The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-01
OVERR|DES SMITHS VETO
Continued from Page One.)

| vate secretary of thu governor. Every
| pody IN the house knew the long eN-
pected veto of housv bill 1872, the bill
| which will prevent bjackmail and OBJ
structlon against thr management of
corporations, had conc
Accompanying the veto were two
| messages announcius that several
mouse bills had been signed by the gov
ernor, including the bounty law and the
olil ahheXlng porti1t "i Deer Lodge
county to Lewis and Clarke. Nobody
paid much attention 10 these. They
were too anxious to hear the reading of
the veto message, which could be seen,
bulky and formidablC, 0H Speaker Stiff's
desk. To Assistant Clerk Burke was
assigned the duty of reading the for
midable document. He had not pro-
sresed far before his voice failed him,
he was so nervous. In common with
other members of the clerical force of
the house, Mr.. Burk- has been under
the fire of the opponents of the bill,
VINO nave made every effort to secure
the introduction of some error or irreg-
ularfty in the document and his ner-
Vousness was eXcusable. Assistant
clerk Pond continued the reading of
TINS most remarkable document and his
reading was followed attentively by the
members of the housr and senate, the
latter body having taken a recess to
witness the reception If the veto in the
mousse The lobby had rapidly filled.
too, and the house bore much of the
appearance that it had during the SEN
atorial balloting. The opponents of the
Dill had filled the gallery and listened
with no less interest than the members
to the reading of the message. At its
conclusion. the heelers and lobbyists
broke into cheers which were speedily
checked by the speaker
1T was well that they cheered then,
Tor 1t was their last chance. Mats
moved call of the house and the re-
suit showed all members present,
LockhaTt being brought in by the SER
geant-at-arms. The roll was then call
ed upon the passage of the bill over the
veto of his excellence The first two
votes Beasley's and BENEFITS. We're in
the negative and the friends of the bill
looked nervous. Black was next and
voted right. Then the ayes came in a
deluge and the canvass of the vote
showed that the bill had passed over
the veto. 80 voting aye and IS nay.
The vote was as follows:
Ayes-Black, Bonner. Boylan. Burke,
Bywater. Clifford. Co1ney, Crutchfield,
Fine. Finlen. Fitzpatrick. Finn. Gall
way, Carr, Gillette, Hedges, Ingersoll,
Jacqueth. johnson. Kelley Of Cascade,
Kelley of Silver Bow. Kuphal, Lamb.
Lewis, Lindsay, Lockhart, Long, Mad
den. Magee. Marcyes Martin. Mats,
Metlen, Moran, Murray. Normoyle
O'Brien. Plotting, Sands Stapleton. Ste
phens. Stone. Sullivan. Sweeney. Swim
dlehurst. Toole. Truscott, Warren, Wat
son. Wilson, Woods, Mr.. Speaker-52.
Nays-Beasley, Bennett. Conrow,
Day. Eversole. Gibson. Hill. Hutchin-
son. Losekamp, Luddy, Mclaughlin.
Mcleod More, Parker, Paul. Phelps,
Shovlin. WalSh-1S nv
Close upon the heels of this message
came another vetoing house bill 1874, re-
lating to appeals to the supreme court
This the governor said was the hand
maiden of house bill 1872" He vetoed it
for the same reasons. The house passed
it over the veto by vote of 40 to q.
When the result was announced there
was no disposition whatever on the part
of the lobby to cheer, but the members
applauded vigorously.
General satiSfact is expressed over
the passage of the bills. No scheme or
eXDedient known to unscrupulous lob
byists had been overlooked to defeat tia
bill. The decisive vote of to-day leaves
no doubt as to the opinion of the legis-
latOrS.