The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1923-03-02

! pose.
Handling proposition wher
/ here are Two forces oppos;n: eaci
other is some job but where thels
are five forces each opposing tho
u q situation is created
in which it is impossible for any
10 0 tell where he will land unit
the final vote is counted. An ON
niprcsent Icing could scarcelS
keep IN touch with the stltus Q!
the situation at all times. Is soor
as any one contender be .'an +.
f7d ont as stronger than thC
others, the interest Of the Weako,
points seemed best subserved b.
forming combinations against the
stronger point. For these ,easons
t seemed a better policy for the
stronger point not 10 show IL
hand until some plan was adoptcI
for the selertion of the order ir
Whirh the bridges should be built
Ear;y in the session it be ode cv-
FcDt that the five bridge pc ~
should keep in touch with each otl
cr and for that purpose the uemb-
ers of the Legislature mosc inter
estod in the bridge PROPOSE on to,
gcthtr with a lew interes1 i ones
'ut5idc the Legislature began me Il
.nr togcther as occasion required
o decide matters Of policy and pre-
ccduye where concerted act on wa.
necessary. These meetings wers
Always we'll attended and thef
we're usually al average or from
};x to eight of the leaders fro II
ach brdgc point present. 1t was
1T ore OF these meetings that thc
Rosebud secured the unanimous
consent and approval Of the othei
SITES for a heavier bridge at theil
ooint for railroad purposes. This
consent was never repudiated
II was at one Of these meetings
hat Forest City secured urari
nous recognition Of her request tc
be considered in our program for
one Of five bridges thus increasing
he program from four bridges to
five. This agreement was Kept III
good faith.
bout the fifth of February the
asst five point meeting was held and
the main business was to deciGr
on a plan to determine the order
the bridges should be built. Cham
berlain. realizing that no one point
could succeed in getting a bill pas
sed designating it for tho first
bridge, advocated an unofficial joint
caucus Of the Senate and House to
decide the order Mr.. Sargent, the
House member securing for For
est City a place on the bridge pro-
gram, suggested that such \ eau
Gus decide the order by using a haI
OF on which each member should
vote for each Of the five points
giylng his first, second, tnild, for~-
th and fifth choices.
In opposition to this, Mr. Frcs-
coin, Speaker of the House and
from the Rosebud advocated the
simpler plan of calling the roll OF
the joint caucus and each one II
answering, name his one and only
choice. The pci.lt receiving thc
highest vote should get first brid
ge and the one receiving the nex'
highest the second bridge, etc. Mr.
Fresc,ln objected to the Sarger'
five choice plan as tempting mem
Ders TO trading, log rolling ant
combinations which would result
in passing appropriations and bills
| which would rot receive supper
on their own merit. Also, that tht
five choice plan would make it pos
sible for the point with the strons
est support to have the last brid
ge imposed upon it by combinat
ion of the weaker points and th'
point with least support could Sc
cure first bridge. Evidently, sucl
a system would be unjust. Mr.
Burlington from the Rosebud wa
in this meeting and was in accort
with Mr.. Frescoln. Mr.. Lockhar
who was Chairman of this meeting
put the choice to test and he vii
verify the fact that there was no
an objection to the single vote pla,
which Mr.. Frescoln proposed an,
there not Icing an objection to i
it was considered by the chairma.
as adopted and there it not tn
slightest doubt that those presen
went out of that melting with tn
understanding that the plan Of dc
ciding the order of the construct
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