The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-07
ENDED At DAYLIGHT.
Fortieth General Assembly of lIIi-
nois Legislature.
UPROAR DURING CLOSING HOURS.


apportionment Bills Failed to Pass and
1t Is Said That Governor Tanner Will
Call "A Special Session of the Legislature
TO DO business.
Springfield, Ills, June THE fortieth
general assembly of Illinois adjourned
at o'clock Saturday morning, after one
of the most tumultuous and uproarious
sessions ever held in the state house.
In the house, during the closing hours.
the noise and confusion We're indescrb-
able The members howled and shout
ed at the speaker and at each other and
played pitch and toss with paper pads
boxes, waste baskets and any small
articles they could lay their hands up
on During all this tumult, bills were
passed, but nobody but the clerk knew
whether they were recorded or not.
In the senate mob rule prevailed and
several times il looked as though Presi-
dent Fisher would be subjected to per-
sonal violence at the hands of some OF
the excited members who crowded about
sis desk and shouted for recognition. A
personal encounter between Senators
OBrien and Dunlap was only averted
by friends who interfered and separated
the angry belllgerants.
How the Row Started.
The row started over a vote to eX-
punge from the records the afiidavits
which had been filed, together with
protest against the passage by the sem
ate on Thursday last of the butterine
| bill. Finally however a roll call was
| obtained and the affidavits were eX-
| plunged by vote of q to 0, the protest
being permitted to stand. The country
| members are i'm the majority in both
| houses and of course all the farmer
| members were for the butterine BILL
which placed that industry under
| heavy handicap in it's competition with
I the creameries.
The Cook county members Of the sem
I ate were TO a man opposed to the but
terine bill. but in the senate, as in the
house, were in the minority. All tac-
tics known TO the ingeuity of man were
| resorted to in order to defeat the bill
| in the house, but it was put through
and reported to the senate. Then the
! original bill was lost or stolen" and
upon that point the men opposed to the
| bill made big fight. Numberless
amendments were offered by the op-
| ponents of the bill, and it came up for
| final action in the senate Saturday
| morning, and Senator Mahoney submit
| ted a lot of affidavits i'm the shape Of
! an amendment to the bill near mid
| night, reciting all the facts as to the
! theft of the bill
Moved To Expunge Amdavits.
This precipitated the row. Senator
! Berry moved to expunge the affidavits
|
knew it to be the intention to contest
the validity of the butterine bill in the
| courts, making the affidavits the basis
of the contest. Democrats and Repub-
lcans alike tumbled into a bowling
! mob in front of the speakers desk
Senator OBrien of Chicago got his
fighting clothes on, and declared himself
ready to do business in any old way
rough and tumble, Marquis of Queens
! berry, catch-as- -catch-can, collar-and
! elbow, hit-on- the break away, or back
heel-and-fa your -man-as- he goes
down, or any of these styles of argu-
ments, O'Brien declared himself ready
| to espouse in the settlement of the veXed
question.
| Senator Fort, who is a wonderful ath-
lete, full of vim and vigor, mixed up a
little with OBrien, but they never got
any further than shaking their fingers
at each other O'Brien poked his dex-
ter finger into the pit of Forts stomach,
and Fort thought he would discuss the
situation with somebody else. Mean
while Senator Berry insisted upon his
motion to expunge the affidavits from
the record.
Roared I'm Union.
| The Cook county men roared in unison
against the proposition. Senator Dan
Curley howled for recognition, but the
, chair, being a country product, gave no
ear to his cries. Senator Mahoney al
ternately abused and cajoled the chair
!, man, but Fisher was obdurate.
Good, Mr.. Speaker" Weak, Mr..
Speaker" Nov, then Mr. Speaker. -
, was the gamut upon which Mahoney
twanged the changes. 1t was all to no
purpose.
= Curley bounded from his seat, grabbed
the speaker by the collar. shook him and
howled into his ear that he wanted rec
ogntion.
No one knows where the matter would
have ended had not some one got in q
: motion to take recess for half an hour
and during this recess O'Brien. Curley
Landrigan Fort and other senators who
just before had been crying for each
others blood were dancing an Irish ts
to the whistling of big Dan Curley
That which gave this hilarious turn tC
affairs was said to be a neat little lunch
which was served downstairs in the
rooms Of the state board of pharmacy
May Be an Extra Session.
The fortieth general assembly of Hi
nois left many important things un.
done. No doubt is entertained that ar
extra session will be called for the dua
purpose of making a Republican sena
torial and congressional apportionmen
and of passing a revenue bill. Boil
the apportionment and revenue bill'
were killed. The civic federation pur,
primary law was beaten and killed, anC
the butterine bill was lifted out of al
u possibility of contention i'm the courts
The apportionment bill was killed ear
ly in the afternoon by decisive vote
and Martin Il. Madden went home hap
py. The real estate board revenue bill
died in the slaughter of the innocents