Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-03
THE HOUSE.

~ GgEH y 9t1E }ElSO0EsaP #st IN i*GT
Uneasy lies the head that wears a
crown, these ancient words may well
be applied to Legislators during the
dying moments of an assembly.
Travel about the house chamber and
it is not a bit hard to discover among
the hundred men who form the per-
sonnet of that body quite display of
the spirit Of uneasiness, number of
them know that they have but very
little time left ito make good to their
constituents. The reports Of standing
committees today have a much great
er interest than they dds say month
ago, and the words Indefinitely post
poned'' cause something of a shiver
as they are unfeelingly announced by
the reading clerk. The same industry
exercised four or five weeks ago as is
being exercised now would probably
have brought different results. But it
was always thus, and probably will
remain so, the only exception being
the man who has been in the legisla-
tive halls before. He practices the
early bird catches the worm idea and
things he wants. done he gets on the
ground floor and that gives him time
to cure defects and make notifications
! if they become necessary. Bills intro,
duced in January have been slumber-
ing along until now, with the result
that several were reported Saturday
for indefinite postponement. .<.<..
Saturday was busy day, there was
a recess session in the morning, the
regular session in the afternoon, be-
ginning another legislative day and
after supper the feverish activity was
removed and about three hours hard
work was put in. y.
A County Fair Bill Loses.
In few days some members of the
house delegation from Grand Forks
will learn the cost of the loss of Mr..
Pugh's bill No. 100, and this can be
said, that If it should prove costly,
loss to the city or county of Grand
Forks not one atom of blame can be
laid at the door of Mr.. Pugh. He be-
lieved his bill to be just and meritor-
ious, but, in his fight for it he was
Handicapped by a suspicion of over
zealousness on the part of the city of
Grand Forks. The bill had general
application all over the state, more so
in every county with enterprise
enough to establish a county fair. 1t
is a puzzle why SO much opposition
should have been engendered and,
sEGrand Forks being a house divided
against itself, was a greater puzzle
than all, for it was the county which
could the least afford it. In this as
tin many other things the Grand Forks
men have shown a woeful lack of tact
and astuteness, and those members
who were lukewarm towards the bill,
became more SO when they saw that
| the men from the northern metropolis
we're not agreed. -4
Mr.. Pugh was interested in the fair
association at Larimore, the parent
one in the county, or rather the senior
one to the association in Grand Forks
city. For the latter one there had been
gobbled up all of the levy which was
made under section 1910 of the code
of 1905 and Larimore could not get a
bite. It was natural that the people
of western Grand Forks county de-
manded an amended law and to that
end Mr.. Pugh was instructed Efforts
were made to get Mr.. Pugh to change
his course, but he stood nobly by his
guns and respectfully declined and
when tinge of bulldozing was in
jected into the fight Mr. Pugh talked
out in meeting and the fight got down
/ to the basis, you kill my bill and your
state fair will go down with it. Mr..
Hunter of the Grand Forks state fair
association, was in the game and as
last resort the opposition in his dele
cation was. to be pulled off the track,
but the roll call displays in bold re-
lief that he did not succeed very
admirably. Mr.. Pugh's bill failed of
passage and now there is worrying In
4 the city of Grand Forks and one, thing
is certain Messrs. Sorley, J. M. Ander.
son and Tufte can't do a thing to
change the condition to one of glad
ness. The loss of Mr.. Pugh's bill has
precipitated a nice little row in Grand
Forks and in day or two the
sequel to the story, can be told.
Our State Flower.
/ AT the night session the house sub
stantially favored Senator Hanna's bill
A establishing the delicately beautiful wild
prairie rose as the state flower emblem
of North Dakota. A member from
Penbina objected for the reason that he
thought the state too young to indulge