The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-02-21

discussed affair, but the Williams episode at last
called forth an interview. In this General Miles
declared that the shackles were used by order of
Charles A.. Dana and that there were constant
rumors of plans to rescue Davis and of the pris-
oner's efforts to escape.
But this interview of General Miles's has
unsettled rather than settled the matter. Con-
federate leaders everywhere have come forward
to deny that Davis would have attempted to es-
cape, and the daughter of the Confederate Presi-
dent has roasted the General with all the warmth
of an embittered woman. off Mr.. Lincoln had
lived" she says, "my father would never have
been subjected to the treatment he received at the
hands of General Miles. The worst brute could
not have been more brutal than Miles was to my
father. Those irons were placed on him at the
instigation of General Miles. General Miles in
suited my mother, and my father, feeble as he
was, shook the iron gratings of his cell and said
to Miles: IF I could get at you I would tear you
limb from limb"
Evidently another forty years of silence would
have been better policy for the General.
What the Legislature is Doing.
The Editors absence from the Office the early
part of the week has left him with so little time
that we cannot prepare our usual personal review
of the Legislatures work. Instead, we are forced
to rely largely on our exchanges for the reports
given herewith.
There was a long debate last week on the bill
to increase the Judges salaries. The Senate had
passed a bill making the salaries even $1,000, The
House passed the measure, SO to 40, making the
salaries $4,000 and leaving the $3.50 annual allow
ance for travelling expenses. This really gives
II - 60 Osn -11- 81 = M orooeo of
$500.
The Senate has passed a bill establishing a re-
formatory for youthful offenders and aprropriat-
ing $4,000 of the penitentiary surplus for that
purpose. The measure is likely to meet much OPP
position in the House.
The anti-jug law has passed second reading in
the House, ~fotry-two counties being excepted.
Another bill passed amends the election law so as
to make it an offence not only to sell but to give
away liquor within five miles of a polling place
on election day.
The Ward Bill is held UP in the House, but bids
fair to pass. At the same time the opposition is
so determined that it has forced Senator Sim
mons to call a meeting of the Democratic State
Executive Committee for this CTuesday) night
in the hope that it may declare the bill out of
harmony with the Democratic platform. This
effort to have a committee assume law-maklng
rowers and usurp the privileges given legislators
by their party organizations and by the people,
is not likely to help the anti-temperance element.
Governor Glenn has sent a special message on
the South Dakota bond question, and a joint COM
mittee has been appointed to report the best plan
of action.
The bill to establish a department of immi-
grafton and to provide for the appointment of a
commissioner, the commissioner to be paid 81. 800
a year and have a clerk at 81 200, and the sum of
$500 a year for the expenses of the department,
was passed after the following amendment had
been adopted: provided, that the introduction
of the ignorant and lawless classes of foreign
countries is undesirable and the commissioner is