The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-03-11
BYRNE FAILSTO
CARRY POINT
HIS SPECIAL MESSAGE FOR COL
LECTION OF INTEREST FROM
PAST TREASURES DOES
NOT MOVE LEGISLATURE

Pierre, S. D.-The last night
differences over the provisions of
the general appropriation bill were
somewhat complicated by a third
factor in the movement when Gov
Byrne. in a special message, asked
that action be taken to properly push
the interest suits against former
t~reasurers. This followed a propo-
sition by the senate that the two
houses adopt as a part of the record
a concurrent resolution, providing
that in such suits, any amounts which
had been lost by past state ~treasurers
through bank failures, should be al
lowed as q deduction against claims;
and that any extraordinary expenses
which had been enforced upon
treasurers, should also be an Offset,
and further that the mou of inter
est which might be claimed by the
state, should be upon a basis of the
interest of the treasurers has been
adopted.
This apparently did not meet with
the approval of the governor, who
followed it with his demand for ac-
ton, which vas finally rejected by
both houses, when it came to the
test of IL side or the other backing
down. Mony members wanted to get
Off OH the morning train, to prevent
a Sunday lay-oyer at some point on
tho route.
U,dahl aud Paper Both indicated
One of the closing features of the
session was the appointment of an
!, investigating committee to look into
charges of dishonesty and misrepre-
/. i sentat;on Which had been made
against Senator Urdahl by a local
paper. This committee was appoint.
ed on the evening before adjournment
, and while the parties in interest were
awaiting the summons to come be-
; fore the committee and each tell his
, tale of woe, the committee was to all
intents and purposes individually and
severally in their seats on the floor
of the senate at work. But at some
!, stage in the game they evidently got
. together, but when or where. the
/, principals all aver they knew not
= and brought in a report in which
, they find that the newspaper in ques
n ton was evidently going beyond the
facts in it's statements in regard the
senator from Lake, and expressing
"a belief on the part OF the commit
tee that the statement in the news
paper was called out by the stron.
: language of the senator on the iloo
n few days before in his discussion
Iof the newspaper fraternity. Al
neither of the parties at interest wa
called in, and the repor. was in tn,
shape of a mild justification for eacl
Of the parties interested, both side
claim that they We're not given
II proper showing, nor a report sucl
II as should have been made and neithe
II is satisfied.
o Johnston Proposes Bunk House,
Representative Tom Johnston, VIII,
q came from White Owl, which is il
+ the truly range country, just abou
/ as far from any one of two or tire
= railway towns but zone of them near
err than forty miles, and living out j
that country. and knowing individ
e ually Of the hospitality of the ranch
d ers and the n of its being eX
tended, at the closing night of TIL
d session proposed that SO long as TIL
e Legislature is providing special eN
IS pense accounts for the supreme court
and its railway commissioner, an
l, the attorney general. and tried I
II supply the governor with a residence
1t and other state officers with eA
pense accounts. that the legislator
provide a bunk house for the bene
q fit of the members of the legislature
/ who are hit as hard by the high cos
o of living when they come to the ses
II sion. as are the state officers. Blu
ID while he copied his hospitality" a!
ter the frontier, he attempted to
"a many frills and it failed. In tn
at ranch bunk house, the rancher ful
y nishes the bunk, and all it may COZ
II tain. and the traveller digs an arm
IN load of hay out of a nearby STAG
at and spread his own blankets, and
he can get to sleep before the othe
d OCCUPANTS of the hunk get too bus
II he puts in a night of blissful slumbe
s OF a shelf fastened to the wall. TOT
IS elaborated to the extent that tn
: "'bunK house" was to provide eac