Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-15

1fed6 minneapolis uOOr mills ana Cno uOur
interest generally, in connection with the
Hatch agricultural bills, did it. The Pop
ul,sts have an easy solution, to the effect;
that MI. Wnshburn had not served the
Northern Pacific Railway company with.
implicit obedience, and that Mr.. Nelson
has agreed to. Be that as it may, as a
gold standard man, free trader and the
nrst Norwegian ever elected to the senate
Mr.. Nelson is a unique addition to tho
conscript fathers.
their oats" at present, for they are conf
dent that their man knocked out the
Kelly bill for funding the Pacific railway
Indebtedness in so year bonds. 1t does
look like 1t, for everybody thought the bill
would pass the house until Representative
harris OF Kansas made his truly forcible
speech, and after that it lost ground every
hour. Friends Of the bill complain bitterly
that they were treacherously taken in the
nank by the motion to recommit the bill
without instruction, for it is known that
at least 30 members voted to recommit
VINO would not on a yea and nay vote have
gone squarely against the bill on final pas
q They think that enough took that
chute to defeat the bill. It is certainly a
TACT that in a full house and on a much
u1sputed measure, as to which many are
IN doubt, a motion to recommit will near
~ always get 90 more votes thar would
be cast against the bill, for a member car
explain and defend such a vote to his con-
stltuentsm much more easily than an adverse
vote on final passage. It leaves him an
opening to say that the bill needed some
changes, but just the same 1t kills q meas
ure for that congress.
A Remarkable Situation.
Returning to the senate, however, 1t
must be confessed that the Populists have
of late had the Republicans pulling their
way. 1t certainly was belittling the gov
eminent, let alone the senate, to lave it
consume day after day in discussing the
petty affairs of the District of Columbia,
doing work which would be considered
petty IN q town council, and which is let
out to subcommittee in city councils, and
yet 1T served admirably for purposes of de-
lay. II the silver senators are telling the
truth, there was no necessity for delay to
prevent action on the finances, for the
lowest majority they now claim is ten.
Tho other side admits that with an abso-
lutely full senate they could only muster
80 votes for the presidents plan of fund
ing the treasury notes and greenbacks in
long time bonds and only two votes moro
Tor bonds of any sort. So here is the re-
markable situations: A senate which began
the session with a Democratic majority
ends 1t with a Republican and Populist
majority, yet this majority is doing the
f!libustering, the minority party holds the
officers, and the financial policy favored
by the bulk of the majority party is op-
posed by a very large majority of the SEN
ate. 1t really does look as if there ought
to be a ~realignment of parties.
As They Pass By.
10 add to the anomalies of this very
anomalous situation, Senators Chandler
ana Galllnger have smoked the pipe of
peace n shaken hands after an animosity
OF four years or more. During all the time
that both have been in the senate they
have passed each other without even a
glance of recognition and sat at the same
dinner table unconscious, so far as looks
60, of each others presence. The sensitive
of young Senator Dubois of Idaho
was long grieved by this estrangement,
and he set to work to end it. Senator
Gallinger was induced to favor a unani-
nous vote of the New Hampshire legis-
is, the Republicans-for his
colleague and to present the ~latter's Gre
to the senate. 1t was at first in
tended that Mr.. Chandler should hand
said credentials to his colleague in open
senate, but he baked ut that, and SO it.
arranged that they should meet in
the cloakroom.
One of the spectators says that the Eng
fish language lacks terms to describe the
in which they came together, Mr..
being about as graceful as an
icicle suddenly endowed with waking.
capacities might be supposed to be, and.
Gallinger as timid and nervous as a,
young lover about to pop the ques