Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-03-08
Hot Debates Are the Order and the
Atmosphere Charged With Ora
torical Electricity.
Simpson, LaMoure and Wplbert Come
Together Over Amendment of
Game Law.
Oil Inspection Bill Passed, the Senate
Concurring in the House
Amendments,
The Maximum Coal Rate Bill Fur
nishes Its Share of Fun for
the Day.
THE SENATE,

THE SENATE.
There was no dearth of interest in the
session of the senate yesterday. Inter-
spersed with the routine passage of house
bills there were interesting debates,
passages at arms between senators,
motions to recess, calls for the consider
alton of bills that got temporarily side
tracked, bursts of applause when some
particularly bright peroration was rem
dered and finally the senate recessed
until this morning just at the close of
the hottest debate of the day, when Sen
ators Simpson, LaMoure and Wolbert
had it hammer and tongs over the pro-
posed amendment prohibiting the killing
of deer for four years. Senator Simpson
was called to order a couple of times as
he responded hotly to the intimation of
Senator Wolbert that the hunters in the
western part of the state were scheming
to shut out the hunters from the eastern
part of the state and do all the killing
of deer themselves in defiance of law.
Senator LaMoure made the points of
order and looked to it that the decorum
of the senate remained as. nearly invio-
late as possible considering the heat,
and finally after the amendment to the
bill had been adopted, recess was taken
before roll call was had on the amend
ed bill,
Mr.. Simpson set the ball rolling when
he proposed an amendment to house
bill 18, the game law amendment, pro-
hibiting the killing of deer until January
l, 1905. He supported. the amendment
with the statement that the deer were
fast disappearing and some legislation of
this kind.wa necessary to prevent their
determination.
Senator LaMoure opposed the amend
ment. Its purpose was to deprive the
people in the Red river valley, the real
tax payers, from having their enjoyment
for few days every year at hunting.
The law as it already existed limited the
number of deer to be killed and afforded
protection.
Mr.. Simpson said he was sorry to pro-
pose an amendment that would deprive
the Pembina man Of his annual deer
hunt, but IL Jud would come west they
would try to provide some other amuse-
ment for him, possibly in the way of
hunting wolves, that would thrive and
increase now that the legislature had
taken the bounty off.
Mr.. LaMoure said there wasn't any
other game in the western part Of the
state that might be substituted except
the wheel and that didn't suit him. .
Mr.. Cooper wanted to amend by max
ing the time of prohibition of killing OF
deer three years, Mr.. Simpson was will
ing to consent, but Mr.. LaMoure raised
the point Of order that having already
voted five years the senate couldn't
amend in the next breath and make it
three, sr 49, ~ : ~.
Here Mr.. Wolbert broke into thegame,
He said the amendment was scheme
J. by which the members in the western
part of the state would shut out those in
the eastern part Of the state from hunt.
ing, and would themselves continue
hunting deer twelve months in the year
in defiance of the law. sE=s=s 4
Mr.. Simpson resented this statement
hotly, and haracterized il as unfair and
unfnanly il it was meant. q
:. Here Mr.. LaMoure iabbed his forefin,
ger in the direction Of the senate stenog
rapher with The request that the Ian.
guage of the gentleman from Stark be
taken down. He said possibly he was
mistaken in saying gentleman, getting
in side swips at Simpson. He also
asked that the Stark county senator be
called to order
The chair ordared tbs gentleman from
Stark to desist from personalities. Mr
Simpson, not OF all dannted by the oh
,servations 81 the Pembina atatesman
said he was entirely willing to have hi
statement taken down. He didn't sup
POSE the Cass county man Gilbert,
could have meant his staattements that
the people ii the Western part of ths