The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1893-03-03
FOR THE BIG FAIR.
Some Inside Facts Pertaining to
the Fight Over the Worlds
Fair Bill.
Sneaker Lawson's Signal Tri-.
umph in the Premises---Oth-
Legislative Matters.

and although it has created a great
deal of feeling and has nearly cost
Speaker Lawson his seat as presiding
officer of the house, his friends have
won on every point and have Sue
ceeded in surrounding the large ap-
preparation with such sa]utary
restrictions as will insure to the state
the greatest possible benefits from
the money expended. The fight in
the house was drawn distinctively be-
tween Speaker Lawson and his friends
On the one side, favoring rigid
restrictions in the expenditure of the
appropriation, and the opposition to
to the speaker which insisted in leay-
ing it's expenditure open to the hon
esty and good judgment Of the COM
mission. As the bill came to the
house from the senate it provided for
an appropriation of SG5, ZOO, $4,000 of
which was for the benefit of the
woman's board, and the board to con-
sist of nine ladies and nine gentlemen
to be appointed by the governor and
confirmed by the senate, were in
structed to buy the plant Of the
present Worlds Fair commission at
it's cost to the old commission, under
stood to be about $500 Each mem
Der of the commission was entitled
to draw $500 per day and five cents
per mile for each mile necessarily
travelled. The commission was en-
powered to elect an executive board
of five members, a majority of which
could do business. This in its broad
est Interpretation, meant that for a
period of eight months eighteen per-
sons could draw from the appropria-
tion $500 per day and mileage, or in
the neighborhood of $50, 600 for this,
purpose alone: that they should buy
the present plant regardless of its
value, and that three members of the
board-a majority of the executive
committee Of tive-could absolutely
dictate the expenditure of the ap-
preparation. These things the
speaker and his friends were de.
termined should be corrected, and
out of this determination have grown
the troubles which have agitated the
house and threatened the unseating
Of the speaker. Only the fact two
thirds of all the votes are necessary
to pass an extraordinary appropria-
) tlon OF this character prevented the
passage Of the bill in it's wide open
form. About one-third of the house
J supported the speaker in his conten-
ton, and subsequently the house re-
} fused to concur in the senate amend
ments to the bill. 1t was then sent
to the conference committee. which,
on the part of the house was packed
in opposition to the speaker, having
been named by resolution specifying
who should act upon it. The con-
ference committee report knocked
out the executive committee, and re-
; duced the appropriation to 100000
The next day the speakers friends,
headed by Mr.. Hooper, succeeded in
getting the bill re-cnmmitted to the
conference committee with instruc-
tlOns to incorporate provision pro-
!, vldlng special commission Of five
,, to appraise the value of the Chicago
plant before should be purchased
When the bill again came up for con
sideration on Tuesday, hard fight
lasting more than two hours was
made, and resulted in it's again being
re-committed to the conference COM
mittee, through the efforts Of Speak
er Lawson and his friends, with in
structions to limit the expenditure of
the commission for per diem and
mileage to the sum OF $1,000, and
y with these restrictions the bill was
reported and passed by the unani-
nous republican vote. Thespeaker's
good generalship in the management
of this matter, with strong majority
+, opposed to him, has won for him the
admiration of friends and enemies
5 alike.
The senate did not consider II. E.
1913, Donahue's railway commissioner
bill, on Tuesday as was expected.
and the bill is undoubtedly dead for
a this season.
/. The senate has passed bill king
I railway commissioners elective in
/. 1894.
The appropriations committee of
, neither house has reported, nor will
J they be able to do SO before Saturday
or Monday.
. The six months residence limit di-
vorce bill has become law
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: with that of her daughter, the
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