Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-31
SUFFRAGE
THE WOMEN FIND A CHAMPION
IN REPRESENTATIVE JENSEN.
IMPORTANT BILL PRESENTED.
The Plight of Reading Clerk Gill;
gan-Line up in the Sena-
torial Vote.
Special Correspondence.

his worst enemy would not accuse him
of being an Adonis; he is a man of
pleasant de1neanor and is rather pop
ular, but his standard of courtesy is
a notch or two below that of Chester
field, and he may rank in the second
class of popularity when compared with
Dan Mcdonald or Harry Ayrshire; he
is conversant with legislation in it's
various forms, but Representative
Hedges might go him one better" he
has drunk deep at philosophers shrine,
and is entitled to distinction along dip
lomatic lines, but Kant or Bacon proba-
bly, merit greater consideration for their
Socratic attainments, and Gladstone
doubtless understood the art of diplo-
macy to better advantage.
Yet Representative Jensen's name
will roll down the pathway of time to
the tune of Get there, Eli and in the
home of every woman who has ambi-
tions to play around the margin of the
political pool his face will be intaglioed
on the tablets OF memory and rever-
ence.
Representative Jensen believes that
women should have the right to vote.
He believes that she already has the
right, in fact and that her right to
| mark a cross upon a ballot and drop
| it into box should not be denied her
| though the rivers overflow their banks
and the price of whisky advances in
| Kentucky.
| Having the courage of his conN lotions,
Representative Jensen has introduced
| bill extending the right of suffrage to
women. His notice was given agrees
| sively, with the air of a man who be-
| lieved that if anybody objected, an
| army of women would descend upon
him with broomsticks and wipe him off
| the face of the eartn. His language
was very suggestive of hatpins and fin
ger nails. He was not eloquent but he
meant business.
The bill was introduced and today, so
| far as female opponents of suffrage are
| concerned, Representative Jensen
stands pinnacled on the cracker box of
| fame. II the bill becomes a law, he
may be elected to congress; he may
| be made commissioner of rouge pots and
| jewel boxes; his name may be sung so
| long and SO sweetly by the sopranos
and contraltOs of suffrage that he will
| be lulled into a Rip Van Wrinkle sleep
but as for me- says humorist Baker.
| "sive me cook stoves and cradles or
give me dyspepsia
MIR. GILLIGAN'S PLIGHT.
Last Tuesday was yellow letter day
| for Reading Clerk 2. j. Gilligan. EV-
| erything took on an ochre tint ana TO
| him life was thing without form ana
void He hasn't entirely got over the
! effects yet.
Somebody introduced a resolution of
respect to the memory of Queen VIC
toria. 1t was brought forward to the
desk and presented to Mr.. Giliigan to
be read.
1t was a thrilling spectacle-the an
| gush which this occurrence caused Mr.
Gilligan overtopped the memory or
mince pies and consequent nightmares.
He gazed helplessy at the document:
he faltered; he first turned red and
| then an alabaster tint; then he shook
his head slowly and sadly.
Laying the document on the table as
tenderly as the corse of Sir John
Moore was deposited in his last earthly
resting place, Mr. Gilligan turned to-
ward the chair. and. with the briny
! tears that would not come forth eVlnc-
ing their presence by the aspen accent
of his melodious voice, voice now
husky with emotion, he said: MI.
Speaker, l beg to be excused"
Then muffling his head in his strong.
well-clad arms, he fell at the base OF
! Patriotism's statue, pierced to the heart
with Is daggers of grief and indigna-
ton The choir invisible softly played
"The Wearing of the Green"
Another reader was substituted and
the resolution was read. But as for Gill
ligan, what cared he? The eternal years
of freedom from worry were his!
SENATORIAL VOTE.
The following table shows how the
individual members voted on the SEN
atorial proposition at yesterdays ses-
sion:
IN THE SENATE.
Lee Mantle-Anderson, Geiger. Hob
son. Kelly, Mclean, Meyer, Mitchell,
Phillips, Worden-9.
II. F. Frank--Biggs, Clark, Courtney
Murray. Meyers, Warner-6.
Walter Cooper-Conrow, Gruwell
Hoffman, Tierney-4
John MacGinnis-Kennedy,M ahon-2
Charles w. Internationally, Cul.
LEM
w. C. Conrad-Stanton.
IN THE HOUSE.
Lee Mantle-Baggs. Becker. Bielen
berg. Brownlee. Conner of Ravalli, Don
Ian, Dixon, Faust, Godfrey. Gregory
Hedges, Jones, Lehman, McCone. Nc
Intire. Newberry. Newton, Patterson
Roland, Shanley-20.
H. L. Frank-Adkins, Baker, BerlSin
Brein. Cannon, Geary. Gilchrist, Hill
! Kilgallon, Madden. McTague, Ross
man, Sullivan of Lewis and Clarke
Toole, Urquhart, White. Woods. Cor
belts.
r John MacGinnis-Axtell. Cram. Don
{ aldson. Hartwig. Mcdonald, Meunier
t Pelletier, Wards.
Frank j. Pelleter-COnnor of Cas-
: cade, Crawford. Lannin. Lowney. Pen
e dergrass, Quinn, richardson.
: Walter Cooper-Martin. Metlen, My
e ers Swindelhurst, Thoroughman-5.
A. E. Spriggs-Fitzpatrick. Jensen