Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-07

FRlDA u, MARCH z, 1881
fanny and the imprinting of blot upon
| our statutes to which the brand of Cain
! would be reward of merit in comparison,
| and therefore, deeming the measure as
being one whose enactment would be in
| imlcal to the public good and uncalled for,
we recommend that the bill be indefinitely
postponed. +. G. BARLOW,
| D. S. DODDS.
MIR. LAMOURE then moved that the re-
port Of the committee be adopted (his Oh
ject being to bring the matter before the
| SENATOR WORST
spoke as follows:
| We may have our separate and individual
views concerning measure of this kind.
have mine and am frank to say that am
sorry that this report is before this honor
able body. I am sorry for the men whose
signatures appear on this report because
these gentlemen I have looked upon-as
others have-as honorable men. and it
places a majority Of this senate in very
unenviable position. AS far as am con
cerned think that in the course of my
short life have tried to be all honorable
man, but stand before this senate day,
|
worse than the brand Of Cain" pointed at
me, and / resent the insult. IL goes behind
| thiS-it affects North Dakota; it affects the
| institutions to which we all owe allegiance.
In public life we are all liable to make mis-
takes. but if a man should make a mistake,
that is no reason why it should follow him
forever. l challenge any one to produce
anything more vindictive or vituperatve
than this which has been heaped upon us.
| protest in the name Of my constituency.
l protest III the name Of North Dakota ,and
in the name Of manhood against such a
slander as this. l look upon it, not with a
spirit of anger or revenge, but with the
deepest modification.
| When we took action upon the lottery
| question, we knew the condition of our
people; we knew the condition of our state
and at the same time had not found out
the feelings of our constituencies, and l
think that men took action upon this
measure as true to their better nature and
interests as ever men did in any delibera-
tive body. They may have made mis-
take, but they did it thinking it was for the
best interests Of our state, and there is no
reason that this mistake should follow
them from day to day. But when men
to blackmail and slander this honorable
body, the time has come when we must
stand upon our dignity. honor and man.
hood.
These men are mean, internal scoun-
drels, and want to serve notice upon that
fighting to the last, and they will find
enough dignity, honor and manhood left
in us to give them decent burial.
l want to inform you that when it comes
to question OF honor with me, l can poin,
back to my past record and challenge any
man, aye, challenge the world to show
that in my past career this report has
grounds to stand.
repudiate it with sympathy for the
men VINO have signed their names to a re-
port Of this character.
In behalf of the good name OF the state
in behalf of integrity, honor and manhood
| l ask that this report shall not stand.
There is no question but what we have a
conflict before us, not only on this report
hut on the report that has just previous tc
this been under discussion.
Let us meet it like men. Once again,
protest against the adoption OF this report
SENATOR STEVENS
said: When the question under discussion
came up before this senate yesterday,
gladly supported the motion to table it
but by some means unknown to me it got
into the public press, ana as it casts re
Elections upon me and the majority Of this
senate, desire to offer the following as
substitute for that minority report:
WHEREAS, Senators Barlow and Dodds did al
yesterdays session present a minority report
upon senate bill 1875, which as members OF the
committee to whom said bill was referee; they
had an undoubted right to do, but
WHEREAS, Said report was entirely foreign to
the bill under consideration and was couched ir
insult to majority Of this senate, and could
have emanated only in the diseased brain of ar
imbecile or villain, and
they not only cast reflections upon the motives Of
more than two.thirds Of the members of this
senate, but stultifed themselves, disgraced the
unfortunate constituencies whom they tempo
rarily mis-rep, esent and over their signatures
presented to this senate document unparalleled
in the annals of American parliamentary usages
thereby showing themselves unworthy the conf
dence. respect or esteem of any but moral COW.
ards and unfit to associate with free, independ.
ent and patriotic American citizens; therefore.
Resolved. That the senate pass vote of cen.
sure upon Senators F. G. Barlow and d. s. Dodds
and that we declare the office of pre.ident pre-
tempore vacant and that we proceed to elect q
president pro tempore.
MIR. SMITH called for division of the
question to separate the vote of censure of
the two senators who signed the report
from the other proposition declaring the
Office OF president pro tenn. vacant and thai
the senate proceed to fill that office.
81 The CHAIR ruled affirmativeiy on the
diyisibility and the question was so di
yided.
@ SENATOR sWANsTON
/ was the first speaker on the substitute. lie
said: ae yt,.s>,#
I5A This resolution is introduced as substi.
tute for the minority report Of the judici
aryScOmmittee. ! wish to say that l was
member Of the judiciary committee and
sighed the majority report, shat the bill dc
pass" for the reason that we thought it Just
and right that these papers should es
taDllsh an agency in, this state where
papers might be served on them in case o.
action against them. Now, Mr.. President
when two senators shall hold up the ma
jOrity of this senate to ridicule and call lii
by epithets such as are cast upon US in the
minority report, think it is time to cen
:. sure and repudiate them. s5 ..s
n IA So. SENATOR BELL ss d, J.s
said: think the language Of this substi
tute is too harsh, and would move yol
that the preamble be stricken out. mak'
this motion because l. do not wish this sen
J ate TO stoop so low as to handle the ''dirt'
: chat these GENTLEMEN who made the mi.