Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-21
The Lawmakers Meet Their Death
as Statesmen and Are Born
Again AS "Plebs.''
Dropping Their T0gas and Donning
Their Stogas, They go to
Their Fate.
With Their Records For Morality
Is They Return to Their Wheat
less Constituents.
1t Was the Governors Turn.
from Wednesdays Daily.1


It was not the attorney general who
collided with the legislative locomotive
yesterday. It was Governor Miller, and
the way that his grist of appointments
was hurled from the track, reminded
macy of the exciting days when the
Church express and the legislative mo-
gul were attempting to annihilate each
other on the same road. The long list of
appointments sent to the senate Monday
we're considered yesterday, and we're re-
jected by vote of 10 to II. Nor were
they permitted to return in silence. Sem
tors Worst, Diesem, Swanston and 9TH
ers took occasion to hit them lick as
they were passing out, and with the back
of their oratorical hand and the toe of
their rhetorical boot, sent their compli-
ments to honest John Miller. Mr.. Worst
could not see the justice of the
governors action in expecting the senate
: to do in day what he had taken 119
days to perform. Yet, after 119 days of
the session, he sent in all his appoint
ments and gave the senate one day in
which to make inquiry and decide upon
their fitness and qualifications. Senator
added that although he had no time to
make careful examination of the list or
inquire into the record of the appointees,
he found the name Of one man who had
been indicted by grand jury for bribery
at the polls, for corrupting the ballot and
striking at the very corner stone of our
independence.
2 Here. the senator grew severe IN his
censure and President Dickey called him
to order. For a moment Diesem looked
whole broadsides of daggers at the frown-
ing president, but realizing that o man
with a gavel could make more noise than
one with dozen pairs of lungs, the
senator from LaMoure desisted. The
vote was taken and the appointments
+ were sent out the back door of the senate
\ chamber with loud resounding "biff."
Senator ,Swanston took the floor on
u the motion to accept the report of the
seed wheat committee and discharge the
committee, and in favoring the motion
said no act of his during the entire ses-
sion caused him deeper regret. He knew
y that the men on that committee were
"the salt OF the earth, men who would
do more than any others for the relief of
i tho destitute and he deplored the action
OF the legislature in having turned it's
y back upon so generous an offer as had
been made. Mr.. Swanston was not long
4 in getting down to the quick and reiter-
\ ated with all the force at his command
the statement that among the lead
ers OF the moralists who had cried
!, had been indicted on the charge of brib-
cry in elections. It grew warmer and
more torrid until the question was dis
posed Of. Everybody wondered who it
was among the governors appointees
i that had been indicted for bribery, and
4 it is claimed that certified copy of the
S court record, which the fearless Swans
ton hourished in his hand, was exhibited
to 9 sufficient number to prove that he
was dealing in facts. If this thing con-
tinues, those troops must be called into
service.
$fsss53 OVER THE VETO.
At last one bill has gone over the gov
Sernor's veto and become law. It is the
bill establishing school for deaf mutes
at Devils Lake, and happy are tie Ram
sey county members with the exception of
Y the Obstreperous Mccormick, who has
j been consistently subservient to the fac
tion with which he became identified at
4 The opening of the session. The
d TACT that the bill was demanded
Il by his clalnoring constituency cut no fig
b hre; for, although he voted for it on final
passage it is given out on reliable au-
shorty that he urged all his intimate
friends to vote against it, and prayed
that it would be defeated. But Swan
1 btOn and Currier and McClory are iubi-
liant, and Lieut.. Creel, the blond antago-
hizer who was granted the privileges of
)he floor to speak in favor Of the meas
ire, is going home with u rooster on each
lhoulder. "a .5i5S
81 HI THERE, STEVENS.
It would be strange, indeed, should the
d hst day Of legislative session pass,
kithont its novel and unexpected event,
Ind yesterday was up to the standard in
bis respect. At five o'clock in the evening
was discovered that the railroad gross
rnipgs tax bill was missing, and Chair
han Stevens; of the railroad committee
Eas Immediately dispatched in search Of