The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-26
4 FINE FIST FIGHT
In the Cloak Room of the Idaho
House of Representatives.
BEATTY WORKING Ikea BEAVER
In Washington-He is Making Favorable
Impression on the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee-Dubois and Ada County.

BOISE CRY, Idaho, Feb. 25.-[Special
telegram to THE HERALD. An interesting
fist fight occurred in the cloak room of the
house to-day between Mr.. Brown, the
Northern Pacific attorney, and Silas w.
Moody, state auditor and editor of the
Daily Statesman Moody has been attacking
the bill fostered by Brown, which we
spoke of in yesterdays dispatches for, con-
solidating railroads. The Statesman has for
several days been making attacks, and
Brown called on Moody several days ago to
point out objections, when Moody said his
reasons for making attacks at this time was
for the mistreatment the Northern Pacific
had done him In the past. This morning
Moody and Brown were alone in the ante
room and noticing the bill pass
by a vote of 90 to 2 Moody insin-
uated that Brown had spent $4,000 for
its passage. Brown did not reply,
but at noon, before several members,
Brown asked Moody to repeat his morning
assertion, which was done, and then a war
of words followed. Moody jumped up ex
citedly, saying, "Do you mean to say could
be bribeds' and struck at Brown. Moody
is tall and lank, while Brown is short, and
the latter struck back, hitting Moody on
the jaw and nose, but he had to jump up to
do it. This was very amusing. They
clinched, Brown all the time Furnishing his
antagonist in the belly, when the inter
ested spectators recovered sufficiently to
take Brown off. No prosecutions are likely
TO occur, and the members who witnessed
the difficulty were requested to remain
silent.
In the senate this afternoon the bill for
creating Canon county out of this (Ada)
passed with numerous amendments. The
Hobbies and gallery were packed with Boise
people, all anxious to see the outcome of the
combination bill, so called from the fact
that to obtain its passage the father of the
bill had been accused of entering combina-
tions in return for which he was to have the
support for the division. The bill went
through the house some days ago with a
whoop, and would have done the same in
the senate, if all promises had been kept
One advantage the divisionists had was the
support of Dubois, who had Instructed his
Heutenants to divide Ada county
into ten-acre lots for electing Clag
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Citizens here have been working hare
10 prevent its passage in the senate an6
concessions were granted on both sides
The act must be approved by majority Of
voters at the regular election in 1892 before
1t can become law, and then not for ninety
days, and this is where Ada county people
place it on to the proposed Canon county
bill. The election occurs in November
1852, and the legislature meets sixty day!
later, January l, in time to repeal the Law
before it can take effect. This will b,
found an excellent piece of engineering i
the house concurs in the senate amend
ments. The bill also passed providing TO
the compensation of county commissioner
conformatory to the constitution.
In the house the entire afternoon was pu
in on eleven sections of the revenue bill
and it contains 207 sections.
The announcement was made that tn,
governor had vetoed the act for the inspec
ton of metalliferous and coal mines, a
such law was not needed by the state q
present and would be an unnecessary bur
den