Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22
The House.

PIERRE, Feb. THE elective franchise
committee reported favorably on the wo-
mans suffrage bill.
The temperance bill was read a third
time and passed by a vote of l02 TO II.
The house bill providing for lower rates
of interest on Lawrence county bonds
passed.
The house bill TO transfer the business of
the late territorial courts to the state
courts passed.
The house bill relative to the practice of
pharmacy in the state passed.
PIERRE, Feb. S.-A bill authorizing the
issuance of bonds in the sum of 81 800 TO
pay the debt assumed by South Dakota in
the division of the territory, and 100000
for casual deficits, passed.
PIERRE, Feb. l0.-The following bills
IA sed the house: No. 75, regulating the
price of veterinary medicine and surgery;
No. g, relating to the m~ortgaging of real
estate by guardians; No, l2S, relating to
Taxing realty and chattles in the name of
The real party interested; No. 81, creating
The bureau of labor statistics; No. 1870, n
memorial to congress regarding public
.ands: No. lIt, making the service process
If probate courts similar to circuit and
county courts; No. lG3, relating to the
manner of mortgage foreclosures; No. 16S,
making attorneys responsible to the sheriff
or fees; No. -, providing for the kemp
lion from taAa.ion of lands of right-of away
Of railroads and highways.
The following bills were indefinitely
3ostponcd: House bills Nos. 80, l57, 100,
IS, -, 2tS, go, III. Lost on vote.
PIERRE. Feb. l1.-Committees recon-
mepdcd that bills pass relating TO town
ihip organization; defining the liabilities
IF railroads on contracts. relating to en-
,ouraging immigration; choice of land for
,chool purposes, and one or two other I'M
important measures.
The bill providing for a hospital for the
insane in the Black Hills was killed
The house passed "a bill cutting down the
n,leage of legislators from 10 TO 5 cents
ler mile by a vote of IS to l22. This is
practical economy.
The house bill amending section ], article
4 of the constitution, touching penal insti
utions, passed the house
The bill on the liability of railroads on
ontracts passed.
The publishers bill passed. The circula
ion limit is placed at $50 before IA publisher
an print legal a advertisements.
House bills passed as follows: Providing
hat imprisonment and costs shall be the
anne as "a fine; relating to county Londs
o amend the compiled laws; relating to
he attachment and levy by sherifs; to
mend section t2l, compiled laws: repeal
ng sections 23s5 and 1856, compiled laws
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n warrants, allowing So per day for serv-
ng the warrant snd attending the prisoner
.uring the trial requiring the auditor of
tate to examine the fnancial standing of
dsurance companies.
The following bills were introduced To
cquirc state officials TO keep the offices at
lie seat of government 10 regulate toll on
cagon roads; 10 provide for annual ex-
ibits of agricultural, stock breeding, hor-
icultural, mining, industrial and mechan-
al products, and 10 provide for "a state
ioard Of griculture.
PIERRE, Feb. II. The first business in
he house today was that of raising the
.-lary of %janitor to 81 per day. The fol
owing bills were introduced: To amend
II zion SIS, compiled laws; to amend
Ficle '. chalter1 Z, political code: an act
% consolidate companies " hich have failed
y pay debt. This bill refers to Lawrence
aud Meade counties, and would wipe out
I The latter IL il becomes a law. to amend
lection y, probate code: to regulate and
! control life or accident insurance com
ranies and all companies operated on the
assessment plan; to regulate the incor
poration of the Bristol Day company; tc
provide for the division and organization
of civil townships.
The senate bill relating TO highway ia,
passed.
The senate bill touching the use of county
funds In the hands of the treasurer, con
sidered in committee of tho whole, will
I pass the house.
PIERRE, Feb. bat the morning ses
sion of the house bills were passed pro
hibiting the circulation of obscene litera
ure; submitting til question of woman
suffrage to a vote; protecting farm labor
ers; relating to punishment for robbing
amending section 5000, compiled laws, q
memorial asking the opening of the Grow
Creek reservation; amending section 5,26l
compiled laws; amending section 2,4l4
compiled laws.
The following bills were introduced: To
smend section 1,420, compiled laws; II
amend sections 1913, 1913, 974, $40, chapte,
IL, political code; an act for the relief Of
corporations organized under the genera
laws; to provide for the appointment of al
agent to prosecute the claims of the state
against the United States for money due
on account Of public lands.
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