The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-02-01
POLITICIANS SEEM
FILLED WITH REGRET
Extrayagant Resolution Touching
Queens Death They Fear
Will Cause Feeling.
HERREI0 is FOR CAPTAIN LUCAS
latter May BE Delayed In Getting His
Old Position az Communications
.%tortions of the Salary "
Bill,

Pierre, S. D., Jan. 29.-The resolution
of Representative McDougall Of Mar
hall county on Queen Victoria's death
continues to be the topic of CONVERSE
ton. 1t vas not known by the repub-
lican leaders that any such resolution
/. was to go IN or 1t would have been
killed before it was born. McDougall
the day before and he seems to have
got the idea that he was a chosen
spokesman, but failed to get orders
next day. THAT shows how things
slide through where nobody Is watch
Ing" said Tom Roberts of Douglas
county, who lives where there are a
lot OF Holland votes which were saved
to the republicans with the greatest
difficulty this fall. Other senators n
representatives who come from dis
.tricts where there are German n
Irish votes are wild to think that the
thing was allowed to run through the
house in it's present extrayagant form.
There was absolutely no opposition to
h resolution. 1t went through as
though it had been unanimously
agreed upon by a joint caucus. The flu
:sionists, who it might be supposed
would try to make some capital out
of 1t for future political purposes sat
as dumb as oysters While the thing was
being adopted viva voce. The funny
thing about 1t was that .McDougall re-
,quested Hawgood of Lawrence to
withdraw q resolution of adjournment
son the death of Senator Cooper's wife
while he presented his resolution on th.
queen. Haywood aSsented and then
the adjournment was taken. The res
solutfon Is a joint affair and goes to the
senate, where it will certainly be mod
flied If passed at all.
There was Wailing.and crashing of
'teeth IN the headquarters of the Fall
lR1Ver county delegation in the legisla-
'ture when Governor Herreid am
lnounced that he had concluded to in
sdorse the candidacy of Captain w, W.,
Lucas for the soldiers home. John l..
Burke and his colleague, Representa-
1--WE Kelly, Were ardent supporters of
DR.: Stewart of Hot Springs for the po-
lsition and We're greatly put out when
they found that their Endorsements had
tbeen turned down. Captain Lucas will
resign his place as register Of the
Chamberlain land Office to accept the
position of commandment. 1t will prob
aDly be some tine before Lucas can
get into his place unless Linn concludes
ITO resign and the fnsionists on the
board feel like appointing Governor
tHerreid's choice. The statement was
In the Locke lobby that Lucas
mad been appointed and was believed
by many, hut it grew out of the fact
mat the governor had agreed to give
his influence to Lucas.
The deal by which the salary bin was
passed In the house is now coming ont
detail. 1t turns out to have been
the Q scientific gerrymander which
was sever invented, n the credit for
LIS given 70 Frank Crane, chairman
OF republican state committee. An
the trouble experienced i'm formulating
"a plan for the passage or the bill
could have been averted and the meas
tnre gotten Through with little trading
III 1t had not been for Seward of Wat
eeHtoNin. He was against the bill and
Iuutu moi pc won over tic Its support
because he Intends to he a candidate
Tor the republican nomination for
Judge in the third circuit next fall to
succeed Julian Bennett. II he voted
1or the bill or II the bill had passed
q legislature OF which he was a mem
Der he would have been rendered ineu-
.gible for Judge because OF that pro-
vision OF h constitution prohibiting
e member OF the legislature from vot-
aal increase OF salary for himself.
W&HD WSAG kI1du WO 81 WiACat0
Seward ana get him Into Tine. ii was,
itrst Thought that by prescribing that
no judge of a district with less than
seven scountles would he entitled to
q $500 increase would remedy the
difficulty, but the Black Hills coun-
Ties refused Ito stand for such a PRO-
cram. Their circuits are small In the
number OF counties. but large In area.
~ WE then concluded to try the area
2 population test combined. The
tnfTA Circuit q $1,000 people and less
than 1000 square miles OF territory.
30 BILL was arranged to provide
the Judges OF circuits with less
than b4.400 Inhabitants and 5000 SQUARE
mikes OF area would be entitled to a
salary Of but $1,000 per year. This ex-
Guided h third circuit from the on
GRAFTON OF the law and allowed IN IN
crease In NIL the other circuits to s.. 500
per year.
Price of Yankton wanted to have ti,e
circuit excluded SO that hts aspirations
Tor the ~judgeshtp might be saved. from
the constitutional snag, but he did
have force enough behind him 10
do business. The combination rot his
votes away from him and he fought
the bill when TT came up for passage.
trying. to set thu governors raise
stricken and also attemptfngsto get
he#semerEency clause knocked OFF
Judge Smith Of the fourth circuit.
JpdgeM Gaffy Of the sixth ana Judges
Fuller and Hansy OF the supreme court
Were active insthe lobby about the
when the bill was under con-
sheraton. When II was amended the
draft Of the amendment was perfected
In Judge Fuller,H office. Judge Hem
nett Of the third circuit, was asked I
30 In on b attempt 10 secur amin