The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-02
ITS FUNNY POINTS
That Hale House Ordinance Is a
Queer Arrangement.
INTRODUCED BY TWO MEN
No One Alderman Had the Nerve
to Present IL Alone DIsin-
terested Wards Chip In
Thompson's "Switch."
INTRODUCED BY TWO MEN

The proposition of whether the Hale
house will be in the First ward or the
Third ward will be passed on Wednes-
| day afternoon by the judiciary commit
tee, the entire membership of which
does not own as much real estate in
Butte as does Pete Hale, does not have
as much money invested in Butte as
does Pete Hale. and does not pay as
much taxes as does Pete Hale. The
committee, nevertheless, will have the
say as to what ward Pete Hale must
be In. 1t is the general impression that
not more than five aldermen will vote
to move the Hale house. but ]. d. Cald-
well, grand chief of the A p. A., in
sists that the thing is. going to carry,
and he wants to know how, with three
fourths of the city council, it will be
possible to beat him.
There are two or three peculiar
things about that Hale house ordi-
nance In the first place, that ordinance
is the first ordinance in the history of
Butte which was ever introduced by
two aldermen. Ever since the incorpo-
ration of Butte, ordinances have been
introduced by some one alderman But
II seems that no one alderman had the
shamefacedness to introduce this ordi-
nance, and that is sufficient to indicate
that the men who introduced It consid-
cred IL unjust. II IT was a good ordi-
nance either one OF the aldermen would
have made no objection to introducing
IL alone.
Another peculiar thing about the in
PRODUCTION of this ordinance is that no.
body from either of the wards directly
interested would introduce It. The
house is in the Third ward and ii is
proposed to remove it to the First ward.
Vat oil
wards could be found to introduce IL.
and II is understood that all the alder
men in the wards directly concerned
are opposed to the change. So the A,
l.. A. leaders had to go outside of the
interested wards and get Alderman W.
Won of the Sixth ward and Alderman
Gamblers OF the Fifth ward to intro
duce it.
Still another thing which is peculiar
Is that democrat should be one of the
aldermen to introduce this ordinance.
IL might not be so strange for republi- |
cans to desire to so gerrymander a |
ward as to remove a large number of |
voters, supposed to be democrats, from |
that ward to another But IL is strange |
that a democrat should be one of those |
70 Introduce that kind of an ordinance.
There are few, however, who are aware |
that Alderman Nivion is a democrat. |
and IL Is difficult to recall any instance
when Mr.. Vivion acted with the demo-
cratic party since he was elected. The
statement is made that the leaders of |
the A. p. A. guaranteed Mr.. Vivion a |
reelection in case he would introduce
the ordinance, and they will probably
try their best to fulfill their agreement /
The Hale house contains nearly as
many voters as the Sixth ward. which
Mr.. Vivion represents, and ii would
nave been more proper to make it a
ar q
ward, which is the smallest of the city.
The Hale house has more votes than
Mr.. Vivion received when he was elect
ID alderman.
The gerrymandering of the Hale
house has been denounced by all the
newspapers of the state with the excep-
Ion or the A. +. A. Examiner the |
Railway Review and the Butte Miner.
{ is therefore very doubtful IL enough
'otes will be secured to carry the prop
'sition. 1t is proposed. however. to
combine the Fourth and Sixth wards.
which would then have less voters than
he Third ward has with the Hale
louse in 1t. and also have less taxable
property.
The letter of Mayor Thompson to
dontana's representatives in Washing
on, complimentary OF Senator Carter,
las been the occasion of considerable
omment in patriotic circles. Mayor
thompson a year ago headed a multi
ude Of indignant patriots to Helena TO
rotest against the heinous outrage of
Letting a Catholic like Senator Carter
D the United States senate The
mayors letter is regarded in patriotic
ircles as admitting that he was mis-
AIKEN in working against Carter. and
s an endorsement of SWEET, Leonard.
'aschal, Booth and the other Silver
low representatives in the Montana |
,gislature who were expelled from and
communicated by the A. +. A. for
citing for Carter.