Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-04-13

have received the united support OF
the po.'ulists, but republican membe
/ declared on the floor that they could
not afford to accept a bill ON so i'm
| portant a subject which had been
framed by the minority and so this
like the Sites bill was defeated This
ended all chance TO enact law on tn
subject for the session.
NOT ACCIDENT.
There were many sincere friends Of
the dispensary even among the lepub.
licans who were chagrined and disaD-
pointed at this failure. They could
/ now see that it dated back to the or.
ganization OF the House, for the ap.
| pointment of committee SO strongly
; opposed to dispensary legislat on
could hardly be the result of an acc!-
dent. Now that the statute was de-
feated the liquor lobby redoubled their
efforts to resubmit the dispensary
amendment to the people. They had
previously succeeded in getting the
| measure through the House but it
/ stuck in the Senate. On Thursday it
was brought to a vote about the same
time the Sites bill was defeated in the
| House. A resolution was defeated by
the decisive vote of IA yeas to 2S nays.
! 1t was brought up again on Friday af-
ternoon on motion to reconsider and
the active work Of the liquor lobby
| showed results. The motion to recon.
slider was defeated by the narrow ma.
| jority of 2l yeas to "a nays. Just at
this time a significant thing occurred.
A bill, introduced by Foley OF Coding-
| ton, permitting the redemption ofprop-
| erty sold under chattel mortgage for
closure had passed the House and On
| Thursday passed the Senate. There
were seven bankers in the Senate,
Loomis, Toy, Stillwell, Cooper. Hoese,
Snow and Overseth. all republicans.
Four of these had opposed the resub-
mission resolution and all were very
bitter against this redemption bill.
Right here the liquor lobby did some
| fine work. Just before adjournment
Stewart, champion of the bankers,
stated there had been some irregular
ity in the passage Of the mortgage re-
demption bill and moved to expungs
| tic RECORD Of its passage. This was
done and another vote being taken the
bill was defeated and thus a really
good measure giving harassed debtors
whose property might be sacraticed at
forced sale a chance to recover it by
paying the purchase price was defeat
ed. Later In the evening when every
one of these bankers lined I'D on the
| same sort of dodge to pass the resub-
| mission resolution, it was apparent
that there had been a trade.
WILD SCENE.
Ten senators changed their votes on
this measure. They were Benedict,
Cooke, Edgerton, Hnese, Johnston,
Littlefield, Loomis, O'Brien, Smith of
Sanborn and Sites. 1t was an extra
ordinary proceeding. The record was
"expunged", that is. blotted out, and
| made to appear as If the passage Of
the bill had never occurred though the
senate journal was already in print
and in the possession of hundreds OF
people. The journal had also been
approved by the senate, the bill was
being engrossed and was nearly ready
| to send to the governor. The bringing
up and killing of the measure in this
extraordinary manner is an unprece-
dented thing even in South Dakota
| politics.
The closing session on the last night
was a scene of wild disorder rarely
| witnessed in a legislative assembly.
| The majority had a dirty job On hand
and doubling the nerve Of President
Kean put Senator Lawson in the
! chair. They lost no time in making
| known what the job was. Ser a o.
Stewart moved that the senate agree
! to house joint resolution No. 1S-the
resubmission resolution. The motion
! was a clear violation of the rules for
/ il ignored the fact that the same reSo-
| luton had just been defeated and
! motion to reconsider had also been DE-
| feated At all previous sessions of the
| legislature II has been held that
| Joint resolution once defeated could
/ not again be brought up during the
| session. A noint Of order to thls ef-
| feet was made and overruled. The re-
| publicans then left the senate cham
! Der to caucus.
After waiting reasonable tire,
call was demanded. At 9 o'clock Jones
of Charles Mix addressed the chairman
| Uawson) repeatedly but could get no
recognition for long time. Lawson
| finally declared he was out OF order
] and ordered him to "sit down. Jones
! retorted he was not out OF order. that
! he wanted to know If the sergeant at
| arms had reported. Lawson ordered
the sergeant to seat Jones, and that Of
! fcial proceeded to comply with the
order but Jones advised the serFeant
, that he would better keep his hands
! off as he was strictly in order and
knew his privileges and rights as well
| as the chairman. Hanten took
| hand and they demanded report, but
; Lawson stolidly ignored them and
! waited till the republican caucus was
| over and the absent members filed in.
T; They crowded around the presidents
| desk and drew IN naper which
! number OF them signed, The popul'st
members jeering'v ASKED them II they
were giving a receipt for cash receiv-
| ed. Chairman Lawson who had ig-
nored the attempts Of Jones and Han
! ten to secure recognition, now an.
nounced the question to be on the finai
passage OF House Joint resolution
/ No. IS.
HIGH HANDED.
| Smith of Pennington raised point
! OF order. Lawson attempted to ignore