Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1895-02-14
STOLE A MARCH.
Advantage Taken of Absence
of Members to Kill
ReSubmlSSiOn.
Bill Taken Out of Its Usual
Order and Partial Vote
Secured.

Aspiring "Statesmen" Aid Pro-
hibitionists in Defeating
the Will of People.
BISMARCK, Feb. 1O.-The prohibitlon-
lists Saturday afternoon had great time
in the house, and stole march on the
resubmissionlsts. Six members had
been excused and several had taken the
100 train for Sunday visit with their
families. There were absent and not
voting: Colosky, Hill, McLachlan,
Porter, Sargent and SpangberR, all re-
publicans, and all with, perhaps, one
exception, in favor OF resubmission.
They were advised not to 60, but did not
deem it possible that the senate bill for
resubmission which passed that body the
day before would not take its usual
course and be sent to committee Of the
house, reported back, discussed and
voted on, on its merits. But the p1ohi-
bltionists, aided by few aspiring
SekAyc0ul0u Will I0COkOo w uoAcS AOeOI-
iety to gain, or grudges to whet, did not
want q full vote on the same.
Cooper OF Cooperstown, in strong
Scandinavian distrlct, moved. as soon as
the bill had been read the first time, that
it be indefinitely postponed. Simpson
moved as substitute the bill
be referred to the temperance CON-
mittee and take it's usual course
He said that any other disposition of
the bill was an insult to the senate and
not fair to the absent house members.
The su bstitute was tabled by vote of
Prosser of Devils Lake, plead for fair
play, and asked why it was that senate
measure of thlt Importance was so igno-
killed without u full discussion and vote
on it by the house. 1t was an unjust
advantage to take, and no cause that
people should receive such treatment.
and some effort to head off the vote by
parliamentary delays, the vote was
ordered taken and the bill postponed in.
definitely by vote OF 81 to- "A. The
speaker voted with the majority.
4u0 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS WcAo COuRA0UCAy
surprised. There was deep undercur-
rent Of feeling finding an outlet IN this
vote. For instance. Maj Edwards, whose
Fargo constituents are by large ma
lority in favor of resubmlssion, voted and
spoke against it. He had heard that
during the progress Of the vote IN the
house the senate was endeavoring to get
enough members together to recall the
Z hill md onl 1ou1or1o1 tho vnfn
be announced, saying: mot content with
lobbying on the floor. they (the senators)
we're re-assembling now after having
adjourned intending to recall the bill
from the house. It had passed the sem
ate by a measly vote of 16 to Is and
could have had two or three more If the
money had held out"
This statement was received with con-
siderable indignation by the senators.
So far there has been no sign or indica-
ton Of any money being used on either
( side of the fight.
The vote in the senate on the resnb-
mission bill was not attended with any
excitement or any unusual incident.
{ There was large number Of spectators
present while the vote was beng taken.
There were numerous ladies present
whose interest in the measure was de-
picted In their faces, but not all the
ladies we're opposed to the bill, number
from Bismarck and elsewhere expressing
their satisfaction at the result. There
we're many in the lobby who watched the
vote and listened to the speakers with
keen interest, and when the bill passed
by vote OF 16 to Is there was hearty
applause.
Gregory making the chief effort IN be-
half of the bill. His speech was temper
ate and closely listened to, and brought
him numerous compliments. 1t showed
the necessity of better control Of the
liquor traffic than now exists.
The open saloon, the blind pig
and the vile den all unlicensed and
running without authority, needed
legal regulation in the interest of law
order. Senator Gregory said in sub
stance that he was prepared to look upon
this question from the broad standpoint
of the best good Of the state. In every
town IN the state, except, perhaps, a few
on the border We have the open saloon.
Under the license law drunkards and
WluOI0 bEO OhTEoO lEOul Iuo ohIOOu, OuG
under prohibition they are not SO barred.
II his vote would secure prohibition be
would cast it. The prohibition law ls a
failure and every man who is honest
will admit it. There is no man but what
will admit that liquor is an evil. But
the present law does not stop drinking
or the sale Of whisky. Prohibition has
been an incubus on tho republican party
in every portion of the United States
that it has been attempted to do any.
thing with it. 1t was the cause Of
defeating the greatest man this country
has ever seen since the days Of Web
ster. Prohibition has been q milestone
around the neck of the republican party.
He believed that the people should have
an opportunity to vote upon the ques.
tion, and that is Why he voted aye.
Senator Dobie insisted that the fact
that the state experienced difficulty in
enforcing the law was nothing against