Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1919-03-08
STATE lawmakers
The Black Hills Members Are Looking
Carefully After the Interests Of
Their Constituents.

Pierre, S. D., March 3.--Senator Helm,
of Custer, has an idea that the state
park boundaries in that county should
be extended and has presented a con-
current resolution in the Senate asking
the general government to allow the ex-
tension Of the boundaries Of the state
park to include Iron Mountain, Harney
Peak and Harney range, these tracts
lying west of the territOr now covered
in the state holdings tn this terri
tory included in combined state and
national park, Soath Dakota would be in
line with the park series Of the north
vest including Yellowstone and Glacier
Parks in the tourist travel to these
beauty spots Of the west, and the South
Dakota park will hold its own with the
others in its scenic beauty.
Senator Stoner in that body and Rep
resentative Driscoll on the House side
presented resolutions to their houses
the past week, asking the members Of
the legislature to come to the Black
Hills in July to the meeting Of the Black
Hills Pioneers, and for the dedication
Of Mount Roosevelt, and a vote was
extended in each house for a general
attendance at the celebration of the
occasion.
Of tla H,rria1 oF Ia gnunfar, ~
the week was the tempest in teapot
over whether Washington county should
continue az an attachment to Custer
county for judicial purposes, or should
be tied to Pennington county. The
fight was warm one with Representa-
tives Miner, Of Custer, and Wentzy, Of
Pennington, as the storm center, and
the representatives from the eastern part
of the state waiting the outcome without
any interest as to how it would end, but
Just interested in the mix up in pro-
gress The Custer county man was ask.
log delay, and the Pennington county
man wanted action. On the vote the
bill to make the change lost by one vote,
and it was reconsidered and put over
until this week when it will be out for
another round
The contest over locations oflive stock
pavilions at four points west of the
river has finally centered down to a
point where the different towns have
decided to stand or fall together, and
the latest move is combination bill ap-
propriating $4,000 to Dallas, Ft, Pierre,
Belle Eourche and Lennon, and it will
be a case of all getting through or all
going down together, Apparently the
situation was getting where there had to
be united action or none and the test is
on for all.
The Lawrence county delegation all
got into the game when one of the east
river members wanted to amend the
Senate bill TO reduce the advance in the
salary of the State Mine Inspector which
had been granted by the Senate. Clark,
Warren, Driscoll and Bird each having
his say in the matter, resulting in the
voting down of every effort TO cut the
Senate figures, and sending the bill
through at 81, 400.
When it comes to live stock and range
questions Representative Cock, of Butte,
is one of the authorities on the floor of
the House, and his experience in vari-
Gus ways places him in a position that
be does not talk by guess on any of the
subjects, but indicates that he knows
what he wants, and knows how to get at
it. He took a prominent part in the
discussion of the Wentzy bill to require
counties from west of the river to each
put up 81, 500 annually for wolf bounties
until the pests are exterminated. The
argument was put up by some of the
representatives from the northern coun
ties that it was for stoCkmen alone, and
the small farmers did not want, as tbs
wolves were only on the range. This
Cock headed off by asking how the
wolves were to be kept on any particular
range, and carried the day. When the
trapping bill was up to prohibit entering
upon the land of another in pursuit Of
fur bearing animals he secured an
amendment to exempt from its provi-
sions hounds pursuing fur bearing ami
mails for the same reason as in the other
bill, aud helped carry it through.
Senator Milne, of Butte, has been
working for good part of the session
on his bill to place the different co.
operative associations of the state under
the control Of State Commissioner, and
put up hard fight along that line, only
TO go down to defeat at the finish under
the opposition of the Senate members
who are members of different co-opera.
tive associations already in existence.
His bill proposed a general supervision
of activities along the line of co-opera-
ton in any line of business endeavor,
but this was not desired by the co-ops in
existence and his ambition is not to be
realized.
Former Representative Buchholz, of
Butte, was here for short time the past
week, looking into the bill which sought
to fix the method by which counties
may be divided on three different bases,
which combined would make county
division practically impossible, and
after talk to the committee which had
the bill in charge secured an adverse
report, which was adopted by the
House and the bill went down for good.