Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-02-04
DoinSs at Pierre.
Three Bills P%aSSad-Ihe "UncFOWned
KIM" PaImeT-POp-8un Bills
The Senatorial Scrap.
Erom onr sneclal Correspondont.

The pop legislature has SO far in the
session passed three bills which have be-
,ome laws. One of them is "A bill to APP
oropriate money for the presidential
electors, one to allow treasurers an ad-
~iitional ten days in which to qualify,
and the other the Palmer or Sioux Falls
railroad law. The second was only
passed to give Treasurer Phillips time
TO get the cash here that Governor Lee
might count it and see that the treas
urer did not intend to "Taylorize' the
No one w no knew him suspected
a moment that he would attempt
ANYTHING OF the kind, but the pop adj
ministration was afraid that il the gov
ernor did not pc rsonally oversee the
fact that the cash was in existence that
a great calamity would come upon the
state. The cash vas counted and sent
down the road to stick in a 10Y drift
for three days under guard ofthe gallant
national guard.
IN ~ Biiihb UP III bOth
houses for the past two weeks and an
effort was made yesterday by both
houses to clean up. After a day OF
petty whining about the manner in
which the printer OF the journals was
spreading his work over SO much paper,
the senate final Y passed two bills, and
adjourned from their ardorous labors.
In that body the populists are domin-
at ed by Senator Palmer. Whenever
any action whatever he is liable to BE-
bounced upon by the senatorfrom Sioux
Falls, and called to account for daring
to take any action without first asking
permission from his royal highness.
Palmer's colleague is entirely under his
thumb. He does not dare get upon his
feet without permission. He made an
attempt to make a motion OF his own a
few days ago, and before he had more
than hall completed it Palmer had
whirled on his heel, and in a stage whis-
per which could be heard all over the
room ordered him to sit down, and the
chair almost went with him so quickly
did he drop. The BOSS does not keep
his seat at all but marches up and down
the aisles OF the senate chamber, so that
he may be in position to keep all of his
subjects under his eye at all times.
The house yesterday started in to
clean up the calendar OF the bills which
have been piling up ever since the open
ing OF the session, and got through with
a hall dozen. Every bill brought up a
hot discussion, and haste was made
slowly. About four o'clock Represent
alive Dollar d asked that in Difference to
the custom OF working men, that the
house adj urn at an earlier hour than
usual, but at the request OF the speaker
withdrew his motion.
Among the bills brought up yesterday
was one of the many pop-gun bills
which have been introduced to control
railroads and after a sharp discussion it
was referred to the committee on rail-
roads, under a resolution which carried
all such bills back which wereintroduced
prior to the passage OF the Palmer bill
which is supposed to contain separate
panaceas for all existing railroad bills.
Several inquiries were made as to
whether the Palmer bill covered the par
ticular case in the bill up Tor discussion,
but rs it is as long as a long winded
orators Fourth OF July grafton, when
the crowd is hungry, and had been con-
sidered in the house railroad committee
5 minutes and in the house about ten
minutes before It's final passage, no one
could tell, but taking the ground that it
covered all things good or bad, the law
makers intend to choke off anything elsn
in that line and let it get in it's W
work for the next two years.
A nickel in the slot machine fiend
struck the town about the opening OF
the session, and some OF the pop legis-
lators evidently went broke trying to
"
beat the machines, as a bill was intro
duced to abolish call slot machines,
n for the destruction of the same
when found, and on final passage the
emergency clause wa added, and in that
manner it went through, I'm attempt to
strike out the words ''slie'' and cher,
from the portion OF the bill prohibiting
the ownership OF slot machines was
voted down.
! The senatorial candidates are yet
milling and 1t is not believed that
even omnipotence could tell what the
final result would be. The republicans
stand on the one side with their solid 81
votes which have SO lar been cast for
Pickler, but in caucus they gave their
steering committee the power to switch
to any other candidate at any time
they saw fit without any further caucus
action and the nam OF Senator Greedy
may be put up at a.ty time.
Among the pops there is a bitter fight