Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-02-14
Oh, For a Photograph!
from Saturdays Daily.

What a lamentable mistake has been
made in not having placed a monograph
in each of the Legislative rooms at the capt.
tai. Five dollars a ticket would be an in
significant price tor a photographic recital
of yesterdays proceedings in the house.
What a store of entertainment it would be
for the future.
When the lottery bill came up for con-
sideration yesterday the filibustering cy-
clone Of the opposition was turned loose
for over two hours. The hall presented a
scene which would put a rule-discussing
congress to envy. Messrs. Mccullough,
, Mccormick and LELAND led the minority
and when at last all the motions had been
exhausted and they stood face to face with
the bill, the first reading OF which was
ordered, Mccormick made a last expiring
effort to appeal and the dazed
and dumbfounded Mccullough gave
frenzy as has ever been witnessed in the
halls of legislation. Grabbing his paper
weight, he kept time with his feet
while he shouted with his mouth, pounded
the desk with the paper-weight in his right
hand and cut the air into invisible frag-
uOuto Will LILO lClVs M1s mCOullOuSu Is
not very tail in stature, but he can make
as much noise with a pair of lungs and a
paper-weight as any man in the state.
While this performance was entertaining,
he reached the climax OF original pro-
cedure when, In the midst of his
cyclonlc and inspiring demonstl alton,
arrest the speaker, who was sitting as
quietly and meekly as a deacon in
his chair. 1t is needless to say that this
stroke of NapoleOnic authority won the ap-
plause Of the house.
PETITIONS AND CIRCUMSTANCES
continue to come in from all parts Of the
state. but the preponderance Of sentiment
is in favor of the measure. Representative
Thompson received a petition for the bill,
signed by over a thousand of the leading
citizens of Fargo; yesterday he received a
remonstrance signed by five. Representa-
tive Mcintyre is in receipt of a petition
for the passage of the bill and Representa-
tive Beard was urged to support the propo-
sition by a petition of citizens of Cass coun-
ty which was brought to the city yesterday
by the irrepressible John Dunn Of Cassel-
ton. The next week will be one of intense
interest on this question and the combative
members of the legislature will be given an
tagonizers.
5 SHREWD FILIBUsTERERS.
It was the verdict of every spectator
present that the filibusterers were phe-
nomenally successful in delaying proceed
ings, as never in the history of parliament
tary usage were so many motions made
and so much discussion INDUCED in after
the previous question had been ordered by
1.-THE house. Thew had QOOd cansa for
~chuckling.
SCENES AT THE HOTELS
Discussion in the hotel Hobbies ran high.
M. N. johnson, the persistent statesman
from Lakota, arrived yesterday and imme-
diately began a crusade against the bill.
BE was having pretty smooth sailing when
his oratorical bark collided with the man
of-war Plummer and he was compelled to
change his course under a CALLING and dis
astrols fire. Plummer warmed up to his
subject and the room wa soon filled with a
crowd Of appreciatlve listeners.
why, ~ exclaimed Plummer.
III you will name one man who
has ever been harmed by the Louisiana
lottery, OF. cite an instance where it has
failed to keep its pledges, l will concede
that you have some arguments. As for the
moral side of the question, your own argu-
ments on the money consideration prove
that it Is, not moral principle that sways
yOn.D This was in the afternoon. In the
evening after the adjournment of the meet
ing Of Bismarckers In the city hall, the
orators steamed up again at the Sheridan
and the colonel and Farmer Wallace held
the crowd for over an hour, both speaking
The Climax.