Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-04
SUNDAY IN HELENA
LULL AFTER THE FIERCE STORM
OF SATURDAY.
SENATORIAL FIGHT is BITTER.
navailing Efforts to Break Mr.. H. L.
Franks Column-Courtney Is Ill
Fellow Servant Bill.
SENATORIAL FIGHT IS BITTER.

Special Correspondence Inter Mountain.
Helena, March st is Sunday, the
Lords Day" of the early Christian Fa-
TIERS and brooding peace rests over tn.
state capital.
When PhOebus' chariot rove above the
western horizon this morning and his
fiery Steeds pursued their beaten path
across the blue dome of heaven toward
their destination i'm River Ocean the goo
of day smiled sweetly down on the city
or Helena, the warmth of his greeting
driving away the mists that hung above
her cupo,as and minarets; yet there was
something in that smile akin to irony. an
undefinable expression lowering AROUND
the dazzling countenance of the sun goa
recalling TO mind the famous lines Of the
Bard of Avon, What fools these NOR
tails be-"
Yes, al is quiet today. BY a trick OF
the imagination one could almost mag
inc the janitors in the Old Merchants ho-
tel building to be sentries pacing their
lonely beats, the silence being broken as
the hands of the cock pointed to the
hour by their echoing watch call of "All's
well'
but it wasn't so quiet and so peaceful
yesterday. Oh, dear. no. At that time
the assembly chamber was invaded by
an organized gang of filibusters, who
caused scenes which form a sad COM
mentary upon the law abiding character
and the dignity and decency permeating
to the mortal frames of Montana fusion
lists. There were men who had hitherto
been regarded as pretty fair examples
of the genus home who left that chamber
with huge, inky blotches on their escut-
cheons; there were men there who had
4ltte IN the way of regulations to mar
but departed with the sa tisfytng knowl-
edge that they had at least been consist
emit in adding to their records: there were
others there who convinced the sightseer
that the protoplasnis from which they
took their initial start in life had imbib-
ed too much Old Grow and wandered
from the original pathway marked out
for them by nature-they made poor
men, in consequence, but as beasts of the
fed would nave formed noble exam
pies
In endeavoring to delay the passage OF
Senate Bill No 81 the obstructionists
adopted tactics that would have baffled
the knowledge Of Gushing. would have
nullified the ingenuity of Uriah Smith,
ness of a Gear Reed. They wanted to
make a trough house. these ex ponents
Of brute force in the field Of parliament
tarism: they belonged in the ranks of
those who, having brains, care to use
them only for directing the vengeful fist
They could have been subdued and
made to act like gentlemen, but it would
have panied them as keenly to do so as
ia ,a1x rtr y +, is
face and put on a standing collar-they
would not have been used to it. More
over a company of militia would have
been required to turn the trick. The
only practicable way in which the Mac
Girns res could have been compelled
to walk on a gentlemanly plane yeste1-
day would have been to stretch them
ON pane surface and bastina load the
word "gentleman" on the soles of their
feet.
MIR. MacGinnis himself at one tim.
consumed ten minutes more time than
had been allotted him, through the cour-
tesy of Speaker Corbett, and at the ex-
piraticn of that time handed what he
Id been reading to Jensen and asked lliIr
to complete the reading. Naturally. Mr.
Jensen was out of order and the spaake,
so ruled, whereupon Mr. MaeGinnis turns
ed in his seat and said to him go on and
read it; hurry up and start to rea ding
that resolution" Mr.. MacGinnis, be it
said, is gentleman: so are they a'l,all
gentlemen.
Mr. Ward rose to a question of privii-
eye, and growing angry, rushed forward
with the evident intention of assaulting
the speaker. He happened to collide with
the sergeant at arms and got no farther.
"Happened,' is said advisedly because
the sergeant at arms was usually re-
sourceful enough to be just where The
MacC;nnis forces wanted him to be, ana
his collision with Mr. Ward in this case
was an accident. pure and simple.
AT one time Mr.. Corbett ca.el Mr..
Swindlehurst to the chair. whereupon
"Wingless Angel Baker usurped the
chair and directed the clerk to call the
roll on AN appeal.
The clerk VII not call the roll" ener-
getically exclaimed the speaker.
Then many of the obstructionists adj
vanced toward the rostrum, brandishing
proved form of the Apache war whoop.
In order to avoid the fracas the speaker
was forced to resume the chair ana per-
nit a roll call. Mr. Baker thereby was
placed up on the third plant of the An
Gent Order of Legislative Gentlemen.
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