Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-01-27
'THE END is NOT YET
Gossip Writes of the Happenings of
the Day as They Reveal +,
Themselves,
And Tells Tribune Readers of What
He Sees and Hears by
the Way.
Many Legislators and Others Leave
for Their Homes-The sena-
torial Situation.
Not Yet.

Not Yet.
The senatorial uncertainty will be con-
tinued next week. This l learn, is because
the various representatives and senators
have not yet been able to agree upon a can
didate. When a majority of them vote for
the same person, he will be declared
elected; but it is a mathematical impossi-
bility to scatter 90 votes among seventy
five candidates and give each one of them
a majority. For this reason the senatorial
fight has not yet been ended.
For another hour yesterday, while Sat
urday was getting beyond middle age,
while the nov was melting in the heat of
a January sun and a northwest chinook"
and running down the hillsides in rushing
torrents, and while the hopes of the sew
eral senatorial candidates were alternately
rising into the skies and then falling with
a "dull sickening thud" into the bottomless
pit Of despair. The legislative assembly
attempted to evolve a senator out of the
masses OF material on hand, hut it was of
no use.
l desire to apologize here and publicly
for the expression dull sickening thud,'
and also ''bottomless pit of despair" as
above used. They are not the children of
my prolific brain. They were originated
by Bertha NJ. Clay and Miss Braddon in
joint convention and l have used them by
permission. But l am not responsible for
them. No more so than was the Grand
Forks Plaindealer for the Bismarck edi-
tions.
But l wander. from my subject. To re.
turn to the day in the legislature. From
my seat of honor in the gallery l could
sweep the hall with my eagle eyes, and as
persons who were there the day before,
The routine Of procedure was about the
same, too. There was q great sameness
in the happenings.
a tall, dyspeptic individual sat at my
right, as my comprehensive intellect eX-
panded and absorbed all the occurrences,
bad cold and a red necktie. AT the end of
the first ballot he looked disguised and
remarked that the members were
again playing horse" l asked him
in what respect Legislators could behave
like these animals, and he u%nbOttoned his
pent up knowledge and told me privately
that the reason they played horse was be-
cause there were SO many men there who
were "horstile" to each other. Then we
both laughed. He because he was amused
at his joke. and l because he was larger
than l, and l felt as if 1t might please him
to have me laugh. 1t has always been my
aim in life to please men who are larger
than l am. No young man should STAR
out IN life with the false impression that
it will lead to success to displease large
men. II he does he will make a sad mis-
take.
The legislators took two ballots yester-
day. AS has been before intimated. both
these ballots were fruitless. And just as
the clerk had gotten his pencil nicely
sharpened, and had fixed his patent adder
so that it worked perfectly, some one made
a motion to dissolve the assembly. The
motion was carried, and then the assem-
bly, dissolved. So did the hopes of some OF
the candidates who wanted to be elected
right away so that they could go to Wash.
! ingtOn and rent a house for the season.
When the assembly had been dissolved
the people began to manifest an inclina.
ton to vacate the assembly hall. After
watching them for a few moments l ming
f1oated down the winding stairs in the
raging tide of humanity: (The above is 8
very pretty metaphor which l heard once
in a Sunday school lecture.) at the bot
, tom of the stairs there were great crowds
of people. Some senators, also. were stand
IalS ocIOlc CHc lu!Cll Counter. DltlDE tlell
coats OF arms in the visible surface of huge
pieces of pie, and discussing the situation
between bites After Watching them will
rapt interest for q short time I walked out
doors directly behind W men and a legis
latOr and breatlied once more the fragran,
air of the bOundless outside.
The afternoon passed away very quietly
and many of the senators and representa-
tives picked up their wardrobes anc
made preparations to leave thu
city s.on the evening trains. 1 asked
one of them why he left and he answered
me calmly and without hesitation that he
left because he did not care to stay any
me dazzled with a flood of useful informa
ton. l did not ask any more Legislators
why they were leaving. l feel that [ had
learned a great quantity already.
;. LIDO not believe any Of the great crowt
which left last evening left OH the trucks
alton. and cannot, therefore, speak cOnclu
sively OH the subject. The custom of rid
ing upon the trucks is rapidly falling into
disrepute anyway, and is only adopted b,
old bachelors when there is a newly mar
ried couple inside the coach. l had
q new suit OF clothes and started him GU
in life, with a thousand blessings and So il
cash. He was a precociOus youth. will
, red hair and an undying enmit,
toward corporations, and so HI
always rode on the trucks to avoid contri
buting anything to their support. Hi.
new clothes were hardly II week old, how.
ever, when they were run over and utterly
spoiled by a freight train. on the trucks o
which he was riding. He was inside nil
clothes when they were run over. have
always had Il great horror of truck. ridinI
ever since | saw his mortal remains. q ,tl
cred up in great haste in a peck measure
From the Sardine-can-like look of tn,
various coaches as they left the depot las
: evening | am inclined to the belief that
great many OF the persons who boarded
the train at this station reposcd in a stand
ing posture last night.
Everythingiin the senatorial line is abou,
as usual us far as | am able to learn.
interviewed Il prominent republican sena
tor on the situation last night. From thu
great flood of light which he let in on my
benighted intellect l feel that l am able t,
discourse intelligently on the subject.
had just stopped him in the lobby and wa
preparing to extract from him all the in
: formation which he possessed when he OK
cused himself politely, and after tellin,
me to be sure and quote him correctly il
"a" published interview he withdrew il
Y .~'' l have e%ndeavOred in this publica
ton of the interview to use his eXac
language. and l hope l have succeeded