Dan's opposition was based on legal defects in that bill,--points that were over the heads of most of the legislators,--but he is now determined to keep up the fight.

He finds that Mr.Bassett is quite able to do as he pleases even without his services.

He felt that he dealt with him magnanimously in keeping his antagonism to the corporation bill on the high plane of its legal unsoundness.

Mr.Bassett ignored this, and merely secured the passage of the bill by marshaling all the votes he needed in both parties." "That's a new scheme they say Morton has introduced into Indiana--this getting men on both sides to vote for one of these bad bills.

That shuts up the party newspapers, and neither side can use that particular thing as ammunition at the next election.