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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Sun
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1890
Page
16
The Wyoming assembly debated a proposed Board of Immigration to promote the territory. Supporters argued public advertising would attract capital and population, while opponents warned of costs. The measure failed to reach final passage as amendments reduced funding to 5000.
The report notes a recommendation to pass alongside House Bill 58 governing printing records in criminal cases. The committee discussed the measure and the house adjourned after the debate.
The council, with President Beck presiding, advanced House bills on irrigation and water rights, and passed several measures including No. 17 on county certificates and No. 24 reducing interest on warrants. Debates covered voluntary assignments, county officer pay, blind services, and the fish hatchery and election bills. In the House, new bills were introduced on pleadings, embezzlement, appeals, city boundaries, game protection, and officer salaries. The governor approved acts on district court clerks bonds tobacco sales to minors andAttachments in civil actions.
The house debates Big Horn County formation with amendments on Johnson and Fremont valuations while a rule dispute over voting prompts a speaker’s ruling. Bills on equalization livestock valuation and asylum funding trigger further scrutiny as second readings proceed.
The council spent most of yesterday in committee of the whole on Hebard's election bill and reported it with earlier amendments. Council file No 1 passed by 11 ayes in concurrence with the house amendment, and the bill is set as a special order for today.
The Macon Telegraph reports Wyoming lawmakers push a tax on all unmarried men. It argues the plan, linked to female suffrage, would be biased and questions if a tax on celibacy is fair to men. It warns such a tax could drive bachelors from the territory and invites scrutiny of its effects.
An 1860s Cincinnati Enquirer account recounts Tecumseh’s powder horn and a skin strip taken as trophies by Indian Bill Moat, detailing Bill’s capture as a child, brutal captivity, escape, and his later role with Daniel Boone and Col. Dick Johnson’s troops at the Thames.
The piece describes office seekers in Washington using pained care to signal back home about their arrival at the Capitol. It notes some claim to be sent by a member of Congress while others seek aid and positions, highlighting scheming in pursuit of favorable placements and personal ends.
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