Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-02-27
The House.

The house met at the usual hour.
Speaker Allen in the chair.
Prayer by the chaplain.
Roll call and reading of the journal of
the previous day.
IN THE MATTER OF APPROPRIATIONS.
The special order for 2 O'Clock being the
consideration of the appropriation bills,
that business was at once proceeded
with.
The first measure considered was senate
bill 98. appropriating funds to pay the
various state officers.
Senate bill IS, a%ppropriating $4,000 for
the state penitentiary, passed, after a vain
endeavor by Mr.. Kearney to cut the salary
of the warden to 81 1000 and the deputies
to $500 a year. Yet the bill passed
"a to 5.
Next was senate bill 66. S115,15O to the
state insane asylum. This was passed
without debate.
Senate bill 1877, appropriating $50, 700 to
the state university, was the first fire
brand.
Mr.. COPE moved to reduce the amount
to $4,000. 1t was not right, with our peo-
pie begging for seed wheat, to vote away
large sum of money that we do not have.
After further debate the bill was put on
its passage. Had not a large number of
votes been changed after the conclusion of
roll call tine bill would have been defeated.
But changes were numerous and the bill
was passed, with its emergency clause, by
a vote of 43 to 10.
On motion OF Mr.. Lutz the rules were
suspended to allow of amendment tt the
bills coming under consideration of the
house.
Senate bill 14l, $l6,4OO for maintenance
of deaf and dumb school at Devils Lake,
came up.
NJ. KEARNEY moved to cut it to $4,000.
Lost, and the bill passed by a vote of So
to Z.
Senate bill So, s25,Ooo for the state agri-
bill passed-56 10 +.
Mr.. GILL: II move that the rules be
Cries of "Nor' Nor "No snap
game"
Then came senate bill TO, $4,000 to the
soldiers home at Lisbon.
MIR. OLIVER explained the bill. 1t was
a mistake ain the constitution to provide
that none Of the lands granted to these
public institutions could be sold for less
than $40 an acre. BY the time it is avalla-
bic there will be no old soldiers. 1t is but
a small pittance. Will you give it?
Mr.. BEARDSLEY opposed the bill. He
wa in favor of sending the old soldiers
be taken care OF at less expense to the
state. He didn't believe, even if we build
this home. the old soldiers could be driven
into it with a Calling gun.
MIR. BROWN said he was a G. A. Il. MAI
from the top of his head to the sole of his
feet. lie was in the service from begin
ming to end. His record was among the
He got no bounty then, had no pension
now, and didn't wan any as long as he
could take care of himself. The old
gentleman's remarks were loudly ap
plauded.
MI. BROOKE said he came from south
of Mason and Dixon's line, but he was in
favor OF doing justice to those men who
they thought was right, and what the
world now generally comedies was right.
In the south the old soldiers of the con
federacy, who followed their tattered flags
until they trailed in the dust, are perforce
deprived of pensions. But we (Mr. Brooke
is a Virginian) in the south do all for
them we can. We elect them TO public
OAAAS> oAA ~ w. way VIC I'll W SIllDIlu
their pathway to the grave. The world
respects brave men. and l, for one, will
never cast my vote to prevent the people
OF a northern state doing all that may be
done to make the last years of the old
soldiers peaceful, happy and contentcd.
Mr.. Brooke also gave a beautiful pOetical
quotation in cOnsOnance with the senti.
ments he had expressed, and his remarks,
coming as they did from a man of southern
birth and rearing, were vchemently APP
plauded.
Mr.. GILL said: | have only a word to
say. If, when | become old and decrepit,
ii | should live so long, and my children
should say to me, "Fathcr, WI have no
further USE for you: 90 over to the neigh
bors and let them take care of you,"I
should feel toward them very much as |
do toward the sentiment expressed here
tO-day-to send our old soldiers to some
foreign people to be taken care of. Let us
give them a good home and take care of
them even it we have to suffer in conse-
4uence. which l am very sure we will not
have to do.
Mr.. BURKE said: ! am reliably in.
formed that the soldiers home in South
Dakota Is now OVertluWing and that there
is no room for any more old soldiers there:
and If there was room for twice as many
more as are there at the present time. /
would not be in favor Of sending our SOL
olSA" away 1 Ill1lh VIC owe GueUl Il ufDt
of gratitude that we ought to pay. | an
not posted as to the number OF old soldiers
in North Dakota. but | am reliably in.
formed that there are a number that have
no home to go to. When the count Y was
in danger they did not hesitate to go
forth to defend it,. AT the close OF
that struggle, when all that were left
marched hOmeward, the only tokens that
they carried were the sacred scars
OF battle and the tattered flags of the
union. Now. gentlemen. If we have any
OF those old heroes amongst US, let us
build them a home and take care of them,
They are passing away, they are dropping
from the ranks, and in a few years they
will live only in the memory of a grateful
people. Let us build them a home that in
the future years will stand as a monument
OF the nations gratefulness to their band OF
heroes.
Mr.. GRADER said: Ten years ago, here
in Dakota, when we saw All old, decrepit
soldier approach. we welcomed him, But
now the gentleman from Grand Forks
says, I'VE don't 'em any more. Pack
,em of to South Dakota" | don't believe
in that. | believe, as long as we rave any
money at all, we should provide a home
for those old soldiers who cannot take care
of themselves.
MI. HAVREVOLD said: We did not
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