Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-02-28
THE ARENA.
A Day With the Statesmen at 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.

Lights.
Coming to the Center
from Fridays Daily.]
1t was a great day for the combative
members of both houses as we'll as for the
appreciative occupants of the lobby. 1t was
'roaster's' day. The true spirit of modern
politics and craftsmanship permeated the
atmosphere and every fighting legislator
was on his metal. In tho senate Senator
LaMoure led off with a swinging blow at
the Encouragement which seemed to catch
that distinguished fu%nctionary in the neck,
and Senators Swanston. Mccormack,
Stevens, Bell and Appleton followed with
as spirited a partisan skirmish as has been
witnessed dnring the session. A resolu-
ton was introduced from the republican
side, calling for the final adjournment Of
the legislature on March II, Mr.. Appleton
(democrat) moved to amend by making it
March l, and the ~undownable SWANSON
moved a further amendment making it
March 18, the day upon which the 120 days
limit is reached. The Swanston amendment
was defeated and when the original propo-
sltion to adjourn March II was reached the
seven democrats refused to vote. Swan
ston's r%epublicanism asserted itself and
with blood in his eye he demanded that the
democrats be compelled to vote on this
question. The conciliatory LaMoure
moved that the democrats be excused from
voting, and the motion was declared car
ried, but the undauntedS wanston sprang to
his feet with a rule which requires a two
thirds vote to Reuse a member from voting;
the president acknowledged. his mistake ,de-
clared the motion to excuse lost and Or
dered the clerk to complete the roll call by
calling the names of the democrats who
had refused to vote. During these proceed
ingS democrats and republicans were on
their fetal talking and everybody prov
ing his loyalty to party by the most for
chile EXPLANATIONS and declarations at his
command. At last the roll was called and
all the democrats voted save MeSsrS. Hart
man and Mccormack who refused. The
president demanded that they should vote;
Hartman and Mccormack remained silent,
mOtiOnless, stOlid and determined. They
would not vote. AS their acknowledgements,
Appleton, had expressed it, they looked
upon the resolution as the result of a re-
publican caucus and they would take no
part in its passage. The crisis was reached.
Visions of arrests, of struggling sergeant
alarms and resisting senator's; flying desks
and shattered dignity, fitted before the
gaze and just as it seemed inevitable that
the senate walls would be e~ncarnadined
with G. o. P. and Jeffersonian blood, the
harmonizing LaMoure stepped calmly to
the fore and changed his vote to mo-"
This good example was followed by q
number of others, the atmosphere was
cooled, the democrats smiled, voted "aye,"
and another great calamity was averted.
In the house the regular attorney-general
roast was injected into the proceedings,
the culinary artist being Representative
Selby who crossed the Rubicon of timidity,
cut the gordian knot Of innuendo and fatty
announced in discussing a legal point, that
he had long since lost all respect for the
legal opinion of the attorney-general as
had every other lawyer in the house. In
addition to this awakening flash, the trum.
petrvoiced Stevens raised the listening
throng from the floor by as brilliant a leap
into the oratorical heavens as has been
made since the morning and the evening
were the first day of the session. Mr.. Stew
ems was championing his bill for the re-
peal Of the law appropriating $4,000 annu.
ally for a state fair, and maintained that
it was more important that this money
should 60 to the destitute farmers Of the
state than for an annual dress parade OF
mongrel stations and Stalled bulls.
There were other interesting diversions
n trken altogether the session was salts
factory to the antagonizers and welcome
to the press.
THE MIGHTY CAMP.
A slight trembling in the earth yester
day morning. created much excitement and
CONSERVATION, but when it was learned
that Edgar w. Camp, the pious and incor
ruptible reporter of the supreme court, hat
been testifying before the investigating
committee, all was explained. Since MI
Camp appeared in Washington recently
with a large cargo of voice and severa
train loads of private information againsI
the "diabolical lottery scheme, (Which "pri
vate information" he impaired to Senators
Pierce and Casey through the columns O.
the newspapers, he has left one long, I'm
broken sensation in his wake. Through
objectionable carelessness on his part, tn
earth's axis suffered a severe strain, owin)
to thef fact that when he moved eastward
he did not notify the authorities so tina
they could have the balance of the peopl
move rapidly in the opposite direction t,
preserve the equilibrium. This, however
was remedied when the mighty CAM
left for home, an official order having beef
sent from Washington to New England tt
move their people enmasse toward tn,
Atlantic coast while the minister plenipo
Tertiary and envoy extraordinary from
North Dakota journeyed homeward. Thus
was the earth kept steadily in its course
and the harmony of the solar system pre-
served. Yesterday Mr.. Camp testified be
fore the investigating committee and the
electric shock which shot across the con
tinent and which was mistaken in many
localities for an amateur earthquake wa!
simply the influence of his thrilling revela
tons on the supreme power which controls
the universe. 1t is reliably reported tina
as Mr.. Camp proceeded with his startling
testimony the cheeks of the committeeman
grew wan and haggard; a deathly pallol
settled upon their lips, the arm Of the
stenOgrapher fell limp and helpless at his
side and the sun-burst whiskers of the
irrepressible Judge Francis were fright.
ened temporarily into a deathly gray.
The people of the state of North Dakota
are indeed to be congratulated upon the
prOmptness with which this moral giant
this Sampson Of ~purity-sprang to the