The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-03-06
DAKOTA LEGISLATURE.

sphinx county, relegated to the rear a few
lays ago by the governors veto, comes to
he front again with its old, old story of
county seat trouble and attendant evils.
The bill introduced in the house by Miller,
providing for the location of the county seat
1t Ashton, was reported from the committee
Today, with an amendment that Ashton be
made the county seat until the general
Election in November, 1856, when tho
question would be referred to the people to
De decided by a minority vote Mr.. Hutch
nson, q ofthe committee, submitted
! minority report, recommending that the
election be held in jun next. This precipi-
ated u heated debate, in which q large num-
Der OF the members participated, the bill
being finally referred to general orders for
consideration. Coming up under that head
in committee of the whole later in the day,
she bill was the cause of a general wrangle.
Williams moved that when the committee
rise it recommend that the bill be printed
and made the special order for Monday.
The motion was lost after considerable de-
bate, in which Picker and the gentleman
rom Burleigh INDUCED in an exchange of
personal remarks Rice then proposed an
amendment, referring the bill to the COM
nittee on counties, with instructions to
FRAME A NEW BILL
providing for q division Of the county on an
east and west line, so that Ashton be the
county seat of the northern, and Rcdfeld of
the southern half. This again stirred up the
animals. and heated debate followed. Finally
The committee rose with the recommended
sion that Rice's motion be adopted. Mccall
JAILED to secure the passage of his bill to
divide Lawrence county. Coming up in
committee of the whole, it was rendered de-
tunct by q motion quickly made and as
quickly carried that the committee recon-
mend the striking out of the enactins clause.
The committee then rose and adopted the
report by q unanimous vote, Mccall taking
refuge in the cloak-room before the clerk
reached his name on the roll. Those who
claim to know say that when the
combination counted noses in caucusing
the bill, they We're two votes short
10 they determined to vote unanimously to
kill it Thus one more county division
.cheme is laid aside. An Important bill was
considered and passed under special order in
the council to-day providing for contests of
elections of county officers and of the loca-
don OF county seats 1t regulates the form
Ind procedure OF contests, authorizes any
elector to initiate a contest, if an election for
locating a county seat or dividing n county,
and enables an elector to carry on the con
Test If it is not maintained by the county
commissioners. Both houses will hold short
sessions tomorrow, as they leave in q body
tor Fargo on the 5:2O p. IN. train. The ar
rangements for the excursion are in charge
Df Hon. u. IL. Twomey, member of the coun-
el from Cass county. None but members of
the legislature, territorial officials, Judges of
The supreme court and representatives of the
press. to all of when invitations nave been
issued, will attend. 4 banquet will be given
saturday evening at the Headquarters hotel,
and the excursion will return Monday IN orn-
ing.
NEW COUNCIL ILLS.
The following bills were introduced to-day
IN the council:
BY Mr.. Smedley, funding the indebtedness Of
Codington county. By Mr.. Mclaughlin. Great
ing the counties OF Ramsey, Towner. Benson,
Roulette and Bottlneau, a subdivision of the
~porating Tower City.
Council bills passed: For funding the indebt-
edness of Hughes county; providing for contest
county seats; tor funding the indebtedness of
Potter county; for funding the indebtedness of
bully county; repeating sec. 4, chap. 80, Session
Laws of 1881; exempting volunteer firemcn from
serving as Jurors and from the payment of
poll tax while hremen, and also after ten years
service as firemen; providing for a constitutional
convention to organize a state from that part Of
the territory south of the forty-sixth parallel:
amending sec. . OF the act creating the Office Of
district attorney for several counties.
House bills passed: Legalizing the issue Of
bonds by the town OF Wahpeton for water
works; incorporating the city of De Smet, SUBJ
ject to a vote of the people: locating the county
seat OF Turner county. Bills introduced: BY
Mr.. Ruger, dividing Emmons county and GREAT
Ing Minona county therefrom. By Mr.. Huston,
establishing the independent school district Of
Grand View, Douglas county. By Mr.. johnson.
repeating sec. 80, code of personal relations:
also, a joint resolution providing for the appoint-
ment of emigrant agents.
House bills passed: Providing a charter for
the city of Wahpeton; providing for the appoint
ment OF sneep inspectors: authorizing the COM
mlssloners of Ramsey county to fund indebted
ness; amending sec. 81, chap. 70, Session Laws
Of 1883, relating to drainage; to regulate deal
Ing in passage tickets: authorizing county treas
urers to bid off real estate in the name of the
county where There are no bidders; defining the
crime of forgery and providing punishment
therefor: defining the boundaries Of Billings,
Willard. Dure and Wallace counties.
BISMARCK, Oak, Special Telegram. Feb.
20.-Nothing of special Importance was done
in the legislature to-day. both houses devot-
Ing the time to clearing the tables of a num-
Der of unimportant bills, preparatory to leav-
ing for Fargo. Bills introduced in the coun-
Gil:
By Mr.; Pettigrew, amending section 400, Civil
struction of sidewalks in unincorporated viii
lagos and towns: also, establishing an inde-
pendent school district of Fairbank, Snlly coun-
ty. BY Mr.. Nickeus, providing for n board OF
education of the city OF jamestown AMI reeulat-
ing the management of the public schools.
Council bills pa ssed:
Amending sec. $50, Criminal Code, fixing the
fees of sheriffs and other officers for the trans
portatton OF insane persons to the asylum; fixing
the fees for transporting convicts to the peni-
Tertiary; providing for recording official bonds
of civil officers; supplementing the act to enable
school districts in Barnes and Griggs counties
to fund Indebtedness; establishing an asylum
and school for the blind at Milbank; changing
the corporate limits of the city of Redield.
Bill introduced in the house,:
By Mr.. Coe, amending sec. l13, Code of Civil
Procedure; also, amending sec. 229, Civil Code;
also, amending sec. lib. Civil Code. BY Mr..
Dewoody, authorizing the commissioners Of
Runkel, amending sec. 7s, chap. 2S. Political
Code. BY Mr.. Rogers. restoring in part the
former boundaries of Ramsey county. BY Mr..
Runkel. concerning corporations aud persons in
the business of banking. BY Mr.. Mccall, dein-
ing the boundary lines of Monroe county.
Council bills passed:
Establishing the North Dakota hospital for the
insane, and providing for the government Of the
same: revising and re-enncting the act locating
and establishing the North Dakota agricultural
college at Fargo; appropriating So, 600 for the
payment of the expenses of the militia to Sphinx
county; repeating chap. 81, Session Laws of
1881, relating to the pay of county commissions
ers of Stutsman county: amending the act in
cooperating the city of Grand Forks; providing
Tor n new board OF education in the city Of
Fargo.
BIsMARCK, Oak, Special Telegram. Feb. 90
The legislative excursionists returned from
Fargo this morning IL good spirits. evidently de-
termined to improve the time to-day in enioy-
ing immunity from work, on the ground that
legislative business transacted to-day would not
be binding, 1t being Washington's birthday.
The sessions of both houses were, therefore,
short. In the council the order Of business was
gone through, one bill being introduced by Mr.
N1ckens. Offering a reward of $4,000 for
the discovery of anthracite coal in the
territory. In the house a little excite
to the committee on ways and means of his bill
providing for the taxation OF bullion. Martcn
OF the Black Hills wanted the bill referred to
was made TO this or tho ground that the Black
HIS delegates Faur and Nuraber, composed a
treated Of a matter of interest 10 the whnia tar.