The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-06-17
NO EXPENSE TO STATE
The Removal OF the Capital tn
Mitchell Means No Expense
10 the Taxpayers or
the afanA

10 the Taxpayers or
the State
The cunningly contrived statements
sent out by Pierre that the removal
of the capital means an expense to the
state is pure buncomDe. In fact. bun.
comb is q mild word for it. 1t is a
~scare-crow set up to brighten the
voters. A Pierre trick.
And the insinuation that if Mitchell
is successful at the polls the will Of
the people will be held up in the
courts, is worse yet. AS some news
papers have expressed it: "The whole
town of Pierre should be smothered in
an avalanche of votes for a threat OF
that kinda threat that the money OF
the people will be burnt up by Pierre
in an effort to defea at their own de.
%sires." If Pierre wants to fight it out
in the courts. Mitchell won't ask my
body to pay its lawyers aud it will be
a long time before the state pays
Pierre's.
The expense of the state will, there.
fore, amount to nothing, aside from
the small expense of packing and
moving the state recOrds-a mere
triie. The state owns no other prop
erty at Pierre of particular value,
1t is not financially interested in
Pierre to any greater extent than in
Mitchell. The building now used AS
state house is scarcely fit for human
habitation and is practically worthless
to the state.
Referring to this questionable con
stitutional right of changing the loca'
ton of the capitalize Huron Hur'
onite, which is supporting Pierre
but honest enough to admit that the
changing of the seat of government
of the state is a very simple matter
said in it's issue of February 5, last:
mo one will deny under our system
of government the right of the people
to revise or amend their constitution
In fact, the trainers of the constitution
recognized this right to such an ex
tent as to make its amendment very
easy of accomplishment by providing
that a majority vote of the two houses
of the state legislature should bt
sufficient to submit an amendment ant
that a majority vote at the polls
should be Sufficient to amend tina
instrument"
The Joint resolution legally passed
by the legislature not only relegatet
the question of capital location to The
people but provided as we'll that /
they voted to place it at Mitchell thu
measure should be SELF-EXECUTING
The following is a certified copy o
the resolution as it passed both houses
of the legislature, from the Secretar.
of State:
&c titled Copy
JOINT RESOLUTION No. |.
Proposing and agreeing to an amend
ment to Article 20 of the Constitu
ton of the State of South Dakota
entitled ''Seat of Government" ant
submitting the same to a vote o
the people:
Be it resolved, by the senate of thu
state of South Dakota, the house o
representatives ~concurring:
SEC. l. That at the next genera
election in this state, the following
proposed amendment to Article 20 O
the constitution of the State of Soutl
Dakota, which is hereby agreed to
shall be submitted to the electors o
this state for their approval: Tha
Artical 20 of the constitution b
amended SO as to read as follows:
Article 90, Sec. |. The permanen
seat of government of the state o
South Dakota is hereby located at tn
City of Mitchell, County of Dawson
Sec. 2. This article shall be self
executing and in full force and effec
from and after Il o'clock M. on tn
fifteenth day Of December, 1904.
j. L. BROWN, Speaker of the House
GEO. w. SNOW, Pres. of the Senate
Attest: j. G.. MCLEMORE, Chic
Clerk.
Attest: J. F. ARMSTRONG, Secre
tary of the Senate.
hereby certify that the within res
olution originated in the senate an
was known in the senate files a
S. j. r. No. l.
j. f. ARMSTRONG, Secretary
State of South Dakota-Ofice o
Secretary of State.zFiled Januar.
IA, 1903, at $3.50 o'clock p. m.
O.. c. BERG, Secretary of State
Pierre, S. D., January ID, 1903.
AS will be seen by the foregoing
copy of the joint resolution, all thai
is required is a vote of the people t(
place the capital at Mitchell and i
goes.
The action of the Legislature makes
the amendment to the constitution
se~lf-executing December 10.
By that time Mitchell will have &
beautiful granite building all com
pleted ready for the reception of the
legislature in January, a building
especially designed for a temporary
capitol building and ample in dimen
sions for all purposes for years tt
come. 1t will have separate halls for
both branches of the legislature
governors rooms, committee rooms
supreme court chambers, offices fol
the state officials and roomy fire-proo
vaults for all the state records ant
the supreme court library.
The use of this magnificent building
is donated to the state free Of charg'
until the people feel able to erect
state house of their own, by the sub
joined resolution passed by the boar'
of aldermen of Mitchell, March Z
1904.
Resolved, By the city Council of thu
City of Mitchell, South Dakota, il
regular session on March I, 1904, tina
should the voters of the state of Soutl
Dakota, at the November election
give a majority favorable to Mitchell
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