The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-01-12
COMMITTEES ANNOUNCED
FOR LEGISLATIVE CONTEST

Pierre, S. D.-The house at it's ses
sion yesterday transacted little bust
ness as it yet awaits the selection O,
its committees. At the opening O
the session the speaker the
following committees:
u Per diem and Expenses-Trumbo
Roskie, Roberts, Kinney, vanCamp
Geidt, Galsner.
Rules-Bigelow, Browne, Kass
Hayes, Morris of Sphinx, Mr.. Speaker
House Journal-Wipf, Granston
Larson.
Special Committee on Contests
Tscharner. Geidt. Bush. Morris OF
Sphinx, Berg of Minnehaha, Wharton,
and sutley.
AT the opening of the session State
Secretary Policy notified the house
hat he had filed in his Office, the pa
pers of the Walker-Wagner contest,
and a committee was appointed to
bring them before the house.
I! Committee clerks who appeared
and We're sworn in were: Harley
I, Wishman of Huron, DeEtte Lilli-
bridge; Frances Quirk, Highmore.
In the senate Cone was radical in
his attack upon the Dillon law of the
last session, which sought to limit the
number and qualifications of the
house and senate employees. Cone
desired to ignore the law in it's en-
triety, and proceed with the selection
of whatever help the senate desired,
regardless of any such enactment. In
his staments he made the assertion
tina he was certain that over ninety
per cent of the members of tn SEN
ate knew that the law was unconsti-
tutional. After the whole matter
had gone over for ten days, Amsden,
who had sprung the matter by a reso-
luton asking that the senate abide by
the law, called upon Cone for a
modification of his statement, on the
ground that far more than ten per
cent of the membership of the pres
ent senate were mmbers of the last
session and voted for the passage of
the law, and he did not believe they
would agree to any such statement.
He said that Cone had so long been
a member of the third house, that he
had evidently forgotten that he was
now a member, and was yet talking
in his old capacity. Cone admitted
that he might have been a little
strong in his statement, but the
house committee of state affairs two
years ago, vas one ready to report
against the bill as unconstitutional,
and then reconsidered and reported
the bill. This brought up Wyman,
of Yankton, who was chairman of
the house state affairs committee two
years ago, with a denial of any such
situation in that committee, and the
incident stopped.
Big Apportlonment Committee.
Gone got in with Senate bill one,
providing for the collection of city
special assessments by the county
auditor. and bills providing that it
require the vote Of members, instead
of trustees of religious associations
to amend the constitutions of such
association. Making instruments fl
ed with a county auditor valid notice
after the date of their filing regard
less of defects, informalities or
omissions; authorizing probate mat
tiers to be brought in circuit court
where the probate Judge is in any
way an interested party; Perkins by
IA bill attempts to legalize a Butte
county election; and Norbeck to pro-
vide deficiency appropriations in the
expense account of the attorney gem
'eral.
As the question Of apportionment
promises to be an important one at
the coming session, in the senate to-