The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-01-09
Capital Question Is Not Only
Thing South Dakota Legis-
Iators Will Consider. ..
WILL ELECT a SENATOR
kittredge Is the Man-May Try to Re-
peal Range Law, Prohibit Foot
ball and Revise Insurance
Laws.

anu dllIlDlSH IL ID d tollCCuSu ilSl lioS
members having any other matter to
place before the assembly, will receivd
but slight consideration, there is eVer;
reason to believe that this session Wi
be a very busy one.
The capital question will take uph
good share of the session. how mul
is only problematical. The fac thatt
will take a year and a half to hn3y
decide the permanent location Of ne
capital nay lead a number OF quSl-
friends of Pierre to vote for resubIls-
sior to hurry the matter through, tIst-
ing tina Pierre will be able to axe
good and save itself before the ues-
ton is voted upOn at the generaFlec-
ton of 1904. /
The capital fight is expected tihave
the effect of forming factionsFhlch
will combat each other throughlt the
entire session. This will prove hgreat
hindrance to the work of the hons anu
will result in black balling much leded
legislation.
= The selection of a United Statesen-
ator to succeed Senator Kyle, Nose
unexpired term Hon. A. b. kittrede is
now filing by gubernatorial apEnt-
ment, will be attended to early lphe
session. Everything points totrd
Kittredge as the successful andlfe
He Is the only republican cand1daNln
the field and has the unquallfled A-
port Of his party. The eleven fuSn
members of the Legislature are eXpetd
TO cast their ballots for eX-Mayorp.
TT. Lein of Sioux Falls. South Daka
has witnessed some extremely IVY
senatorial scraps, and the present ell
ton will be conspicuous for the q
sence Of @ long drawn out contest,
The question Of whether or not sol
Dakota shall be represented at the
Louis exposition VIII have to be al
posed Of. There Is a general feell1
among the people Of the state thf
South Dakota should be represented e.
the exposition by q building ana eSf
! hibit which would be creditable to tn
state which for q numbe Of successive
years has produced more wealth pei
caDita than any other state in the UNI
! ion.
Want Binding Irvine Plant.
One Of the most important pieces OF
| legislation proposed is the establish
ment of a binding Irvine manutactur
ing plant at the Sioux Falls penlten-
tiary, Although those behind the move
ment are expecting to ask the leslslh'
ture 70. an appropriation OF $50,oOo fo1
the Of work on tn
plant, it is generally known by the tax
payers that it will require an eXpendl'
t,re OF at least $3.50, 900 or $500, 600 be
fore the plant is completed and the stat
Is able to secure n reFenue from II
The financial condition Of the stat
does not appear to be such as to war
rant the appropriation of even the sou
600. and no matter how strongly TN
members Of the legislature may laVo
the proposition, it is altogether llkel.
an appropriation for the commence
ment of work on the plant will be de
MED. # -
NThe legislature will act upon the re
port of the committee appointed at tn
legislative session two years ago t
codify the laws Of South Dakota. I'll
committee has completed It's work an
the new code will be submitted to tn
+ legislature for ratification without de
Law. If the work of the committee
ratified. it will greatly simplify tn
practice in the state, as there has bee;
no authentic codification since 1877
The members of the coditicatlon com
mittee are Judge James M. Brown o
j Eureka, Judge Bartlett Trip Of Yank
ton and ex-senator G. c.. Moody 9
!, Deadwood.
The legislature may attempt TO pro
i for a reapportionment Of the rep
resentation in the legislature. The las
apportionment was made in ls9i, sine
which time some formerly uninhabite
districts have become settled and al
entitled to representation.
Viii. Change Insurance Laws.
1t is a fc:egone conclusion that til
, legislature will change or attempt I
J change the insurance laws. The La
( annual report OF H. G. Shober, stat
Insurance commissioner, suggests son
) points in favor of a valued policy law
t for South Dakota, and an ~anti-compa'
!, law which is calculated to prevent tt
5 companies from combining to advant
9 rates might also, in his opinion, be
i fruitful field for Legislative investigs
Etion.
r Twenty states, the commission
y points out, have in successful opert
e ton valued policy laws, and in all
-Ethem the average fire premium rat
: are less thai In South Dakota, and SCI
h enteen states have the anti-compa
e law in successful operation. The II
p cent advance in rates he estimates w
8 cost the people Of South Dakota ov
d 100000 per year.
d ThatSthe insurance companies do II
d intend to permit unfavorable legisli
ton is indicated by the fact that re
s resentatives of the companies a fe
weeks 6 held a secret meeting
Sioux Falls. Ali who attended refus
TO say anything about what was do
atEthe meeting, but it is safe Eue
that steps were taken to have a strol
i lobby at Pierre to fight toa finish a
attempt to have the insurance LAY
I amended in such a. way as to redu
d the#profits now realized by the insu
z ance companies on the business viii
Is they transact in South Dakota.
The legislature will have to- deci
III whether or not South Dakota will
its part, as other states are doing,
III maintaining asnational guard, or lea
its patriotic state guard TO shift t
itself, as ii has been doing during t
,llpast sixteen months.
IS M ayssProhibit Football.
Is The death of Harry Jordan, q popnl
le young resident of Sioux Falls, as t
IS result Of injuries received in a. game
s football last fall, 1t is thought will j
suit inaan attempt being made to ha
V the legislature enact a law prohibit
3. this game being played IN future.
j the expectation that such an attem
IS would be made, Coach All. Whitteme
Of Nermillion. Professor George
Kephart Of Beresford. and other adv
cafes Of football. have prepared stat
ii tics attempting to prove that tooth
10 is less fatal than baseball, that the i
ports 8 t accidents are a
ittfhat the game vas beneficial TO I
schools and other institutions of Leaf
ing.
I. The question Of increasing the reve