Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-03-14
DAKOTA LAWMAKERS.
THE house on the 4th passed. the omnibus APP
BILL Totals are as follows

THE house on the attn passed the omnibus app
bill. Totals are as follows:
university Of Dakota . 70,5o0
University Of North Dakotn.. ............ $1,000
Madison normal school. .................. BIT
spenrfish normal school ................. 3l,100
Plankinton reform school,. II 600
Agricultural college, at Brookings. ...... $685.
Rapid City school Of mines ............. ss,2l4
Sioux Falls school for deaf muteg....... $500
Sioux Falls penitentlary ......s..a.... $500
Bismarck penitentiary ...4............ $1,000
Yankton hospital for the insane. $500. II1.075
jamestown hospital for the insane..-... IL, 500
Artesian we'll, jamestown asy1um,..... 1000
Commissioner Of Immigration. 1000
Grand total. s687. $50
The special committee to which was referred
the Swanson railroad bill. which 10 q substitute
for the Alliance bill, resurrected and reported
1t back still further emasculated by providing
that the attorney general shall do the work
to be done In enforcing the law.
Among the council bills passed by the house
bility Of the compiled laws as evidence Of the
general statutes; allowing Lawrence county's
debt TO be refunded at a lower rate OF interest
saprs after the Of si the
governor. Baldwin's bill giving thrashers
& flrst lien passed both houses.
were the following: Giving the Judge q Pro-
bate In counties having 10000 Inhabitants
clerk; providing for sinking artesian wells;
authorizing the Incorporation OF banking asso $50
any two Of the following Offices treasurer,
sheriff auditor, register, clerk Of court, iustfce
Of the peace, county commissioner; requiring
elevator pr 5perty to be assessed at the same
time as other property; authorizing the incOr-
poration Of cities Of 5000 inhabitants permit
ting registered physicians to dispense poison;
adding part OF the Sisseton reservation TO Day
county. mr.. Patton's prohibition bill was
amended to take effect Immediately ny
vote Of 20 to IS, the opponents Of prohibition
voting for the amendment. The prohibitionfstB
win now vote against the bill. Their object
was to prevent licenses from being is
sued to run beyond January l. and to have
nary /. isso, upon the constitutional con-
yention to be held this summer.
The council passed the following appropria-
ntng ,snr ahod ne AZ hin essa
fishing blind asylum at Pierre with no APP
authorizing cities Of 5000 people
to extend their m far reamng
sioner of immigration. Among the house bills
are the following: Regulating loan associa-
tons; granting vermillion university 100 con- on,
repeating the railroad commissioner law. The
evening session was taken up in the considera-
ton of Walsh s railroad tax bill
In the council on the 5th the Minnesota gross
earnings railroad law was finally passed-yeas,
Allen, Cameron. Campbell. HALEY. Hughes.
Mcdonald, PoIndexter. Ryan, Walsh, stimmel
and Patton were paired and Low
bills passed were StimmePs bill providing for
the adoption of children; Van Osdel's bill COM
pensating persons injured at the insane asylum
at Yankton; Poindexters bill regulating the
sale of liquors for medicinal purposes. House
bills: for Incorporating cities OF 500; to pay
George +. Ingraham 300 for expenses as sheriff
for an arrest on reqnis stu ana the prisoner
Of a criminal in Washington territory; anthor-
izing corporations to amend articles of associa-
ton regulating the salaries of county auditors.
ft,ah hon oyy1 Ccad
were the following: Giving railroad conduc-
tors police powers providing for the mainte-
nance Of public officers requiringfnes, etc. to
be paid into the county treasury Amending the
game law changing the date to August 10; for
letting all interest where more than II per cent
is charged providing that irrevelant defenses
repairs rs on s the Grand FORKS university sS reap
the balances for the Grand Forks
university; authorizing courts to cancel in
neglects or refuses. The house bills passed
were the following: Appropriating $1,000 an
nually for the salary Of the clerk OF the terri
tofiai treasurer; establishing board of correc-
lions and charities for printing 100000 copies
of the Sioux Falls constitution; providing for
county boards Of auditors; declaring combina-
tons ETC.. against trusts nniawIui pattons
effect january !, 1880. and passed-ayes, 81
nays, Is. When the railroad bill came up Nor
ris offered number s9s as an amendment , heith
the speaker furiously, Keith replying. 1t was
one Of the most bitter controversies ever wit
messed in the Legislative halls. It was clear
ing-up shower and the house settled down to
business, when the Swanson bill, substantially
the alliance bill. passed = ayes, "a;
nays. 16 The appropriation bill as pre-
The governor vetoed the Valley City agricul-
tural bill. The house in the evening passed the
council bills: General revision of the
school laws authorizing cities of 5000 people
to extend corporate limits; providing for publ
cation of the laws in newspapers at cents per
folio-the papers must have circulation of 500
and have been published one year-where there
is no paper of the class indicated published, the
county commissioners designate one paper.
The governor vetoed the bill raising the agri-
cultural fair approximation to $4,000. Passed
over the veto-ayes, Al nays 4. The Ashton
normal school was defeated-ayes, Is; nays, 81.
The council passed the house bills appropriat-
ing funds to recover the deficiency in the salary
fund in the Dakota university at Vermillion and
the school of mines; the council bill appropri-
ating 81 ,693 deficiency in jamestown asylum
coal accounts.
In the council on the 9Th all the veto mes
sages were made the special order for Friday.
A few council bills were passed and half dog
en- house bills, but the day was spent generally
in talk. Among the house bills passed were
Burnhams bill providing clerks for municipal
courts, and the bill providing for the sinking of
artesian wells. The house settled down to bus
mess and passed or killed almost everything.
Mr.. Fletcher's bill to strengthen the local OPP
tion law passed-ayes, 36; nays, 4. 1t gives to
lOcdl OpG1Ou CCuut1eS Tie IuhIu PROVISIONS OF Ill
the machinery necessary for enforcing the law
The house passed the council bill providing for
the Australian system of voting-ayes, 40 ;inays.
also the council bill for refunding the capital
ior arrestins prisoner IN 3 s who mas
rescued from him by mob, passed over the
veto, Mencie alone voting no. Also Prices bill
for regulating the business of loan associations
noes. The veto Of the bin defining the class
Of newspapers in which legal advertisements
shall be published was sustained-ayes. II
nays, 81. A large number of house bills were
passed. including that restoring to Eddy county
three townships heretofore added to Wells
county; Mr.. Baldwin's bill providing that rail
road companies shall furnish facilities to small
wagons requiring banks operating under terri
torial laws to make sworn statements Potters
bill prohibiting abstract officers from entering
judgments against homesteads when making
abstracts. Council bills were passed as follows
To preserve the waters of Tongue river; provid-
ing for the collection and compilation OF statis-
tics authorizing commissioners to transfer to
the general fund unexpended balances IN road
and bridge funds appropriating funds to cover
In the school OF mines, Yankton
asylum and vermillion university
TIE governor on the 7th vetoed the omnibus
BILL The gross earnings law ia
.e-enacted and is in the hands of the governor
t provides for 3 per cent. tax on all earnings
inter state commerce provided the
railroad companies agree to pay $287 900 within
thirty days and $127, 600 before August L. OF
sota $50 600 to the counties Of South Dakota,
and $135, 900 to the territory. The other system
would not have given to exceed $500 during |
he present year. McCumber's bill, the Alliance |
abroad bill. after all of its stages of tribula-
ion, has gone to the governor for his signature.
After the defeat of No. 296, the Minnesota law,
swanson re-introduced the bill and it is likely |
. become law, The veterinary surgeon in
ycstigation committee reported that they |
ound that the veterinary surgeon had been en-
srgetic but extravagant in the expenditure Of |