, 1890-02-13
WHY HE RAN AWAY.
Becker Joins the Montana Senators in
This City


The little band Of Montana demo-
cratic senators who have been
sojourning I'm the city were made
glad Monday morning by the ar
rival of Senator W. ;. Becker. The
gentlemen who have been enjoying
themselves In quiet way for the
past few days had begun to get very
impatient, and were absolutely pin.
ing for news of the Legislative situa.
tion mt Helena; 80 the advent Of one,
fresh from the scene OF political
muddle, was hailed with delight,
In speaking OF his arrest at Bozeman
Oh Friday and his subsequent escape,
Senator Billy Becker said;
"The fact of the matter was, was
lonesome, | was all alone, and as |
could not affiliate with the republi-
cans, times were duh for me at
Helena.
"It was on Friday that was ar
rested and | quietly accompanied
the deputy sheriff to Helena. The
arrest was made at Bozeman, and mt
one time II looked ~ II there might
he trouble, as many democrats were
of the opinion that my arrest was a
high handed outrage. / was as you
probably know released on writ Of
habeas corpus"
"Thcy wanted you at Helena for
a quorum In the senatorial cham
bers, did they not?" asked the re-
porter.
"Yes, and by God they would
have had me there III / had been a
dead man. My corpse would have
been prOped up, and they would
have counted me In on IA quorum.
They could certainly have got as
much out OF that AS they did out OF
me there. sat there In my seat
hour after hour saturday night,
while they rushed IN business,
never opening my mouth.
"Were you not watched?"
"Very carefully until after the
west-bound train had left sunday
night; then their vigilance was re-
lnSed somewhat, and "a had made
up my msGd to get away, If not In
one way, at least In another, | be-
gan to look around to see what i
could do, and at 10 o'clock last
night, ] chartered an engine and
car, and caught the regular passen-
ger at Missoula.
'We fairly flew. am an old
railroad man, but / never Travelled
over the rail 40 fast In my life. We
left Helena seven hours after the
passenger and made II all up. The
car jumped and bounced along
at such rate that | could not keep
my seat more than half the time,
but | got out of Helena all right
enough, and glad / am to be here,
too, | assure YOU"
Senator Joe Baker said last
night: 1--WE will have to keep out
of the state, as II Is the only way we
can support our position against the
arbitrary rulings Of Richards.
"All we want il Precinct Thirty
four counted In, or have them show
cause why II should be thrown OUT -
said Senator Parberry.
"If the two houses would only
come to some settlement" he con-
tinued, $50 that we could go back,
ii would be Just what we want
We will keep along the
Northern Pacific 30 that we can
hurry back, II they will only give
us fair chance"
Ii certainly looks a. II the SIX
democratic senators had the whip
hand Just now. They are confident
and feel entirely satisfied with
themselves, although regretting the
delay and annoyance necessarily
caused the people Of Montana by
the abortivc proceedings, whicil
ley felt themselves bound In honor
to their constituents and themselves
to institute.
OFF FOR OREGON.
"a. M.--About midnight a di--
patch was received from Helena
that requisltion had been asked oil
Governor Ferry by the republicans
Sc that they might be held here un'
I'll bench warrant could be issueu
at Helena, So that they might be
taken back TO Montana ana iorceu
into their seats. immediately on
receipt of the telegram II was de
cided 10 slope for Oregon, ana
Union Pacific special train was
chartered at n cost Of D,Op. AZ
O'Clock the train pulled out OF the
station, and the engineer mao or
dcrs to throw her wide open un.
III the Oregon line was crossed. III
is probably a SURF thing that the
sexictte are by this time III the sis'e'
state.