Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-06
CAUCUS IS
ARRANGED
FORTY FUSI0NISTS SIGN CALL
and WILL MEET TONIGHT.
FRANK A SURE WINNER IT,.
CANNOT BE DEFEATED SHOULD
HIS SUPPORTERS STAY
WITH HIM.
HAD THIRTY VOTES TODAY
ChocaIs Between Frank, Toole, Spriggs
and Gibson-Macainniss Fighting
Frank Desperately.
THE VOTE FOR SENATOR.
SHORT TERM.
Forty Third Ballot.
+. II. Carter, r 80
Ii. L. Frank, D. 80
W. q. Conrad, d. IL
ChocaIs Between Frank, Toole, Spriggs
and Gibson-MacGinniss Fighting
Frank Desperately.
THE VOTE FOR SENATOR.
SHORT TERM.
Forty-Th1rd Ballot.
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Special to Inter Mountain.
Helena, Mont, March Gas the hour
for final adjournment of the legislature
session draws nigh, events crowd upon
one another with such rapidity that
the changes are Kaleidoscope.
The Standard Oil dragon has been
imprisoned, and with this Ccatorical
Oete nOir out of the way. much can be
accomplished by adjournment If
''Spook' Conner. of Casade, is given
sooG dose of soothing syrup every two
hours.
The row in the senate over senate bill
81 still continues, and the session this
morning was very lively. owing to
heated tilt between President Highs
and Senator Stanton. Myers, Of Ra-
valli. cut the Gordian knot. and h;Ss
probably made Higgins signature to
the bill imperative by taking parlia-
mentary advantage of a slip of the
tongue on the part of the presiding
officer.
The ball opened by Clark making the
following motion:
II move that it be the sense of the
senate that the action of the president
in appointing an alleged joint enrolling
committee be, and the same is hereby
declared to be, out Of order and unwar-
ranted under the rules of the senate
and house: that the report of the stand
ing committee on enrolment relative to
senate bill 81 having been presented
and adopted, showing that said bill
was correctly enrolled. and no objec-
tions having been made thereto by sem
ate or house, it becomes the sense of
the senate that said bill is correctly en-
1o1
the presiding officer Of this senate, and
that the president be now directed to
aftix his signature to said senate
bill ST.
The chair refused to put the motion.
An appeal was taken by Stanton, but
the chair refused to put the appeal.
Stanton then arose to a question Of
personal privilege and declared that the
senate was bigger than it's presiding
officer and should not permit him to stop
the wheels of legislation. He said the
senate would refuse to adjourn until the
bill was signed.
An angry debate between the two men
followed. lasting thirty minutes. Finally
Higgins said that in case the speaker of
the house failed to appoint members of
a joint enrolling committee he would au-
thorize the senate members to act.
Quick as flash Myers moved that the
speaker, having failed for "a hours, a
special committee be appointed by the
president and be empowered to act and
be given fifteen minutes in which to
make a report
The president had committed himself
and had to put the motion, which was
carried by good majority.
Kennedy, Conrow and Warner form the
committee, all antagonistic to the bill,
Kennedy declared that If the inspection
OF the bill was not completed in fifteen
minutes he wouldHefuse to report.
A recess was taken, and when the SEN
ate was again called to order Myers
moved that the time for the report be
extended to p. m. This was adopted
and a recess taken to that hour.
This afternoon the committee will
doubtless report unfavorably and the re-
port will be rejected. If the vote on the