Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-04-04

last nights remarks that the only relief
OF the people was through the speedy re. |
moval of Ordway. This he said could |
be accomplished BY the united action OF
the people. The Sioux Falls convention
should set the ball rolling.
AFEW MORE.
Decided Expressions from the Press
Of Dakota.
All about the Authors of the In.
fitmy and Some of Their
DOings.
Chamberlain Register.
Gov. Ordway has added to his insult
ing insults and pusillanlmous meanness
to the people of Dakota the farther and
other one Of refusing to sign the bill for
q constitutional convention. He don't
""uo VIC peOHAo W gov cokosAei. ne
don't want to hear from the people, but
he will, and don't You forget it. Gov.
Ordway will not serve out his term of
office, if people can be heard.
Grand Forks Herald.
Yesterday Geo. 81. Walsh, F. I. Walker
and DIR. Scott left for the south, the two
former ostensibly to attend meeting of
the Odessa syndicate in st. Paul, and
the latter to act on the capital removal
commission. It is alleged that Odessa
is to organize an assault on the commits
sion and attempt its capture. tits quite
likely that at least one of the syndicate
will be on the ground when the capital
removers are in session.
Scotland Citizen.
the secretary of the interior in which he
attempts to Justify the passage of the
capital commission bill. In this letter
he reiterates his stereotyped lie that it
Is "a strong and carefully guarded BILL"
The bill is carefully guarded" in the in
terest of the governor and his partners in
the syndicate, but how about the people?
Sioux Falls Press.
Charles h: Myers of Sphinx county,
one of the nine capital commissioners,
remarked to reporter of the Sioux City
Journal, in regard to the meeting called
to be held here next Thursday, that he
"didn't believe that Sioux Falls, Mime
haha county, or any other portion of the
country by itself could control the inter.
ests of the whole territory" If Mr.. My.
ers will just keep his eye upon the pan.
Drama he will discover that it is pretty
nearly the whole territory that proposes
to control its interests, and that objects
to their being controlled by horde of
sharks and sharpers.
Grand Forks Herald.
A few days since Governor Ordway's
private secretary telegraphed to the Pho.
neer Press statement concerning the
appropriations voted during the last ses.
sion Of the legislature, defensive in it's
character, and intended as refutation
of the report that the aggregate bonded
Indebtedness created by the legislature
amounted to upwards Of S7500OO. His
statement was good as far as it went.
With one or two additions, it would rep.
resent the bonded Indebtedness of the
territory, but by no means includes the
issue..of bonds by counties, authorized
by the legislature, the total amount OF
which, with the territorial Indebtedness
would easily aggregate $750,OOO. The
special which made Governor Ordway
vince, simply states "the aggregate ol
bonded indebtedness voted by the legis.
lature," and does not specify whether
for county or territorial purposes
Many of the sums in which counties art
to be bonded for the erection of county
buildings are unnecessarily large. Fe
instance, bill was passed and signet
authorizing La Moure county to bono
itself in the sum of $4,000 for count,
purposes. That county now has les
than three hundred voters. The taxe
will fall on less than one-third of tha
number who have purchased railroad
lands, as the majority of the settler
have not proved up. When the bill wa
introduced it provided for the bonding
of the county in the sum o
thirty thousand dollars-but tina
amount was reduced.
j, would have been advisable to nave com
PEELED La Noure county, and some other
: to wait another two years before they iu
! dulged in the luxury of costly count.
buildings. BY that time the count;
would have become more populated, an
: the county seat could have been locate,
where the majority of the people desired
!, The townsite proprietors of the presen
3 county seat, fearing that they would b
unable to keep 1t in that contingenc,
pushed the bill, believing if expensiv
, buildings were erected it would 70
, long way toward helping them hold th,
, advantage they now have. Tho legisla
ture loaned itself to the scheme OF thes
men, and the bill passed and was signe
by His Excellency. 1t is that class G
legislation, as we'll as the wholesale vol
( ing of appropriations for the territor,
itself, which has rendered the doings q
the late legislature obnoxious in th
eyes of the administration. The L
Moure county case is merely cited as o
! instance. The president had in conten
a plation all such cases, when the "aggre
: gate bonded Indebtedness voted by th
Legislature" was referred to. The 20,
! ernor must be hard pressed for goo
defense, to attempt to satisfy the publ
e with "half TRUTH" which is populall
!. called "worse than lie."
Lake Preston Times.
The Huron Leader takes exceptions I
e the comments made by the Times las
a week when it stated it was surprised 8
the course pursued by Representativ
Sterling. The Leader goes on to sho