The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-12-01
OF OUR
LEGISLATORS
GOSSIP OF THE MEN WHO WILL
MAKE LAWS.
FEW LAWYERS IN THE HOUSES
BROOkiNGS COUNTY DELEGATION
WELL KNOWN OVER STATE.

LltuuSldlJ GONeT1lOT fTduk NJ.
Byrne of Faulk county, who will have
the responsibility of naming the COM
mittees in the state senate and direct
ing the affairs of that body, has to his
credit three successive terms as sena-
tor from his district and has had a
hand in all the progressive legislation
which has been effected for the state,
says a Pierre dispatch.
The newly elected legislature has
a fair representation of experienced
members. In the senate 16 members
have previously served in that body
and three others have served in the
house, constituting nearly One-half Of
the membership, those having pre-
Yious Sensational service are Cooley
CT Bonhomme, Hoese of McCook,
Hitchcock of Dawson, Anderson Of
Aurora, Nyquist of Gregory, Johnson
of Lake, Lockhart of Deuel., Arneson
of Hamlin, Norbeck of Sphinx, Amsden
Of Grant, Parks OF Day, Curtis and
Weaver Of Brown. Mcpherson and
May of Lawrence and Perkins of
Meade; while Wymann of Yankton,
Boydon of Douglas and Bartime of Ly-
man have been in the house. Cone of
Minnehaha has not been a legislator,
but in five sessions he has been chief
clerk Of the house and is probably
the most conversant with the course
of legislation of any man in either
body.
Bencke of Union, Peterson of Clay,
Bruce of Yankton. Thompson and
Wakes of B~onhomme, Apland of Tur-
ner, Otto Wipf and Mendal of Hutch
insOn, Norbeck and TrumbO OF
Charles Mix, Morris and Scott Of Min
nehaha, Jackson Of McCook. Halger-
son Of Dawson, Whiting of Sanborn,
Erickson of Miner. Thorow of Lake,
Rifstein and Simonson of Brookings,
English and PlOwman of Kingsbury,
Gardner of Hand, Nelson of Hamlin,
Burnstad and Stuverud of CodingtOn,
lssenhuth of Sphinx, Weide of Grant,
Johnson, Kinney and Negaard of
Roberts, Roberts Of Day. Browne
and Swanson of Brown, Mertens of
Potter, Parrot of Walworth, Bentley
of Fall River. Wolzmuth of Law
renee, Floyd of Sully, and Ziebach
of Buffalo, have previously served
in the house, but not all of them
in the last session. Senator Wy
man and Representative Norbeck
have hereditary calims to their po-
s%itions, for their fathers served in
the territorial legislature of 1872 and
the state legislature of 1890. Senator
Wyman's father also served in the
senate in 1897.
Representative Sherman of Mime
haha was territorial treasurer from
1871 to 1874, and is at present a mem
Der of the Sioux Falls city commits
sion, and he has always been an ac-
tive and useful citizen.
LOckhart of Deuel., who comes for
the second time, is n of six stall
wart, six-foot Scotch Badger brothers,
who came into Dakota territory in the
early sos, and have made their i'm
press upon affairs in many localities.
Will Lockhart settled at Bookings,
but later removed to Glendale; Jack
located at Clark, Sam and Jim at Mil
bank and Andrew and Rob at Clear
Lake. 1t is safe to say there has not
been a state or territorial republican
convention in 80 years that there has
not been from one to half dozen Lock
huILS III IL. VIII uItu willie a rail-
road commissioner in North Dakota.
Jack has twice been commissioner Of
school and public lands, and is at pres
ent register of the United States land
office at Pierre. Sam has a life lease
of the county judgeship of Grant cOun
ty, and is grand master of the Mason
ic order of the state. Jim is the "Fa-
Their of the City Schools" at Milbank
and Bob is delegate at large. A lex
crop of LOckharts has come OH, all
sixfOOters, and the destinies Of the
state are assured or safe lines for an
other generation at least.
Perley of Moody is a poet and writ
er of music, but despite these mis-
fortunes is a mighty good citizen, and
is one of the few living delegates to
the Canton statehood convention Of
1882 which set the wheels in motion
for the division Of Dakota territory
into two states.
John G.. Bartime of Cacoma, who
comes as senator this year, was last
session in the house. He is a lawyer
and won great distinction several
years ago in his successful prosecu-
ton OF the cattle rustlers Of the fam
Gus Jack Sully gang, which he sue
ceeded n breaking up, landing many
Of the con%spirators in the p%eniten-
tiary. His exploits have been I'm
mOrtalized' in the popular fiction.
"Langford of the Three Bars"
There are but FIVE lawyers in the
senate, fewer than ever before; being
not enough to make up the judiciary
committee, but Senator Norbeck, who
Is not a lawyer but in the last scs-
sion met the lawyers and beat them
upon their own ground will probably
make up for any lack OF legal talent.
Morris of Minehaha. and Whiting
OF Sanborn. are the only lawyers in
the house, though there may be n
or two others. In any event, the sit
patton is an unheard of n in South
Dakota legislatures, though ordinarily
farmers and business men are largely
In control of both houses. but In pre-
vious sessions It has not been dificult