Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-21
A Day With the Statesmen of the
Capital and Glimpses at the
Show.
Signs, Echoes and RumOrs as They
Are Caught in Hall and
Lobby.
The Work of the Law Makers as
Seen Under the Changing
Lights.
What Next?
From Fridays Daily.]

What Next?
g.. from Fridays Daily.]
Farewell seed wheat, farewell; at least
so far as the commission appointed to de-
wise means to furnish wheat to the far
mers is concerned.
The committee rose to a question of
privilege yesterday and paid its compli-
ments to tl.3 house in words that leave no
doubt as to their meaning. They plainly
inform the house that they cannot longer
serve a body which refuses to consider
their reports. With an intimation that the
proposition of the lottery company was
one that should have been promptly &C.
cepted, and plain assertions that they are
not built for penny begging among women
and children, the committeeman doff their
hats to the righteous solons and bid them
adieu.
The suggestion that they considered it
their duty to step aside at once so as not
to stand in the way OF the state officers
and lottery opponents, who may desire to
offer relief, is significant.
Will the moralists present a scheme for
the aid of the destitute?
Seed time approaches; the destitute
farmers who have been so thoroughly adj
vertised by the governor and commissioner
of agriculture, are still sitting on the icicle
of despair with their frayed and Hopping
shirts of doubt futtering in the winds of
morality which have swept about them in
chilling blasts in answer to their prayers
for bread.
Happy farmer, indeed. How doubly
blest it is to have u farmers administra-
lion. What message of consolation or
cheer has been sent out to the grangerian
constituency by the honest and callous-
power and greatness last fall by a major
ity Of twelve thousand of the plain and
plodding followers of the pillow? Are the
pennies and braSS-lined buttons that are
being sent out from the generous and opu-
lent east sufficient to scatter the golden
grain over the state? Will the farmers be
comforted by the secondhand overshoes
that are sent in from the kind and cOnsid-
crate ladies of the mission societies. or will
the prayers of the faithful bring peace and
comfort and transform the barren prairie
into a waving feld?
All, these are questions that must be an
swered, and answered soon, and the course
w w USkhSh Ny VAo VIZ luSCu
to accept the 100000 bushels of seed wheat,
which would have gone to the fields of the
needy, is a matter OF some novel specula-
ton. 1t is the chief topic of discussion
among the statesmen, and it is pretty safe
to say that it is now commanding the at
tentiOn of honest John Miller and his
cabinet.
Surely they will not abandon the desti-
tute to their fate.
As a result Of the clashing of interests
and the numerous climaxes that have been
reached during the last few weeks of the
of mind to waste much time in manifesto
tions of brotherly love or atfectionate en-
braces. Every man has a knife in his
sleeve and a razor in his boot, and is
watching for an opportunity to catch an
other member off his guard. The
time when friendship ceases has arrived
and the dignifed and affable statesman of
brook legislator Of to-day. The spirit of
universal wal took possession of both
houses yesterday and was especially no.
ticeable in the senate. Senate bills that
had been previously passed by that body
we're recalled and killed, and among these
which was looked upon as beyond the
danger line.
That the oratorical and parliamentars
member from Trail is indignant reeds ~
assurance further than a glimpse of his
round and intellectual face as it Pushes
with pent up rage when the subject is
It was a day Of dissolution. The lines of
battle were obliterated and officers and
privates, cOmmissary sergeantS and camp
followers broke loose. in a grand free. for
all, and it now looks as though the sltua-
ton will remain in chaos until the final
adjournment.
A RELIABLE OFFICIAL.
SWELL" said a lar in the lobby yester-
day, "did the governor veto the bill doing
away with the present system of appoint
ment of boards Of management for state
institutions ?"
Sid he % calculated the man to whom
the question was addressed. "Well, now,
perhaps he didn'tv'
It was the emphasis more than the
words that expressed the confidence with
which the man had bet on the veto. The
TRIBUNE felt confident that the source
from which it gained its information that
the bill would be vetoed, was reliable, but
it hardly expected the governor to carry
out the programme laid down in these col
umnS so cOnspicuOusly and eXhaustiVely,
The executive is not the man to deprive
himself of about fifteen captains and fifty
l~leuCeHaHtS just as ne Is going 10 war.
NC TESTING, PLEAsE.
Millerius: "Ah, poor Goodwinicus, that art
most sorely pressed,
Come rest thy head upon m heaving breast.
Thou scorned and baffled hewer,of M wood,
Who hast for me all grief and pain withstood,
Lift up thy head-more laughter pray employ
Take from our feast at least q crumb of JOY"
Good,uinicus: AYE it is we'll for thee who
escaped the fire, ..
To try with lulling speech to calm M ire. r
Jests have their place; but it doth go too far, ,
When as thou smilst, I wear thy battle scar
Thy fight l made, and now where'er I rove
I'm followed by a black and ghastly stove.'
THY KNOW HIM NOT.
While marshalling his moral troops for
war. Col. Bentley became considerably
bewildered. He says in his communica-
ton that the TRIBUNE says that the super
intendency of the jamestown asylum has
been pledged to him. Not at all, colonel;
not at all. lfyou will dismount and come
down out of the smoke of battle in which
you have been moving during the past few
weeks, you will see that the TRIBUNE
made no such statement. This statement
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