Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-02-07
LEGISLATIVE POINTS.
Prohibition Probabilities and the nc
cess EkasnlutinD

Prohibition Probabilities and the Re-
cess Resolution.
Bismarck special, 9th: Although the
lSsh legislative assembly of Dakota is
distinctively prohibition body, there is
very little likelihood Of the prohibition
bill running successfully the gauntlet of
both houses. The bill is altogether too
radical to suit the more conservative
| prohlbitiopists; and then, too, several
members vino favor prohibition in the
| abstract are of the opinion that the
| whole subject should be reIegated to the
| constitutional convention to assemble
at Grafton. Tom Elliott, of Ransom
| county, said this morning:
81 tell you what it is, the W. O. It, u.
ask entirely too much. They are not
satisfied With loaf, but want whole
| bakery and q roller mill and elevator
| thrown in. Now | believe in temper
snce, but it isn't good business or good
religion to break faith even with saloon
| men. They have taken out their licen-
ses and paid for them in good faith up
to Jan. 1st, $780, and the bill before us
proposes to disregard these licenses and
makes no provision to pay back any
portion of the license money paid By the
saloon men. Ii is all well enough to say
| that the liquor men are not entitled to
any consideration, but common sense
should taach us to be fair, at least, in
dealing with men who have paid ont
money under existing laws. Dakota is
too great to be guilty of any thing that is
tainted with unfsirness in her dealings
with her citizens."
| James Hayden Fletcher, of Brown
county, one of the leaders of the tenn .
perance movement in the house, and one
OF the most conservative advocates OF
prohibition in the territory, in speaking
on the present bill before the Legislature,
says it is altogether too radical in its
provisions, and is not Designed to meet
the requirements of the case.
"The proyision making the bill go into
effect from and after it's passage and ep-
prevail it especially objectionable. Sui.
tieient time should be given to allow the
Licences now existing to run out or else
the saloon men should be paid back q
fair proportion OF their license money"
The committee appointed to Investi-
gate the charges made against the
| management OF the Jamestown asylum
held their first nesting last evening
The committee is composed OF Peter
Cameron, E. o. Ericsson. OF the council,
and Charles M. Baldwin, n. j. Mallory
and W. S. Logsn, of the house. They
ere all good, fair men, whose verdict will
doubtless be satisfactory to the parties
urging the investigation, as we'll as to
the jamestown people.
Notwithstanding the opinion of the
lawyers that under the organic Law the
| legislatuTe has no power 10 adjourn till
after the 4th of March, still there is q
gnawing element, led by George Walsh
and others, who are in dead earnest to
rush through an adjournment measure.
President Stimmel, of the council, said
this morning:
II believe Walsh and his followers are
in dead earnest in the matter OF adjourn.
ment. II they can Garry their poiut the
bill introduced yesterday by Mr.. Walsh
will become law. I think as matter
OF law they are wrong"
Frank Aikens seid this morning:
"As question cf law doubt If we
have any power to adjourn over the 4th
of March,