Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-03-06
FROM THE SEAT OF war.
The Senate il u Red.hOt Oven in
Which Carcasses are
Roasted Whole.
The Attorney General has ;
Tilt with the Warriors
and is WOrSted.
President Pro Tenn DOdds De
posed and he and Senator
Barlow CcnSllred,
That Sensational Senate.

That Sensational Senate.
BISMARCK, March 4.-[Special] The
flood gates Of legislative passion were
opened today. The scene in the senate
was the most exciting ever known. It
was a continuation of the fight between
the legislature and Attorney General
| Goodwin. The attorney general sent a
communication to the senate in reply to
a request from the investigating CON-
mlttee. While the clerk was reading it,
Mr.. LaMoure moved that further reading
of "that stuff" be dispensed with, and
gave his reasons in long and bitter
speech. Mr.. Stevens followed with few
pointed remarks OF the same tenor, clos
ing with hope that the motion Of Mr..
LaMoure would prevail and that further
consideration OF the attorney generals
opinion would not be tolerated. The
reading Of the opinion was not finished,
the motion having carried.
Two Senators Badly scorcl,ed.
It will be remembered that on No. 195,
appointing an agent to receive service
OF process for nonresident publishers
OF newspapers, ETC., the judiciary COM
mittee yesterday made majority report
recommending that it do pass, and mi
nority report by Barlow and Dodds that
it do not pass. This is that minority
report:
Mr.. PRESIDENT:
The minority Of your committee on
judiciary to whom was referred senate
bill No. 1876, bill for an act to provide
for the appointment of an agent to re-
ceive service of process for nonresident
| publishers of newspapers, ETC., preseLt
the following minority report:
Believing The purpose of the bill, No
| 1876 senate, to be departure from the
usual course of legislation and it's passage
is being urged, apparently, for the sole
purpose OF enabling the friendA of the
happily detunct lottery scheme, senate
bill No. l67, to chastise certain eastern
| newspapers for the part they enacted in
defeating that measure, and. taking into
| consideration the fact that without
coubting such publications, by timely
| exposure and scathing criticism, were in
strumental IN preserving the hoLor and
good repute of our new state from pros
titution at the hands of the despollers,
and it's name from becoming by-word
and reproach throughout our proud
sisterhood of states and the most enEght.
ened nation of the world, their utter
ances having rendered us as t: people, in
our estimation, an invaluable service at
| titue when our state press. with few hon
Orabe exceptions, were either crimlnally
siIent,or wilfuliy negligent, IN the dis
charge of their high and paramount duties
as conservators of the public morals, and
guardians of the public welfare, at time
when organized corruption was busily
engaged in perfectlng plot and pushing
1t to an unholy consummation, by all the
dark methods known to and practlced by
unprinciPled demaKogues, political dead.
beats and shysters Of every stamp and
atiillation, under and in the guise of an
people and seeking to hoodwink, cajole
leeallzed ln!amy and the imprinting of a
blot upon our statutes, to which the
brand of Cain woubld be reward of
merit in comparison and therefore, deem
ing the measure as being one whose en-
actnent would be inimical to the public
good and uncalled for, we recommend
that the bill be indefinitely postponed.
F. G. BARLOW,
u. S. DoDDs
Mr.. Belyea at that time, moved that the
minority report be laid upon the table
and that 1t be expunged from the record,
which was adopted.
7 ho{
minority report of the judiciary commit
tee on senate bill NJ. l95 be taken from
the table. which motion prevailed and
the report was taken from the table and
read. This motion was sustained in a
lengthy, but temperate speech by Sena-
tor Worst.
Mr.. Stevens then said:
When the question under discussion
came up before this senate yesterday,
gladly supported the resolution to table
it; but by some means unknown to me,
it got into the public press, ana as IL |
casts reflections upon me and upon the |
majority OF this senate, desire to offer
the following as a substitute for that |
minority report:
Whereas, Senators Barlow and Dodds |
did at Yesterdays session, present
minority report upon Senate Bill No. |
19o, which, rs members of the committee |
to whom SAID bill was referred they had |
an undoubted right to do, but, whereas |
said report was entirely foreign to the
bill under consideration and was couch |
ed III such language as could be con-
strued only as an insult to a majority of
this senate, and could have emanated |
only iron. the diseased brain of an imbecile
or a villain, and whereas by the presenta-
ton of said report they not only cast a
reflection upon the motives of more than
twc-thirds of the members of this senate,
but stultified themselves, dlsgraced the
unfortunate constituencies whom they