Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-03-25
DoingS at Pierre.
\ Delayed Letter - The
Closing Hours.

the hungry places which are now in
the possession of the republicans.
They fell down on the bill to create
two new supreme judges, which was
so rank that but few of the pops
themselves supported it. And fur
Their fell down hard in the senate on
their bill to reorganize the board of
corrections and charities, which was
to give the pops more places than
any other measure which they had
conceived. The bill went through
the house by a strictly party vote,
and when the senate took it up the
last day they thought that with their
majority that it would be a sure go.
So certain were they that the men
had been selected for the places on
the board, and the men for the heads
of the different state institutions had
been agreed upon, and they in turn
had selected their assistants, but
when it came to a vote In the senate,
four of their men simply refused to
vote, and Senator Kellar, a silver
republican from the Black Hills,
made a red hot speech against it,
which resulted in their losing the
bill by one vote. Then started a
scene which continued for two hours,
and several times bordered on riot.
Senator Morgan, who was one of the
men which passed OIL the vote, after
a consultation with the governor,
moved to reconsider the vote by
which the bill was lost, and Lieuten-
ant Governor Hindman very properly
refused to consl er the motion COM
ing from a senator who had not voted
at all. An appeal was attempted,
and the appeal received no further
recognition than had the original
motion. Several of the rampant
pops from the outside rushed behind
the rail and attempted to stir up a
riot, openly instructing the secretary
to make no further record of the
proceedings until chat particular
bill had passed, and counseling the
dragging of Hindman from the chair
and forcibly seating one of their own
men. All this time there was just as
determined i lot of republicans, and
some pops who were ready to take .
hand in any such an attempt, who
would have made it interesting for
those who tried it. Speaker Colvin
came down from the house and help
ed to quiet the crazy crowd, and
backed the lieutenant-governor's
position, as there was not a particle
OF question as to its being right. At
last Senator Wyman was called to
to the chair, and after one more
fruitless effort of the pops to work a
bull-doze game they subsidized and
other business was taken up. They
swdre the question would be again
sprung at the night session, and
counseled for long time in the
governors Office over the matter,
but never raised it again.
The spoils bills which did go thro'
were the bill creating the office of
insurance commissioner, for which
duty the state will pay in the future
about $4,000 per year, while in the
past IL has ceen done by a $1,000
clear in the auditors Office. They
increased the terms of the present
railroad commissioners to six years
each instead of the two years for
which they were elected, regardless
of the constitutional provision to the
contrary. They created a new board
of regents, who will have the giving
out OF the patronage of the various
state educational institutions. They
provided for a board of investigation
OF the affairs of the state since its
organization, which gives three of
the faithful jobs at Is per day for
nine months, and while the bill pro-
vides that the commission shall be
selected from the three different
parties in the state, The republican
will be n of the most radical of tine
free silver type, and the democrat