Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-02-13
Meanwhile the Members Make Merry,
Sing Songs, Tell Stories, Eat
and Drink-Water.
After Considerable Discussion, the
House Finally Passed the Re-
Submission Bill.
The Old Familiar Capital Removal
Agitation Again Comes up
in the House.
II Day,


A Game of Freeze-Out.
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.
TIE 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. Christensen, 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-33 to %,
The real trial of strength then came on
Burton's motion to lay Triplett's motion to
POSTPONE consideration, on the table. The
20 to Is. Those who voted
against the motion were the
notwithstanding: They we're: Brooke.
ham,. Douglass. Farrah. Fay. GRADER,
Haight. Hall, Havrevold, Horgan, Kearney,
Lamb, Loomis, Lutz, McKendry. Osgood,
Satter'und, Triplett, Walton, Ward, Will
Jams and Yegen.
Both sides took their tips from this vote.
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. Dilat0ry motions innumera-
ole followed, but the prohibitionists finally
succeeded III ordering the previous ques-
ton, and the report of the majority was
adopted by a vote of 35 to IL. This vote is
not sufficient, however, as there were
several changes, When the roll call
was completed the vote stood
81 to % but several 1esubmissionists voted
with the majority for the purpose of NOV
ing a reconsideration.
After the adoption of the majority re.
port Hill sprung the arbitrary motion to
TpHnn210pr and law tho Innfino tn van1r
slider on the table, which if carried then
forever settles the matter. The ants had
enough votes to carry the motion but be-
fore it got to a vote Kearney moved a call
OF the house and a call was ordered. Will
llams was the only man absent and not
excused and he could not be found. The
gea alarms and two assistants were
securing the town in search of him, but to
no avail. Under the rules it requires 80
votes to dispense with a call of the house
and here the resubmissionists have
the "antis" on the hip. In order
to fully understand the situation the posi-
ton of the absentees must be known. OF
the seven the resubmissionists claim six
Tor the proposition. They are Daley,
Daniel, Ebbighausen, Holri,z, Larson and
White. Christensen is said to be "agin"
the proposition. Take the test vote, 20
against, 26 for, and add 6 to the resubmis-
sion force, and you have 80 votes-a ma.
J"i1oJ - tLC ilJuSC duu c1lOuSu W pdSS the
proposition through. The plan at ,ast &C.
counts was to hold the house under call
until 9:2O in the morning, when the train
from the east is expected to bring in the
absentees, and the condition in which the
matter was left when the house went UNI
der call leaves a way out for the "re's."
A motion to reconsider and lay the motion
to reconsider on the table was pending.
With thirty-two votes this motion will be
defeated and then the question will be
opened again. This. in outline, is the
plan of the resubmissionists and is a state
ment of their hopes and tho basis thereof.
TIE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
count these men with them: Brooke,
Brown, Burke, Colosk, Cope, Cunningham,
Daily, Daniels. Douglas, Ebbinghausen,
Farrah, Fay, Fiske, GRADER, Haight, Hall,
Havrevold, HOlritz, H0rgan, Kearney, Lar
son, LOOMS. Lutz, McKendry, Osgood, Sat
terlund, TripIett, Walton, Ward, White,
Among those who did valiant service
during the fight were: Messrs. Brooke,
Lutz, Brown. Burke and Triplett for the