The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-14
BETTING Exercises Appropri-
ate to the Memory Of the
Great Emancipator.
HELD N STATE CAPITOL
At BISMARCK ON TUESDAY
Governor Burke Addressed Senate and
House in Joint Session and a Musi.
cal Program Was Also Rendered.
Commemoration Was One Not Soon
to be Forgotten.
(By Georxe D.vi..,


Bismarck, Feb. 14.-The exercises
at the capitol in commemoration of
the birthday of Abraham Lincoln were
indeed impressively grand. 1t was a
gathering worthy of the event and the
program was such as deserved the
very highest credit. Not the least
important of the days exercises was
the impressiveness of the same to
which both branches of the law MAX
ing body lent importance. The exer-
cises were held in the chamber of the
house which had been appropriately
decorated for the occasion. The stars
and stripes to which the Immortal Lin
coin gave SO much of his life and
thought and energy, and which were to
him the emblem of human liberty ana
political equality for all men, ire
spective of race, color or previous
condition of servitude, was suspended
behind the speakers desk, while near
by the country's emblem was hung
the banner of the First North Dakota
regiment in the late war with Spain
and its aftermath. On the speakers
desk was a bust of the Great Emanci-
pator, while the picture of the great
est commoner the world has ever
known filled in the centre of the back
ground.
Speaker Twitchel called the house
to order on the stroke of two and after
prayer by the chaplain, the house di-
rected the chief clerk to notify the
senate that the house was in session
and ready to receive that body. Dur
ing the interval in which the message
was being conveyed tot the senate,
President Merrifield of the state uni
versity, and President Worst of the
Agricultural college were invited to
seats in the speakers desk and were
escorted to the same.
The sergeant-at-arms of the house
announced the arrival of the senate.
and that body was officially received
by Speaker Twitchell of the house.
The senate entered in body, headed
by its county and dignified sergeant
alarms, Gen. Brown, who was inn
mediately followed by it's presiding Off
Ger, Lieutenant Governor R. S. Lewis,
and he by the senate chaplain, the
Venerable Archdeacon Owen F. Jones.
with the members in the rear. The
senators were seated among the rep
resentatives while the lieutenant gov
ernor and the chaplain were escorted
to the speakers desk The house
gavel was handed to the presiding
officer of the senate by the speaker of
the house and he assumed the duties
which were required of him under the
rules of joint meetings of the two
houses. Mr.. Sorley of the house mov-
ed that a committee of five members,
two of the senate and three of the
house, be appointed by the presiding
officer to notify the governor that the
two houses were in joint session and
ready to receive him. In pursuance
of this motion the chair appointed
Senators Taylor and Talcott and Rep
resentatives Sorley, Treat and john
son of Ward as such committee. When
the sergeant-at-arms announced the
governor and the state officers, the
scene was one of hushed impressive
ness. Governor Burke entered the
chamber on the arm of Senator Tay-
lor and was Immediately followed by
Chief Justice Morgan and Associate
Justices Fisk and Spalding of the su-
preme court. and they by Secretary of
State Blaisdell, Ex-Secretary of State
Porter, State Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction Stockwell and Commits
sioner of Agriculture Gilbreath and
Ex-Governor White
The Musical Program.
Aside from the address of Governor
Burke the program was entirely musi-
cal, and it was in all probability one Of
the best ever rendered in the city.
Mrs. George Schepper was accompan-
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