Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-01-23
An Expianat' on Relative TO the
jamestown Asylum B II.

AhsoSa a W. ~AOSsooSs 4aAp tWuo boOHbCA
and n bill so passed the house. The
council raised it to $4,000, but she
house, he claims, never consented to this
amendment. Ii was stated that he said
after the legislature adjourned chat some
OF the appropriation bills had been tam
pered with and he believed that this was
in the list. The resolution was adopted,
as was another calling upon the governor
for q statement as to whether the officers
OF the jamestown asylum came before
him and discussed this appropriation
before he signed the bill. An examina-
tion OF the records in the office OF the
secretary shows that the bill was intro
duoed. reported and passed, as stated by
Mr.. Jones. 1t then went to the house,
and on motion of Mr.. Dodge the bill as
originally introduced wac amended by
striking out $4,000 and inserting $685..
600. and that il SO passed the council.
Ii was so returned to the house and on
motion OF Mr.. Aikens the house con-
CURED in the council amendments and
the council msy have supposed that
they were reducing the appropriation
SAL, 000. but, as O matter of fact, they
raised the house bill as il came to them
| $51,000 and the house consented to it.
| MIR. Burnham's bill requiring real
estate taxes and q note as to former I'M
redeemed sales to be noted en- the tax
duplicates passed.
Among the bills introduced were the
following:
By Withdrawing telegraph SOM
panies 80 cents per mile on the first
wire, 60 cents on the second and 40 cents
on each additional.
BY Fletcher-Makipg oil elevators re.
ceiving grain for shipment public ware
houses; authorizing over 25
years to hold the office Of notary public.
By Trude-ExteniinR the boundary
lines of Butte county to take in Harding.
In the nonncil the following were
among the bills introduced:
Regulating primary meetings. The
call must be made by an authorized
committee, i've days notice being given
in the newspapers ; the caucus must be
held from 4 to Z p. M. The judges must
be sworn, and are TO. receive ST. each.
The place must be the usual place for
holding election; challenges ere allowed;
the penalties for illegal voting are the
same as at the polls; also allowing the
original notes of stenographers to be
used in evidence; also q bill embracing
the main features OF the New York cleo
ton law and the Australian system.
BY Oooper-Authorizing the county
superintendent OF schools to rearrange
the districts on o petition of five.
By Miller-Reguiating chattel mort
gage foreclosures; IL requires two weeks
notice in a newspaper; the person maxi
ing the sale cannot purchase; an attorney
is allowed only when his name appears
in the notice, authorizes the poe:pone.
mens OF sale when the price is too low.
BY NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. $4,000
for the agricultural college at Valley
City.
By Van Collaborating for designa-
ting not less than five nor more than
ten private educational Institutions not
below the academic grade, which shall
be entitled to maintain a normal depart
ment by territorial expense for act less
than ten nor more than fifty pupils; also
requiring chattel mortgage and probate
sales to be published in the newspapers
By Walsh-Providing for electing a
general Of militia; requiring abstract
officers to give bonds; prohibiting special
assessments on permanent structures Id
incorporated cities.
The president appointed a committee
on temperance: Messre. Harstad, Oraw.
lord, Allen, Atkinson and Soderberg.
Bismarck, d. T., Jan. 22-Replylng
TO the house resolution of yesterday ask
ling information as to whether the Off
GERS of the jamestown asylum appeared
before him in connection with the ap.
preparations for that institution, the
governor replies that he presumss they
did. That he made it his business Il
inquire as to the needs OF the institu
tioDs for which appropriations wer,
made. The bill came 20 him signed By
= the speaker Of the house and presiden
of the council, attessed by three clerks
and was signed after due consideration
, A further examination shows that tn
bill was %engrossed without amendment
q q and was sent to the council and was ii
every respect properly acted upon +.
that body, and when returned to tb'
house that body concurred in the coun
Gil amendments. The fault appears {,
be in the engrossment committee Of tn,
h. use, which lost or stripped il of it
amendments.
g The house passed q bill extending th
time for the s per cent penalty to at
tach on taxes OF 1888 to June l..
The north Dakota constitutional con
~vention bill was referred to the mem
beIs from north Dakota.
The auditor reports chat the complies
laws cost So .2eo for compiling, $685.
, for expenses of commissioners ami $40.
? 7l1.21 for printing, The item wa
striken out Of the bill requiring codes :
be furniahed to members.
Among the bills introduced ve1s til