Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-02-15
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It is said it is the county commission
ers who are the most economical at home
who are rejoicing most over the pros
pect of the legislature increasing their
pay.
Representative Leech is one of the
best members of the house. He. has
tab on about all that's going on and his
perennial good humor has VOL him great
friends. Finn is a peach
Miss Preston is now devoting her en-
ergies to the bill raising the age of con-
sent to eighteen years. She figures the
Lavayea a~nti-suffrage bill safely button
ed up in Senator Mobiles coat.
Sergeant-at-Arms Harrison says Rep
resentative Mallough is either dead
easy'' or we'll trained, for when he went
to Mr.. M. with a message that his wife
wanted half a dollar for oranges he gave
up freely-and the boys ate the fruit.
Some of the folks in the house think
the chief enrolling and engrossing clerk
needs more salt in his composition and
that he might better devote his entire
energies to the engrossing room and per-
haps so many glazing ~errorsa would not
appear in the bills.
So far the house has abstained from
s%laughtering senate bills-but unless the
lords of the south wing of the capitol
get to the front on a few of the house
bills there will be a delay in senate
measures passing the house-according
to some of the members.
Miss Kinnear of Fargo is on Ethe
ground defending the practice of Chris
tian science against the horrible provi-
sions of the Taylor medical bill. 1t is
noticed that the doctor has aged rapidly
since DR.. Smyth and other medics got
him into that demnition jack pot.
A wag in the house wanted to amend
Representative Reade's ''jackass bill' so
that instead of endorsing across the face
of a note given for the purchase of the
"jack." "given for a jackass," the words,
"given by a jackass," but Mr.. Reade had
a friend who might have felt sore under
the circumstances and the proposed
amendment was strangled on its sugges-
ton, and Reade o out az alma jack
pot.
Sam Little, the houses gentlemanly
journal clerk, is a credit to that body,
his county and the member who endors-
ed for the place. Sam is an all around
good fellow, does his work cup to the
handle and attends strictly to business
and does not attempt to run the chief
clerk and the speaker. Another good
man is Bill Clerk Ellis of Valley City
Ellis was one of Gov. Whites best sol,
diers in the Philippines and is eminentlJ
popular with all.
Henry Reade made a good fight for his
freman's bill and landed it safely. Henry
has long been secretary of the state fire.
mems association and is devoted to its
interests and has looked after them well
The bill in question gives official recog.
milton of the state association, and fur,
ther provides that the insurance tag
shall be only divided among the fire
companies holding membership in the
association, and gives those companies
not now members a year to get under
cover.
Representative Packard did not favor
the bill to certify land title cases from
justice to district court, as he thought
attorneys ought to know enough to keel
land titles out of justice court. Young
said a man might start a case in justice
court which did not concern titles, anc
yet have that issue come up and cincf
him for costs by having the casessthrowr
out. Galbraith said the point of the bill
was to save these costs, and Thomas sait
he wanted to fix it SO even the mind o
densest justice in the land could under
stand what to do. when the question 0
title was raised-and he cast an aWfu
look ia the direction Of the Mandan jus
tice! Ss %%s
Representative Davis has struck tn
nail on the head with his bill to hav
/ the enrolling and ~engrossing done b
!, contract. It is said the work done i
long hand at each session is onl.
somewhat less legible than what coul,