The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-02-14
An All.Night Session in the House
Caused by a Dead
lock.
The Question Under Consideration at
the Time Was the Re-Submis-
sion of Prohibition.
The Committee on Temperance Had
Reported to Indefinitely Post
pOne the Matter.
The Report Was Adopted-Then the
Reconsider and Table Motion
Was Sprung.
A. Call of the House Ordered and
One Member Absent. and
Not Excused.
The sergeant-at-Arms and Two A.
sistants Search the City in Vain
EMss for the Absentee.
Meanwhile the Members Make Merry,
IN Sing Songs, Tell Stories, Eat
and Drink-Water.
After Considerable Discussion, the
u House Finally Passed the Re.
X Submission Bill.
The Sergeant-at-Arms and Two As
sistants Search the City in Vain
H. for the Absentee.
Meanwhile the Members Make Merry,
Sing Songs, Tell Stories, Eat
and Drink-Water.
After Considerable Discussion, the
House Finally Passed the Re.
Submission Bill.
THIRTY-FIFTH DAP
A Game of Freeze-Out.

lErOm BISMARCK 1flOu00, lULu 1uoJsJ
At midnight the house was still under
call of the house and the members are
singing "We won't go home till morning.
and the prospects were that they wouldn't.
The resubmission fight had been waging
since 2 O'Clock. The committee on tenn
perance reported Cope's proposition to
amend the constitution by striking out the
prohibition articles and the fight was
sprung. There were two reports. The
temperance committee. is generally the
dumping ground of the committee. There
are eight. prohibitiOnists on this commit
tee, and they united in a majority report
recommending that the concurrent reso-
luton proposing the amendment BIZ in
definitely postponed. Williams of Grand
Forks, the other member, sub
mitted a minority report rec
ommending that the proposition
pass. The sharpest parliamentary fight of
the session followed the reading OF the re-
ports. Hill, the Ransom county preacher,
moved to adopt the majority report. Trip
lett moved to make the reports a special
order for Thursday, February 18th. After
a little debate, Gill moved the previous
question. Then Brooke moved a call OF
the house. The call was ordered and all
the members were found present except
Messrs. Christianson, DALEY, Daniel, Eb-
%bighausen. Holritz, Larson and White, who
were excused. Proceedings under the call
were dispensed with and an attempt was
made to force an adjournment. kearney
made the motion. 1t was lOst-SSS to 22.
The real trial of strength then came on
Burton's motion to lay Triplett's motion to
postpone consideration, on the table. The
motion prevailed by a vote Of
70 to e. m ThGss w We're Vo tSe
re.submissionists. They we're: Brooke,
Brown, Burke, Colosky. Cope, Cunning
nam, Douglass. Farrah, Fay. GRADER,
Haight, Hail, HavrevOld, Horgan, Kearney,
Lamb, Loomis, Lutz, McKendry, Osgood.
Satterlund. Triplett, Walton, Ward, Will
Jams and Yegen.
The re-. submisslonists fruitlessly endeav-
ored to force an adjournment or by
dilatory tactics to prevent the adoption of
the majority report, which would carry
with the indefinite pOstpOnement OF the
proposition; Dilatory otloa Inn9 sneT,
succeeded in ordering the previous ques-
adopted by a vote of IS to IL. This vote is
not sufficient, however, as there were
several changes. When the roll call
was completed the vote stood
81 to q but severa! resnbmlsslonlsts voted
with the majority for the purpose OF NOV
ing q reconsideration.
After the adoption of the majority re.
mort Hill sprung the arbitrary motion to
reconsider and lay the motion to recon-
slider on the table, which If carried Their
forever settles the matter. The ants had
enough votes to carry the motion but be-
fore K got to a vote Kearney moved a call
Of the house and q call was ordered. Will
liams was the only man absent and not
excused and he could not be found. The
ser~peant-at-arms and two assistants were
securing the town in search of him, but to
no avail. Under the rules It requires egu esq, ~
and here the resubmissionists have
the .antis" on the hip. In order
tn fully understand the situation the posi-.
ton Of the absentees must be known. I
the seven the resubmtssionists claim SIX
for the proposition. They are Daley,
White. Christensen is said to be "agina""
tine nropOsition. Take the test vote, ~
aoainst. rs for, and add 6 to tho resubmis-
sion force, and you have 81 v0tes-a ma
iOrity of the house and enough 10 pass tne
Sronosltion through. The plan at last &C,
counts was tn nOlU tno llOuSo uuuo. =.
until $40 in the morning, when the tram
from the east is expected to bring IN the
and the condition in which the
matter was left when the house went an,
der call leaves a way out for the "re's."
a motion TO reconsider and lay the motion
tn reconsider on the table was penalng.
With thirty-two votes this motion VIII pc
defeated and then the question WILL. De
opened again. This, in outline, IS tne
Man Of the resubmissi0nists and is g state.
ment Of their hopes and the basis thereoi'
THE REsuDMIssloNIsrs
count these men with them: Brooke
Brown, Burke, Colosk, Cope, Cunningham
Daily, Daniels, Douglas, EbDingfaosen
Farrah, Fay, Fiske, GRADER, Halght, Han,
Hayreyold, Holritz,. Morgan, kearney; Lar LAT
son. LoOmis. Lutz, McKendry: Osgo9 s9ik Sas-
terlund, Triplett, Walton, Ward' Whlto'
Williams, Yegen. eorv,oo
Among those who, did valiant serves
during the fight were: MessIs; P 3ou - 3
LntZ. Brown, Burke and Triplett TOT LIZ
resubnissiOnists. and Messrs. OllVor, u'il
and Burton for the ants.
A Strange scene.
From Bismarok Tribune. 18th inat.J !.
II will be remembered that yesterday
mornings TRIBUNE stated that the mem