Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-05-02

Yankton has made legal, discovery
u y that the organic act Of the territory
preecribes that the governor Of Dakota
shall appoint such ofioeusaa the capital
commissioners. This alleged iuvafida-
tion OF their appointment BY Legislative
ensctmept will be, relied upon to deter
| the commissioners from taking irretrace.
bic steps towards locating the new capi.
tsl. !Tas because the people OF Yank-
ton objected to the appointment of q
comminsion by Gov. Ofdway that the
commissioners were named ia the bill.
Nov that this course, adopted in the ef-
fort to please them, has failed to make
them Lsppy. they 60 back on their own
onsp1hg and plead that Ordway should
have done exactly what they two months
ago said he must not do. The commits.
sionefs seem abundantly able TO take
care Of themselves, however much cor
ruption and all that sort of thing infests
their plans. They have thus far organ
ised ap acted under what may be called
the higher Law of Dakota, and it will
doubtless override the very: nice point
Gov. Ordxay and the commissioner
may be bad men, but the Yankton oppo-
sition has made itself more or len con-
temptlble.-Day County Farmer.
The substance of the foregoing cara.
graph was taken from an interview which
some Of the commissioners procured the
Sioux City Journal to publish some time
ago. The idea that the people of Yank-
ton ever asked or obtained any conces-
slons from the removal party h too ridi.
culous and preposterous to merit notice
unless for the purpose of recalling the
disgrsceful character of the proceedings
Ihich Attended the incubatory processes
Of the capital bill, and Why the change
alluded to. was made.
After the bill had passed the house,
leaving the nomination of the comm,s-
sioness to the governor, murmurs of dis
cord arose within the ranks OF the re-
rnoval party, and rumors. we're r1fe that
Violent sdissensions; had taken place
which Threatened the success Of the
seh~iaa Caucuses were held-there
were many earnest consultations-fierce
oaths and terrible threats we're uttered
and it became an open secret that an in.
tuential wing Of the removal syndicate
had decided that they would not trust
the governor. They swore by all the
gods st once they would not be be-
trayed," and TO this wing of their own
party who were not certain that the
governor recognized tho principle of
"honor among thieves" the concession
was made. The bill had passed the
house and the seven good men
and true in the council each named their
man. his excellency named his two men,
and peace reigned. or at least war was
prevented. The capital bill does not con.
tain line that was even suggestedby it's
enemies. To enable Jsrauld to climb
over to their side Of the fence plausibly,
the removalists sacrificed portion of
their par diem and enlarged the area Of
capital grounds; but the change in their
manner Of naming the commissioners
was notosiously q concession to few
rssolute removalists who had damned his
.excellency for years throughout the
entire gamut Of profanity and who made
no secret of their emnity OF entire lack
of confidence in his integrity. 1t was to
placate this faction that "almost two.
thirds Of the members of the council" as
the governor styles it, clinched the
rivets by writing their reward in the
bond.