The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-27
RESOLUTION ExToLlING klRscH.
WING AND DURHAM LOST
BY A TIE VOTE.
EXCITEMENT IS FEATURE
Word of Lewis and Clark, Who Re-
sents Impudent charge-In the Son.
ate Women's Work Day Bill Has
Narrow Escape From Death.
(Staff Correspondence

\
Helena, Feb. 26.-The house was a
scene of bitter conflict for nearly two
hours this morning 1t was by far the
/. fiercest affray of the session to date,
| and that is saying a great deal.
/ 1t all came about over the introduce
tion of resolutions thought last night
| to be of rather unobjectionable char
acter, but which showed on introduc-
| tion to be drastic enough to provoke
instant hostility.
The resolutions We're offered by
Lovelace of Park and Amin Of yell
| lowstone. Before the secretary had
more than fairly started on the read
| ing of them the point of consideration
! was raised, and the battle was on.
Consideration carried by vote of "a
to so, and then there began hustling
for the members who were out of their
seats.
The debate was hot and bitter for
an hour and a half before the house
could settle down to a roll call. This
showed the vote to be a tie, 40 to 40,
and SO the resolutions were lost.
The Vote.
The vote: For the adoption Of the
resolutions-Annin, Blair of Ravalli,
Brewer, Burnett, Camp Christmas
Collins, Conner, Coolingham, Cramer,
Crippen, Crull, Davidson, Day, Dog
gett, Drinkard, Ellingson. Fisher
Gould, Harmon, Henley, Heinrich,
Holt, jewell Jordan of Flathead,
Kemmis, Kuphal, Lovelace McClung,
MaCrae, Mayfield, Nye, Phillips. Pope,
Rhoades. Sickler, Smith, Stewart,
Word, Working. Total-4O.
Against the adoption of the reso-
lutions-Blair of Powell, Blake, Burns,
Carroll, Clark, Clay, Cults, Eliel. Eze-
kiels, Fishbaugh, Gleason, Glenn,
GRAPHICAL, Higgins Hough, Huddleston,
Hustead, Jahreiss, Kelly, Jordan of
Dawson, Kiley, King, Largey, Lem
mon, Mcmahon, McNally, Mains,
Meadors, Murphy, Murray, Norton,
O'Neill, Poulsson, Rowe, Spogen, Sui
livan, Sweet, Tighe. Walker. Speaker
MacDonald-40.
Neither Kirschwing nor Durham
voted or took part in the debate, but
the other four members from Cascade
were much in evidence in the hot
talks and all voted against the resolu-
tions.
In replying to the charge that there
| We're no responsible business men in
the mob demonstration last Sunday,
Murray of Cascade read from a Great
Falls paper the names of quite num-
Der of men who We're participants. But
he went on to say that it was only
fair to state that none of the men
whose names appeared in print had
supported Kirschwing or the other
members from Cascade at the last
election.
Short and Ugly.
The most exciting feature Of the
| fight was the passing of the lie direct
by Word of Lewis and Clark to King
Of Chouteau. King asserted that some
time ago Word gave him a bill to in
troduce to remove the state fair from
Helena to Great Falls. In reply the
member from Lewis and Clark sprang
| to his feet and denounced King as "a
dirty liar" Subsequently, Word with
drew the language and apologized to
| the house, but insisted that he had
not done the thing charged.
Quite a number who voted against
the resolutions did so not because they
did not resent the attitude assumed
by Great Falls nor because they We're
unwilling to go on record as believing
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