor-
ganlzed counties are a part of the organ
lied counties to which they are attached
for judicial purposes, aud that for over five
years the people of these counties have
been escaping taxation simply because of
the negligence Of the administrations.
The joke is not all on one side. It is not
every day that you can catch a legislature
engaging in a desperate struggle to enact
a law that is already on the Statute books,
Tut when the governor and attOrney-gen-
eral will render a veto message on the bill
and endeavor to show it unconstitutional
and revolutionary, the situation develops
into a bowling farce.
We are a great people.
EXPECTANCY.
A penny for your thoughts!
No, they are not worth it, for everybody
knows what they are.
You are thinking on the same subject
that occupies the mind of every mar, woman
and child nov in Bismarck, and that COM
mands the mentality Of over two-thirds of
those in the state.
You are wondering whether or not the
lottery bill will be r%e-introduced in the leg
islature to-day.
You are wondering whether the legisla-
ture will place 100000 in the state treasury
or present their constituents with a moral
record" n an empty treasury.
You are specializing as to whether the
destitute farmers of the state will be fur
nished seed wheat and given an opportu-
nifty to exist, or will be fed on political
east wind and reform" zephyrs for an
other year.
Will the lottery bill be re-introduced to-
2.
That is the question and these are your
thoughts.
You have not long to wait for an answer,
but the man who attempts to finish you
with information until it is furnished by
the action Of the legislature, is a reckless
prophet.
THE EARLY BIRD.
Representative Cole has probably read
somewhere that it is the early bird that
catches the worm. We are reliably inform
ed that he was before Governor Miller at
. o'clock yesterday morning urging the ap-
pointment of a Dickey county man as
superintendent of public instruction to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Judge
Mitchell on the previous evening. 1t hard
~ seems tcredible, yet the report comes
from such good authority that it cannot
be doubted.
Scattering Shots.
THE report that the corn doctor who ar
rived yesterday is a detective, does, that
gentleman and his profession an Injustice.
VIM. O'MULcAHY of Grand Forks hay
ing arrived, a bill making French the Of
fclal language OF the state will IN all prob
ability be introduced during the next few
days.
A CORN doctor struck town yesterday
and considering the number Of ambitious
politicians who have been stepped on
lately, it is not surprising that he has done
a lively business since his arrival.
E. 81. THURBEY, the nice little cute
round Englishman vino came on Monday
to lobby against the blawsted lottery, left
for home Monday night. The wind was
knocked from his flying jib by the bloom
ing bloody preponderance of lottery senti-
ment, ye know.
Nv. r.. HOT to be more explicit-Wil-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. = Good
win-Miller Roney, the embodiment Of the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and state-ought
to be recognized. Much depends on your
explanation, Roney, 81 brace up and do
your level best.
Mr.. RoNEY's explanation of his letter in
which he states that he voted against the
bill taxing unOrganiZed %countiesi because
the votes, will come up to-day. The simple
announcement of this performance should
be sufficient to draw q crowded house.