Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-10-16

the advancement of silver is with safety
to all interests Of the country. Wheat is
keeping pace with silver in the rise.
About $6,OOO,000 month is being
added to the currency BY it's platform
of 1888, the republican party promised
the people this relief, and the law was
/ passed, notwithstanding the opposition
and notorious methods of obstruction
pursued by the democrats.
1.-THE republicans have promised the
people revision of the tariff, and that
the principle of protection should have
consideration. That promise is being
strictly carried out. The principle of
building up local American industries, of
protecting them against ruinous foreign
competition, and thereby providing a
home market for our farmers products,
was aggressiyely urged by our delega-
ton, and especially by Senator Moody
in his tin tariff speech. This effort at
upbuilding the wages of miners and lab
orers in the Black Hills and providing
employment for additional thousands
and consequent market for the pro-
ducts of all parts OF the state, is keenly
appreciated. In the fight made against
the binding twine trust, Congressman
Picker did some effective work in the
house in helping to reduce to the tariff
to one cent, and when the bill came to
the senate this article was placed on the
free list. Millions of dollars will be
saved to the people of the northwest by
the reduction finally made in the tariff
from q to ITO of cent per pound.
A bill which passed the house, and is
being pushed by the Dakota people in
the senate, repeating the timber culture
law and permitting Communication of
claims already entered. meets with popu-
lar approval, and viii no doubt become
a law next session. 1t has passed both
houses and is now before the conference
committee.
| There is great need for artesian irri-
cation, and efforts have been made for
our relief This subject has been finally
wrested from the hands of the theoretic
Powell. The $4,000 appropriation
last spring, to determine positively the
extent of the artesian basin, and where
wells can be sunk with certainty of Sc
curing water, expended under the .direc-
ton Of the secretary of agriculture, has
been of much help, and has already de-
monstrated that our water supply is
practically inexhaustible, as over the up
turned edge of the Dakota sandstone
runs the Missouri river, to say nothing
of other sources of supply. The further
appropriation of $40,0 900 will last until
next session, and enable the investigation
to continue. Senator Moody has been
untiring in his efforts to secure this, and
finally succeeded.
''The obnoxious act of October 2, 1888
withdrawing public lands west of the
Tooth meridian, has been repealed.
Senator Pettigrew has given special
attention to his bill reimhursing the
Grow Creek and Winnebago settlers fo1
their losses; to the establishment of the
United States courts; to the bill author.
izing the secretary of the interior to have
surveyed the boundary line between
North and South Dakota, and to the es.
Enlistment of the Indian school al
Flandreau.
'Judge Chords illness has interfered
much with his duties, but as acting
chairman of the house committee on In.
, dian affairs, and in other places, his ser.
vices have been useful.
"Maior Picker took special interest il
the passage Of the Wilson or origina
package bill, in getting tariff on hides
and in legislation relative to the Ft. Ran
. dali and Sisseton reservations.
r "There has been appropriated this
session $15, 900 for the experimental sta.
ton at Bookings. This sum will be in
3 creased each year until 5000 per an
Q mum is reached, and remain at that fig
!. ure.
'The bill passed the senate giving t.
South Dakota, as we'll as other nev
. states, five per cent of the proceeds o
the sale of public lands included in In
= dian reservations,
'The measure granting 80 per cent o
the proceeds of the sales of mineral land
to the school of mines has passed.
''Ihe bill passed the senate opening t.
4 homestead entry 675,000 acres of LAM
: on the Sisseton reservation; also tn
i, measure donating to the state $500,
, acres and the buildings of the Sissetol
y military reservation.
: "One hundred and fifty thousand dol
s lars were granted to reimburse tn
Flandreau Indians for releasing
claims to lands in seyeralty, on the Siou
!, reservation, $4,000 cash and $500
Il to be retained by the secretary of the in
d terror to forward their advancement.
}. Senator Moody's appropriation re
. imbursing the state for the constitutions
convention expenses of 1885 is now
% law; and his bill granting five per Ger
= of the net proceeds OF the sale OF publ
y lands since 1880, to our state, passe'
i the senate and will, it is quite probable
become law before the end of this con
: gress. This will put directly in I'll
u treasury over seven hundred thousan,
B. dollars more than the entire state ir
~ debtedness.
s'The craftsmanship of the committe
on Indian depredations in the senate we
: given the new state. Hard work hs
II been done for the people Of the west VIII
d have suffered from these depreciation
= and an excellent bill introduced and
being pushed for their relief. Its SUI,
cess is hoped for by many settlers
70 southeastern Dakota and the Black Hill
D. 'By the united efforts of the delegs
r tions from Montana and the Dakotas, a
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