Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-11-18
NEW LEGISLATORS.
Interesting Gossip Regarding the Leg.
islatoss who will Elect the
Next u. S. Senator.
Few 81 the Old Members Returned to
the Legislature ct the Next
Session.
Various Items Of Local News Gathered
in and Round the Capital
City.

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City.
The New Legislature.
A special article from Bismarck to the
ST. Paul Pioneer Press gives come inter
esting gossip regarding new members Of
the legislature as follows:
The legislature to convene in January
will be comprised largely Of new men.
The old guard has been gradually d.
minished until it numbers only a few.
OF the senatorial cabal which has so
long controlled legislation and affairs in
the upper house only a few remain.
There is yet the figure of the whole legis-
lature-Jud LaMoure, from Pembina.
county, who has, or appears to have, q life.
tenure Of the position SO long as he wills.
Jud has been in and out Of the republi-
can party-voted for a democrat for
senator; was read out Of the party; was
taken back amid pledges Of. renewed al
legiance, and, like Ole Axvig, he is "still!
har." Then there is Little Of Burleigh.
He has been a member since statehood,
and always among the leaders-now
with an ambition to go up higher, and
be numbered among the representatives
Of sovereign states in the United States
senate. Others Of the principal former
members Of the senate have drifted
away. Haggart Of Fargo, one of the
leaders, is United States marshal and
his place is filed by Joe Cronan, former
sheriff Of Walsh. county, afterward
United States marshal-a curious coin
cidence that Haggart should succeed
Cronan as marshal and Cronan should
step into Haggart's shoes as senator.
Frank White, another old-time member,
is away off in Manila as q major of the
North Dakota regiment and his place is
taken by A. B. Cox Of Sanborn, a we'll
known business man, but who will have
to be broken into affairs Of legisla-
ton. Mike Mccormick, the democratic
leader of former years and the '..hand-
soonest man" in the body, is running a
line Of steamboats, on the Kootenai.
Bailey Fuller is one of the old-time mem
bers to come back. McGillivray comes
back from Stark county. Senator Kin
ter, who wa one Of the old-time figures
Of the democratic party in state politics,
made an effort at the polls this year to
regain his seat in the senate, but was
defeated by ] .B. Sharpe Of Kuhn, a new
man, a banker, aggressive, and who will
be one of the senatorial leaders. Tom
Marshall of Cakes comes back for the
second half of his hold-over term, and he
also wants to go up to the United States
senate. Walsh county sends as a demo.
.rat to the senate j. L. Cashel, who
was elected to,the anne bodyas a repub.
lican in 1892, voted for Roach and
changed his politics. Another democrat
is D. W. McCanna Of Cando, a wealthy
farmer, who serves the coming session
the second half Of his term as a hold.
over, having graduated from the house
to the senate. Cass county sends q new
senator in the person of T. Twichell, d
young farmer, who made q good record
in the house. Former Senator Tufts is
in the land Office at Fargo, and Hanna
nephew Of Mark, from Page, is a hold
over, q bright young fellow and ambi,
tious. Grand Forks county sends two
new mon to the senate, Murphy and
Luke, and one hold-over, Horace Arnold
Of LArimore. Trail county sends F. w
Ames, who was mentioned as a candi
date for attorney general before the re
publican state convention, and stands
we'll in Trail county. The fusion nomi
nee for congress-, IL. NJ. Creel who wa,
badly defeated by spalding Of Fargo
consoles himself with the fact that b.
has the second half Of a hold-over tern
to serve, although as a fusionist he vii
probably take little part in the legisla
ton except to vote moon republican
measures. Andrew Slotten, . membel
Of the first railroad commission in til,
state, comes to the senate from Richlant
county, and Griggs sends an able repres
~entative in the person Of r. e. Cooper
godfather Of Cooperstown, and VIII,
made an excellent record IS . member Q
tho house. So far q party Legislation
il concerned in either house about TIL
extent Of the participation Of the fusion
lists will be to vote in the negative an,
draw their per diem.
In the house there is q still larger per
centage of new membership. Only tw'
or three counties return former mem
hers. Thera@h one or two in Walsh
Cass sends back a former member an,
Morton returns one. The others ar