Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-10-24
GOSSIP OF SOUTH DAKOTA
A Yankton Judge Says the BanF
ing Law Is Defective.
Private Bankers Are Jubilant Over Their
Victory Gossip About the Three Con-
gressIonal Candidates In South Da-
kota--Other State Matters.

SIOUX FALLS, Oct. 12.--At Yankton
on Saturday of last week the the test
case as to whether the banking law
passed by the last Legislature is consti
tutional or not, was tired before Judge
White and he handed down n decision
declaring its unconstitutionalit,
Judge White is on the circuit bench
FOR that district and has quite Il repu'
tation rs constitutional jurist. The
ease was in the hands Of Bartlett Trip
and Hugh j. Campbell and was de.
Tended for the state by Il. j. Gamble
and l.. j. French The case now goes
to the supreme court and the final ad.
judication of the matter will bc
watched with interest The ground
npon which it was declared unconsti.
tutional was substantially that the
state has no right to regulate private
business-whlch the right to do an or
dinary banking business was shown to
be.
The law is one prepared by anc
largely passed through the efforts oi
Senator Maxwell from Faulk county,
a democratic member of the last leg is
lature. Mr.. Maxwell was lawyer of
high standing in Senator Palmer's
circuit in Illinois for a number of
years, and although engaged in farm
ing here on account of his health,
possesses n highly judicial mind. He
aimed in this law to shut out the ire
sponsible private banks organized
without capital which have been gull
ing depositors in the past. Ghc law SO
far seems to be working well and is
carefully provided, and it is believed
that it has already largely accom-
plished the purpose for which it was
intended. Nearly all of the best
private banks of the state have already
organized under it and Public Exam
iner Blanchard has given notice that
MI others must comply with it or be
subject to prosecution.
Judge White, who renders the decis-
ion in this test case, is one of the
judges who has lately declared the
prohibition law of the state unconsti-
tutionaL
In the store of Freeman Bros. at
Elk Point, may be found "A young Corn
Palace all by itself The circumstances
are that few weeks ago they offered
the prize of a So hat to the farmer
who would bring them in the best
bunch of corn. Already fifteen or
twenty have responded and the show.
ing is one that would make Sioux City s
big Corn Palace hustle for quality if
not for quantity. There are all kinds,
early and late dent, papooSe, white,
and so on through the whole list
Union county has never seen such crops
as she has this year
The democratic candidate for con-
gress, j. NJ. Woods, of Rapid City, ac.
cording to n Black Hills paper, re-
turned home after the convention and
took bunch of cattle down to Chicago
md the question is whether he is going
10 put the Doodle received for them
into the campaign or not. "Old Jim
Woods" as he is familiarly called in
The Hills. has the rocks and is prob
ably the richest man in South Dakota.
But just the same he is plain Jim
Woods and every body likes him 1t is
doubtful if there is more popular
man in the whole Hills.
Colonel Jolley, the publican nominee,
is probably the hardest working man
in South Dakota. lie was q member
of the constitutional convention and
Of the last legislature in both of which
be. .Yas. Ghairmap. of the epgrossing
had to go through his hands
and the work is something enormous,
for Jolley is nothing if he is not con.
Bcientious. Every day during the las,
legislature he brought his lunch in a
little tin dinner pail, and the most OF
the time while the other members
were enjoying their noon vacation he
was buckling down to hard work read
ng bills
Henry w. Smith, the independent
nominee, is only plain farmer, but
he is we'll posted on the politics of his
country and he can write as good an
article on political subject as any col
lege president. He has published
many interesting pieces of this kin1 in
the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader and other
state papers. A year or SO ago he sold
his fine farm near Sioux Falls for the
packing house stock yards for $lOC
per acre, and has made good invest
ments, so that he too has some little
Doodle TO put into the campaign,
should he feel so inclined. Mr. Smith
has challenged Colonel Jolley to n
joint discussion at Sioux Falls, and it
is expected to be an interesting event.
The strange thing about the con-
gressional campaign in South Dakota
this year is that all three parties cx-
pect to win. The democrats expect to
get enough extra votes in tho Black
Hills to overcome the majority against
them in the other part OF the state.
The independents are making a vigor-
Gus 'school house. campaign and be.
lieve that their numbers have in
creased, and the republicans think
they have all these factions combined
on their popular candidate, Colonel
Jolley.
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