The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1905-01-07
ARRANGING
COMMITTEES
PRESIDING OFFIcERS.IN
LEGISLATURE ARE BUSY
Both Are Preparing the Committees
Duringt djournment Of the Law-
rs11zxers bers Have Been Asked
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Bismarck, N. d 7-Nearly all
of the trains leavirh q. acapitol since
the adjournment Of M islature on
Thursday have carried .aMst Eat num-
bers Of the members, andN X places
which have been scenes Of great activity
for the past week are almost deserted.
Many Of the fnembcrs Had to leave inn
portant business matters unsettled be-
fore starting from their homes for the
opening of the session and ais there will
probably not be another adjournment of
any great length during the session, have
taken the opportunity to return to their
lioines and look after matters of import
arce before resumiig the heavy work of
the session.
None of the committees in either
branch Of the legislature have yet been
appointed but the presiding officers of
the respective bodies will prepare them
during the next few days and will have
them ready when the assembly resumes
its sessions next Thursday.
Both Speaker Piercy and Lieutenant
Governor Bartlett asked the members to
leave their committee preferences be-
fore departing for their homes and as
far as possible their wishes will be COM
piled with The old members in both
of the houses will of course have the
best places OH the committees and will
probably have the places that they have
held in the last session.
The swearing train was poorly patron
lied this year--ir fact it was not noted
that any of the departing host went
away dissatisfied. Hi past years ali army
of candidates for clerkslips has accom-
panied Legislative members. to the capt
tai and the swearing train" generally
departed loaded to the doors. This ses-
sion the Third House had very small
membership, many of those who sdreW
prizes not yet having arrived, and a
great saving of buttonholes has resulted.
Speaker Piercy Of the house of rep
resentatiyes has found among the nnenT
bers an old acquaintance in the person
of Representative w. A. Mcclure OF
Stark County, who was enrolled as a
charter member of q republican club or
ganized in Montgomery County, Indiana,
in 1880. All that time MI, <Piercy was
acting secretary of the republican county
committee and accompanied by John Il.
Wilson, who was afterward United
States senator from the state of Wash
ington, as a speaker, went to one OF
the small towns in the county TO organ
ize a republican club Among the men
who became members at that meeting
was Representative Mcclure, who cast
his first vote at the election following
and who is now serving his third term
in the house. The friends of Representa-
tive. Mcclure are accusing him noWyoi
making an effort to get the best of the
other members in the way of committee
assignments. but he denies the impeacli-
ment and assured the speaker that he
was delighted to renew the brief ac-
qnaintance started in Indiana quarter
of a acentury agoand SO was the speak
er.
In the report of the senatorial caucus
the other day it was. stated that Repre-
sentative Briden Of Walhalla was not
y present, but it appears that he had al.
ready arrived in the city, was at the eau
Gus and voted for Senator McC Cumber's
denomination.
AT the banquet given Senator Nc
Cuinber at Bismarck, Senator McC Cumber
took as his subject the State and the
Nation, following the original thirteen
states through their periods of growth
and prosperity and through the vicissi-
tudes of war until The war Of the rebel,
lion, when the blood of the north ce-
mented d united nation with national
\ flag and a national patriotism. The wal
of 1903, the speaker said, was not SO i'm
portant, but it showed the people Of ths
world that we we're not only an aggre.
CATION Of states but single strong ma,
ton capable of acting as such againsi
any power or any combination Of pow.
ers. AS a siinile the senator spoke o.
the waters Of q lake fed by forty-ivs
{ streams as more nearly rejecting tls
hue and character Of the predominant
stream ia the same proportion as IA
ton of forty-five states represents til,
combined character of the several state!
composing it. 81
'In its legislation everything sllonls
be done to uphold the character Of tlls
\ future, Senator McC Cu1nbcr said Yot
should legfslate people of the cntiy,
country. Ih these times we are rapidly
tending toward the great principle D.
paternaIis Iisiii he policy of our govern
ificnt, contend, should not be So fiiticl
toward making ours a great world pow
cr as toward making us q great people
producing men ard women of higher III
tellcctuality and development of charac
tel. II Is the duty Of The United State
tU conduct affairs on al occasions s.
that ii shall stand ais 81 great moral les
son Is 4 tic people of every country
When W. arc paid with coins bearing
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