Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1903-01-23
PIE r RE POTpOURRI |
Legislature Takes AN Adjournment for IL
Week Immediately After Elect
ing Senator kittredge.

The following notes concerning leg
islative life at Pierre are cleaned, "bor-
rowed" and condensed from the Argus
Leader, Minneapolis Journal, Sioux
City journal. and our own reporters
on the spot:
A Pierre special of the Doth says:
The senatorial election came up in
the regular order of business in both
the senate and house this afternoon.
Nominating speeches were not in
dulged in by either republicans or
democrats, and the vote was strictly
along party lines.
After the senatorial election was
concluded both houses Immediately
adjourned
A joint session was held at high noon
Wednesday,, canvassed the vote and
declared the election of Senator
Kittredge.
An appropriation of $4,000 is fav-
orably reported for legislative action
for South Dakota exhibit at the st.
Louis Worlds Fair.
The legislature took an adjournment
Wednesday after formally electing
Senator Kittredge, and will not re con-
vene until next week Tuesday.
The bill reducing the legal rate of
interest to 10 per cent. has passed the
House and will no doubt pass the
Senate.
Representative Peirce, of Fall River,
better known as "Bear Tracks," is af-
tlicted with infammatory rheumatism,
and it is feared he will be compelled to
give up legislative work.
When upon Inauguration day Cen
eral Conklin appeared in full gold
bedecked uniform of his rank, Senator
Burke, of Fall River, remarked: "Old
Conk better keep away from the Dead
wood delegation, for if ever they put
hands on him they will cyanide him."
The first of the new capitol bills has
appeared in Representative Reese's
plan to set the prisoners at work cut
ting stone. There is growing senti-
ment favorable to making immediate
provision for capitol building to be
erected as soon as the permanent
location is determined by the vote two
years hence.
The general concensus is that the
Carroll assessment bill. making, in
effect, the assessors simply enumerators
of taxable property upon which the
state board shall fix the value, has
touched the vital point in the revenue
problem. The bill is proposed as an
amendment to the revised codes of 1908
and as the best opinion is that the
legality of an act is predicated back to
the introduction OF the bill, he has
withdrawn his bill for the present,
until the codes are formally adopted,
when he will reintroduce it.
s:BEAR TRACKS" ARGUMENT
When house bill No. l was being
voted for on its final passage several
representatives voted no and then eX-
planned their vote by saying that they
believed the state had no right to con-
vey the land named in the bill to the
national government and if it could be
done the government should be asked
to give the state other land in lieu of
the specified tract which is designated
as the site for the national sanitarium
at Hot Springs. Representative Peirce
Bear Tracks), who sees the funny side
of even serious things, voted yes and
then explained it by saying that if the
representatives could see the land
they would be glad to get rid of it.
Being true to the instincts of the news
paper men who have described him as
full blood Ogallala Sioux he couldn't
smile. but was the only one in his
class.
LEASE VERSUS SALE.
There is under discussion plan to
provide for the permanent withdrawal
from sale of the school and public