Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-01-27
A LITTLE GOSSIP
As to the Happenings Everywhere
Among the solons and In
Many Places.
Chit-Chat Gathered and Collected
From Many and Various
Sources.
The Crowd, Growing Smaller-Many
Persons Leaving-The Turtle
Mountain Reserve,
Whisperings.

The North Dakota legislature convened
again yesterday. For the benefit of those
Who do not exactly understand why they
convened, it may as we'll be stated that
they convened because they had nothing
else to do. Convene means to come to-
gether. The republican members of the
Legislature DO not seem to be able to con-
e n on the senatorshlp question.
All OF the members who went awav Sat.
urday night to spend Sunday, returned
yesterday morning. Most of them rode
back on the train. They rode back, so l
am informed, because they did not wish to
get here before Monday morning, since it
would have been unpleasant to have
walked back.
felt a great, overpowering pity for the
members of the legislature when they con-
vened yesterday, and realized for the first
time how hard they worked. For fully a
half hour they sat in joint convention, and
labored TO elect a senator. Great, huge,
three-story drops of perspiration rolled
from Oft their alabaster brows and formed
little pools on the floor. The sight was
enough to melt a stone. Even the joint as
sembly was dissolved by the thought of it.
Two more ballots were taken, in all
effort to elect a senator, but they were very
useless ballots. The members sat there
and deliberately wasted votes, which anv
candidate would have been glad to receive.
Everyone is becoming feverishly anxious
to see the result Of the election. Even the
candidates are beginning to think they are
frittering away their time. The betters,too.
are becoming anxious, and say they could
have made more money by letting their bets
out to farmers and taking mortgages with
good security. i heard one mar who has
a great deal Of money up say yesterday he
would pull down his stakes if the fight
was kept up much longer. [ remarked to
him at the time that it was a physical i'm.
possibility to pull down stakes and he
laughed at my innocence with a grave
smile. and said the expression was colo.
quialism. l learned afterward that the
stakeholder who held the money had pulled
up stakes and left the city. | asked the
men who suffered thereby it this was
another colloquialism, but they answered
me not. They seemed hurt and grieved at
my t1ippancy.
The crowd about the Sheridan house is
not nearly so large now as it was last week.
A great many of the people who came into
the city the early part of last week with
several dollars in money. and adesire to
see a senator elected, have
1 asked one of these men whether or not
he intended to come back again, and he
told me, quite bitterly, that he would prob
ably return after he had taken in the
worlds fair, as the legi Stature would by
that time probably agree upon some candi-
date. l thought [ detected a slight sar-
| c1Sm in his VpIpp as he SnnEa onI n
afraid his whole spirit was filled with bit
terness. A great many people who leave
Bismarck now are filled with spirits-I
mean their spirits are filled with bitterness.
There is a good deal of sarcasm wander
ing around the city in an uncontined con-
remember ever having noticed so much
sarcasm in a pure and unadulterated state
before. Last evening, as l wandered
through the corridors Of the Sheridan,
edging my way through the great crowds
of people who gathered around me and
my hand and gaze upon my
perfect Grecian cast of features, l saw two
men who stood in one corner and shook
their fists at each other in heated wrath.
l III de inquiry as to the identity of the
!lcan who stood near. that, in his o%pinion,
it was a republican caucus on the senator
ship. That his remark was sarcastic
would have been at once evident to the
most ObtuSe intellect.
l learned from a republican member last
night that a senator would be elected
to-day, or upon some day III the future. He
was a mathematical individual, ana after
we had talked pleasantly upon
current topics, and he had blown
about half the smoke which naturally es-
capes from Il medium-sized cigar down into
the remote recesses of my aesOphagus, he
tho United Stat $ senate if each senator
represented Sl,500 a day, and there were
as many deadlOcks lying around loose as
there are in North Dakota. Then he me-
andered OF. leaving me in the midst of a
vast solitude. The TRAVELLER.