The Daily Missoulian., 1911-01-29

Incidents. The coming of Robert
Wickliffe Woolley, the magazine
writer, was the most interesting event
of the week. Colonel Woolley has
been in the habit of going where he
pleased without fear of exciting any
one, but he fell in here just at a
time when everybody wanted to start
something. Senator Fred Whiteside
had done nothing more sensational
than launch senatorial boonls for that
genial old Kentuckian, DR.. Blackburn,
one of the Silver Bow legislators, and
the weet-tongued Colonel Nolan Here
tofore Mr.. Whiteside has moved with
speech, but these times he gave his
votes without explanations. On quit
ting Conrad and Walsh he delivered
the first oration of the joint assembly,
and on transferring his support from
Walsh to Senator Cockrell for one
day only he delivered himself of a
most remarkable talk. These occasions
will be remembered, but they were
not half SO interesting as the Henry
Cabot Lodge affair and did not go so
far. The day on which that resolution
reached the east Bob Woolley started
on a fast train for Helena. AT the
time Mr.. Woolley was hurrying to the
union station at washington, q. T.
Odell, q representative OF the famous
old Transcript, was running for a
train out Of Boston. Fred Whiteside
had started something. But before
Tall Pine Of the Rockies had brought
out Mary Jane-his big steam roller
and flattened Senator W1liteside as
flat as a pancake. Therefore, when
Brothers Woolley and Odell arrived
it was all over, and much to their
surprise Helena was as dull as Wash
ington two weeks after congress ad-
journs and their arrival caused the
only squirt of the week.
There is hustle and hustle at the
capitol and the mills of the solons are
grinding out bills. Interest in the
senatorial race seems to be waning
little while the. interest in more or
less important bills has increased. The
primary bills are being seriously con-
sidered, and there is no longer any
doubt as to what a majority of the
members of the legislature will do If
they have an opportunity The long
drawn out contest in the joint as
semBly has convinced them Of the
absolute necessity of a senatorial
primary. AT the beginning Of the ses-
sion very few persons in the Helena
atmosphere believed that any sort of
primary bill would pass, but that be
lief has died out
The Vaughan bill to prohibit fish
ing for mountain trout below dams
caused spirited discussion and de-
veloped the fact that many members
of the legislature are fishermen. Many
of the members discussed the bull
trout, the Dolly Warden, and the char
as if they were old enemies. The
bull trout, as pictured by Messrs.
Vaughan, Grubb, Woody, Macdonald,
Bernard and Eliel, is a very bad cam
nibal. He did not have friend in
the house. If had met him in the
street a minute after the debate I
would have given him the road
through fear of bodily harm.
On the other hand, the mountain
trout was lauded so that I wanted to
get right out and go to stream and
throw out a fly
This cor troversy brought out an in
teresting feature of outdoor life in
Montana. The men who took part in
the discussion were so in earnest, and
SO well informed on the ways and
habits Of the native fish.
II am put out this morning. said
Representative Vaughan to me
Wednesday,. $a
What is the trouble?" inquired.
why, the committee on education
killed my anti-corporal punishment
bill / wanted to stop teachers from
{ whipping children"
So Mr.. Vaughan has his heart on this
'bill but the committee, not a single
member Of 1t, agreed with him.
There is going to be fun here Mon-
day. The suffragettes are coming. It
is the good fortune of Daniel r.
O'Hern, one of Missoula county's at
tractive legislative bachelors, to he
on Ene puDllclty cOmmlttee, to when
Representative Donohue's woman suf=
frage bill was referred. and, there
FORE can be champion Of the fail
ones. There is nothing that Mr.
O'Hern likes better. He SHE'D around
Miss Etta Kelley, the Missoula typist
but 1t is not of record that he has
run from any other girl this session
The galleries are especially fond Of
him. The other day, when some one
suggested that new committee bt
created to take care Of the DonOhut
bill Mr.. O'Hern made vigorous pro,
test, saying that his committee wanted
that bill.
Monday is the time, and Mis-.
Rankin, who has spent some time a
Missoula recently, will present thu
claims Of the ladies. 1t will be re
called that Representative Berry de
clared one night at meeting of tn
Neighborhood club that he was il
favor of women voting. / have jus
heard that the suffragettes are 4goinl
to call on him in a body and thanl
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