The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-01-05
Will Turn all Charges
Over to the State
Legislature.
INAUGURAL BALL
In New Capital Formed Scene
Long to be Remembered
at Pierre.

Pierre, S. D.-The Senate complet-
ed its organization this morning and
the house will do the same at the at
ternoon session today, when the fight
started in the caucus yesterday by
Browne, of Brown, and Bentley to.
break over the law limiting the cleo
tive positions for the session will be
finally threshed out.
The fight is on the ground of the
unconstitutionality of the law.
Lost night was ladies night and
handsome women beautifully gowned
backed by electrical and floral deco
%rations made the new capitol a pic
ture to be long remembered.
Politics and business either filed or
were relegated to dark corners and
were not allowed to show themselves
in the open for this one night of the
session.
Governor Vessey will probably this
afternoon send to the house a mes
sage calling attention to the chronic
condition Of trouble which have
apparently been troubling the SOL
diers home for several months and
will ask that body to take any action
which they deem the situation re-
quires as to an investigation of the
%suituation. His action in placing the
matter before the legislature is to
preclude any possible criticism in re-
gard to his appointing a committee to
investigate appointees Of his own.
I! Pierre, s. Dat the morning ses-
sion of the Senate, the rules yer
amended to add to the list Of COM
mites those on game and fish, drain
age and legislative phraseology. The
old members we're allowed to chose
thir seats and the democrats were al
lowed to select seats in a group. The
new members will draw for seats. The
organization of the senate is now
complete with the exception of chap
lain, which will probably be divided
am ong Pierre pastors.
Good Place for Helgerson.
Among the strong probabilities on
House chairmanships r Helgerson,
of Dawson. Appropriations, Whit
ing, of Sanborn, judiciary; McMas-
ters. state affairs, Peterson, railroads;
Roman, engrossed and enrolled bills;
T. Scharnee, rules; Quale, capitol
buildings and grounds. The papers
in the Walt VS.. Wagner contest will
not 70 to the house before tomorrow.
iOBJECT TO RESTRICTION
ON HOUSE OFFICIALS.
Pierre, S. D.-While the senate to-
day in its organization made no at
tempt to break over the law of the
last session limiting its elective places
the house members showed an in
clination to be somewhat FESTIVE un-
der it's restrictions. The first attempt
at a break came in the caucus when
bTOWu VI pldCcu III uOIl1-
nation, L. G. Turner, of Brown, for
the position of assistant sergeant at
arms of the house. His attention
was called to the restrictions, but he
was backed by Bentley of Fall Riv-
er, who declared the limitation law
to be unconstitutional, and of no eff
feet. After a discussion no vote was
taken on the nomination, and the
matter went over to the next ses-
sion of the house. Another break
was attempted in a move to select
an assistant postmast for the house,
but that did not get beyond the dis
cussion stage, but was pushed along
to a house session. -
This city has been marking time for
the past t%wenty-four hours so far as
news is concerned, but the legisla-
tive mill was started to grinding re-
~gardless Of the newsgatherers and
what they wanted to do. After morn
ing which took until noon
both houses met in their respective
chambers. The oath of Office was ad-