Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-02-28
SOUTH DAKOTA LEGISLATURE,

votes, Kyle IS, Trip IA, Campbell ], and
Crosse ]. Mr.. Converse, independent, voted
for Sterling. and Mr.. Sbeafe and four
other democrats voted for Kyle, but IL had
little significance.
The house only held n morning session,
and the followinZ important bills were In.
troduced: BY Mr.. Brown, creating n
appointing OF commiss ssioncr and n
bill memorializing congress to pur-
thaso the Hot Springs soldiers ho me
and establish IL for the soldiers
/ of the nation; by Mr.. Covey, memorsliz-
ing congress to maze an app opriation for
school section OF the drouth- stricken re =
gion. A resolution offered by Mr.. Har.
gison calling for this report OF the appro.
priations committee no. later than Feb
ruary Is was passed
The senate this morning passed the bill
abolishing the county court, which will
probably pass the house IL leaves only
probate business In their hands. Senator
! Kittredge's bill nbolishing dover
snd courte,y and confirming all
conyeyances OF real estn.e exceps
IA TO Eomesteads passed. This
afternoon Senator Durham introduced n
| bill prohibiting tbs sale of liquor to In II.
ans, the pena!ty TO be imprisonment for
not less thaa two years nor more than
hve. A joint resolution that no bill shall
/ lie intro iuced after February ~ except by
a two thirds vote nus passed. Senator
| Sheafe's bill locating the blind and orphan
! asylum passed the committee of ths whole
and will probably become n law. At this
! point iu the proceedings tbs news of Gen
eral Sherman's death was received, and
after ordering the chamber draped and
,he flag at halfmast and appointing II COM
mittee on resolutions, the senate al journed
out of res pect.
PIERRE, 5 d., Feb l6--Ths has been
an exciting day and full Of surprises by
| combination of the votes of the inde.
| p9ndents and democrats James Henderson
| Kyle on the fortieth balo. was elected
| United States sena'or to succeed Gideon
! G.. Moody. IL was not fully determine |
that the democrats would go to Kyle today
until this morning. Fears that the repub-
licans would he able to draw enough indie
pendents 10 elect their candle If the
election was delayed longer, decided their
action aboat noon. Al u O'Clock as usual
the two houses IN It in joint session. In IRE
being present only 80 members. BY this
time the rumors were strong that Mr..
| Kyle was to be elected and
tho republicans set their faces
with determination to 20 down
with colors dying As the roll was called
| on the ballot, T. was seen tllt the tnIc-
pendents and democrats were voting :
solidly for Mr.. Kyle livery body knew
| the end had mt last come Even Messrs
| Bowel and Converse went with the indie
| pendents and every democrat During
this ballot the suppressed excitement was
intense. 1T the end til, following r.pab-
| licans, changed their votes from Sterling
TO Tripp Messrs. Belknap, Dou gas, Don.
ahue. Hall, Mccormack Taylor, lie is and
Wilson. While these changes were being
made the excitement broke loose and
/ a
called, Too late; too late" No further
changes were made and the clerk an
Tounced the result, as follows: Kyle, -;
Sterling, %: Tripp, >; Campbell, ].
The speaker announced that James H.
Kyle, having received a majority of all
the votes cast, was declared elected United
States senator for the term beginning
March next. Then the Applause knew
no bounds. Hats and other article, min
S'ed with the shouts in the air. Mr.. Kyle
occu pied a seat in the Joint asse mbly as
state senator nmoied throughout the
proceedings. Reing loudly called for, in
the same collected manner hs has borne
through L al, he took the rostrum and
made a short speech, which was well re-
ceived. He said that on account OF the
exercises just held, the memorial exercises
on the deatb OF General Sherm an, lie would
not make speech. He othe wise would
He would state. however, that he stood
squarely upon the indepen Isn't platform
and beliel ed heartily in all its dem ands
Further than this. lie was elected senator
for the whole state OF South Dakota re-
gardless of parties, aud woala endeayor TO
hll the duties Of such Office After the
certificate of election had been signed in
the presence Of the joint assembly IL ad-
journed.
Comment on his election on the whole IL
s - ~ = :; ;s ;Ss i;s s;;s S
| W Ill make the state "a fair senator.
4 he independents 10 man are delighted
beyond measure at their success. The
democrats say that the reason for their
action was that no greater damage could
have beeh doae the republican party in
this state than the election of an inle-
pendent, aud this they consider good roll
! ties for them. They claim Kyle's election
| to he that of an independent democrat
| and that he will vote with them on all
| party questions.
| Senator Kyle occupied seat In the sen.
ate this afternoon, paying as much atten-
| tion to routine work apparently as If he
| had not been elected senator
There are all sorts of rumors flying as to
| how kyle's election happened. The re-
| submis sionists are openly claiming that IL
means resu omission OF prohibition. This,
the prohibitionists do not deny. Thers
seems 20 be no barrier now except the
kONSEuOE EctO u IFSNtHt hho
| going before the people at the next
election, 1t will be the warmest
when it comes up In the legislature.
IL is claimed by many resubmission-
! lists that Kyle wi vote with them. To
ascertain the correctness of this he as Ia.
! tsrviewed, with the results already given.
| He is non-committal on the question.
| There seems little doubt but the real con.
| sideration of tn. deal by which Kyle was
elected was the assurance. that resubmis
sion is to carry without fail. The develop
ments will be watched with interest. 1t
became evident that a majority of mem
| bers could not be brought to support
| Tripp, so the democrats made the best
deal they could and were lucky 30 get 1,
| through without break.
| It not thought the election of Paine y
| in Illinois was part of the deal, although
that 1t influenced indirectly there is nc
| question.
The independents and democrats have
been holding a ratification IN Getting tonight
IL was largely attended and the egthusiasm
was immense. Among the speakers were
Senator elect Kyle Judge Trip, ex-Gov'
ernor Pennington. General Campbell, Gen
| eral Dawson, Colonel East and Colonc
| Pease.
| PIgRRr, Feb. 1.-THE house this morn
| ing spent the w hole time in discussion o
Of the senate bill for fence law to the
effect that stock may range in all unorsan-
| ized counties TO be organized in the future
| till such time as majority OF the voter
! shall decide otherwise. The bill passed
| and was considered a great victory for the
| Black Hills members AMI the countr!
| west of the river. This will result IL
bringing many cattle men from Montan'
| TO this milder climate.
| This afternoon the senate bill to estab
| lish n state board of dental examiner
failed to carry. The senate bill abolish
ing capital punishment also failed to carr,
| by a decisive vote.
| In the senate this morning the house bill
authorizing the counties to build all tn,
bridges of a cost of over 800 was passed
| also the bill making an exemption o
ninety days wages for workingmen.
This afternoon the Lawrence county con
test cases were discussed. The election
committees report, which was adverse 4
the contestants, was adopted by vote o
| to S with ten absent. This Is contrar
| TO the action of the house on similar case
and Is a great victory for the republican
| and corro boration Of their position q
that unsuccessful fight, showing that tn
republicans from Lawrence county ser
ousted In order to make possible the cleo
tion Of an independent senator.
PIERRs, Feb. lS-In the regular busi
| ness of tho house today the following bill
were passed: That the per diem of th
county commissioners shall not exec d 81