Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1885-01-26
DEALS At BISMARCK.
The Capital Bill as Amended
in the Council.
This is Supposed to End the
Effort to Remove the
Seat of Government.
Mckenzie Says he has Made /;
Combination Which Will Take
the United States Court
from Yankton.

the United States Court
from Yankton.
Bismarck. Jan. 23-When the capital
removal bill came up in the council this
morning and Westover's amendment
was adopted without objection and with
out remark, the excitement was intense.
Mr.. Kennedy's remarks were slow and
deliberate, and carried weight and con-
viction with them. While seeking to
amend by striking out Pierre and insert
ing Ordway, his arguments were really
against change. It was evident, he
said, that Dakota would remain un-
divided, and If undivided, then the CAPT.
tai should go to some more central point
than the present. Ii it should be divided
it should go to some more central point
than Pierre.
When the vote was taken Mr.. Jones
was absent on account of illness, and MIR.
Smedley, in the chair, not voting,
Messrs. Huetson, Wagner, Bowdle and
Kennedy voted with the northern mem
bers, and the amendments striking out
Pierre and inserting Ordway was carried
liz to 10.
'Ile discussion was pointed and re-
Elected upon the integrity of the legisla-
ture which passed the bill. the governor
who approved and the commission which
carried out its provisions. Messrs. Petit
grew and Kennedy were particularly
severe on Ex-Governor Ordway.
Mr.. Ruetson admitted the iniquity of
the former legislature and the injustice to
south Dakota resulting from that legis.
latlon, but regarded the present sc eme to
remove the capital even more lniquitous
than the original scheme. He charged that
it was IN the interest of real estate job.
bers-in the interest OF Pettigrew and
Prentice aud Ordway, who owns an in
terest in Pierre-and il the interest of
the Northwestern railroad company. An
attempt had been made to bulldoze the
members into supporting the scheme
through threats of defeating their local
legislation and ostracism hereafter.
When the members first came to Bis
marck the building was unfurnished and
an appropriation to complete the work
seemed TO stare them in the face, and
there may have been reason then fol
, dissatisfaction. But there is none now
He was in favor of stopping this non
sense about capital removal and O
going to work to meet the demands o.
the people. He complimented his asso
ciates for integrity of purpose, but hoped
he never would be permitted to get in.
to such place again.
Mr.. Pettigrew admitted his former in
, terest in Pierre, but said he had sold til,
most and the best of it. What he hat
, left was more shapeless and meaner j,
form and character than that deal owned
; by Ordway. He hud not spoken to Ord
way for two years. He pledged himself
not to speak to him tor two years tc
, come. He would not mention III his re.
marks IN this convention, but when be
found man IN whose breast there is moi
!, one spark of honor-who has never hele
J, an official trust except to disgrace It'll,
E did not want to be associated with him
p he wanted dishonesty rebuked. Th
9 commission steal was put up in the in
I terest OF Ordway, and ko honored Bis
] marck for getting away with the gang
6 but to rebuke that iniquity he woui
9 vote to place the capital at Pierre. q
Canton, ut Mitchell, at Yankton, or eve,
at Ordway. -
The general sentiment tonight is tba
= the capital removal is dead. Mr.. Picklel
l when he left the capital said he shout
9 now engage rooms for the winter, Ell
! shook hands with a northern representa-
J, tive and said: "You have beaten, a
a usual"
q Mr.. Mckenzie claims to have made
combination that will control everythin,
henceforward, remove the United State
D court from Yankton to Mitchell and dis
. pense punishment generally to thos
I favoripg capital removal, and the nortl
s Dakota lobby has got in good work
) Mr.. Lamour, under the new deal, vii
G retain his seat. South Dakota appear
}. to have laid down again.
i The Wilson-Lamoure contest was con
' tinued, but not determined in the house
MIR. Hutchinson was given five days t
secure evidence in this contested case.
MIR. Pickler's resolution for appointin,
r committee on Dakota division and 4
o adopt ways and means to convince con
j, gress that Dakota lis unalterably or
= posed to admission without division, wa
!, passed. Also Mr.. Eldridge's bill llquida
: ting the taxes of Grant county. Ais
the New Orleans exposition bill ap
S propriating S25,O0O, and bills fundin,
the debts of Day and Hyde counties
PREVIOUS PROCEEDINGS.
DAouutChs Aah., OHu. lA-TFOm state
a ments made by the south Dakota me-
J, after the adjournment of the house yep
r terday the public were led to beliey
t that the council would grapple the capi
I tai removal bill to-day in manner tha
E would insure either its passage or defea
y Any confidence that may have been re
g posed in the assertions of the legislator
was, however, rudely shaken by til
events transpiring in the council cham
Der this morning. It becomes more an,
!. more evident that what the south desire
is delay, either to afford tho members a
opportunity to hear from their constitu
ents, as they daily aver, or to afford th
leaders q chance to mature scheme
+ which are on foot. The bills in
J troduced on Saturday were no
entirely satisfactory to the advocate
g of removal. Different amendment
have been considered to be the mos
satisfactory to all concerned. When
\ o'clock arrived, the time set for the cor
sideratlon of the bill, the council r.
solved itself into O committee of til
uhole. with Mr.. Jones, of Hutchinso
connty-Gsmble's colleague-in th
/, chair. President Westover, who had
y seat in the house. apparently eager t
, put himself on record in the matte
J. before Chairman Jones had an oppo
8, tunity either to announce the busines
y before the committee or to read the It'll
g of the bill. and proposed an amepdmen
I'll The first section. providing for the r,
e moval Of the seat Of government fro,
\ Riamarck IN Piarro vvos lnfk nccb.n,a,