Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-03-03

for reconsideration by Mr.. Deisem.
There was quite a debate as to the
status of the resolution. Mr.. Hare moved
that the resolution be adopted. The re-
solution was lost % to 81.
THE EXPOSITION APPROPRIATION.
/ Mr..Sargent moved that Senate Bill
20 the Omaha exposition appropriation
bill be placed upon it's final passage. The
bill was first lost and afterward recon-
sidered. The committee on a%ppropria-
tions reported a favorable resolution, re-
commencing the passage of the bill, and
appreciating the benefits of the display
made by the state at the exposition. Nj.
Stevens laised the point that the report
was not in order. and it was we'll taken.
sTEvE's DREAM.
When the bill came up on final pas
sage, Representative Stevens said:
Nh. SPEAKER:-There is n item in
that bill which was put in by amend
ment and which might create some op
position to its passage. l have been OPP
posed to the passage Of the bill, but on
that amendment l desire to tell those
who wish to vote in opposition to the
bill because it carries with it al appro-
priation to one Jas. j. Hill. q dream I
had about Z or 8 months ago. l vas
down in Minnesota, and they had just
completed what is known al the Foss-
ton branch of the Great Northern run-
ming from Duluth to Crookston and a
party of gentleman was to pass through
that day for the purpose of driving the
last spike. I went to my room before
the train came, and it being very warm,
r r,o0 kSw1l o~l c,ovA - 1ooo- onl - ~o~,
minds eye I saw this picture. I saw
idents of the Northern Pacific saw
the Chicago & Alton, Chauncey Depew,
president of the New York Central,
Carrot and Cowan, presidents Of the
Baltimore & Ohio, Obyphant, president
of the Delaware g. Hudson River system,
Mitchell and Miller, presidents of the
Chicago, Milwaukee, st. Paul, Scott
and Thompson, president of the Penn
~sylvania lines, Sloan, president of the
Delaware, Lackawanpa & Western, Jim
Fisk, once president of the Erie, Hunt
ingdon, president of the Southern Pa
citic. I saw this array of talented and
great minds, and the great amount of
god they have done, and the enter
prises they had extended in the terri
tory in which they had worked. I saw
those threads of steel that connect the
Atlantic and the Pacific, and that have
been laid by the energy and ability
financial and physical of these great
presidents. I looked around me and in
no n of these systems did I see the
name of the president indelibly i'm.
pressed upon it, and which has become
a household word in connection with
their enterprises.
l saw the Northern Pacific stretch
from st. Paul to Puget Sound but I saw
no mark Of Willard or Cakes, the presi-
dents, which had impressed themselves
in the minds of the people. I saw but
two words Northern Pacific" 1 saw
another road-one that started out
from st. Paul, and wended it's way west
ward until it too reached Puget Sound,
which by two threads of steel connected
the commercial cities of Minnesota with
the commercial cities on Puget Sound
and l saw whentI came to the city of
Duluth in connection with that road a
steamship company which runs semi
weekly from Duluth to Buffalo and
when | went to the other end Of the
road 1 saw a steamship company carry
ing both passengers and freight from
Puget Sound to China and japan and I
said to myself, who has wrought this
wonderous work, this great enterprise;
and when / asked for the name of the
n that had done this they said to me-
it was a man who twenty-five years ago
was a laborer upon the docks in st. Paul:
that when he became first interested in
a railroad enterprise it was in, a little
bankrupt o running out from St..
Paul into the state of Minnesota;
that he had extended the road un-
til it had ACCOMPLISHED what no
other road had accomplished
under tho presidency and control of
q single individual. When I asked who
this. man was some said they call him
the Great Northern, on paper, but in the
minds of the people his name is James
J. commonly known as Jim Hill and
l said, a man who has so impressed his
genius upon people and has succeeded in
these great enterprises surely should be
considered as a wonder of the age.
Think of the great good he might do. I
think the indomitable energy and en-
terprise of this man is surpassed by
none, equalled by few, and I for one am
] n favor of t~he'passage of this bill: and
while l lay there and dreamed there
came into my room James j. Hill and
the gentlemen who had accompanied
him for the purpose Of driving that last
spike, and as he sat there there came in
another man, immense in proportions.
who had in his hand a paint not and
with a brush he proceeded to besmear
the anatomy of Mr.. Hill, but to nv sur
prise his brush left not a trace, line or
mark discernible to the eve and which
could be said to tarnish the recordEor
reputation Of this worlds wonder Of
builders. The door opened here and in
stalked the tall pine of the Pembinas
n Major Edwards stopped moment-
arily in his attempt to paint Mr.. Hill and
screeched out-"Jud, 1 can paint YOU if
can't Jim!" The train CARRYING the
guests to the last spike-driving shrieked
out its approach-I awoke and beheld
only q vacant room.
Mr.. Deisem said the men whom this
bill! was to reimburse had devoted time
and money to the end of making a cred
liable display for the state. In many
cases, actual cash had been adv need by
them to further the work. me state
was receiving or would receive the bene,