, 1890-03-14
WHIPPED INTO LINE.
Republican counciImen Charge
Front at Command.
Mr.. Kinney's Straight Talk on the
Wage Exemption Bill.
The Normal School and Agricul-
turaI College Bill Killed.
Territorial Council.


debtor from attachment, vetoed BY the
governor, was brought before the council.
The question was on the passage of the
bill over the veto of the governor.
Mr.. Kinney addressed the council in
favor of the bill. He regarded it as a
good measure. The bill was drawn up by
Hon. G. N. Potter to meet the wishes OF
the Cheyenne Board of Trade. 1t was
regarded by every business man in the
territory as a just measure and it was
drawn in such a way that no honest man
need be afraid of its provisions. 1t
would be a hard law on professional dead
beats and would prevent dead beats from
coming to the territory. The bill had
passed the council strictly on its merits. no
partisan feeling b ad been shown and it
was not a political measure. The COVER
nor however had made it the means of
furthering his political aims. He had
heard it asserted in various parts of the
territory that the governor would stoop to
anything or would sacrifice the interests
ofthe people if he could score a political
point, and his action on this bill showed
that these statements concerning him
were true.
MI. McGill looked at the matter as the
governor did; he was absent when the bill
passed the council, aud he was now glad
to be present and go on record. The
vote resulted as follows: Yeas Camp
bell. Hunter, Murphy, Reel, Liggett,
Kinney-6. Nays-Galbrallh, Trabing,
Burdick, Stotts, McGill, Beck e.
When the bill originally passed the
council but one vote was cast against it,
that of Mr.. Beck. Nh. McGill was abb
sent and the remaining ten votes were for
the bill.
NJ. Kinney was granted the floor for a
few remarks on the matter. He reviewed
the history of the bill. On its merits it
received the votes of four Republicans
when it passed the c%ouncil; today the
bill possessed the same merits as when it
passed, and yet, because the Republi-
can governor wanted to make a little
Cucdp pOllliCdl Caplldl, tucsc lOuT lltpuUT
licans voted to sustain him. He wanted
to hear no more about being whipped
into line" after such an exhibition of
partisanship. He had been informed that
when a poor man went to the governors
mercantile establishment to buy goods if
he hadn't the money to pay for them be-
fore he could take them from the store
he had to sign a cut throat mortgage
alongside OF which the bill which the
governor had vetoed was a very mild
measure.
PASSED.
The council passed the following bills:
House bill No. So, providing rules for
leasing universited lands; house bill No.
ITO amending the school laws of the ter
ritory; council file No. Sc. defining the
authority of Judges of district courts in
vacation; council file No. As, relating to
the appointment of stenogrsphic report
ers for district courts; house bill No. Ill,
concerning county revenue for school pur-
poses; council file No. SO, revising section
2505 of the Revised Statutes concerning
execution of instruments outside the ter
ritory; house bill No. l16, to dispose of
| the balance in the hands of the live stock
commissioners: house bill No. l04 regard
ing the organization OF banks; house bill
No. 10, appropriating money for the ex
penses of the constitutional convention;
council file No. 81, establishing an agri
cultural experimental station in johnson
county; house memorial No. 7 regarding
the Fort Phil Kearney massacre; house
bill No. lis concerning the recording OF
instruments and house bill No. "a, pro
viding for the extension Of the limits q
cities and towns.
DEFEATED.
The council defeated the following
bills: House bill No. IS, creating the
office of registrar of brands for the terri.
tory; council file No. So, appropriating
$40, 1000 for improving the capitol build
ing grounds; house bill No. So. regulat'
ing the organization of savings banks aud
loan and trust companies; house bill No.
SO, amending the laws relating to chatte
mortgages; house substitute for council
file No. SO. concerning roads and high
ways; house bill No. l0l. relating to irri.
eating bitches, and house resolution No
6, appointing G. III. Burritt, J. w. Lacey
andJ. w. Hoyt as a commission to re
wise the school laws Of the territory.
UNIVERSITY TAX BILL.
Council file No. SIS, which repea..s The
act levying a tax for the support of tn,
territorial university, was defeated OIL
second reading. Mr.. McGill, on behal
of the Albany delegation, returned thank
to the council for its action. He said thu
bill had been introduced in order to whiI
the Albany county delegation into a com
bination. and he was glad to say it haC
failed of its object.
THE CRIMINAL CODE.
House bill No. l05, the new crimina
code, was considered in committee of the
whole. Mr.. Burritt OF the house defined
the main features of the act and con
trasted its provisions with the laws il
supplanted. The bill was recommended
for passage and will be brought up fol-
third reading and final passage today.
House of Representatives.