The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1909-01-14
From ii:c state House
Pierre. Jan. l3, 1909

Bad River News:
The llth session OF the State
Legislature is off in good form.
and ise business of law making is
well undcr way. In the house the
organization was accomplished
without rra! friction and seems
VERY satisfactory to the meniD Ders.
The seating caused u ripple Of ex-
element but was salts >factoriiN ad-
juste.. in the end. The old ,nem-
bcrs retaining their seats If they
SO elected and the deaf being con
cede, the next choice OF seats un-
occupied. When this was an
nouuccd there was a general move
ment to the front, seemingly be-
coming infectious, for time it
looked as if the present house was
to be one requiring megaphOnes
and ear iiguln~. but on Il demurrer
from Nyman OF lankton who
was >crmlug'y y almost the only
mcmhc: whose hearing was unim-
pared and was thereby left stand
inc far in the rear. The Speaker
brought all members to their feet
with IL bounce when he almost
hursteu his little hammer on the
desk and The deaf seemed to hear
and the blind see that the game
was up aud all would have to show
good cause for their tcmerlty in
usurping the choice seats in the
house without the requisite ear
drum attachments. The drawing
then proceeded and all was lovely.
The Black Hills delegation who
kindly adopted the Stanley and
Lyman county delegates occupy
their Old quarters ut the right
hand of the Speaker.
After the preliminaries Of the
organization and election of house
officers was concluded the routine
work came in and it was the
same old House agrinding in the
same old way The opening day
found a full house and many visi-
tors. After the preliminaries of
the opening and the election of a
few important officers the remain
der of the afternoon was occupied
by the Governors messages.
Gov. Crawford's message was
one of great length but replcte in
every paragraph with pungent
suggestion. 1t required three
hours and half to deliver it and
was somewhat curtailcd 1T that.
That it was masterful effort and
filled with good hard sense in
every suggestion every one con-
ceeded. The Governor can be
complimented on his splendid
voice which was clear, loud and
distinct through the entire deliv-
cry, seeming to have the same
power and volume at the end that
it had when the first word was
spoken. Of one thing we may
feel assured that when our new
senator faces the United States
Senate what he has to say in our
interest will be heard to the re-
motest part of the Senate Cham
Der and from The able message de-
Iivered to US here we will know
that his words will not only be
heard but needed.
Gov. Vessey in Offering his
message explained that we might
notice some repetition of the able
message we had just listened to,
but that we could readily under
stand that if he said anything q
repetition was likely to occur.
The incoming Governors message
while not as lengthy as the outgo-
ing Governors message, was very
strong and full of helpful sugges-
tions for our guidance. BY read
ing the two messages one may be-
come familiar with almost every
phase of state matters and re-
quired legislation. We predict
from the message given and our
knowledge of the giver that this
administration will be one of the
solid strictly business like admin