Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-08

The Dill requiring bulleting
trains Senate Bill "a, page 1914, Sen
ate Journal.
The bill limiting service hours Of
employees Senate Bill 40, page $50,
Senate Journal.
The bill compelling railroads to
construct Y's-Senate Bill 273, page
478, Senate Journal.
The employees personal liability
bill-Senate Bill 276. page 727, Sem
ate Journal.
Never Been q Gallery Player.
For the work Of the judiciary COM
mittee Of the senate, / will say that
a favorable report from that commit
tee has meant, nearly without ex-
| ception, the passage of the bill re-
portes. Bills which the judiciary
committee has opposed, in many in
stances have been found unconstitu-
tional when tested by the courts.
have never stood for legislation that
believed to be unconstitutional and
that could not be enforced. I have
never pretended to be infaIlible. 1
have never been a gallery player.
Supported Best Laws.
I have supported and worked for
the best laws that are on our statute
books today.
have supported and worked for
the state irrigation measure, for the
pure food laws, for laws fixing the
powers of our courts, for the develop
ment Of our educational institutions,
for square and fair dealing between
all parts and sections of the state,
and I have never failed to stand for
the interests of my especial section
the Missouri Slope and the western
part Of the state. I have not felt it
necessary to support measures that
have been introduced solely for the
purpose of "buncombe'' and there
have been many such bill introduced
bills whose authors did not expect
| to pass or want passed and that
were never called for after their ref
erence to committee. 1t is needless
to go further into this document that
has been set forth by my political
enemies. have shown it's animus,
| it's cunning attempts to deceive, its
falsehoods and its suppression of the
whole truth. I have shown that it
is false in so many essential partic-
ulars that the fair minded man will
give it no credence whatever. I
have shown the record to have been
perverted, falsified and suppressed
in an attempt to misrepresent me
before the people of the state.
Sustained BY Constituents.
The people I have had the honor
to represent in the senate, the ma
jority of them being farmers, are
the equal in public spirit and intell-
igence Of those OF any district in the
state. The capital is at Bismarck
and they have had personal oppor-
tunity to observe the work of the
legislature with their own eyes. For
20 years they have henored me with
their confidence and their votes.
4 For 20 years the senate has hon.
ored me with the position of chair
man of the judiciary committee.
To charge that have failed to
fill that position honorably and with
fidelity of purpose is to indict the en-
tire body of the senate for sustain
ing me in a position that have held
term after term, to the disadvantage,
as you claim, of good legislation.
The charge is untrue in every par
ticular.
Your compiler selects a few meas
ures that At his own argument which
I have disposed of here, but he says
nothing Of the measures for which I
have labored, now on the statute
books of the state and agreed to be
as good as those of any state in the
country.
AS chairman of the judiciary COM
mittee it has been my good fortune
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to have had as much to do with con-
structive legislation as any other
member of the senate body.
As for Sinking my duty do not
believe there is man who has sat
with me in the senate in the course
of the past 20 years who will accuse
me of seeking to dodge vote on
any issue.
}, / have been always ready to stand
by my convictions.
Your compiler, l think, stands con-
victed as pettifogger and wilfulI
falsifier of the record.
c. B. LITTLE.
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