Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1889-02-14
BISMARCK BUDGET.
Bismarck, Jan. IL, 1889.

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Editor Herald:--W have passed the
half way post and are now on the home
stretch. You Will see from the report
that this legislature is like good
circus, 1t is well .billed," about 500
having been already introduced. One
third of these will never see light
again, one-thind will be defeated, and
the remainder become laws unless re-
pealed before the session is ever. The
bills abolishing the governors steals and
plut1der. have been passed. The notary
fee bill amounting to $1,000 he hated
to give up and made fight on it. 1t
went whooping over his his veto "A to l.,
the latter being the democratic
strength of the house, which always
presents a solid front. The Jamestown
asylum is receiving the attention of an
investigating committee. The man
agement there is said to be as rotten
morally and financially as the Yankton
institution. The vetrinary surgeon
has been abolished, and an inquiry is
now being made as to what has become
of the $4,000 that hiss passed through
his hands. The board of railway COM
missioners hus been abolished and il
any more are needed they will be elect
ed by the people. The railroads are
now willing to compromise and pay
up their arrears ON their gross earn
ings, including the interstate business,
which the courts decided that under
the old law they were not required to
do. If u new form of gross earnings
| law Is enacted which will satisfy the
railroads and which they will contract
to adopt it will put between three and
four thousand dollars into the treasury
at once. In that event Turner county
will receive the balance due from the
Milwaukee road. Under the loca
assessment plan the railroads would be
assessed and 70 taxes would be due OF
that assessment until next winter. TIL,
probability is that a new gross earn.
ings law will be adopted, to continu,
in force until we are admitted and thef
the railroads will be taxed under th,
state constitution rs other property il
taxed.
A bill has been introduced providing
for the publication of the laws in sup
plement form by each newspaper at
cost of about $40 for each paper. Thi
| will cost the territory about $1,000. J.
think this amount could easily b
saved by curtailing the "fuss ant
feathers" OF the annual encanpmen
of the d. N. G. The governor wa
right in recommending in his messag
the abolition of this expensive folly.
ana opposed to making any appprc
priation, at this time for new publ
buildings or engagements of old one'
We can afford to wait until we ca
realize from the sale of lands donate
by congress to the new state for tn
erection of state institutions. deeme
it necessary to make an exception
favor of the Soldiers Home" A bi
. for this purpose was passed two yeal
, ago but was vetoed by the goyernc
because nc location has been agree
upon. The G. A. X. at their encaml
ment in Redfeld last spring selected
ct mmittee which located the "Homt
at Hot Springs, in the Black Hills.
: the old soldiers are to have a hon
provided for them the sooner they g
Y it the better, as in 20 years from no
: they will all been gone.
! The recess resolution will probab
not pass. AS a majority of the legisl
T ture are farmers it would interfere tt
Q much with their spring work. III
: weather here has been fine all wint
no snow, and only an occasion
:. squall. "A"