Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-02-01
DAKOTA LAWMAKERS.

DAKOTA LAWMAKERS.
TIE Morris Farmers alliance resolution
came up on the nth ana after spirited DISCUS
sion was defeated by the following vote: Yeas
Aikens, Adams, Baldwin, Bergman, Clark,
Cook Douglas Elliott Fletcher. Howell Jones.
f Roger, Ryan syganston, Trude Upman. White.
Bixler, Burnham, Greene. Gronia Hunter,
Msr se nnssn Pams farfn
Powell, Ramsdell, Sheets Smith, Turnbull, Van
Etten, Welcome-23 Mr.. Aikens' bill amend
ing the civil c2de allow Within
of parties. was passed, Among the bills intro
duced in the house were the following:, By
Aikens providing fuel tor the capitol h mas sns
prima facle evidence as to the fault of the rail
ROAD company, making the = damages e
aoHhle , i not paid In sn,..,- n avs re-
psaiing sections 6s1 and es9 Of tile civil teoa
commencing on or or the right-of- way. If SET
1 hy the engine; making insurance companies
.ianle Tor .:ss if :otss are accepted for insur-
not; by Palmer limiting the salaries q regis
tiers of deeds and treasurers to 81 200, where the
.aluation does not exceed s2cOo,Ooo; by NAL
Tory, adding TO 70 the pharmacy law Of 1887 the
the The council ,ii tSa Walsh.W inship sase has con-
aumed the day Gen Wsra TT shs goI
sd1 0d tsr% OF d IL % nlS
on TIE first Tuesday in june attaehiag Camp
repeating the arsesian we'll law striking mus
tard from the list Of noxious weeds; by Well
man. providing for q term of court when the
Judge directs i'll Eddy county and attaching
purposes by Sheets amending the school law 30
as to allow school officers pay for services; the
day. John T. Mathers was appointed clerk Of
the educational committee. Lowry's stamp
resolution was adopted. The soed wheat bill
ras amended and ordered recommitted and to
fs printed as amended. The Yarkton hospital
i:lvestigation bill passed. A bill passed cor
r.ectix the Eighth judicial district, substitute.
changing the boundaries of the Seventh judi
cial district. This following were the bills in
troduced: By Campbell, allowing ministers,
States In foreign countries, judges, clerks Of
courtsof record, commissioners Of deeds and
notaries to take acknowledgements; by Walsh,
the Grand Forks university and 81 $40 In
bonds for additional buildings; by DoHard.
changing the name Of tide First Bohemian Bres-
byterian church OF Bon Honme county, to the
Bohemian Moravian Evangelical church, en-
empting $50 from the taxable valuation OF a
farm for each acre Of timber, not exceeding ten.
the scheme to change presidents in the council.
In the house on the 18th. ths committee on
penal and charitable institutions made re-
port generating the superintendent Of the
Jamestown asylum from the printed charges
made against the jamestown institution, and
indorsing Dr. Archibald as a capable and eff
cient officer. A resolution, however; was adopted
providing tor an Investigation. az this matter
Mr.. Parkins also introduced a joint resolution
providing for an investigation. The house
passed the council bill for investigating the
Messrs Fletcher, Hunter and Lampn1an on the
part OF the house members Of such committee.
The following house bills were also passed by
that body: McHugh's bill reviving for two
years the law of 1887 authorizing counties to
fund debts; the judiciary committees subsi-
.ute for Fletcher's bill taking from the governor
the notary public fees Aliens bill allowing a
special tax to pay road supervisors; Gronna 8
bill making the tax sale in November; Douglas
bill limiting assessors pay to $40 for each con
duced in the house house were the following
By Fletcher, establishing the Aberdeen uni
yersity; it appropriates $1,000 ms per cent;
at Minor it appropriates twenty sections OF
land when granted to South Dakota ; by Bixler,
of noxious weeds; by Aiken, for the assessment
and taxation OF railroads; it creates county
| clerks and auditors board to assess railroad
| lines passing through into their couaties
| requires them to meet at railroad headquarters
II within the territory, otherwise at the largest
| town in the territory on the line assessed re-
| quires them to appraise the roadbed, stations
rolling stock, etc, dividing total value of prop
| erty by total length Of the line and subdividinl
the result by the length g: line in each county
their appraisal being subject to review by the
governor auditor and secretary, acting as
| board of equalization; counties, towns etc, tt
levy tax on the valuation assigned them by this
are levied; also q bill to add to subject 6. sec
tion g. chapter %, political code, the following
words: "All credits. whether money, property
in Judgment, and whether within the territory
or not" Also amending the game laws; by
Rover Regulating the -, charges es 10. Of tel
e1rins nal10ry cuton
places to keep record US to whom,
| when, in what quantity and for what purpose
Intoxicating liquors are sold, the record and
prescriptions to be open at all times to inspec-
ton; by Mcneil requiring twelve free or claim
holders in the township to petition for change
branches of the legislature have gone to Grand
Forks. In the council the Walsh, Winship CON
test was resumed: Mr. Bosard opened the
case at 80. Gen Ward followed, Judge Bangs
closing, three hours being consumed in the
argument. After an executive session CT hnlf
an hour Mr.; Gaspell moved a resolution seat
ing Mr.. Walsh. The vote was ns follows: Ayes
Allen Cooper, Campbell. Dollard, Glasreil,
Hnly, Hughes, Mcdonald, Miller, Patton.
Pointdexter, Ryan, vna t ogdel, Washabaush
Erickson, Harstad, soderberg, Woolheiser-5.
Absent or not voting-Csmerson. Lowry.
The house met on the 10Th and discussed n
resolution offered by Mr.. Fletcher declaring
that prohibitory law should be enacted, and
speeches i'll favor OF the resolution were made
by Messrs. Fletcher, Cartridge, BiXer and Van
Ettan. AS there but thirteen present &C.
ton on the resolution deferred for two
weeks.
THERE was q sensation in the house OIL the
morning of the Dist that was quickly spoiled
by an examination of the records in tile office
of the secretary. Mr.. Jones moved en-. invest-
CATION in connection with the appropriation of
S153, 600 for the north Dakota hospital for the
insane. He alleged tee the bill was introd uced
in the last Legislature for S19l.cOO; the house
committee reported it back for $685. and q
majority report raised it to S102,OO This was
| q topted and the bill 50 passed the house. Tho
council raised it to li30 900, but tho house. he
claims never consents led to this amendment. 1t
WAS ated that he said after the legislature ad-
turned that some Of the appropriation bills had
been tempered with and he believed that this
was in the list. The resolution was, adopted, as
WAS another ceiling upon the governor
for u statement as to whether the Of
ticers of the jamestown asylum came be-
fore him and discussed this appropriation
before he sisned the bill. An. examination of
the record3si de Office OF the secretary shows
that the bill Was introduced, reported and
passed as stated by Mr.. JONES' 1t then went
to the nonse End motion. OF Mr.. Dodge the
1oI hyy