Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-31
CRANE SEATED
AFTER REARING IS oLUNINoUs
TESTIMONY AND LOGICAL
a ARGUMENTS
SENATE DECIDES CRANE HAS
BEEN ELEcTED-G RAND FORKS
HERALD cENsuRED.

Crane had been elected as senator
from the Sixteenth district and that
he was entitled to retain his seat in
the senate.
Senator Purcell began the session
Of the committee by moving that it be
the sense of the committee that B. D.
Washburn was entitled to seat as
senator from the Sixteenth district.
Senator Simpson moved as a substi-
tute that it be the report of the COM
mittee that Senator Crane was elected
and entitled to retain his seat. The
substitute motion carried by viva
voce vote and the committee of the
whole was instructed to make such a
report to the senate.
Two other resolutions were also
presented as the sense of the com
mittee. One of them extended the
thanks Of the committee to Messrs.
Lowell and Pollock, the attorneys. for
the clear and fair manner in which
they had presented their cases.
The other resolution was one of
censure for the Grand Forks Herald
and it's correspondent for the report
of the meeting Of the senate caucus
and of the proceedings of the senate
OF January 26. The first resolution
was adopted without question. Upon
q the second resolution there was some
discussion and Senator Pierce finally
sent to the desk clipping from the
Herald containing the matters held to
be offensive and not in conformity
with the truth. This brought Senator
LaMoure to his feet with the state
ment that he felt that criticism from
such a source was commentator The
Pembina senator also sent COM
munication to the desk to be read,
which was objected to on point Of
order and held by the chairman to be
not in order. Both resolutions were
adopted and embodied in the report to
the senate.
When the report of the committee
Of the whole was presented to the
senate it embodied the resolution seat
ing Senator Crane and the other
resolutions. The presentation and
adoption Of the report was objected to
by some of the members on the demo-
cratic side, who wanted to take up
the questions separately. Mr.. Little,
chairman of the committee Of the
whole, moved TIN doption OF the n
! port as presents2 and y FBH can wa
demanded and the report was adopted.
Mr.. Cashel gave notice that tomorrow
he would move a reconsideration of
the vote by which that part Of the
resolution referring to the Grand
Forks Herald and its correspondent
was adopted. Mr.. Young voted for
the adoption of the report, but felt
that it should be divided, as he
favored the seating of Senator Crane
but did not favor that part of the re
port condemning the Herald and its
correspondent.
The resolutions adopted by the
i senate, in connection with the Crane
Washburn case, thanking the attor-
neys being presented by Senator
. Pierce and was as follows:
Resolved, That commendation to the
fullest extent, and the hearty thanks
i OF the committee of the whole is due
and is hereby extended to Messrs
Lowell and Pollock, attorneys for the
contestant and the member elect
respectively, in the contest case OF
4 Washburn vs. Crane, and for the
clean, able and intelligent manner in
which the issues were presented to
/ them, and for their uniform gentle
manly professional and courteous
treatment of and assistance to the
/ members of this committee during its
deliberations.
Further Resolved, That the
adoption of this resolution be reported
( to the senate and printed in The
journal. Il.
The resolution of censure of the
Grand Forks Herald and its repre-
sentative was introduced by Senator
Johnson Of Mclean, and was as fol
lows:
B Resolved That the committee of the
whole condemns as n1anifestIy unfair
q grossly inaccurate and untruthful, the
published reports Of the session Of the
senate on the 18th inst. and Of the
republican caucus of the same date
In the Bismarck correspondent o.
the Grand Forks Herald of the twenty
i seventh.
Further Resolved, That the senate
should admonish representatives d
the press that the repeated abuse 81
the privileges accorded them, IL per
sisted ID, must result in the curtailine
of the same.
That the adoptiorl Of this rnsol1Itior