Show A BIG BREEZE WYOMiNG Speaker Torrej and Senator Tore Woodruff of Wyoming Resign THEY OBJECTED TO A LOBBY JOBBY THE SENATOR GIVES HIS VIEWS TO THE HEUALD The Trouble Was Over the Fact FUt a Mass Meeting Held in Fremont County Sent a Delegation to Work Memljers ol the lesrinla turc With the Idea of Capturing the Agricultural College Special to The Herald Cheyenne v > yoJan 26The resignation resig-nation today of Senator Woodruff and Judge Torrey of Fremont county as members of the legislature to take effect on the 31st because a delegation from their county was on its way to the capital to lobby for the agricultural agricul-tural college appropriation bill in which Fremont county is interested I created a sensation scnSaton Tudge Torrey who IP i speaker of the house and Senator Woodruff have in charge the bill which the county is anxious to have passed appropriating 20000 dcllars to establish an agricultural agricul-tural collage at its county seat Senator Sen-ator Woodruff says of the matter Several days ago we learned that a number of state officials and prominent prom-inent people here had received a telegram tele-gram signed by 15 prominent Fremont county men demanding that they w < 5rk for our college appropriation bill These telegrams offended many of the recipients re-cipients who thought that Judge Tor rey and myself were instrumental in I having them sent Yesterday a telegram tele-gram from our county informed us I that a mass meeting had appointed a delegation to come here to work for the appropriation bill As we had previously I pre-viously discussed the advisability of having a lhby to work for our bill and decided that it was not the proper thing to do in view of the high character char-acter of the members of the legislature and their evident determination to do the right upon all subjects we were indignant in-dignant at this action of our county people and decided to resign The lobbyists i sent by the Fremont i mass meeting have not reached here I is thought when theydand learn JtJjje tjuaUjjn they wJll declda to return I re-turn home and in that event t i nations will be withdrawn I |