Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1900-08-31
PETTIGREW'S CREDIT.

facts concerning some OF the leglela-
tion affecting this state, which Mr..
Kennedy Of this city, alleged in his
contribution to the August number
of the Monthly South Dakotan, are
due to the efforts of Senator Pettigrew,
and for these alleged services to our
state. Mr.. Kennedy thinks Senator
Pettigrew should be reelected.
The first allegation that in the land
legislation Of 1891, which repealed the
timber culture and pre-emption laws,
Senator Pettigrew had provision in
serted which made Sparks annoyances
in the future impossible. We have 1t,
on good authority that Congressman
John A. Picker was chiefly instru-
mental in securing this legislation.
Last week we showed from the
records that Pettigrew and not Clifford
was entitled to the 800, 900 saved to
the state in the Sisseton reservation
school lands and also $50, 900 year to
the Indians. and this week we show
that Pettigrew and not Picker is
entitled to credit for the land legisla-
tion.
It becomes necessary to 60 to the
official records to refute statements
based upon nothing more reliable than
the good authority of the News.
Good authority is the soul destroying
refuge of many editors who lack time.
inclination or honesty to go to an
/ available source of information and dig
out the facts and serve them mp to the
public.
By perusal of the Congressional
Record containing the proceedings Of the
51st Congress. 1901, it is ascertained
that on the Goth of August, 1890, page
700 1st SESSION. Mr.. Pickler, then q
Representative in congress, introduced
House bill 54O4, to provide for the
Communication of timber culture entries
The hill was referred TO the committee
on Public Lands.
The Public Lands committee, on the
10th Of February, 1890, (page 1928 Cong.
Record 1st SESSION. reported House bill
+! 1854, to repeal the timber culture laws,
as a substitute for House bill 54O4, Mr..
Pickler's bill.
On the 22d Of March, 1890, the House
of Representatives passed House bill
1854 page $3.50 Cong. Record, 1st
session) and the bill was sent over to the
Senate for further action.
Nay 90, 1890, (page 5s72 Cong.
Record 1st SESSION. the Senate Com
mittee on public lands. to whom it had
been referred, reported House bill 1854
by an amendment which provided that
all the bill after the enscting clause be
stricken ont. and that certain matter
submitted by the committee be sub
stituted for the expunged portion OF the
House bill, which was all of the bill. The
measure az reported from the Senate
Public Lands Committee. and subse-
quently agreed to by the Senate and
the House, is printed in full on pages
1O,Oe5 and 1O.OS8 of the Cong. Record.
Reference to its provisions will show
that il contains all that has been
claimed, and further reference to the
proceedings of the Committee on Pub
lie LaLds, of which Senator Pettigrew
was member. will demonstrate that
he inserted in the bill the legislation
(Which made Sparks annoyances in the
future impossible"
House bill 1884 passed the Senate in
its substituted form on the 10Th Of
September, 1890. (page 1O.094, Cong.
Record 1st SESSION. and was sent to
Conference, Mr. Pettigrew being one Of
the Conferees on the part of the Senate
(page 10,0o4, Cong. Record 1st session.)
Before the Conference had agreed the
1st session of the 51st Congress ad-
journed.
On the 2Sth of February, 1891.
(page 3547 Cong. Record ID SESSION. the
Senate adopted the conference report
and on the Sd of March, 1891. page
1885 Cong. Record I'd session. the House
followed suit. The bill was approved
the same day by the president and be-
came law.
The foregoing is q brief official his
tory of the legislation the Sioux Valley
News says was not procured by Mr..
Pettigrew, but was procured by Mr..
Picker. 1t will be observed that Mr..
Picker, on the Goth of January, 1890,
introduced bill (H. R. 5404) relating to
timber culture entries, and that was the
only bill on the subject of public lands
introduced by him in the 5lst Congress.
The House Committee on Public Lands
reported his bill by wiping ont every
vestige of it, even the number, and
substituting House bill 1854. which
was passed by the House and sent
over to the Senate. The Senate Com
mittee on Public Lands reported back
House bill 1854 by expunging every
thing in the bill below the enacting
cluse, retaining merely its number, and
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