Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-10
Peace and Economy.
From THURSDAYS Daily


From Thu rsday's Daily.7
A solemn stiffness pervades the legisla-
tive halls, and with Per Diem on one side
and Economy on the other the doubling
solon halts and wonders which way to go.
There was an occasional symptom of life
yesterday, and now and then you could
hear a whisper or a sly remark among the
members of the cloak room which indi-
Gated a tendency to break loose in the
good old. fashioned style. The members
would assume an air of gaiety, begin to
smile and look cheerful, when suddenly
upon their ears would come the doleful
words of a petition for aid from the suffer-
ers of some destitute community in a re-
mote corner of the state; this gone, they
would make a desperate struggle TO appear
happy, when suddenly the ghost of the
proposition to donate their pay to the pow
erty-stricken yeoman would loom up be-
fore them and stalk in CHASTITY warning in
their hoodoo-clouded vision. They were
overcoming all of these night-marical ap-
parations and assuming the air Of quiet. but
contcnted statesman, when "bangm came
a message from the governor reminding
| them by artistic hints that the state was
overdrawing her bank account, that the
horney-handed citizens to whom they must
look for fame and salaries are living
chiefly on pride of ancestry and east wind,
and that unless the legislature draws in
its horns and %withdraws from the crib and
eats less high-toned fodder there Will be a
among the indignant "people."
While the governor did not say this in
his diplomatic message, no legislator can
read it without having these sentiments
stare him in the face and coming as it did
upon the heels of newspaper criticism, Pc
tltions for relief and a long train of dole
ful reminders or mortgages and sheriffS,
the proud-spirited statesmen found it a diff
tcult task to keep their spirits up-with-
out first getting them down.
WHEN WILL HEY ADJOURN?
Representative Cole felt the pulse OF the
house yesterday by Offering a resolution to
the effect that the legislature should adj
journ not later than February 10Th. The
resolution was promptly sat upon, but
there is a significant nodding and whisper
ing among the members and from the
occasional words that are caught it is
reasonably safe to predict that a resolu-
ton calling for a still earlier adjournment
in February will be introduced to-day
with a prospect Of success.
A LITTLE SENSATION.
Legislative gossip is enlivened by the
report that the agricultural college bill is a
law, the governors veto to the contrary,
Notwithstanding. Lawyers who have
studied the state consti tuition say that the
governors veto came too late to be effec-
tive. Under the constitution he is given
three days within which to submit his
objections, and if he does not transmit his
message within that time, the bill becomes
a law. After the final adjournment of
the legislature he has fifteen days.
Here is where the disagreement comes.
II governor evidently did not
look upon the days of the holiday recess as
legislative days and thinking that he had
fifteen days within which to consider the
matter, did not file his veto message until
fourteen days from the time the bill was
delivered to him. The friends of the bill
and lawyers who have given the matter at
tention say that the bill became law after
the third day, that the appropriation has
been made and the work may be COM
menced on the agricultural college as soon
as the contract can be awarded. This is
the case as stated by the friends OF the
bill; the opponents differ; the disinterested
| SUallA UtSh Sblio la oOlCllC1Y WlLlC JAG
~antagonizers clap their hands in anticipa-
ton of a row. Whatever may be the
status Of the bill at present, Senator Hag-
CART resurrected it from the secretary's Of
fee yesterday and succeeded in fixing a
time for the consideration of the message,
when he will make an effort to pass it over
the veto. There may be some fun yet.
ALL U ONE RETURNED.
The only member Of the legislature now
absent from the city is Representative
Stevens and he will arrive to-day. The
following is a list of those who arrived
yesterday:
HI. Norton. John Il. Watt,
A. N. Foss, Geo. H. Walsh,
l.. j. Z,mmer, E. 8. Tyler,
\ John o. Bye. Frank J. LANCER,
w. =. Buchanan, Duncan Mcdonald,
Ole e. DISCARD, #. X. Remand,
James Britten. D. P. Tnom, 8,
A. G.. Nedrud. P. B. Wickham.
Senators Lawrence, Robinson and San
dagger are still absent but are expected to.
day.
AS THEY GO.
W. c. Plumley, who has done so much
excellent work as managing editor of the
Fargo Argus that he ranks among the
ablest newspaper men of the northwest, is
in the city again, making it interesting for
Argus readers.
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