St. Paul daily globe., 1893-03-04
STUBBORN MR.. WALSH
He Almost Creates a Riot in
the North Dakota Leg
iSlature.
The Trouble Arises From His
Refusal to Sign the Suf-
frage Bill.
Exciting Night Session--The
Bill Finally Killed by Both
Houses.
South Dakota Houses Hold
a Tedious All-Nigit
Session.
Special to the Globe.

BISMARCK n. D., March 3.-AmOng
the important bills passed and sent to
the governor today, were those allowing
| five days redemption on chattel mort
gage sales; making railroads response
| bic for fire set by engines; the anti
scalper, the latter with but two nays in
the house ;SenateFie 29,requiring rail-
roads to furnish facilities for the transfer
OF cars at crossings; Senate File 81, pro.
viGing for platforms to load from
wagons at all stations where there ara
elevators; permitting women to hold
the office of notary public, and submit
ting an amendment to the constitution
permitting women to vote. This
passed the house by SO to %
more as a joke on the sen-
ate than otherwise, but those opposed
were so hot and threatening because Of
it that most of the afternoon was spent
III trying to undo the work. The house
undertook to recall, with view to
tabling, the speaker declining to sign
the call, in the meantime refusing to re-
turn, and the house, by 35 to Is, in
structed the speaker and chief clerk not
to sign the bill until the senate consented
to its return. The president OF the
senate in retaliation refused to sign any
house bills until the speaker signed
this. Ueland called attention to the
fact that the speaker had no right to
withhold his signature from bill which
received constitutional majority
of both houses, certainly not un-
less authorized by a two-thrds vote,
which would be equivalent to suspen-
sion of the rules. and they were one
short of tWo-thrdS. Speaker Walsh
held that the resolution to hold was
properly passed, and Mr. Meiand APP
pealed from his decision. Threats i'll
t he senate were made to mandamuS the
speaker and all business was blocked,
when both houses recessed till evening
to cool off. Miss Lizzie Preston. of Lis
bon. addressed the house in favor OF the
measure.
Exciting Night Session.
In the senate tonight the most eXcit-
ing scenes of the session were enacted.
A motion was made repeatedly to recall
the woman'S suffrage bill, which had
not yet been signed by the speaker of
president repeatedly ruled .al such
motions out of order. Finally
recess was voted, and seventeen
senators withdrew from the senate and
held caucus, in which it was agreed il
the lieutenant governor did not recog-
nize them, they would insist on the
president pro tenn. putting the motion.
On reaSSembling another motion was
made and the lieutenant governor ruled
as before. An appeal was asked, but
the presiding officer refused to put the
question. and the president pro TEN.
put the motion. which was carried.
After an hours wrangling the lieu
tenant-gOvernOr decided to put the
original motion recalling the woman'S
suffrage resolution, and it carried by
vote of II to g. 1t was then dis
covered that the bill was lost, and
Senator Burke charged Senator
Stevens, chairman of the woman'S
suffrage committee, with having
made way with the bill. Stevens was
absent, and the sergeant-at-arms was
ordered to bring him in. During the
excitement the capitol jaDit0r appeared
with the bill and stated that he picked
it up where it was dropped by the post
master of the senate, at the foot
of the stairs. The postmaster explained
that it had been given to him by
Mr.. Stevens, and he didn't know what
it was. Senator Stevens explained that
it must have fallen out of his pocket.
The statements of both gentlemen were
accepted and the hill returned to the
house, where it was killed. An attempt
to recall the resubmsSiOn bill from the
mouse with a view of passing it failed
by one vote. The house, after nearly
an hour of wrangling over the subject,
ordered eXpuuged from the records all
matters pertaining to the passage and
recall from the senate of the woman's
suffrage bill by vote OF "a to 20. 1t
was the most exciting hight in both
houses since the famous lottery strife
in 1880. The lobbies and galleries were
crow ded with spectators unIil midnight,
when both houses adjourned.