The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-20
POINTERS FROM PIERRE,
The Legislature Grinds Slowly and
is Devoid Of Sensations,

Pierre, s. d., Jan. 1.-the leg
l%slature has settled down to business
ana the grind will &c on without an
noyance for the remainder of the
session.
a good many bills are being in
troduced among them being one of
"ocotty' Phillips for Il liberal state
bounty on gray wolves, coyotes and
mountain lions. The association is
buck OF the measure and aS there is
little opposition to It it will doubt
less 90 through all RIGHT.
The CORES ponuent of ere Cham
berlain Journal sent the following
interesting story to his paper this
week. The incident related is ap-
parently on excellent authority
and shows the methods Of the Md
chine element of the third house.
"Tolnlinson Of the Aryus-Leader ar
rived in the city last Thursday at
~ ocIOck at night aud was soon
thereafter cluseted in room 129 OF
The Locke hotel with one OF the
leading meinbers of the republican
state machine from the nor;h part
of the state, giving his orders nd
telling the astute gentleman tle
Phl'ilps contest must at once be
pushed against Governor Lee. He
also informed his co-conspirator
that he had prepared and had in his
pocket Thin ty UiIIs he proposed to
have introduced in the legislature
among which we're bills to reyuIa G
express companies, telegraph and
telephone companies and That this
would draw the fire away from the
ruiir adj issue; that If the bills sue
ceeded in getting through The leyls-
!ature aud tie railroad commission
ia maj 'rlty OF whom + pupulistS)
was successful in getting a reduc-
ZION IN rates along these lines the
republicans could take the credit
and use it in the campaig4 of 1900.
But if the commission could not get
any reduction in rates the blame
could be placed on 1.-THE pop mem
bers OF the board.' He discussed
the plans for the present legislature
TO follow, telling what Mr.. Kit
tredge wanted done aud how to DO
it. They both grew very indignant
at Lieutenant Governor Kean in the
selections he had made among the
republicans for the senate railroad
committee, claiming there were sew
eral of them anti-machine men and
would be hard to control. They
even went SO far is to say the lieu
tenant governor had lied and not
kept faith with Kitlrvdye and Other
machine b~osses.'
The republican senators held a
conference and by a vote of Is to 4
decided TO oppose the DILL substitute
ing the railroad commissioners for
the attorney general, treasurer and
superintendent Of schools IN the
equalization board.
A feature of the week in leyisla-
tive circles was the almost complete
reorganization Of the house and the
adoption OF new rules. One of them
is to allow the rules to be suspended
by a ajority vote, instead of two
thirds, as has been required in the
past. An effort to take from the
house the privilege of granting per-
mission TO the floor others than
those entitled to its privileges by
the rules waS defeated.
The report of Adjutant General
Humphrey recommends that 10 ef-
fort be made to reorganize the ma
tional guard Of the State until assnr-
ances are made by the government
that the troops will be furnished
with proper arms and accoutre.
ments. AS soon as that assurance
is received the state guard is to he
thoroughly organized.
In the senate a bill has been in
troduced by the republicans to re-
duce the number Of members OF the
board of charities and corrections
from five to- three. The bill means
that it is hoped that the republicans
may retain control of the penal and
charitable institutions of the state.
A bill abolishing the office of in
surance commissioner was reported
favOrablv IN tho honco IN :. nnralv