Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-07
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SENATORIAL DIGNITY.
The report of the minority on senate
bill No. 1876, demands more than the
action taken-tabling and expunging
from the record. Is the senate equal to
the emergency? Probably never before
in the history of any legislative body
have two members dared to present such
an insulting report-dared to make such
unsubstantiated charges regarding the
motives of fellow members dared
to charge directly that such inAu-
ences were brought to bear upon two
thirds of the highest branch-as Messrs.
Barlow and Dodds subscribe their names
to. No greater insult was ever offered.
The bill upon which this minority report
is made does not in any way justify such
assumption on the part of these two
men. The bill simply provides for the
appointment of an agent to receive
service of process for nonresident pub
fishers of newspapers having a circula-
~ LII Iu1o oIoVo-JuoU ouo oouo dS Uuo
laws now provide for agents of insurance
companies or other corporations, on
whom process can be served in this
state. 1t provides that the proper ad-
dress Of such agent shall be filed with
the secretary of state, and that service
on such agent shall be of the same legal
effect as if made on the publisher or
publishers personally within any county
in this state. That is all there is of the
bill. It refers to no %paper-nor speaks
nor hints at anything any outside news
paper has ever said. The majority
report in favor of the passage
of this bill was signed by Sena-
tors Little, Swanston, wager, LaMoure
and Cowan, of the Judiciary committee
certainly men of as high degree of honor
and integrity as the minority. What
right have these men-Barlow and
Dodds-to impugn the motives of the
majority and assume that this bill has
anything to do with the lottery bill, or
the action of any member of the senate
thereon?
Granting that the bill in question
- 1875 - is Objectionable in some re-
spects, have two members of the senate
the right-in their Objectionable insult
the senate by declaring that the passage
of the bill, as recommended by the ma
jority of the committee, sis being urged
for the sole purpose of enabling the
friends Of the lottery bill to chastise GER
tain newspapers" which the holy
and pure minority declare "preserved
the new state from prostitution at the
hands of the despoilers?" Have these
two guardians of the public morals posi-
tive knowledge, as they charge, that cor
gained corruption" influenced twenty
two members of the senate to vote for
the lottery bill-that ~"organized corrup-
ton" has been busily engaged in per-
~fecting a plot and pushing it to an I'M
holy contamination 'by all the methods
known to and practiced by unprincipled
demagogues, political deadbeats and
shysters of every stamp and afiliation?"
If so, what meat for the investigating
committee. Will twenty-five men of the
senate of North Dakota rest under the
charge of being ccerced into "enacting
legalized infamy and the imprinting of a
blot upon our statutes to which the
brand of Cain would be a reward of merit
in comparison?" If such a disrespect-
full report should be presented by m
member or members of either branch of
the national congress-no matter what
the provocation-even though it reflected
upon the minority only, the guilty per-
son would be brought to speedy justice
and expelled.
Stand up Senators Barlow and Dodds
and be sworn. Did you, or either of
you, write or originate that minority re-
port? Was it not prepared for you or
upon consultation-the result of a pre-.
meditated onslaught upon two-thirds of
the senate? Did you not hold a council
of war o after the action of the senate
and discuss future action? Can you
stand before the judgment altar, face
your God and say that you know CT your
own knowledge what you charge directly
and by innuendo in your minority re-
port? If so, will you, as good, christian,
God-fearing citizens, contribute your
evidence before some tribunal that will
bring the guilty to speedy justice?
REPRESENTATIVE McDoNALD, of VAL
Icy City, has introduced a bill, No. 312,
which will allow all cities that are tirod