Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-02-28
DAKOTA LAWMAKERS.

reappropriating the balances of appropriations
for the Grand Forks university, Broolings asrf-
cultural college and school Of mines. and In
doing so placed on record some more facts In
tended to set him right on the question Of de-
fciencies The auditos responded e tns ,,sa,
tia, in which the fact 10 made prominent
that The former administration exceeded
s as,e pans Ps hss
an unexpected balance OF s9,4s1.
The bill repeating the railroad commissioners
was indemnity postponed for the reason that
the joint committee has reported substitute
for the Fletcher bill which continues the board
Is agreed shall pass. This Is the McCumber bill
adopted by the alliance but revised and im-
proved. The farmers in caucus agreed 70 stand
no quorum in the caucus. The house bills
passed, giving Mclean, Sheridan and Garfield
counties q term Of court at Washburn; appro.
priating $4,000 for the agricultural board and
prohibiting the sale Of liquors at fairs In the
council Mr.. Ryan introduced bill limiting the
rent Of armories 70 $500 and the men IN military
companies to forty also to aid In procuring PEN
sions to disabled soldiera; approprinting $500
for the adjutant generals ONCE. Van 0sdell's
bill fixing the liquor license ct 81 1000, to take
effect June 1889, passed also the bill requiring
abond Of S5, 900 for abstract ofdces also Hughes
bill regulating the appointment of trustees for
the one me set to act aor
proved the bill allowing loan associations TO ex-
tend their business beyond the territory.
A CANVASS Of the council shows but ten in IA
March Sth and there will doubtless be an at
tempt made to close mp the business of the SEES
sion and adjourn sine die; The governor vetoed
bonds for county buildings, his objection being
to the two sections Of the bill which seem to
iega,zs bonds Illegally voted and egslly 10
to the appropriations COMMITTEES. The house
passed the newspaper bill over the veto
pro pro- the une1pended balances for the
Vermiilion university. Brookings college and
school of mines. The house railroad commit
tee introduced It's substitute for the railroad
BIZ and reconsidered the vote Indefinitely
postponing the bill repeating the railroad com.
mission law, and Mr.. Morris introduced bill
sion. being SUBSTANTIALLY the Minnesota law.
The council indefinitely postponed the bill re-
pealing the public examining act. The north
the college at Valley City instead Of Fargo. In
the house Mr. Aikens introduced b resolution
declaring that no other public Institutions
should be located at this session Of the lsgisla-
ture, in view Of the prospective division OF Da-
kota, and that appropriations should be made
for one year, instead OF two, for the mainten-
duced in both houses repeating the militia law
of 1887 Among the bills introduced In the
council was one appropriating $4,000 for i'm
Campbell introduced a bill appropriatfng $685.
coo for the industrial college at Aberdeen The
governor has approved Washabaugh's bill
laws Of the territory. The council passed Mr..
Poindexter's bill locating o normal school at
Ashton also Mr.. Hughes bill for the collection
IN the lower house on the 10Th the governors
veto Of the bill reappropriating the unexpended
balances for the GRAND Forks university was
duced were three normal school bills, one at
Lakota, one at st. Thomas, and one at Cassel-
by Ryan to pay for horses na Killed s BY 1Tdsr
Hines, at Walworth. The resolution presented
by Mr.. Aikens declaring against appropriate ms
for new institutions or the location Of new In
old institutions and was passed-23 to 20. The
Minor and Lisbon normal school bills were
tural college will share the same fate, and also
the soldiers home BILL II 1t 10 vetoed by the
governor. About dozen bills were killed in
the house. among them Hughes bill providing
action Poindexter's bill abolshing clerk hire
for the executive Office Dollard's dentistry bill,
tion, and Atkinson's bill registering county
warrants. In the council Patten' 3 ironclad pro-
hibttion bill passed-12 to 6. Messrs, Dollard,
HALEY, Hughes, Ryan, Van Osdel and Washa-
baugh voting mo y Messrs. Atkinson and G1as-
pelI, Campbell and Miller. Lowry and Siimmell
being paired. Mr.. Soderbergs bill, extending
for five years the provisions OF the law giving
bountiesfor planting trees PISSED also Aliens
bill prescribing the character Of Investments to
be made by Dakota organized insurance COM
panies, placing them under the supervision Of
the public examiner, and funding the outstand-
ing capital warrants. Those voting no were
Cameron. Ericsson, Glaspeli, Mcdonald. Ryan.
The council voted to take recess from Thurs
day till Monday. Among the bills passed in
the house were the following: Giving a term Of
court to Butte and other counties defining the
boundaries Of Butte county, taking In part of
Harding and adding the remainder to Burdtck ;
for funding out standing county debts; protect
ing trees as well as hedges planted along high.
ways providing for tax sales IN October instead
| Of September; limiting assessors compensation
to $50 for each congressional township; declar-
ing void two laws erroneously published as
having passed at the last session; and the fol-
| lowing were killed: Providing for two Justices
| in towns and villages; Bixler's noxious weeds
bill.
In the council on the Goth an attempt was
made by the enemies of the local option bill to
put 1t on final passage, but its friends opposed.
as 1t was not likely to pass. The bill providing
| for the appointment OF women to the office Of
| notary public having been referred to the at
torney-general, he decided that It VS. frivolous
| and unnecessary legislation; t Is omen are
| not citizens under tho laws OF coneross, SO far
as they apply to their holding office ind enjoy
ing the right of suffrage, That II tho are citi.
| has the right to appel int any citizen over 81
years of age notary public. Fletcht RS bank
Ing bill and the railroad bill were made spec
| iaI order for hearing Tuesday afternoon.
| Among the bills introduced in the b, use were
| these: By Upham-- Prohibiting the sale Of unu
sound diseased adI y, ,aa impure Or sn
slaughter Of animals. By Allen-To ny Arthur
Linn nea ~ 81 900 for interest on his old claim
| for printing allowed two years ago. lsy Pric. =
A memorial for maintaining and improving
| Fort Abraham Lincoln. The house PASSED the
| following council bills: Requiring Ito publica-
| ton OF county financial statements quarterly !;
establishing two pharmRted districts one In
/ North and one in South Dakota, and tie foilQws
| ing house bills: Providing that only two MEM
bers Of public Institution board shall be ap-
| pointed from the county where the institution
| is located the object being to AVOID having
| them treated as local institutions; allowing
towns to vote ? per cent. tax to aid FailEoads
propriating $4,000 to reimburse the citizens OF
| Madison for rebuilding the normal school, An
| unimportant bill was passed and the remain
der Of the day was spent considering the educar
ti9nal bull being q complete revision Of the
THE jamestown investigating conmittee re-.
| ported on the 21st. The charges Of immortality
| and cruelty are not proven; drunken and in
the evidence does not warrant the charge that
/ public property has been put to private use /;
| In some cases the patients have been put to too
severe labor, but the superintendent has been
good order sserswheFs hrsyeil fhots Is room ss
for economy In the management IRE board has
met too often for the public good, In volving un-
| necessary expense. The charges If extrava-
| gance in the building are not sustained. Tho
building is too large, but not in excess Of what
was contemplated by the legislature. The pur-
| chases Of supplies has been unwisoly confined
| to Jamestown and without competition. About
| 1890 worth Of coal has been used by the arte-
| sian well contractor without the knowledge Of
| his bond 10 good they advise suit 10 recover !:
| they recommend that the plett pp discharged,
| the expense being deemed unnecsssaryi the
land purchase 10 declared 70 pc straight |;
The governor vetoed the soldiers home bill. He
| objects TO the amount Of the appropriation,
| which he deems insufficient to provide aecoin-