Whatthen waa the reason why it was^not generally agreed hi^
WellIt pro^id^ il tor a new election and^a new constitution in South Dakota. This^did not suit the men who claimed to have^been elected some years since. Kspecially it^uid not suit Messrs. Moody and Kdgerton.^who claim to be senators elect, that they^should have to go la-tore their people for^election now. They might not be so^lucky aa they were when nobody was pay^ing attention to the game. So these gon^tlemeu and their friends In the houae and^senate began to raise all sorts of trivial oh^lections to the bill. They wanted South^Dakota to come in under the old action^that would give them their SSOSS ami offi^^ces without any farther trouble.^^^Hut were any of the objections valid .'^^^Well, some of them hail some grounds^There were perhaps some deficiencies in^regard to the transfer of jurisdiction from^the territorial to the state courts, ami In^some minor provisions all of which were^exaggerated but allot whir.i could be cor^reeled and agreed upon in conference com^^mittee In a few tiours If there was a real^disposition to act All the tew ipiibhllng^objections could be met and remedied in^one conference meeting. 1 bad a letter^from Senator Davin. which I gave to the^tilolte as I came through St. Paul, aay ing^that all tins could be easily corrected.
