The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-03
NJ. Bvume---Nls Record.
Taken From the Official Journal of House and
Senate of the Last General Assembly.
FACTS AND NOTHING BUT FACTS

faults AND NOTHING BUT FACTS.
Five Amendments Required 20 Legaizne Act FIT
to Become Law. Was the Butt OF he House.
The REVIEW has insisted that while Mr. Bume is
undoubtedly an honest man aid conscientious one
he is unfit and incompetent to represent the great
county OF Crawford in the legislature. We have re-
iralhea from any attack upon his personal peculiar
tles but we do claim that it but fair and just that
the people should know the record just as MIR. Bume
made it, II the record is not satisfactory if it shows
Mr.. Blume in a bad light Mr. Bume not the REVIEW.
is to blame Tie the architect of his own record
and by 1t he should be prepared to stand or fall.
III Will pe FOUND upon examination of the House
journal index that during the session Mr.. Blume
presented SIX petitions, asked leave of absences for
nlmself or fellow member twice, that on three occa
slons he made motions before the House aud that he
introduced three bills one by request which AZ Mr.
blume refused to father it, counts neither for nor
against his record one. egalizng bill which passed.
ana one Which was reported unfavorabe by the COM
mittee and was killed forth with.
VI the SIX petitions sent him the record does not
show that he acted ii accordance with single one
In 1act tie record shows that every OCCASION where
opportunity offered, Mr.. RLUME DELIBERATELY
VOTED AGAINST THE WISHES OF THE PEOPLE OF
CRAWFORD COUNTY AS EXPRESSED BY THEIR PETIT.
TIoNs.
Sometimes it requires great moral courage to stand
Tor the right against the wishes of the people, but is it
r.
that he knew more than the people who elected him?
Jay Gould with his the Public be damned'' was NOT
more regardless OF the wishes of the people than Mr.
blume, whose little brief authority gave opportunity
10 drectv deliberately and purposely against the
wishes OF his friends in Crawford county, These petit
lions were signed chiefly by democrats one was headed
by j. b. Romans. signed by Caswell, the democratic
county officials and large number of Germans from
MI Blume's locality. This petition he turned down
at the first and only opportunity.
For our part we believe Crawford county should
have representative who is not bigger than the entire
county III bis own opinion, should have man who
does not delight in opposing the wishes of his con-
stituents.
So much for the effect of petitions upon Mr. Blume.
now as to his notions the REVIEW has already stated
What they were They will be found pages 1856 and
695 OF the House Journal. In the first instance he
made the necessary simple motions to pass his legal.
lzng OIL. III the second place he worked his mind up
10 FEVER pitch of eoquence and moved 1.-THE previous
questlon. Z" On, shades of Cicero, what d record,
Il Now We come to the bills introduced by Mr. BInme
the first, house file No. 49, was bill for an act ia
legallze certain ordinances of the town of Aron
hundred such bills introduced at every session
they are mere matters of FORM they are presented and
che mousse grhds them out at the rate of about one
every ten minutes at some night session The hill
does not require hardly more than 100 words nv GOING
10 tne lies one can in five minutes get COPY of the
correct wording of such bill and by simply changing
the name of the place have his bill ready for presenta
ton.
/ MT. blume knew too much to do this evidently he
was big man who needed no ADVICE even from his
constituents and so he got up his little bill alone and
unaded When that bill got into the hands of Senator
Cheshlre OF the senate judiciary committee the slauph
Ter was awful We can imagine the senators shaking
their sides with laughter the ignorance of the
man from Crawford The poor little simple bill was
INFORMED, mlshapen, misspelled, the very ENACT
iffo6 Tfo
alright but it actually took five amendments before
the Dill was ut to be entered upon the statute books
Inc very pages IN the house would have known better
This is what the senate committee did to that bill
read the report for yourselves it is found on page 2s9
of the Senate journal:
MR. PRESIDENT Your Committee on Judiciary to whom
was referred House file No. act to egalize the
passed by the town of Crawford
beg leave to that they same
under consideration and have to report the
back to the Senate with the that the
same be amended follows:
ha 'he woro counsel be striker second line
OF the preamble word council" inserted II, ,ie
thereof.
mat the bill be further striking ont q, tho
preamble after the therefore"
That there be inserted mmeday the first section
OF the DILL an enactng clause follows enacted by
the General Assembly Of the State of Iowa"
That the bill be further by adding at the end 81
section the following: nothing in this act shall T.,
any manner affect any pending litigation"
That the bill be further amended by inserting before the
word this in the publication clause the foowng
That when amended bill do pass
THos. A. CHESHIRE, Chairman
To present bill without enactment clause is like
writing set OF resolutions and leaving out .Be it
Res oyed."
There is positively excuse for Mr. Blume: with
I'VE minutes search he could have prepared his bill so
that it would not have been disgrace to Crawford
county. When he was elected two years ago we were
Told that we now had legislator who could write in
LatlQ 1T need be. it To Iot hatf