Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-05-17
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Manning News: Elo.. c. {. Law
balgh tells what we" dad in an article
published in the Dunn County News
and the Spring Valley Times, Mr.,
Lawbaush no doubt is suffering from
a guilty conscience and jumps INTO
print. He states that we are not
anytimc. do not know how The
other fellow feels but | would like
TO know how he feels after voting
against House Bill no. 4l3, the same
being a bill for an act providing lOr
the inspection OF coal imported into
this state, he being II Of thIi)y.t"o
to vote against sad bill, (Sec House
journal, Mch. IA, page 3G.) would
like to inquire how he feels after hav-
INK voted against II. b. No. 276, a bill
tor an act to amend Sections 22d8 and
22ly, relating to warehouse receipts,
this bill being in tha interests OF
the farmers. Thanks to Mr.. lsaak
to amend Sections 1O3l-2-3-i5-G and
Of Mercer county and others, I'VE
killers lost by ten votes. How about
Senate hlIl 40. u, a bill tor an act
~. of the Revised Codes Of 1904 re-
lating to education? The killers
only numbered fifteen, those voting
Tor its passage numbered ninety,
thanks to Isaak and Hickle OF the 4Sth
District, (see House Journal Mich. &,
page 49, How docs he feel about
about House Bill No. 349, a bill tor
an act providing for county trcaSur-
crs' notice to taxpayers, which pass
ed by a ote Of "a for and Il killers
Che being onc) against the bill, tSce
House Journal. Feb. 9th. page l1l.)
How about House Bill No. &c? A
bill for an act providing for stopping
passenger trains at junction points,
| which passed by a vote Of sixty Or
and twenty against, he voting against
the passage Of the bill, (sec House
Journal Feb. %, page Gl.) | don't
just recall upon what committee
"we" we're appointed upon, whether
it was on the committee on Gene
%tarics' or the committee on Game and
Forest Preserves. However, ! should
naturally think that I'VE" should have
laid aside the killing operations at
least long enough to have joined the
"~Introduccrs," as he terms them, and
| introduced a bill for an act to pro.
| vide for a game preserve in the Xii.
| deer mountains. or a bill for an act
to provide a monument to the mem.
Org Of those heroes who gave up their
lives in the battle with the Indians
in the COS and known as the battle
of the Kildc + mountains. Then the
voters of Dunn county and the resi-
dents of the state at large would
have been wise to the TACT that I'VE"
had been to bismarck to assist in
killing the complicated line Of bust
ness such As making laws, and Their:
I'VE" having to rush INTO print with
a twO.cOlumn article in two OF our
county journals for the purpose OF
telling the voters that "we', through
our own foolishness, had passed
through the experience Of helping to
represent a district of the legisla.
ture of North Dakota for the first
time.
Mr.. Lawbaugh states that eve"
tried to mGXe IL nllOwn to cOnStltu-
cnts that We" stood ready at all times
to do anything for Dunn county that
might be asked. What a power I'VE"
were.
He says that early in the session,
even before he house was organized,
the farmer faction held d meeting and
agreed to stand together on all lines
of legislation of benefit to the farmer.
Can it be POSSIBLE that u Mr.. Law
haugh was a bunch GUTTER" as the
farmers nearly all voted contrary TO
the way he voted. He even claims
the honor for the passage of the herd
law measure, which a Senator Nc.
Leans bill. He says eve were at all
times ready to boost for good roads
bills but were not in favor of autOmO-
BILE roads running parallel with the
railradS crossing the state: we were
not In favor of class legislation The
fact of the matter in relation to House
Bill No. |, being an act to provide for
two public roads across the state met
with the favor of all those interested
in good roads, as the proposed roads
would have connected all the county
seat cities from Fargo to Beach and
from Grand Forks to Williston. I'm
fortunately, the attorney general de-
clarcd the bill to be unconstitutional
as it was class legislation, and Mr..
Lawbaugh had no opportunity to as
sist in killing" the bill. He says that
it takes a majority of 10 members Of
the house to get a measure through.
Lo. and behold! has the gentleman
forgotten to count himself as there
were III members, or does he think
that by counting himself it would
make the number of members Of the
house greater than is allowed by law?
Or, perhaps, he was like the little boy
who was sent out by his father to
count a new litter of pigs. Upon his
return he said: "Pa, | counted sew
en- and the other little one was run
mig around SO fast | couldn't count
it,
Mr.. %Ldwbaugh very generously Of
fer5 his services and is still at our
service in case he is needed. Does
he no yet know that unless there
should be a special session of the
legislature that his services are at
an end?
He says that if anyone would like
to know anything about any particular
bill that was up or passed and are in.
terested enough to write we" will be
glad to give any information desired.
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