The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-10-28

congress, who then . member Of the
demanded q division Of the ques-
ton. On the vote to suspend the rules
Is republicans voted no. On the
question to indefinitely postpone the
Sheldon substitute 1.-THE Minnesota lswl
twenty-five republicans voted no. They
we're Baker, Bangert, Burke, Dawson,
Devine, Dollard, Donehue, Downer,
Dowing, Gilchrist, Goddard. Hair, Hal
vorson, Heeren, Hanoton, Howell, Jar
dine, McLaury, Meisenholder, Overseth
Pfeifer, S%chnauber, Sheldon. Ulmer,
and Williamson. More than two.thirds
of the republican members of the house
voted to give the people a law that in
no way would regulate freight and pas
senger rates. Mr.. Burke, Dollard and
other republican leaders made speeches
in favor of the railroad law of Mime
sofa, q law that the railroad lobby of
that state are fighting to keep upon the
statutes.
When the republicans found they
could not defeat the Palmer bill, MI.
Dollard moved the majority report Of
the committee be adopted, which car
ried. Then it was that the railroads
attempted to get in their fine work.
Probably not more than three or four
of the leading republican house men,
bers understood the effect of the mo-
ton offered by Mr.. Hair, one who voted
for the Minnesota law but he ''moved
that the rules be suspended and Senate
bill No. l be read the third time and
placed upon its final passage" Hon.
W. S. Glass, of WATERFOWL, who was in
favor of the republicans carrying out
their party pledges by passing the Pal
mer law, ''called attention to the fact
that the constitution prescribed that
bills must be read on at least two differ
ent calendar days and that in conse-
quence the motion was out of ORDER"
and Chairman Colvin so ruled.
If the motion of MI. Hair had pre-
vailed the passage o: the Palmer bill
would have been void and republican
pledges would again have been broken.
The following day when the bill came
up for its third reading amendments
we're offered by republicans with .
view to injuring some Of the main fea-
lures of the law and they received sub
the same number of ropub-
lican votes.
When it was certain that no substi-
tute to the Palmer bill could be passed.
and its force aud effect could not DO
killed by amendments, then and not
until then did the republicans give
their unanimous vote for tho bill that
they now, in their state platform, ere.
joice IN the passage by tho last legisla-
ture OF the Iowa railroad law" and
pledge their nominees for railroad
commissioners and attorney general"
to carry on the contest to . successful
termination. With such . record be-.
fore the citizens OF this state and the
same railroad machine successful At
the Mitchell state convention, do the
managers hope to again de-
ceive the voters and secure enough
votes TO give them power to leglslat-
the present railroad commissioners out
of Office, and amend or repe al the pres
ent Palmer railroad law, at the dicta.
ton of the railway corporations?
This republican state platform con-
tains another plank which we desire to
call attention Of the voters to, that
is somewhat interesting. It reads as
follows:
"We arraign the populist governor
and legislature for stinting u public
institutions, while wasting money up
on political. controversies, and we
promise an honest and businesslike ad-
m~inistration."
1t was to be expected that the repub-
licans would "arraign the populist gov
ernor and legislature" for economy in
state affairs but tho voters will remem
Der that under this economy the float
lug state warrants have all been taken
up and several thousand dollars worth
of bonds have been paid off rs the re-
suit o: the ''stinting" referred to. The
people will, however, wonder what
''money" the governor has wasted upon
political controversies" unless it. was
his own money. 1t is true that Public
Examiner Taylor expended some OF
that appropriated for expenses of his
Office in unearthing crookedness in the
republican state auditors office, and it
is also u fact that the governor hired
attorneys to prosecute those persons
who had prostituted their official posi-
tions but he paid those attorneys with
his own money. 1t is also true that he
prosecuted and removed Insurance
Commissioner Kipp for following in
the tracks Of his republican predeces-
sor. c. H. Anderson, but surely ma
chine friends do not call this waste