Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1911-07-14

were about even that the Supreme
court would uphold the constitutional
ity of a law which would put migra-
tory birds under the ARE and protec-
ton of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. 1t was said by some of the
older members of congress that the
measure appeared on it's face to be a
freak measure, but there might be q
deal more sense in it than the sur
face showed.
Periodically the assassination Of
Governor Goebel of Kentucky returned
to plague the house of representatives.
AS everybody probably remembers
Governor Taylor of Kentucky went to
Indiana when charge a made
against him of completely in the Goe-
bel killing. The Kentucky officials
tried to secure Taylor's return so
that he might be placed on trial, but
the Indiana governors always refused
to sign the Kentucky requisition.
One day there was a veritable storm
In the house of representatives over
the matter of the refusal of the Hoos-
Ter executive to honor a requisition
for Taylor, Lightning flashed back
and forth across the aisle which di-
vides Democracy from Republicanism.
The bolts were hurled by Kentuckians
and by Indianians. John Sharp VIII
liams of Mississippi. the Democratic
leader, doubtless intended to keep out
Of the storm, but it surrounded him
and beat upon his head until he felt
forced to add his own voice to the
din.
The Hoosier Republicans had told
the Kentucky Democrats that II Tay-
lor were given up to trial conviction
would come irrespective Of his guilt or
innocence. They said that with the
! feeling running high there was no
chance for impartiality In judge or
jury. They intimated that If Taylor
was innocent hat to give him up to
the Kentucky authorities meant CIV
ing him up to be murdered.
From the words Of the Indianians
the Kentuckians drew the inference
that their state was charged with be-
ing the seat of injustice. They refused
utterly to confine the charges and the
insinuations of the Hoosiers to the one
case in hand, and they let 1t appear in
their answers that they held that Ken
lucky and the Kentuckians were be-
ing accused of all the offenses known
to the laws of civilization.
Mr.. Williams told the Indianians
that no matter how i~mpudently they
might superiority they were
no better than the people to the south
of the Ohio. He said to the Hoosiers:
There has been too much of this ar
rogant assumption of superiority on
your side of the Ohio river and of in
feriority on the other. In the forum
on the battlefield, on the bench n II
literature Kentuckians always have
been your equals If not your super
iors."
The fact that the Democratic leader
did not claim superiority for th<
southerner over the northerner. bu
was content even in the heat of argu
ment, when something else Nigh
have been expected, to lay CLAIM
merely to an equality of ability, wal
the means of quieting matters, ant
the row over the Taylor requisition al
fair quieted down.
After it was over a New York mem
Der went to an Indianian and asked
him why it was that when Mr.. VII
liams intimated that Kentucky wa
, the peer of Indiana in literature thu
Hoosier did not fire at him a cata
logue of the recent Indiana output II
literature. The New Yorker told hi
Indiana friend that If he had don
this he could have fioored all the Ken
tuckians, and with them the Missis
/ sippi leader, with the quantity of th'
ammunition. even though in part 1t
quality might be a bit below par.