Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14
The Quiet Day.
T From Saturdays Daily

IRON Saturday DRuy.I
"Every other day"
That seems to be the legislative pro.
gramme with regard to sensations.
The plan seems to be to impress upon the
mind the saying that there is always a
calm before q storm-or the less frequently
repeated trulsm that there is always a
storm after a calm.
They are also proving pretty conclus-
lively that it is the unexpected that hap
pens.
Thursday, the day upon which the ia
nous Goodwinian "set up stoves' epistle
was read to the house, there were very few
visitors in the capitol. Nothing of excep-
tional interest was expected. Yesterday
the building was full Of visitors. The in
terest was awakened. Everyone expected
lively times to follow the publication of
the Goodwin bribery accusations, and yet
so far as the legislative proceedings were
concerned a quieter day has not been
passed since the organization.
PULLED HIS NOSE.
There was one sensation. Mr.. Goodwin
experienced it in the region of his proboscis,
which was given a playful twitching by
Representative Walsh, whose nam ap-
peared in the bribery letter of the novel
and somewhat amusing encouragement.
1t was just before the gavel sounded the
call for order for the days session in the
house. Representative Walsh, fresh from
a perusal of the letter in which ne
with others had been mentioned in connec-
ton with corruption, was walking to the
hall of the house when he met the attOr-
~ney-general. With a few complimentary
remarks he reached for the nose of the SEN
sational Goodwin, and while he expressed
his opinion of the mar who had reflected
upon his integrity and honor, he gave the
nasal organ an affectionate embrace.
What thoughts flashed through the at
torney-general's mind no one will ever
know, for he spoke not a word. Mr.. Walsh
having completed the nasal salute, he
passed on to his seat in the house, while
the released legal adviser OF the state sour
ried away to his office in the east end of
the building.
The corridor was filled with solons, Off
GERS and visitors. For q moment all held
their breath-and so did Goodwin. A eli
max to the sensational developments had
been reached; visions of pistols gatling
guns and daggers flashed through the
minds of the spectators, but the submissive
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the wrong he had secretly been inficting
upon the indignant legislator, made no de-
Tense, except to say that he stood upon his
record. Il
AWAY SHE GOES s -
The way that the Grand Forks fair bill
leaped the governors veto yesterday and
bounded away to the house was as graft
flying to the Forkites as it was entertaining
to the spectators and significant to the ex-
ecutive. The appropriation clause in the
new measure encountered a high stone
veto wall in the executive office, but with a
weeks rest and recreation in the senate
rial gymnasium, it bounded wei the
obstruction with the ease and grace of a
deer.
The combatiye Swanston, who will allow
no man to tread on the tail of his coat or
the ulster of his friends, assisted the bill
over the ~gubernatorial fence with an en-.
He did not believe it right for n man
to block the wheels Of legislation. When a