The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1884-01-18
tory. and TO consider other neceesasy
legislation to unload The crowded docE.
ets Of tho Dakota courts.
DAKOTA.
JUDICIAL MATTERS.

WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, Jan. H.
A bill prepared by the bar Of South Dakota
win be introduced into the house by NJ. Ray
mond next week, providing for the election
Of the judge in each judicial district Of Da-
kotA The matter OF appointing Judge to
succeed Judge Kiddcr In Dakota u
still hanging iire Delegate Raymond
says he hopes tho matter will bc settled
s0On. There arc q host OF candidates
Among them are Judges Campbell and Pal
mer Of Dakota, Fuller Of Illinois, Coburn Of
Indiana, Pettis and Wilson of Pennsylvania.
Tho department Of Justice has about decided
that it will not be proper to appoint any one
who took sides on tho question Of tho re-
moval OF the capital. It appears that Camp
bell is endorsed by the people Of South Da-
kota and Palmer by the people who favor tho
capital removal It seems probable that
some outside man will get the place.
oRDwAY FURTHER DrscIAlMs. q
Gov. Ordway of Dakota this evening COM
plaihed Of unfair treatment In an editorial
published in the Chicago Inter Ocean yester-
day. He desired to say positively that the
criticism was based upon erroneous infOrma.
ton and did him an injustice He said he had
gone to Dakota whc,l past fifty years Of age,
organization Of county was too txifling
temptation on which to wreck an honorable
reputation at the close Of his public career,
oven IL 80 disposed Some one was always
dissatisfied necessarily because the
county scat could only go to one
place, when every little town wanted
It, and often there did not seem to he much
reason why one should have 1t over another
further than the personal preferences of tho
commissioners. He could not suit every
one. The statements with reference to his
son being q sort of middleman he declared
to be erroneous He lid not live at Pierre;
and had nothing to do with commissioners;
except when acting az his secretary in an
official capacity at Bismarck, he said he
courted an investigation and was here ready
to meet any charges which his accusers saw
at to make to the president He was ready
TO Justify his course in every particular II
given the opportunity by the presentation Of
charges against the Ofioial integrity. He only
requested that those who had stood by him
In tho past should suspend Judgment upon
such vague testimony as had been present.
ed, and he also demanded that the charges
80 fipantly put forth In the newspapers
should be authenticated and forwarded i'm
mediately to the president In order that he
might have I'M opportunity to meet them
while hero
CHICAGO, Special Telegram, Jan. s.-Hon. John
D. Raymond Of Fargo. Oak, passed through tho
city yesterday ON his return to Washington. In
an interview ho said: Our people hopo
that Mr.. Oakes will be elected president
Of the Northern Pacific Re is an active young
man familiar with our wants, thorough rail.
road man and one who has brought abSat him
will pull through all right. Its sggre-
cato indebtedness Is only about One-fifth
OF that Of tho Union and Central Pacific. It cer-
tainly Ought TO pay that. Moreover, It goes
through very much better country. shall intro
duco bill to double the size Of tho tcrri-
torial legislature. We now have . population Of
$50 900. The present legislature contains In the
lower house twenty-f0ar members, and In the
upper, twelve. This thus enables seven mon In
tho upper house to block legislation"
think that Gov. Ordway has been rather too
aggressive, and that he has trod on tho toes of
not Q few people. This may In part account for
the allegations msde against him. He might
also have been guilty Of some indiscrettons. Hc
said he did not think congress would admit Da-
kota this winter, tho Democrats being too wise
to givc the Republicans three extra electoral
votes. He did not think the capitol question
would tc settled noon. There would continue To
he q fight, probably, wherever the capitol is To-
Gated, be 1t ut Yankton, Bismarck or Fargo, ~
the people arctn arms, and each section ts bound
to have its own way.