Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-04-03

A serious attempt was made by the
present Legislature of Missouri to
remove the State capital from Jefferson
City to Sedalia. The chief argument
advanced seemed to be that the hotel
keepers of the capital city served too
much jack rabbit ON their bills of
fare. The only consideration adduced
for the removal was discovered by
Representative Tatum, of st. Louis,
who declared with emphasis that "God
never intended that the capital of the
great State of Missouri should be
located on the bleak hills of Jefferson
City," In the end the Assembly gave
only two votes for the change.
The jack rabbit question. however,
continued to Cypress the minds of legis-
lators, and Representative Rothwell
presented bill to prohibit the use of
the auiInais in Jefferson City hotels.
The Speaker referred it to the Com
mittee ON Permanent Seat of Govern
ment. A little later the same repre-
sentative stirred UP hornets nest by
resolution providing for the expen-
diture of $500 for silver bust of
Chauncey I. Filley, the Republican
leader in the State. and the implied
insult to the republican members
caused the Speaker to remark:
"Seyen- ninths of the time of this house
is taken up with such legislation as
this"
Not exactly in this class of legisla.
ton is the somewhat unusual measure
which was sent up to the Senate by
the Missouri House providing for the
appointment of watermelon inspector
to prevent people from shipping green
watermelons for ripe ones. This pro-
posed officer has already been dubbed a
''plugger, faster and muncher. The
bill suggests one introduced at Albany
to establish an inspectorship of horse
shoeing. Another bill declares chiropo-
dists members of a profession and a
third provides for revoking the licenses
of teachers who use tobacco. All have
been criticised as being steps toward
State regulation of industries.
Personal encounters have not been
wanting to vary the monotony of rou-
tine sessions. and the lie has been
passed clad in all the picturesqueness
of rural vernacular. Several weeks
ago Senator Mills and Pease had a
rough and tumble fight on the floor of
Colorado's upper house.
The former gentleman was placed
hors du combat by a marble paper
wight hurled by his opponent and
three shoulder blows by the latter s
son. Not unnaturally it was popu-
list fracas, and grew out of differ
ence of opinion over the choice of two
young women for telephone clerks.
Another populist. named Goodwin,
caused a scene in the Alabama Senate
by attacking the veracity of Mr.. Pettus,
president of that body. The latter re-
signed his chair for the moment and
started for Goodwin, who threw his
hand behind him toward his hip
pocket The Intervention of other
members prevented demonstration.
Gov. Culberson was violently at
tackled in the Texas Legislature for
oriticising its chronic inaction, but it
remained for representative Monroe,
in the Arkansas Legislature, to set the
pattern for strenuous parliamentary
courtesy. Rising. as no said. to a
matter of personal privilege, he de-
nounced the Governor for lecturing the
House on its defeat of the Railroad
Commission bill, and remarked that
the Governor was an infamous liar and
perhaps rascal.
The public hearing, when Champion
James J. Corbett expounded the manly
art of self-defense to full meeting of
Minnesota legislators, is worthy of a
line. 1t reminds one dimly of the
Roman Senators patting the thews of
gladiators and betting their sestisces
ON the games Of the arena 1t is also
interesting to record in this connection
that, in order to complete quorum in
the Michigan Senate, it was necessary
to send the sergeant-at-arm to a
''Black Crook" show which was per-
forming in Lansing, and that that
official did not return until the final
Amazon march was over.
/ IeTIdpS tu6 luOSt SeuSdtlUudl s6SSlOu
of the year was the one which the
North Carolina House did not hold.
Its adjournment in honor of the death
of Frederick Douglass, a negro and ex-
slave, taken in connection with it's
previous refusal to honor by similar
action the anniversary of Robert E.
Lees birth. constitutes an epoch beside
which all the quaint exaggerations of
carpet bag" legislation seem tame.
/ Donovan, the lone Democrat of the
Michigan Legislature, has got lots of
enjoyment out of his position, but a
brother reformer in Montana felt SO
isolated in his responsibility over the
defeat of all his reform bills, that he
resigned from the House in order to
change his moral atmosphere.
The winter sessions of several State
Legislatures were characterized by
deadlocks over the choice of United
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