Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-02-13
IT'S A FIGHT TO A FINISH.
4 Bribery Investigation Aimed
at the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Politicians.
several Prominent People are
Subpoenaed to tell what
they Know.
The Sandager Revenue Bill is
Indefinitely Postponed by
it's Friends.
Sensation in the Senate.

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Sensation in the Senate.
BISMARCK, Feb. 10. - Especial There
are lively times ahead in North Dakota's
Legislature. The shadows Of coming
events are advancing into mysterious
perspective. Investigation has been
called for and investigating committees
appointed in both houses. The Roney
resolution adopted by the house Satur-
day has stirred things up. Today the
senate went the house one better and
adopted the following resolution, whic h
Bell introduced.
| Whereas, 1t has been frequently stated
and rumored that corrupt means and
moneys have been used to nominate and
elect the state officers and United States
senators and the passage of the Senate
Bill No. 167 in the senate; therefore,
Be it Resolved by the senate, That a
select committe of FIVE. to consist of
three republicans and two democrats,
| to-wit: Senators Robinson of Traill,
Haggart of Cass, Mcbride of Cavalier,
Harmon of Morton, and Mccormack of
Grand Forks, be appointed to investi-
gate the nomination and election of the
state officers, the election of United
States senators, also the passage Of Sen
ate Bill No. l67; and that the committee
is hereby empowered to send for persons
and papers and to administer oaths: and
they are further instructed to enter at
! once upon their duties and report at the
earliest day possible.
The com mlttee proposes to do it's work
and has already gone actively at it.
Subpoenas have been issued and large
number of witnesses will at once be sum-
moned to tell what they know. The
signs are portentious of interesting reve-
lations. 1t is proposed 70 commence at
the nomination and election of the state
officers and John dwight of New York,
will probably be asked to tell about the
Trail county deal, which made Miller
governor. The senatorial contest will
not be overlooked and it is stated tonight
that Z. b. Casey has been requested by
telegraph to appear before the committee
and that number of we'll known, North
Dakotans have been notified that their
presence IS desired here. Hon. NJ. N.
johnson, who is now here, was, it is said,
subpoenaed tonight, the rumor having
gained currency that he was likely to
leave the city on the midnight train.
The whole lottery deal will be investi-
gated and one of the committee said to-.
night that no guilty man-if there is any
such-shall escape. There is more ex-
element in Bismarck than has
been seen since the senatorial fight.
Sergeant-at.Arms Wood of the senate,
created buz by appearing in the
Sheridan house lobby with a
bunch of subpoenas sticking out of his
overcoat pocket. From the tenor of re-
marks heard tonight it is impossible to
say what it all amounts to. Feeling has
been wrought up over the lottery bill.
elimination and recrimination have been
banded about until action has be-
come necessity, and from present ap-
pearances, if there is anything rotten in
Denmark, the people will soon know of
it. The resolution above quoted is
sweeping; if there are any corruption
lists in or about the legislature or state
offices, they must needs see to it that
their tracks are we'll covered.
The Sandager Bill Dead Duck
The Sandager revenue bill is dead
duck. The house today voted to indeti-
nitely postpone its further consideration.
This is equivalent to killing the bill
Stevens wanted the bill laid on the table
80 that it could be taken up again and
so that the committee to investigate the
rumors of bribery and undue solicitation
could proceed with their work on live
subject, but the house voted such a
motion down.
Walsh introduced the resolution which
settled the bills fate. 1t declared in the
preamble that the bill has given small
minority a pratext to prolony the session
by tilibustering tactics at an expense to
the state approximating $1,000 per day
and went on to say that in the interest
of the state, the further consideration of
the bill should be indefinitely postponed.
A large majority of the house favored
the bill and forty members haye voted
with the bill in the tilibustering proceed
ings of the last week. There has been no
doubt, however, but that the governor
would veto the bill, and in that event, it
would have taken ~ members of the
house and p of the senate to make a law
of the bill. The senate was all right, but
the necessary number could not be Sc
cured in the house. The attempt to do so
was given up tins morning, and the ac-
| tion of this afternoon was not so much
of surprise here as it will prove else
where.
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