Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-03-04
SOUTH DAKOTA LEGISLATURE


tory tactics and offered resolution tha,
no one financially interested In
the present building should be eligible
for place on the commission. This
would exclude the old commission and all
who have contributed. The resolution
was killed by vote Of 81 TO 20 The bill
was made q special order for tomorrow
afternoon.
Another long debate occurred ON the
steam boiler inspection bill.
Bills were introduced reducing the
number OF county commissioners ia
three: repeating the law by which
were compelled TO bear the ex.
pense of their patients Mt the insane asy.
ium; making sheriff's fees for attending
court a. day; appointing county boiler
Inspector; electing judges In 1898; for.
bidding hail insurance companies having
less than $50, 900 capital.
Today senator rhornby's bill locating
an insane asylum at Custer City came up.
A majority of the committee pres .nted an
report on the ground that the
bill is unconstitutional and unnecessary.
Messrs. Thornby and Starr made
strong arguments. picturing the beautiful
and salubrious surroundings OF Custer.
In spite of their efforts, however, the re-
port was adopted by q vote of Is TO IL.
Later a bill came up locating q similar in
sttution at Redheld, but on Thornby's
motion to attach his bill the matter WAS
and it Is probable that both
will fail.
PIERRE, 5. d.. Feb. 2l.-A bomb was
thrown into camp on Speaker Lawson and
his friends this morning by the receipt OF
o dispatch from s. Jumper, OF Aberdeen,
10 ). l.. Sheldon. as follows:
We, the undersigned citizens of Aber-
deem and Brown county, do most heartily
indorse the action Of Governor Sheldon In
10 appoint persons to Office
II the dictation of any clique or
tag. We also most heartily indorse the
course OF majority Of the delegation
from Brown county who are laboring
tior as III their Judgement will be for the
best interests of the state. We most
cordially approve and indorse the action
of the senate and majority Of the house
In voting a liberal appropriation for the
worlds fair bill.
"Signed by 2Oo business men"
Aberdeen is the home Of the speaker
and as this dispatch is signed by practi-
cally every business man in the town, IL
forms stinging rebukc and is generally
felt to be such. The combine. however,
has emphatically determined TO kill the
worlds fair bill, II possible, and hot
time is expected this afternoon.
The senate will take up the bill abolish
ing the railroad commission and will kill
IL by big majority. Senator's are angry
at the attempted dictatlon by the house
and will make this measure an example.
The temperance committee OF the senate
met last night and determined TO put in a
bill for resubmission at today's session.
Those who have the bill in charge claim
TO have "a safe majority of and assurance
that IL the bin passes the senate 1t will
also pass the house.
PIERRE, s D.. Feb. 22-The most inter-
esting incident of the session occurred
afternoon. Al 3 o'clock, the
hour Of special order, the speaker de-
clared the house in committee of the
whole on the worlds fair bill and called
Price "a the chair. The clerk began to
read the bill.
Packer, Hooker, Belk and others denied
that the house was in committee, stating
that the power TO effect this was in the
short, sharp wrangle cnsued and
Ii was moved that the house
20 into committee 0f the whole.
but Hooper denied that any was lawfully
in the chair and moved that the house
choose Price speaker pro tempore, Lynch
,econding
Things looked squally in another min
nte the speaker pro tempore would have
been elected, after which the ousting of
would be easy. The latter pos
sesses consummate nerve, and with long
strides he reached his desk. grasped the
gavel, struck a resounding blow, com
handed the house To be in Order, and, eS-
panding his resonant voice TO its full
capacity, facing Hooper with stern
glance, he deliberately and
with every word emphasized, stated
that he acted fully within the rules and In
pursuance of dignified action of the house
yesterday. The opposition melted away,
md the speaker was master OF the house.
The house then resolved itself into COM
Rittee Of the whole and the debate ensued.
VIZ 'worru $ rss,r' Urfr uppruprntfrg- vcvss~se
Sud appointing nine men and women com
The vote stood 20 to 10, the
senate having passed the amended bill
this afternoon. II now goes to the gov
ernor, who will sign IL promptly. II is
understood that the old commission will
will be reappointcd
PIERRE. Feb - In honor of Washing
tons birthday the house adjourned over
today The senate having a large amount
OF routine business TO h, transacted de-
cided that il would be necessary 10 hold a
session in order to clear the calendar. Ac-
instead % adi ionrning at the close
of yesterday evenings session, u recess
was taken until 2 o'clock this afternoon.
81 that from Legislative standpoint to-
days proceedings were part OF those OF
yesterday, The railroad committee re-
ported a substitute for Criil's bill fixing a
maximum passenger rate OF cents a
mile, making tickets good until used
and requiring the issuance by the
roads Of 500-m !, 2L-cent rate tick
cts. The substitute provided that all
tickets not used within twenty-four hours
from the time of sale must be redeemed al
the office where sold, IL presented within
five days. The other features ~ the origi
nal bill were not In any way rtfsrred to
Upon motion of senator Grill the whole
matter was laid over until tomorrow
when IL il made a special order.
PIERRE, :. D.. Feb. y. --Resnbmissior
bobbed up In the house again today and
this time Ii w,n The temperance com
mittee took up the constitutional amend
ment introduced some time ago by Hooper
providing that the legislature may submit
the prohibitory amendment at q sDecia
election, ana amended II so as 10 provia,
for submitting the question at genera
election in 1894. The majority report was
signed by four and the minority, favor
Ing Indefinite pOstponement. by three
The vote in the house on the majority re
port stood A. TO 80 against. The majorit,
report was then adopted by "a vote Of 4. q
a.
Speaker Lawson, Malchow, Packard
Peterson. and Patterson of Lake, VIII.
were prohibi,ionists before. voted toda,
against prohibition. Prathrr vote,
both ways and Smith. resnbmissionist
was absent. The matter will now 60 Int
general orders and will come to = ina
vote In day or two. Prol.b'tionist
have let their organizations x, to piec'
and were caught mapping
This was . day Of surprises Thi
morning II was believed that the resut
missionists had been putting in some goo
work during the past few weeks. Thu
afternoon put the divorce question to rest
A bill came from the senate with a
amendment providing that no one shout
dent Of the stat six months. and that uT
less personal service had been secure
decree should not issue until plaiptiff ha
Scew vesident Tor one year. There wa
no debate, but on ftnai passage tine vol
stood, yeas So, nays 13 The bill no,
roes 10 the governor, and will undouh
edly become law.
PIERRE, s. d., Feb. 25.--A resolutlo
passed the house this morning to invest
rate the printing of ex-Auditor Taylor
report It Is charged that instead Of pla,
inr this work In the general contrac
TAYLOR, who owns printing offic.
printed the report himself and for pa,
nent took money from another fund I'll
investigating committee consists q
Hooper, Paulson, Ashley and Gold.
The house passed the following bills
Requiring that mortgage assignments b
recorded; requiring railroad commission
ers TO pay money collected into the gel
eral fund; providing for the formation .
religious corporations, and permittin