The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-02-12

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which the He,uId evidently is afraid to
father as am open declaration. The
important fact in the whole business is ,
thai Becker is away. Helena needn't
expect him back for several days.
All this i'll natured comment was
written for the republican newspapers
just after they had learned of h
collapse of the senate's Saturday-night
legislation. our republican friends
were sorely vexed. They wanted To
pitch into somebody and Becker had To
AXE il. Vet the senator was in no
sense To blame for the iiasco. For his
part he was mighty useful tothe repub-
licans. Ii wasn't his business to act
part of prompter ar tn point out the
fact that Mr.. Richards must comply
with certain little constitutional prOvis-
ions i'm order to make saturday nights
bills stick. for that matter he probably
didn't know what the law is on the sub
iect. In short. for all their purposes.
the republicans got out Of Hecker's
presence all they needed or could ask
for. The Hat failure of their bills is the
fault of The lieutenant governor.
Will the republican newspapers
assail Mr.. richards. WI trust they
will not. That gentleman has critics
enough already. The fact that he is
not skilled in the finer forms of parli-
mentary practice is not his fault. IL is II
good deal To ask of republicans that
they forgive Mr.. Richards since he
Numbered beyond retrieve. but they'll
have to do it. During the long session
he has done his best and his worst for
his party and the people. and there his
case must rest.
Several days ago the STANDARD pre-
dicted that the republicans would
surely Iloun,cr as soon as Colonel
sanders crossed Montana's eastern
border. lie was the guiding hand of
conspiracy. II lamp IN its feet. "a light
to its path. Of course. nobody could
have predicted that Il cardinal bluIIder
was so near at hand. but it has come
and So has come the time when the
lieutenant governor may properly seek
the seclusion of his office in Butte.
where bills and rules 10 not torment
and where state thieves do not break
through and steal. Meanwhile. the
STANDARD hespeaks for the erring
lieutenant governor the tender mercies
"f the republicans who surround him.
Pun IN PLAIN WORDS.
speaker Reed would find il hard tn
make Roadway with his modern method
for creating quorums il he had tn pro-
ceed under the excellent law that has
stood unchallenged for many years i'm
Pennsylvania. MOntana's lieutenant
governor would newer he able to oper-
ate iictions in arithmetic in that state,
where the constitution provides hat
no ''bill shall become II law unless oIl
it's final passage tine vote he taken by
yeas and nays. the names of the persons
voting for and against the same Ice en-
tered ON the journal and II majority Of
the members elected Ia each house bs
r..s.sns.l..sN tl.As..tp, ne NIttt... IA, 10 fen x.,r -
This compact section affords no up.
portunity for evasion ar sharp practice
II does not permit II presiding officer Ia
invent u quorum to suit his own pur
pose. Ii puts i'm form the popular am,
sense notion regarding villa;
is necessary to make Il majority out ot
Il given number of people. II is a law
which every man can understand and
which ne honest presiding officer can
evale.
Under this law no partisan chairman,
can surrender his sense of vision tn thu
promptings of Il perverted brain. II il
the universal idea of "a quorum put int,
the constitution of il state. the idle;
which Mr.. Blaine had in view when II,
said where Il quorum. i'm the judgment
of the chair. has been declared to u,
present in the house against the result
of II roll call. proceedings i'm the legis
latures have brorght scandal III thei
names"
Mr.. Parurlrs victory over the LoIidoi
Times il a,tsuIt a. complete as II victor.
could b".
Ti, Mormon press in salt Lake .s
.iar..- that the Morunous in Salt lak
were siauncfuliy handled last Monday
They were very vigorously iGtudlrd. :,
any rate.
The remarkable. riisiI into tl,. Si.aI
reservation lands. opposite chamberlain
South Dakota. IL ,Ic-..ribc,I in the Sr>NI
AHD's news columns this morning. I'll,
spectacle il intensely American. II,
wonder * that. with such "a vast area &.
land lying ont of doors i'm this w"stcr
country. there. should lac - mad rttsh i'm
reservation where luck must have a fol
tuuatc ram il one in ten of the bopiicr
prosper. AlvcnturcrS in Dakota haV
p"r-istcutly played la hard luck. Yet tho
seem never Ia tire. of II. Opposite Cham
: beriain. thousands If men rushed hcas
long in order to bc among the first to cal
turs. choice locations. Houses were carte
I ,o the land an,i forty-eight hours OF Ip
F, session finds everything ready for "a tow
Of three thousand people. Aud NOW al
trouble. for these boomers begins; the
= must secure. title tn what they assume
: possess, and that's a pretty slow process
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