Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-03-02
PUT THEM TO SLEEP
Resubmission and Capital Removal
Have Both Been Showed I'm
der.
Filihustcring Tactics in the House
Resorted to Largely to Kill
Time.
The Closing Days of the Session Mark
ed by Some Unhealthy EX-
element.

Tho house this morning indefinitely
postponed all house bills as it was too
late for them to get consideration in the
senate. This motion carried with it the
capital removal bill with many others.
The governor this morning sent to the
senate the following nominations for
railroad commissioners: II. G. Warner,
of Sanborn: t. i. Conklin, of Clark. and
John 4. Brennan of Pennington. The
nominations were at once confirmed.
The house substituted the house for
the senate appropriation bill as an
amendment. and passed it this morning
with but little change. 1t is thought the
senate will concur in the amendments.
S. b. 306 was finally disposed of by
indefinite postponcmcnt this morning.
Thus is the bill comforting on women the
right of municipal suffrage and which
caused the senate so much grief defeated.
Tuesdays house proceedings were
something on the order of what might be
looked for III monkey and parrot had
got together to do business. Hooper had
got the appropriation bills made special
order until disposed of, the day before,
without the rcsubmissionists tumblins to
his design that this matter should occupy
the boards until it was too late to consid-
.cr any other measure like the rcsubnis-
sion bill. Therefore when the house was
called to order Tuesday Fowler, who had
charge of thetght for resubmission on
the floor, moved that the special order
give way to the general order. This was
the sign for general iilibustoring, which
lasted during tho morning session and
until about 6:3O in the evening, when a
test vote as given elsewhere, was obtained
on the res omission bill. The fight was
made on the speaker by both sides, ac-
cording as to which one seemed to stand
in with him for the time being. OF
course the great consuming desire of
Fowler and his side was to end the mon
pet measure, while Hooper and his
hackers were determined 1t should not be
done. Therefore every point raised had
to be settled by a roll-call, ever and anon
several times. and the points were num-
.erous. The speaker precmptorily ordered
several members seated two or three
times. appealed to the scrgcant-at-arms
TO carry out his orders. The Hobbies were
crowded, and finally the spectators got so
boistrous that the speaker ordered them
cleared, but they were not long in filling
up again. Taken in all, Tuesdays pro-
>ceedinEs did not result in anything but
the frittering away of twenty-four hours
of the most valuable time of tho session.
The action of Patten, of Beadle county,
in changing his vote on the resubmission
bill and shus defeating the measure, is
the subject of great deal Of comment
Its alleged the gentleman had some un-
Outstanding by which he should throw
his vote 10 tho resubmissionists in return
for some help towards getting the capital
removal bill out of innocuous desuetude.
AT tho last moment, and when the prom
ised land was in sight. not only for him
but for the resubmissionists. his nerve
went back on him and he got over on the
ether side of the fence. OF course he was
execEated by the resubmissionists, while
the antis don't know whether Ia commend
him OF not. At least their commend q ton
is tempered with the thought that cit
might have BEEN"
The capital question came up again
yesterday. The chairman aad one mem
Der OF she committee on elections reported
that the bill do pass, five members of the
committee not signing the report. At
the proper time motion was made TO in
definitely postpone, which molten was f.
nally amended so as refer it to the COM
mittee on state affairs with instructions
to report in the regular order on Thurs
day, and as so amended was adopted by a
vote Of sixty-five to twelve. In voting
on this question it was understood that
the vote was equivalent to vote on In
definite postponement rs 1t would be too
late on Thursday to get the bill through
the senate after that date even ii there
was but little opposition. The debate
aad vote in the house indicated that the
removal bill had but few friends and
that there was no desire to have it consid-
cred. As matter of fact there never
has been any show for the success OF the
measure and it was mainly introduced
and used rs club for forcing other meas
ures.
Mr.. digger Of Yanktou, always puts the
house in good humor when occupying
the chair. His rulings are usually point
cd and language forcible and unmistak-
able, and he is safe.
The senate has been keeping its bust
ness we'll in hand and has therefore been
in no rush the past few days. On the
contrary the house has been badly tied
up by crush of business.
The house had thrilling time las,
might, and it looked as though there