The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-02-27
THE LEGISLATURE.
DIVORCE BILL SIGNED BY GOVERNOR

There was something doing in the sem
ate last week, when Senator Seaman, the
Socialist member from Nye, introduced
a resolution calling Assembly bill No.
IL (the easy divorce measure) from the
committee on railroads and corpora
tions of which Senator Balzar is chairma
II a huge stick of dynamite had been
touched off in the center of the chamber
it would not have created any more OF
a movement" The friends and
opponents of the measure at once
advanced to the firing line and
battle royal was staged, There |
were more illegal parliamentary tao
tics INDUCED in for an hour or two
than was ever attempted in a legisl
tive body before. Senator Buol friend
of the bill, was absent on leave as was
also Senator Balzar leaving twenty mem
bers on the floor They lined up IL to-
and motions to adjourn, recess and
re-refer the bill followed in rapid sue
cession. Viva voce votes was first tax
en- on the various motions after which
a division was called for and finally
roll calls were demanded. The vote
stood II to on eve.y motion. Motions
to indefinitely postpone, lay on the table
and every other tactic, parliamentary ana
parliamentary, was fought out to a
finish and yet the vote stood IL to 3,
After every other play had been ex-
Eausted Fulmer went to the seat of big
Zeb Kendall and whispered word OF
council in his ear after which the Hon
ora BILE Zeb paid a visit to the F'ulmer
desk and before anyone tumbled to the
| movement the friends of the measure
| filed out of the chamber after making a
motion for a call of the Senate. While
the roll was being called the nine SEN
ator5 made their get away clean and
slick leaving this IL without quorum
and the seaIe cant at arms was instruct
ed to call out the state police, the sher-
ifs force from Peaceful Ormsby and
the state militia, if necessary, to round
up the outlaws and bring them to the
bar of the senate. The sergeant at arms
and his assistant got a move on while
the messenger was placed in charge of
the door and instructed not to let any
$ .nator leave the chamber. The SER
geant and his assistant secured Carson
and a radius of three miles outside the
city limits for the missing statesmen
but they returned emptyhanedd and re-
ported that the "jobbers" could not be
located In the meantime every auto
in Carson's garage was placed in COM
mission and the mud in the streets flew
farther and faster. The IL faithful ones
saw that they had been outgeneraled
and that nothing was left for them tC
do but recess until O'Clock. At
) they solemny filed into the chambe
and took their seats, looking folorn ant
!, discouraged as though the hardl!
thought life was worth the struggle
After chewing the rag few minutes
one detected statesman moved for
further recess of Is hours. They filet
+ out into the mud and darkness, as sobe
and sorry looking lot of public ser
wants as ever assembled to pass law
h for a commonwealth.
About one O'clock Tuesady morning tn
t nine villains walked up to the bar a
Y the Arlington and sad they would tax
t whiskey toddy and incidentally in
. quired if anyone had seen the officer
s from the senate. Some one remarks
# that the last they saw of Sergean
n Bragg he was chasing Huseman, of Dot
h las, who was running like jackrabbi
Stad old Senator Carpenter skidooe
: to Valley springs where he soaked OF
/ the meanness that prompted him t
e treat his colleagues SO shabbily. Kenn
IS went to Shaw springs to take a plung
d and hearing that the police were on h
trail climbed into the rafters coverin
.e the springs and remained there for a
hour or two naked. Thus verifying tt
l. Scripture "That naked came We into t
le world and naked ye must leave it.
re Others We're hid away in the toile
an about town and two or three took re
N uge behind the book cases in the sta
ey library, where they studied jefferson
~ rules to prepare them to continue t
" fight on the next legislative day.
of The actors in this rather peculiar co
of edy who were For Ninst' the bill we
" Lee, lie Marie, Chaplin, Harrington, Br
in shaw, Seaman, Elliot, Hesson, Stickne