Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-09-20

The st. Paul Pioneer. Press still has IFS
Vagaries. One OF them ls expressed in q
tecent issue. 1t gravely announces that
1t Is within the province Of the governor
to call special session OF the leeisIa.
ture and submit to it the acts of the cap.
ital commission for ratification. The
floneer'Press is probably not aware that
the United States supreme court long
ago settled this question and that il is
not within the power OF the governor. or
even the president of the United States.
10 feconyene defunct legislature.
When the gavel fell upon the s,nx 9,e
adjournment of the last legislature. that
body ceased to exist and has since been
beyond the power of resurrection. So
completely dead is it that the odor of its
decaying remains still perneates the
political atmosphere.
The Pioneer.Press also has a notion
that the people by their votes would
ratlfy the capital location made by the
commission. 1t is probable that this
dangerous experiment will never
be entered upon, though the
people would like one chance to ex.
press their convictions through the me.
dunn OF the ballot. There would be
very little left of the Bismarck capital
Dy the time the count was completed.
There is fear in the mind of the
Pioneer.Press which it expresses as fol-
lows:
Whatever be the outcome, it is regret.
able that feelings of ill will between
the northern and southern portions of |
the great territory are sure to be iutensi.
ned bv this new phase of affairs. Sure.
~ II calm and temperate Judgment and
OF intent and action were
ever needed to secure the veal of fu.
ture mighty commonwealth, or common
~ealths, they are now emphatically de.
Per contra, the Grand Forks Herald
says, regarding the Judgment of the
court against the capital convention:
The news Of the decision was received
With great enthusiasm and demonstra.
lions OF Joy throughout North Dakota.
honest men felt that there was vet a
sod in Israel, and hailed the announce.
nent as the dawn of a political millen.
alum when the myrmidons of Satan.
"hlch compose the capital commission,
would be cast into outer darkness. and
heir political carcasses lay fostering on
he plains OF Dakota.
And the following extract from an
editorial in fha I,,,oet,,-,. A.,
strong desire to champion the cause of
Bismarck:
There is another phase of the case, as
it now stands, which will be matter OF
unless south Dakota should
succeed in gaming admission into the
union as q state. which is possible but
not very probable, and that is, before the
case will be finally determined in the
courts another session of the legislature
will be held by body OF Legislators who
will be elected upon the capital issue.
Fhe power that makes can also unmake,
and before the final decision is reached
in the courts the Legislature viii have
located the capital somewhere else or re-
established it at Yankton. There can
hardly be a question as to the fate Of
Bismarck il the next legislature passes
upon this subject, and the only hope of
Bismarck, now divested of its capital
laurels by judicial fat. is in the immedi-
ate division Of the territory.
Aud SO on. without end. There are
only two newspapers in northern Dako-
ia, outside OF Bismarck, which express
loyalty to the capital commission and
its associates. The north and the south
are not liable to quarrel over this issue.