Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-06-02
CALLED TO ORDER AT NOON.
Both Houses of the Legisla-
ture Organized Yesterday
at Bismarck.
The Governors Message Read
in Joint SesSion-BiIls
Introduced.

A Fight Imminent Over the
Extra Worlds Fair APP
preparation.
BISMARCK. June 1.-The special ses-
sion convened today. Bills for counting
the presidential electors, and for worlds
fair deficiency are already prepared, and
the former will be put through without
delay. The latter is going to excite a
warm opposition in the house, although
1t is conceded that a bill appropriating
more money for that purpose will pass
the esenate. The Scandinavians are said.
to be particularly hostile to the measure
Not to exceed 5000 will be gwen, if at
all.
Many reasons are advanced why the
bill should, and should not pass. Some
object to the way the present board has
handled the matter, one senator going so
far as to say that if the board had re-
tanned Alex Mckenzie as manager it
would have an exhibit whether any more
money was appropriated or not.
Alliance members insist on the enact
'ment OF the warehouse law and will
probably not vote for Worlds Far
appropriation unless they are conceded
votes for the warehouse law. Some
democratic members are talking of
re-submission.
The following brief message from the
governor was read to the assembled
houses:
Gentlemen of the Senate and House of
Representatives:
* An extraordinary occasion having
arisen by reason of the lack of provision
in the laws of the state for the canvass of
the vote whereby the representatives to
the electoral college which shall elect the
next president of the United States are
chosen, and for canvasslng the general
election returns of the state, have, as
provided by the constitution, called you
together in special session.
The dignity of the state is not only in-
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but our duty to the national government
is thus rendered impossible of perform
ance. The duty of your executive Is full
filled in calling the assembly of the peo-
ple's representatives together, and it re-
mains for you to take such action as may
seem proper to you in the premises.
The sentiment of the people, as ex-
pressed to me from almost every county
OF the state, also warrants me in
calling your attention to the matter of
an additional appropriation to the worlds
fair fund. At your regular session you
saw fit to make certain appropriation,
which was then thought sufficient; but a
very large number of the citizens Of
North Dakota express themselves as dis
satisfied with the amount set aside by you
for that purpose, in view of the improved
condition of affairs IN the state generally
since your adjournment. And the num-
Der who agree in this matter Is so large
that, in Difference to their wishes. ex-
pressed in private to me, in public through
the press and in mass meeting through.
out the state, bring this subject to the
notice of your honorable body.
It is also my duty as executive to in
form you that it is the wish Of the peo-
pie of the state, so far as I am ADVISED
and I shoald not venture to convey the
message to you it was not convinced
from the multitude of expressions which
have come to me that the sentiment oi
majority Of the people accords with
this wish-that your SESSION be short,
and that you consider only the questions
named above.
It is proper for me to say, however
that have assumed the responsibility
Of taking you from your respective avo
cations and of mourning expense to you
and to the state, with great reluctance
And especially have I felt the extreme
delicacy Of signlfying to you tho feeling
with reference to the worlds fair fund
and with reference to the consideration
of only two subjects at this special ses.
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fundamental principle of American
liberty, that the people are the rulers
and that your honorable body, as we'll al
myself, are but the servants of the peo
pie, and having been made acquainted
with their desires, l felt that I should
fail in my duty should neglect the
communication Of them to you.
Since the close of the last session death
has taken from us two of our associates
Representatives Daily, Of Walsh, anG
Thompson, of Traill, have been summon
ed to meet with the great majority. ]
take this opportunity to pay my tribute
Of respect to their memory.
In welcoming you to your capital ]
take pleasure in renewing the acquaint