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Lord Lynne’s Choice * -BY BERTH A M. CLAY. Continued. The present Lord Lynne had suc ceeded to the title when very young. His father had been a wild, reckless man; and the once great wealth of the family had nearly all vanished when Stephen Lynne took possession ■of the estate. Nothing, in fact, re mained of their once large posses sions, except Lynnewolde. He mar ried twice. His first wTfe was a beautiful Spanish lady, who was never seen in his stately English home. Her portrait was in the pic tui c-gallery; hut she had not lived to shine as she would have done, fairest among the peeresses of England. She lied in Spain one year after her mar iiage, leaving one little girl an in fant a few days old. Stephen Lord Lynne married again, not a beauty this time, but a gentle English girl, one of the wealthiest heiresses of the day. She also had one daughter; but a son, the wish of Lord Lynne’s heart, was not given to him. Lady Lynne loved her husband; she was very happy; and at her death she left the whole of her large fortune to him, giving him the power to do what he would with it. Lynnewolde had been restored to more than its ancient grandeur, and Lord Lynne was known to be a wealthy nobjeman; still many people wondered how It would be with the heir of the Lynnes. The title he must have, —Lynnewolde, too, for it was en tailed; but a title and a large house are not sufficient for a man to live upon; and many wondered whether Philip would inherit his uncle’s money as well as his name. Perhaps some such thoughts crossed the young heir’s mind even now as he ■drew near Lynnewolde. Philip knew well what the want of money was. When his father died, he heard his mother say in the midst of her grief that anxiety had shortened his life; he had known other care than want of money, want of means sufficient for keeping up the position he thought himself entitled to. His life had been a struggle, and when his son gazed upon his dead face and heard his mother’s words, it was no wonder that a strong conviction of the need ana value of money crept into his heart. He tried not to think of that now, but to remember the errand he was upon, the dying man who wisheu to see him, and the two fair young daughters who would be left or phans if the worst happened, and his uncle died. He remembered the last time he was at Lynnewolde,—Lord Lynne was well and healthy then and his cousin Agatha had talked to him of nothing else but her sister Inez, that half-Spanish sister who had oever seen her English home. She was expected there daily, and Philip felt some curiosity as to what she I would be like. If she were only one half as beautiful as her mother, he knew she would create a sensation, even in a country where beautiful faces are not rare. He had never seen her, this strange cousin, this Inez Lynne who had telegraphed for him. Then his thoughts flew back to Florence Wyverne, whom twice that morning he tad been on the point of asking to be his wife. Bathurst was reached at lastjfend there Philip found the carriage Wait ing to to Lynnewolde. “How IgLord Lynne?’’ he asked of the footman, who helped to find his luggage, and seemed anxious to hurry him away as soon as possible. “He was no better when I left, sir,” said the man. “Miss Lynne begged you would make all possible speed, for my lord has been asking for ,r ou all day.” “Why did they not send for me sooner?” he inquired. “My Lord was as well as you, sir, on Tuesday morning,” replied the servant. “He was taken ill on Tues day night with a kind of fit, and he has never spoken since, except to ask for you; and then Miss Lynne tele graphed at once. It is Thursday to day; he has not been ill three days ” "And he is in danger?” asked Philip. “When I left home, sir,” said the man, “Miss Lynne told me to return as quickly as I could, for It was life or death.” It was not a very long drive from Bathurst to Lynnewolde. The coach man did not spare his horses, and in lees time than he thought it possible, Philip saw the dark masses of wood that surround the house. Lynnewolde has undergone so many alterations and improvements that no trace of the old house exists. It is now a stately, magnificent mansion, with turrets and gable ends, and oriel windows, with park and pleasuance, garden, lawn, and lake. The stately trees that surround it are noted for their age and beauty; that grand old cedar in the midst of the lawn is said to be the finest in England, and Lord Lynne was prouder of it than of all Lynnewolde. The carriage drove slowly up the , long avenue of chestnue trees. The hall door was flung wide open when Philip alighted, and the old butler, to gether with some of the other ser vants. stood ready to receive him. ‘‘How is he?" eried Philip. *‘How is Lord Lynne?" f “He is dead, my lord.” wai. the grave reply. “He died half an hour ago." While he lived, Philip could never describe the sensation, the impression those few words made upon him. He had known for many years that at some future time he should be Lord Lynne, but it had always seemed to him a remote contingency; he had not built upon it. He had never attempted to realise the time when Lynnewolde would be his, and he should be Lord Lynne. It came to him now yith a sudden shock that seemed to divide him at once from his past life, and open a wonderful future to him. Like one in a dream, he followed the man, who showed him to his room. “I wish to be alone for a short time,” he said, “and then I will see Miss Lynne.” He felt it needful that he should be alone. He wanted to realize his po sition —to feel at home in it, before the scrutinizing eyes of the world were upon him. Only three hours ago and he was poor, comparatively obscure, and was beginning to lose himself in a pleas ant love-dream. It was only three hours since he stood with Florence Wyverne, trying to read the secret of her blushing face and shy, sweet eyes.. Yet it seemed to him mat he had lived a life since then. He was in a new world. They were not all light or selfish thoughts that passed through his mind. He resolved not to live in vain, but to use the position, the influence, and the rank that would be h ! " *o good purpose. When that hour was over he rang the bell, and asked the servant who answered it to show him to the room where Lord .Lynne lay. Then he knelt by the side of that si lent figure, for whom all the glories of the world were over. He was not ashamed to pray that when he too came to die, he might not have lived in vaiji. In the simplicity of his brave and noble heart Philip, now Lord Lynne, made high resolves; and in the dark est hours of life he did not forget them. Then he went to the drawing room and asked to see Miss Lynne and Miss Agatl.a; but they begged him to excuse them. Miss Lynne was not well, and Miss Agatha was with her. They hoped that for the next few days he would excuse them from leaving their own apartments. “Of course,” he thought—“quite right. I was foolish to think they could see me, and talk as if nothing had happened.” Although he did not see his cousins, Philip did not allow them to forget his presence; and Miss Lynne’s little page declared he was tired of carrying Lord Lynne’s messages,—now it was a bouquet of the most magnificent flow ers; then some very rare fruit, or a book he thought would interest them; thus not an hour in the day passed without some communication between the cousins. They were busy days, too; for Mr. Gregson, the family solicitor, was in the house, and all the arrangements for the funeral devolved upon him and Philip, so that he had but little time to think of his new position, or to realise it during the four days that elapsed between the old lord’s death and his burial, which was arranged to take place on the Monday; and t~e will was to be read immediately after wards. It was a dull, rainy day, and dreary enough looked the long black, proces sion, winding among the trees it) the park. It was over at last; Stephen Lord Lynne was laid by his father; the vault was closed; the mourners re turned home; the blinds that had been kepi close were thrown open, and the light of day once more found its way into the sumptuous apart ments of Lynnewolde. The will was to be read in the li brary. Lord Lynne, Sir Henry Leigh, (the late lord’s dearest friend,) Mr. Gregson, with his clerk and an other solicitor, were present. The two young ladies had both declined to ap pear; they requested .\fr. Gregson to wait upon them afterwards; and he, who knew the terms of the will, tnought it quite as well they did so. A bright fire burned in the grate; the library, a large and very hand some room, looked doubly cosy and in viting when, through the large win dows, was seen the dull leaden sky, the dripping trees, and the incessant falling rain. “I shall not detain you long, gentle men,” said Mr. Gregson, as bis listen ers grouped themselves round him. "I know the will is not a very complicat ed one, for I drew it up myself.” Not very complicated certainly, but very strange. Philip, Lord Lynne had wondered at times about his uncle’s money; he had wondered whether he should have any share of it, but he never for a moment dream ed of anything so strange as the be quest he now heard. After some few legacies and annuities to old ser vants, Mr. Gregson read: “To my nephew, Philip Lynne, who I succeeds me, and who by right of en i tail enberits Lynnewolde. I give and bequeath the exact half of my fortune, j the sum of two hundred thousand 1 pounds, on one condition, which is, that 'within the next two years he ! shall marry one of my daughters, Inez or Agatha Lynne. To my ; daughters ,1 leave the sum of one hundred thousand pounds each, i “If tninfephew does not pomply with this condition, I leave to my daughters the sum of two hundred thousand each, the whole of the fortune I re ceived from my late wife being thus equally divided between th“m.” Four executors were appointed, and with the usual formalities the will closed. “Avery just and equitable will,” re marked Sir Henry Leigh, as Mr. Greg son folded up the parchments; “this condition, to my mind, being a re markably pleasant one.” Lord Lynne made no remark. Of all possible contingencies, he had least expected tnis. He had thought it very probable that his uncle might not leave him any money at all, but that mis enormous sum should be his on so strange a condition bewildered him. To his honor be it recorded, that he did not make up his mind then and there that the money should be his. More than that, if he had spoken those few words which he intended to speak to Florence Wyverne, he would have at once made known his en gagement, and there would have been no further question about the money. But he had not done so; he was a free man; and several times during the last few days it had crossed his mind that he had been too hasty in think ing he loved Lord Wyverne’s daugh ter. She was gifted with a strange, winning beauty; her charming, half wilful, half-childish manner had fascinated him. Had he remained with her much longer he would have asked her to be his wife. But when the charm was at its height, he was sep arated from her; and wffien he came to reflect upon The last few days, he was surprised and half-shocked to find how small was the share she had in his thoughts and plans. The solicitor bade him “good morn ing;” Sir Henry Leigh, and the others who had assembled to hear the read ing of the will, left him; and Lord Lynne sat alone by the fire in the large library, thinking very anxiously of the future that lay before him. CHAPTER 111. Every family has its skeleton, its strange incidents, its romantic story, its secrets that the world faintly guesses but never knows. The Lynnes of Lynnewolde had a romance, but it had not been hidden, —it had been partly forgotten; that romance was the marriage of Stephen Lord Lynne to the beautiful Andalusian whose life had ended so suddenly. No one knew much about it; the English papers had announced it; but no one ever saw the fair and ill-fated Lady Lynne. The only thing known of her was that she was the daughter of a widow lady who was inconsolable at her death, and who begged from Lord Lynne per mission to n.eep the little child. He gladly consented; some said, because he did not like to see the little Inez, as she reminded him of his lost wife; be that as it may, certain it was that he made no effort to see her. An English governess was provided for her, so that sbe was brought up not only with a thorough knowledge of the English language, but also of English polite literature. A sum of money was paid annually to the Senora Monteleone, and twice every year the father received a letter giv ing him all details of the child’s health and progress. He was satis fied to have things as they were; he knew the child was well, and happier than she would be in his house, where another Lady Lynne lived and ruled. He had formed fresh ties, and that one early romance of his life was nearly forgotten. But there were times when the remembra oe of sunny Spain, her myrtles, c nge groves, and olives, her dark-eyed daughters and chivalrous sons, came upon him, —that one year of wedded life when the warm love, the deep de votion, the almost adoration of the beautiful Spaniard had been his own. His English wife’s calm, quiet affec tion paled before if; there was no romance about that gentle lady, whose vast wealth had been so great an acquisition to the Lynnes of Lynnewolde. Lord Lynne looked back upon that past as upon a beautiful poem that he had read in his early youth. He shrank selfishly from inflicting pain upon himself. He knew, for they had told him, that his daughter re sembled her lost mother. She had the same dark, 'passionate, beautiful face; the same wondrous southern eyes and hair. He did not wish to be obliged to suffer the old pain of that loss over again. So he allowed his eldest child to grow up in a foreign land, under another’s care. In his own heart he wished that she would marry and settle there. He intended to endow her most liberally: but one day three came a message from that far-ofT home, saying that the Senora Monteleone was dying, and Inez must be sent for. Then I>ord Lynne sent a trustworthy agent to bring bis un known daughter home. Lady Lynne was dead, and bis younger child, Agatha, was only too pleased to have her sister with her. They were pre pared to see a pretty girl; but no thing like this dark-eyed Andalusian had ever been seen at Lynnewolde. No mere words could do justice to that wondrous beauty—to the proud, passionate face, so perfect in color and feature —to the bright, dreamy eyes, in whose liquid depths there lay a world of beauty and of love —to the rich, rippling hair, Tdack as night, yet soft and shining as the wing of a bird —the graceful figure, so perfectly moulded, the dainty white jewelled hands, the rare rolvture of languid ease and digni’y. Yet. what made her the mt*t woncerful was the passion and genius that seemed to emanate from her. Every one who saw her felt instinctively that she was anpable of grat things—either great e*ll or great good. There was no meflio f Tity in Inez Lynne. m , To be Continued. t I WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE. Madison, March 28.-In the senate the anti-pass bill, No. lbs. as amended by ihe assembly was laid over for a day. The assembly amendment to the fgood roads resolution, providing that state aid if granted shall be by taxa tion instead of by issuing bonds, was concurred in. A brief discussion was held over No. Ills, increasing the ap propriation for teachers’ institutes by $7,000, all from the general fund, and making the total appropriation $15,- 000. Senator Jones moved that the bill be re-ferred to committee. He thought the appropriation too large, in view of the many appropriation bills. Finally the action was de ferred for a day. Three bills were put through, Nos. 3485, for file appoint ment of a commission to report on the advisibility of making an exhibi tion at the Ohio centennial exposi tion in 1902; 97a (Parker), making iiquor licenses date from delivery in stead of time of granting; 33a, re quiring seven months of school each year instead of six to obtain the state aid of taxes. Another debate was expected on No. Ills (Martin), in creasing the annual appropriation for teachers’ institutes from SB,OOO to $15,000. Senator Kreutzer intro duced an amendment reducing the to tal to $12,000, and on motion of Sena tor Green the bill went over for the day. The assembly resolution per mitting Mr. Dahl to introduce anew bill relating to the sale of drugs by unlicensed persons was concurred in. In the assembly the speaker ap pointed Messrs. Overbeck. Johnston and Ives as house members of the com mittee to transfer the title of the his torical society’s property to the state. The four senate bills drafted ana pre sented by the committee on assessment and collection of taxes, for the taxa tion of express, sleeping car, freight lines and equipment companies, were all concurred in unanimously. They now go to the senate on certain unim portant amendments and then to the governor. They will doubtless be laws very soon, and are expected to produce considerable revenue from sources heretofore yielding virtually nothing. Judge Orton says, however, that they are wholly experimental as to receipts and that he has never heard even a figure ventured as to how much they would yield. President Fargo of the American Express company has admitted that the express bill would certainly produce a large revenue. Senator Welton’s bill, No. 186, consti tuting all moneys received by the state from the federal government in pay ment of the claim of the state against the United States for recent stores, supplies and equipment, a special fund for the re-equipment of the na tional guard, was concurred in, like wise Senator Welton's bill, No. 296. forbidding the sending of tramps to poorhouses. Mr. Williams made a motion for a reconsideration of the vote by which non-concurrence had been voted to the senate bill, the pur pose of which is to continue a repub lican as water registrar in Milwaukee, and argued along partisan lines in fa vor of his motion, as did also Mr. Dodge. Mr. Eline and Mr. Hall op posed but the vote was reconsidered and the bill ordered to a third read ing. Mr. Galaway presented a minor ity bill for a 2-eent passenger rate. The majority of the railway commit tee had reported against the measure, while Mr. Galaway favored it. It went over till Thursday. The Dag gett bill, 414a, limiting the pay of county board members to 21 days a year was summarily killed despite a favorable committee report. The Zinn bill to heavily license persons using trading stamps went over for a day on Mr. True’s motion. Mr. True said he was opposed to the measure as it now stood because it would operate to the advantage of the big stores as against the small ones. The McGrath bill for a bounty of I cent per pound on beet sugar for a period of 3 years was deemed by Mr. Orton as unconstitutional on the theo ry that public moneys cannot be de voted to private purposes. The bill went to a third reading. Madison, March 29. —At the evening session of the senate the committee on public health and sanitation reported for postponement No. 13s, to regulate the sale of patent medicines. The committee on forestry reported favor ably on No. 6s, for a state forestry system. Among the senate bills were passed as follows: Nos. 26 (McGilli vray), providing a compensation of sl3 a week for the officiating chaplains in the senate and assembly; 111 (Mar tin), increasing the appropriation for teachers institute from $9,000 to $12,- 000, of which the sum taken from the normal school fund shall remain the same as at present $8,000; 156 (Har ris), requiring non-residentg to pay a tax of 10 cents a ton on ice shipped out of the state; 218 (Hatton), appropriat ing $35,000 to the veterans’ home at Waupaca; 258 (Bissell), increasing the fund to the free high schools from $50,000 to SIOO,OOO a year; 309 (Wel ton), Increasing the appropriation to the commissioners of fisheries to $6,000 ; 332, appropriating $3,500 for the summer school in library science; 229 (Baxter), appropriating $3,000 annual ly the next two years to Superintend ent L. I). Harvey with which to make investigation regarding the advisabil ity of introducing agriculture and manual training in the public schools. 250 (Mills), authorizing railroad com missioner. governor and attorney gen eral to railroad* to make con nections at junction points; 338, ap propriating $35,000 towards aluniver sity dairy herd; SIOO,OOO forj anew building Mr the, college of enftncertng, and tie.ooo for a wa \*r tow#' tor the 1 university, t l Aktbe morning assem bly a graceful resolution was offered by Mr. Vandercook expressive of the appreciation of the badger solons of the courtesies shown our brave boys by the kindly people of Florida during the Spanish war. It was adopted. A resolution was also adopted for a com mission of 15 appointed by the gover nor to boom the American exhibit at the Paris exposition in 1900. Among the reports was one from the commit tee on roads and bridges in favor of the passage of the Morgan bill which gives a road-tax credit of $1 r 0 every farmer who will erect a sign showing who owns the farm. The Orton life insurance bill, which will compel the Northwestern Mutual of Milwaukee to pay about $220,000 tax a year, instead of $23,000 as now, was passed after a long debate, Orton for and Mr. Wheeler against. The vote was 65 to 16. All amendments were voted down. At the evening session of the senate •Mr. Stout submitted a joint resolution permitting Mr. Whelan to introduce a bill appropriating S3OO for a medal for Prof. S. M. Babcock, professor of agricultural chemistry in the univer sity and chief chemist to the experi ment station, in recognition of his distinguished services in inventing too Babcock milk tester and other valuable instruments and giving them free to The public. Joint resolution No. 21s. providing for an amendment to the constitution, fixing the time of election of the state superintendent in the spring instead of fall and increasing his term of office from 2 to 4 years, was favorably received. At night a mild sensation was created in the assembly when the De vos bill to take the appointment of the water registrar of Milwaukee out of the hands of the mayor and place it in those of the board of public works came up for passage. Mr. Rusk arose in opposition to the measure and said that in the light of recent occurrences he believed he was justified in speak ing on it. He then bluntly stated that he had been improperly approached with reference to it. A member of the upper house. Senator Green, had told him that if he had any measures before the legislature in which he was interested their fate might depend on his vote on this bill. He believed the measure a bad one and all the worse for the threat that had been made to him. He had no measures in which he was particularly interested but if he had he would rather let all bills fail than be intimidated from vot ing right on any one. Mr. McGrath did not believe that any one who knew Mr. Rusk should dare to attempt to In timidate or corrupt him. Mr. Over beck jumped to his feet to say that ho had overheard the conversation to which Mr. Rusk referred and that it had all been in jest. Another spiritel speech by Mr. Killilea in opposition to the bill greatly amused the large num ber of listeners present. The speaker subjected Mr. Dodge to a gentle roast ing for supporting so partisan a meas ure. The bill was finally passed, 47 to 35. The Hall bill, requiring poi sons to be kept in trl-angular red bottles, was also passed. The judici ary committee reported for passage No. 244a. allowing a lien on grain threshed and corn shelled, nnd for in definite postponement Nos. 3335, to abolish the land office and put. the work of the office in the department of the secretary of state; 1495, limiting the days for service on county boards. Tlie claims committee reported favor ably on 423a, permitting county boards to establish training schools for teach ers in counties in which no normal school exists. Madison, March 30. —Both houses had very important sessions this fore noon and in each branch a big meas ure was considered —in *he senate a sweeping anti-pass bill and in the as sembly the 1-eent a pound beet sugar bounty proposition. Favorable action was taken on the latter while the for mer went over till evening. In the lower house the True marriage license measure was passed and now ascends to the senate, and the assembly put itself on record as opposed to the duty on hides. Indications are that the session cannot come to final adjourn ment before the 21st or even later. In the senate the conference com mittee reported a substitute to the senate anti-pass bill, the chief distinc tion being that the substitute goes a step farther by Including political can didates and political committeemen in Its sweeping ban. The railroad com missioner and his deputy are excepted from the provisions of the act. Hy the senate the following bills were passed: Nos. 138 (Hatton), appropriating $70,- 000 to the normal schools, and 270 (Roehr), requiring lobbyists to register with chief clerk of the senate. Among the assembly bills concurred in was the Holland measure providing for the collection of relief for the support of poor who afterward became possessed of property, whi, • the following bills were killed: Nos. 130 (MeOllllvray), requiring stamp of state board of health on patent medicines; 33s (Wlth ee). making every village a separate road district: 21s (Lamoreux). regu lating use of sleeping car berths; 227 (Reynolds). prohibiting advertise ments on bridges, and 237s (Raton), regulating carrying of live stock by railroads. At the morning session of the assem bly Mr. Vandercook Introduced a bill appropriating 175.000 for anew execu tive residence. Despite much opposi tion on constitutional grounds, the hill granting a bounty of 1 cent a pound for all beet sugar made In the state, the grower to get a portion of th bounty, was passed, the vot| being 07 to 20. The constitutional objection is tl.at public money cannot beivoted to nrivate purposes. Other Mt-emblv bills nsod were; Mo*. 40H iHuntV permitting probate notices to t* prtnt ed in German papers if English tyM is used; 311 (Dresser), changing the weight of road engines from 5 to 7 tons; J 1 (True), requiring marriage licenses as a prerequisite to marriage; 316 (Dengel), requiring that first ofy fenders under 18 years of age shall no( be sentenced to associate with noto-l rious offenders; 164 (True), requiring county clerks to furnish "town treas urers,” as well as assessors, etc., such blanks and books as are needful for performing their tax duties; 30* (Slade), appropriating SSOO to R. S.’ Houston of Kenosha whose cattle were killed by the state veterinarian. No. x 110 (Devos), regulating the use of em ery wheels, and No. 154 (Jones), for bidding the use of street car transfer tickets by any except those to whom originally issued were killed. In the evening at the suggestion ,f Senator Lamoreux in the upper house the anti-pnss bill and the conference report were laid over to await the ac tion of the assembly. A joint reso lution on the death of ex-Senator John I . Kingston, sr., at Necedah, intro duced by Senator McGlllivray, was adopted by a rising vote. Senator Knudsen introduced a bkjl providing for the incorporation with Camp Douglas of 40 acres of contigu ous state land. At night in the assembly Judge Or ton gave the report of the conference committee on the anti-pass joint reso lution providing for an amendment to the constitution prohibiting the giving or receiving of railroad passes and ex press and telegraph franks. The con ferees reported a substitute, which is almost verbatim the bill now before the senate, containing an office-forfeit ure clause, reaching to political candi dates and making the giving of privi leges by corporations bribery. On mo tion of Mr.| Hall the report was lai</ over until tomorrow'. Messrs, Orton, Rus. and Sturdevant were the assem bly members of the conference com mittee nnd Senators Whitehead, Roehr and Lamoreux, the senate members. On motion of Mr. McGrath, the Bryant anti-cigarette bill. No. 482a, was taken from the table and killed. Madison, March 31.—1n the senate the assembly joint resolution for the appointment by the governor of a ( commission of 15 persons to interest the people of the state in the Paris ex|H)sition of 1900 was concurred in. Senate bills passed were: Nos. 210 (Whitman), relating to mechanics’ liens and providing that improvements made upon the grounds by lessees shall not affect the title of the land lord, and 246 (Mills), requiring that time checks nnd promissory (tapers be made payable at some designated bank. Assembly bills were concurred in: Nos. 197 (Benson), prohibiting laying out of roads through gardens and buildings when exclusive of land exceeds ?i- r > > 'lll-nil 'll I'll Ii and i llr,:- .111,1 re iel-ies^Hß uni p< or truflHH| ill' ran i. allowing diin braries to send out traveling librMß?* Among the bills killed was ihe one providing a bounty of 5 cents on all (tig iron muufactured. A coloussal calendar In the assem bly was left practically untouched, though the anti-pass conference report was adopted and the anti-pass bill laid over till next Thursday. The debate on the report was in a considerable measure of a parliamentary character, ] the merits, however, cropping out oc casionally. After the report had been adopted—without apparently the mem bers generally understanding the full purport of such action —a motion to reconsider failed only by a tie vote. With only three dissenting votes, those of Messrs. Felge, Overbeck and Wcrhelni, the conference report on the anti-pass joint resolution was adopted, the affirmative vote being 80. Mr. Wheeler, after the vote had Anally been announced, asked for a reconsid eration. .Judge Orton combatted de lay and Mr. Wheeler’s motion was ad jected by a tie vote, 42 to 42. committee on agriculture reported a'* substitute bill, defining legal fences. It enables persons to add wires to rail- ' road fences to keep their smaller live stock in and requires tlfe lower boards of wooden fences to be closer together. 'The finance committee reported a sub stitute resolution to again submit the • banking law proposition to the peo ple. The duiry and food committee made an adverse report on the pure beer bill. The legislature adjourned till .next. 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