The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-03-03
THIS is LAST DAY
The State Legislature Will Finish Its
Labors and Will Adjourn at
Midnight.
Seems to be Very Much Doubt as to Who
Will be the Next Penitentiary
Warden.
SENATE FINALLY PASSED IT
The Dispensary Bill Was Up in tn
Senate Monday and it Finally
Passed--.6S to 81.
OVER THE DIsPENsARY BILL.

OVER THE DISPENSARY BILL.
The Senate Had q Long Wrangle Over
Adopting the Measure.
PIERRE, Feb. 24.-The general ap.
preparation bill passed by the house
carries a total OF Ss75.23O; the senate
bill appropriates 1874, no. The house
spent nearly the entire forenoon on the
creating q board OF auditors and pro-
yiding for state repositories. So many
amendments were adopted that the
vote on final passage was deferred un-
til they could be engrossed.
The Watertown normal school bill
veto was put over until o'clock on
Monday. A petition from Potter
county against the passage of the free
range bill was presented.
In the senate the Sites dispensary
bill was takensup as q special order in
committee of the whole. Mr.. Stewart
sought to have the bill put over, but
the motion was lost on tie vote, the
friends of the measure thus scoring the
frat victory MIR. Loomis moved that
the committee arise and report the
billfor passage without further consid-
GRAFTON. Tyler opposed and offered an
amendment to section 2, to strike out
the purchasing provision which the
other senators insisted would render
the law null and void. The question
of the constitutlonality of the proposed
law WAS raised 1t this point and Mr..
Stewart, coming to the. support Of
Tyler, declared that if the last legislat-
ure had made the mistake, this legis-
lature should not be led into errors.
He would rather suffer the con-
sequences than pass law that was un-
constitutional. Tyler's amendment
was lost, also second one which he
offered to section 5, to strike out the
provision allowing sales to tirms.
When the committee arose seven sec
tions had been adopted There is 3
strong sentiment in the legislature to
pass this bill, but the liquor lobby will
aim to kill it by ilibustering and
other tactics. The session is 80 near
its close and the enemies OF the dis
pensary 81 resourceful that it's fate is in
doubt.
The house has increased the COM
pensation OF its employees to the amounts
paid two years ago. The house passed
bills IS follows: Creating depository
for state funds: permitting county
mutual insurance com mpanies to transact
business in adjoining counties.
The senate appropriation committee
introduced bill to appropriate Sc, 6,310
for the deficiency in expenditures Of
the railrord commissioners for l897-98,
S31.82, being for T. II. Null and 81 ,117
for w. o. Temple for legal services.
Mr.. Stilwell introduced bill to pay
Lyman county's Judgment against the
state for S5.O35.
The feelig is growing stronger all
the time that John A. Bowler OF Sioux
Falls, chairman OF the democratic state
central committee, will never be ward
en- of the penitentary, position to
which he has aspired for several years
past. Neither Bowler or Tompkins, it
is declared, will get the place. Po-
litical wiseacres, who have reason to be
particularly interested in this appoint
ment, freely predict that Nye Phillips.
the present warden and republican,
will be retained, or that some anti
Pettigrew man ike Melvin Grigsby OF
Sioux Falls will be appointed. AS re-
publicsns seem to have practically
abandoned all hope of reducing the
membership upon the board ofcharitiei
and corrections to the three whose
terms have notexpired . scheem design
ed to perpetuate their control, it ii
safe to say the new board will consist
of three populists and two republicans
A coalition OF one populist member
and two republicans, which is not at al
improbable under the circumstance
means in turning down Of both Bowler
and Tompkins, Colonel Grigsby il
just now in pretty good standing with
the republicans, and should he secure
. populist vote from the board, as it i
believed he has . very good prospect 0
doing, his selection as warden is in tn
| realm Of the probable