Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-03-07
Capital Notes.
WARDS FRIEND LOOSENS UP AND
GIVES A SHORT HISTORY
OF HAPPENINGS
AT PIERRE.
Senator kelley's Ballot Box Scheme
Turned Down in the Senate.
Lots of Day County
People Are
There.


PIERRE, FEB. 5, '95.
But three more days of life remain
for the Fourth Legislature of South
Dakota, but those three promise to
be as eventful as any previous three
weeks. This session had been noted
for the friendly spirit displayed by
the members to each other and by
the unanimity with which work was
accomplished and by the courteous
treatment of one house by the other
and of the minority party-the pops
by the majority. This was the
state of affairs up to two weeks ago,
but since then a great change has
occurred. Cliques have been formed
in both parties and bad feeling gen
orally prevails. The House is hold
ing up Senate bills and threatening
not to pass any more, because, they
claim, the Senate is not doing the
fair thing by a pet measure of the
House.
All the trouble really dates from
the time of the suffrage fight. The
Black Hills members who are nothing
if not gallant, fought long and
earnestly for the woman side of the
question and when it was defeated
they declared they would kill the
Divorce Bill as the Minnehaha Co.
lin which Sioux Falls is situated)
people worked against suffrage, and
nobly did they keep their word.
Amid tense excitement that measure
was brought up on Thursday and
was ilibustered against for three
hours and as amendment after amend
ment was voted down, the spirits of
the Divorce Bill advocates rose, but
when a vote was taken, they found
themselves in the identical position
of the suffragists, that was lacking
one vote to pass it'll to 81. An
effort was made the next day to
have the matter reconsidered, but
they had lost strength during the
interval and the bill was laid on the
table.
Strong efforts have been made to-
day to arrange a compromise by
which the Suffrage Bill and Divorce
Bill could be taken from the table
and both passed. This may be done
vet, but as the time is short, we may
be spared the spectacle of a trade by
which a loose divorce bill could be
passed by granting woman suffrage.
1t is pretty hard work to %galyanize Z
corpse and both bills are really
corpses.
The new Judicial district scheme
was knocked in the head by the
House, and unless the bill goes
Though attaching Grant and Robert:
county to the 9TH district no chang,
will be made in your district. Thi:
bill is through the Senate and viii
very likely go through the House
as there is a pretty stiff effort being
made by Grant and Roberts counties
and no especial eTc~t to oppose it.
The killing of the Judges salary
increase bill has left some soreness
to add to the general dissatisfaction
1t does seem strange that such
large majority should vote agains
the increase in the face of the facts
Take Judge Gaffey, for instance
whose circuit consists of clever
counties and which keeps him on tn,
beach constantly. A large part o
his salary has to go for expenses, bu'
it made no difference, the house wa:
not in the right frame of mind.
There are lots of Hobbies dowI
here. but the best of them could take
lessons from the boys on the Seuat'
pay roll. The appropriation TO
their per diem ran out last week ans