Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-02-21
NEWSY A r

Monday, and 1t will go before the senate
executive session with an u%nfavorable
report. This is a decided victory for
Senator Kittredge over Senator Gamble
in the patronage squabbles which have
been ~engendered by the heated politics
of South Dakota during the last few
months. Senator Kittredge is a men,
Der of the committee on Judiciary, and
his colleagues stood with him in resisting
the appointment of Elliott. 1t is under
stood that the vote of the judiciary com.
mittee was unanimous. Senator Gam
bic was accorded a hearing by the com.
mittee while the nomination was under
consideration and he spoke at length,
reviewing the politics of South Dakota
and presenting the qualifications of Mr..
Elliott for the position. Notwithstand.
ing the plea by Senator Gamble, the
committee voted against reporting Mr..
Elliott's nomination favorablv.
Whether the result of this action will
be the final defeat of Mr.. Elliott now
depends upon the view which the SEN
ate will take of this unanimous action
Of the Judiciary committee. Senator
Gamble entertains a hope that the seG-
ate will override the committee and
confirm the nomination. Those who
are informed as to the general rule in
such cases doubt that the senate will do
this. If this action is taken, the NOM
nation will simply 60 over Enacted
upon, and the friends of Mr.. Elliott
believe that the president would rename
him after the adjournment Of the sen
ate on March 4. Whether the presi-
dent would do this is, of course, not
known, as it is presumed that the objec-
tions which the senate committee now
makes against the confirmation of the
appointment would be revived with the
same vigor when the senate met ggain
in December. Senators Kittredge and
Gamble are reticent about the matter
and decline to discuss what steps they
will take to settle the controversy.
Representatives Martin and Burke have
recommended the appointment of R. O..
Neimeyer to be postmaster at Forest
burg, S d. This is a re-recommenda.
ton, it having been sent in by the South
Dakota members some weeks ago, but
it was held up as a result of the strife
over patronage in that state.
The trouble in the Pierre city council,
eliminating in the arrest of Mayor
Albright and Chief of Police Oldfield,
on a complaint sworn out by @. B. Bill
linghast, is one of long standing in this
city. For years the city has been
divided into two political camps, one of
which was headed by Congressman
Burke, and the other led by John Suth-
erland. For the last six years, each side
has contested for the control of city
affairs, and tor four years the Suther-
land faction held control of the mayor
and council. Last year, after a bitter
contest, l.. B. Albright defeated Mayor
Ewart, who was a candidate again, and
with the latter went one-half of the
council. But one Of the new members
elect vas not a pronounced opponent to
the old regime, aud he now has lined
himself up with the four councilmen
who held over from the former admins
tration. Ever since Mayor Albright
took the chair there has been friction in
the council, and only a minority back OF
him on many questions which looked
toward city improvements. The auditor
of the old administration was retained,
and on the question of the issuance of a
warrant to Alderman Billinghurst, the
council reconsidered action and asked
that the warrant be held up until some
time when that gentleman was present
to explain the bill presented for it. No
one called it up after hat time, and
nothing wal done in regard to the mat,
ter until Mayor Albright was out of the
city. Then the president of the council
signed the warrant and it was delivered
to Alderman B~illinghurst by the auditor.
For this, Mayor Albright announced
the removal of the auditor from the
position that he held, and named a new
man, but the majority of the council.
refused to confirm the appointment.
Mayor Albright refuses TO recognize the
old auditor, the majority refuses to con
firm any other appointment, and al
business is blocked. One of the features
of the situation was the arrest a few
days ago Of Alderman Billinghurst and
President Glow of the council on q
charge of illegally securing the warrant
the charge being second degree forgery
A scene in the council In which the
chief of police forcibly removed Billing
hurst from his chair, resulted in the
arrest of the mayor and chief. None o.
the hearings on any of the charges have
yet been held.
A vermillion dispatch in Monday
Minneapolis Journal says: Not since
the food of 1881 has such a vast volume
Of water swept over the Missouri bot
toms as that submerging everything il