The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-02-04
Probably the agitation over the

Probably the agitation over the
needs of the p~enitentiary-a a means
of securing legislation at Helena-wil
have to pass as a ~"cat-hop." The word
lust used belongs in the vernacular of
slang. Properly il ought not to find a
place i'm editorial lines, but it fits well
Just here because the prison is Marshal
Irvine's especial care and the Marshal
il is who used the expression with
graphic force when, at a gathering OF
his political friends in Helena. "a new
movement i'm the senatorial business
being started up. he shouted from his
seat in the third house to inform the
presiding officer that the movement
was a cat-hOp.
The meaning of the word is not eX-
act. In all the bright vocabulary of
approved slang, there's no such word
as cat-hop. still. the average man gets
"A pretty clear idea of the size and
weight and strength Of u movement
when this new word is used to describe
il. We repeat. we do not know exactly
what a cat-hop is, yet we are satisfied
that the agitation over the wants of the
prison is one.
I. takes money to run u penitentiary
everybody knows that. Under nor
NAL conditions the funds needed for the
pe~nitentiary could be obtained on call;
but the state is MOI living under normal
conditions. The management of the
Deer Lodge prison is in republican
hands. The democratic newspapers of
the state have given wide publicity to
Marshal Irvine's statement of its press
ing needs. This was done in the hope
that republicans at Helena would be
prompted by n patriotic purpose for
once and, by clasping hands with demo-
Gratis across the political chasm, bring
about the organization of a strictly non
partisan legislative body i'm which GER
tain needed appropriations could be
voted.
1t was made clear. last week, hat the
republicans will not go into this ar
rangement. Left to themselves, several
members of the republican house would
he glad to enter into such an agreement,
but these gentlemen are not left tn
themselves: they still have Sanders
with them. Indeed, Colonel Sanders in
afraid to leave them long enough to go
to Washington. Thus the republican
groop in Helena is made subservient to
the personal fight over senatorships,
which has been a curse to Montana
since h day when first the Legislature
was ordered to meet.
The imbecile houses at Helena have
about seventeen days more to live. I'm
y ~ tthSiS IA oS "o
ton. Democrats a repeatedly offer
ed to join i'm organizing a body made
up in equal parts of emocrats and
republicans, but the forces held by Col.
sanders will not be permitted to favor
the plan. If the situation at Deer
Lodge is one full of foreboding. the
Marshal's partisans ought to be willing
to see him safely through, but they will
not do il and democrats do not intend
to be disturbed by a situation at the
prison which is not serious enough to
bring republicans half way in plans for
compromise.
In any event. we do not believe that
the present legislature. were il to be
legally organized today, would do more
than provide for the prisons current
There will he no haste in
appropriating from S5O.OOO to $4,000
for buildings at Deer Lodge. such an
appropriation would involve the dis
cussion of the permanent location of
the prison. and that question will be-
discussed in connection with the selec-
ton of sites for all state institutions.
\ section of the constitution provides
tina no bill for the appropriation of
money!, except for current expenses,
shall be introduced within ten days of
the close of the session, except by unan-
imous consent of the house in which il
is sought to be introduced. so that the
chances for "A prison-building appropri-
alton are slender indeed.
At any rate, the democrats have
offered to come half way and no far.
Their. They will stand where they art
like a stone wall. The prison affair
does not disturb them: and thus it il
fair to assume hat the Marshal's stir,
ring appeal will have to pass into his
tory as a conspicuous cat-hop.
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