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The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-25
Senate.

At the session OF the senate on the
10th inst. the following bills were in
troduced:
To regulate the practice ofmedieine,
to license physicians and to provide
for board ol examiners.
To amend 8. ctions Nos. 1902, 1905
and 1911 OF the compiled laws OF ! SS7
OF the Territory OF Dakota.
To provide for the payment OF ex
penses for the tr transportation or pris-
oners and insane people at the ex.
pense OF the counties sendiRg the same.
To repeal chapter 8 Of the 18th Leg.
lsIature Assembly Of the Territory OF
Dakota.
TO provide for bonding counties for
the purpose OF sinking artesian wells
and constructing water-courses there
from.
To prohibit the recording oI deeds
and other conveyancesu until taxes are
paid.
Exempting members Of incorporat,
ed fire companies from jury and mill
tary duties.
Providing for the assessment oI
railroad property, express companies
and other corporate property in the
State,
The resolution introduced on the
18th INST, empowering the presIden,
to appoint assistant engrossing and
enrolling clerks as they were needed
was referred to the committee OF en-
crossing aud enrolling.
Alter some remarks the report o.
the committee on printing was adopt
ed, and the committee was instructed
to draw up q contract with the Fre'
Press and Journal printing company
Three hundred copies OF Senate bill
No. 20 were ordered printed.
The secretary Of State was request
ed to furnish TO the president OF tn,
senate and each member OF the senat'
one copy OF the compiled laws OF 1887
and one copy OF the session laws o
1889, the same to be returned to tn,
secretary OF state at the end OF thil
session.
Adjourned.
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HOrSE

HOUSE.
The committee on judiciary report
ed, recommending allowing to the
speaker 50 per day as an officer, in
addition to his pay as q member.
The recommendation came to q
vote Of the house and was defeated
ayes 55, nays 81.
The report was then referred TO the
attorney general.
The mileage committee report was
read and adopted.
A committee on usury was ordered
to be appointed.
Recess was then taken.
On reconvening the following bills
were introduced:
Joint resolution to congress request
ing pension legislation.
To establish q Black Hills hospi.
tai for the insane.
TO regulate political action, affect.
ing nominations to public Office.
To provide exemptions from taxa.
tion OF 20 per cent in valuation on
every quarter sectlon of land tor each
acre Ot trees growing thereon, not to
exceed ten acres.
TO compel railway companies to
post bulletins OF time OF arrival and
departure OF trains.
To amend sections 1546.7. article
4, chapter Is, political code.
To create lien upon the offspring
for the use OF stallion.
To provide for deduction from tax.
alton Of lands entered on right OF way
ami public highways.
To provide for mortgage OF real es-
tate by guardian.
TO amend subdivision /, section
652l, chapter 26, penal code.
To provide Tor heating and lighting
the capitol.
To amend section e5e7. compiled
code.
Joint resolution tor distribution OF
session laws.
To carry into effect the provisions
Of section /, article 23, OF the consti.
tuition.
To amend sections 1546-7, political
code.
Asking congress to pay for session
OF legislature OF October II, 1889.
To create a bureau OF statistics.
To provide for appointment OF q
state agent.
Torepeal chapter 1873 OF session laws
Of 1889
To amend section $500, chapter 80,
code OF civil procedure.
Bill for taxation OF mortgages.
Making void certain chattel mort
cages.
For referees OF causes.
To amend sections 4s34. compiled
laws.
To amend section 6l35, compiled
laws.
Adjourned to 2 o'clock tomorrow.
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HOugE.

A resolution providing that the
committee on apportlonment be in.
creased to one from eacn senatorial
district was adopted.
Joint resolution No. 81 demanding
OF North Dakota all books, records,
archives aud property OF South Dako-
ta as defined by the joint commission
Of the constn utIonal convention was
read and passed the bouse almost
unanimously.
Afterwards the vote was reconsid-
cred and the resolution laid on the
table.
The house went into committee OF
the whole on house bill No. Is, which
was, after tho COMMITTEES arose, refer
red to the committee on cosntles and
country affairs.
Thereport OF the mileage committee
was adopted, after which the report
was reconsidered and laid on the
table.
The following nnls were presented:
To repeal chapter 2, title 5, OF the
code OF criminal procedure, entitled,
formation OF the grand jury.
To revise and amend Section 6003
and 6097 and repeal Section 6093 oi
the compiled laws relating TO jury
trials in justices courts.
To amend section 50, chapter % oi
political code oil 1877 and section
1910 OF compiled laws OF 1887.
To regulate the commencement ot
criminal action or proceedings : In
courts OF limited jurisdiction.
To amsnd section 42s4 Qi the erink
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On the ilth inst. q memorial was
presented from the trustees Of Brook.
ings Agricultural college askipg the leg
islature in view OF the fact that stud.
ents In that institution have passed
throu4h the requisite study in phar,
macy, they be authorized by law and
have certificates duly issued to prac.
tice pharmacy in this state.
A memorial was presented from the
Women's Relief corps OF the q. A. r.
asking that q memorial be sent to con.
Qress Tor the general government to
provide for disabled soldiers, instead
Of the states.
Senate bill No. 4 was passed. s
The following bills were introduced;
To leealize the course in Pharmacy
OF Brookngs Agricultural College.
For Railroad companies to con.
struct roads across school and public
lands. aDd to gat and give title to
lame.
To provide for the redemption OF
lands sold tor taxes.
To fix the penalties and rate of in
terest on delinquent taxes. #.
To provide for the notice OF the ex-
ecution and delivery OF tax deeds by
county treasurer.
Regulating the disposal, by lease or
sale, OF the common school and pub.
lie lands OF the state.
To amend Section 1885 cpmpilsd
laws by reducing the sake a
on tax sales fEolp & i' N "A N <, n N N
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HOUSE.
Not in session.


A petition from La wrence was pre-
sented on the 20 inst. asking the lsgis-
lature to pass an act, directing the
boards OF county commissioners Of
Lawrence and Meade counties TO re-
fund certain necessary but sxtraordi.
nary expenses advanced by various
parties in behalf OF said counties. sign
ed by d. A. Mcpherson and others.
A memorial petitioning congress 20
open the Sisseton and Wahpeton In.
dian reservation to settlement was
presented.
The following bills we're introduced:
10 amend sectiom 1868, article T.,
chapter 20 OF the compiled Isws oithe
Territory OF Dakota, entitled game.
TO provide Tor the collection By
county treasurers of uncoliectsd city
taxes.
Amending section LAO compiled
laws.
Amending section 1878, 1859,
1881 aud 1894 compiled laws relating
to payment Of highway tar and In
Dor.
Amending section z. chapter 80 OF
the pollticai code OF the Territory OF
Dakota, relating 10 fees OF regiater OF
deeds, as conferred to In the revised
code OF 1877.
Amending chapter 80 oi the session
laws OF the Territory OF Dakota, regu-
lating the salary OF REGISTERS OF deeds
and county treasurers.
To create o bureau ot labor statia-
tics, and TO provide for tho appoint
ment ola commissioner Of labor and
TO define his duties and term OF Office.
Defining the rights and liabilities ot
landlord and tenant within the incOfy
porated towns and cities OF South
DAKOTA.
Senate bill No. 8 was read the shird
time and placed inon it's final pn@-
sage, roll call ordered and the presi-
dent declared the blu passed by d vote
OF 30 ayes TO nay.
House bill No. 10, to pay state ofii.
GERS, members and employees ot tbe
legislature was read the third time
and placed on it's final passaee, and
the bill passed by . vote ot ~ ayes
to nays.
The question oil carpsting the cham.
ber was debated at considerable
length.
Upon vote Of 28 ayes and nays
all further action in regard to carpet.
ing the senate chamber was indefinite
ly postponed.
Adjourned.
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titled mortgages OF personal property.
For the relief OF Katharine Lee and
Viola Thompson.
To provide for fire guards and to
prevent the spread OF the same.
To amend chapter 15 OF the com.
piled laws OF 1867 ot Dakota in re.
Iation to the collection o. taxes.
For the taxation OF express com.
panles.
Defining the qualifications and pro-
vIdine for the resignation Of elector
and to regulate voting at state an J
civil elections.
Messrs. hopkins, Bixler, Partridge,
Munson, Cummings, Hooker and Mann
were appointed committee on US
ury
Adjourned.
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HOUSE.

Not in session.

T'vs had some very amusing expcr.
iences," remarked a teacher. 'anrimR
the four years IN which TAUGHT s0ns
West, and also mads the discovery
that the maternal heart out there ii
quite as loyal to her offspring as that
OF her Eastern sister.
Zone morning the mother os q very
dull scholar appeared at the door ot
the school-room. was surprised ct
the visit, as the parents usually man
Tested no interest in my work. She
was greatly excited.
What's the reason my Susan
Eliza hain't been promoted, and
what's the reason Bclindy Hauks
right along.s side OF her hasi Ny eirI IL
heap smarter nor her. and Tvs
come to tell you to promote hsr OF
tbere'll he q fuse in the camp
IL replied that could only promote
scholars whose proficiency pointed
them out as deserving it.--where upon
her anger passed bounds, and che evil
IDENTIFY took proficiency a. new
way to pronounce Providence, for she
almost screamed. Il don't believe
ProvI1e..ce has anything 70 do with
il; and yew cant make ma believe Il
nuther, for all your fne airs and efldi-
cation. Now IL she haint promoted
by this TIME tomorrow you'll hear
from her pap And 30 saying she left
the school house.
"At another tinae o girl of twelve
brought her little brother. a child nf
eighteen months, TO school, ne{np
unable to bear his NOISE, told her Is
take him home.
"sMam's washin' to-day, she rs.
piled, .and che sent him 20 Rit aho1 ~
him, and il / take him home, nhs'll
pack me back with him again
I'm the morning chs came aaain
with the boy. sent her home ard
told her 70 tell her mother, 4 ehe winh.
cd her baby placed In my care, eha
would have TO send cradle and 4
nuree. IN en- horr she returned with
him saying, Mann said Ii Wonid IL a.
unhandy 60 heluugir' Che cradle nome
on Friday niRhts aud tnkin, Il bnor
on Mondays, 90 she shid fer vou fn
lest make q bed on the seats. when ~.
gifts sleepy, and ril keep an eye onto
him.
ssI sent her home again, wikh noaf iv&
orders not TO return with fhxK ~,
to that school. That aIfHennnn 4
heard some one fumbiin1 ~ fk. 1onP
ana upon op7nins a ionn4 NINA nnd
s.Ss s&s@ ssys shss Psssis pAld X
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Senate.

Several reports OF committees were
received on the 18th inst, including
favorable ones on house bill No. 10
and senate bill No. IA with amend
ments, house bill No. IA, and house
bill No. 10.
The following bills were pgStroduced;
To amend section 1919 ccsar:!sst1.
laws in relation to personnel property
tax.
Requiring county treasurer TO give
notice of redemption.
Authorizing county commissioners
to defray certain expenses incurred IN
suppressing fraud in county affairs.
Mr.. Hoffman called for q report oil
the resolution referred to the commit
tee on enrolling and engroesing.
MIR. Thomas as q member OF the
committee stated that the resolution
was in the hands ofthe chairman who
was absent.
Mr. Norton moved that as the Office
OF assistant sergeant at arms had
been omitted from the list OF officers,
that it be added and the per diem be
$500. Motion carried.
Adjourned.
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Amending section 5135, compiled
laws; selection of exemptions.
Amending sections 1884 compiled
laws.
AboljshinG the board OF agricul.
ture.
Prohibiting printing, composing or
distributing Of obscene literature,
naming the Police News, Police Ga
Sette and the New York illustrated
News.
Relating to election O! United States
senators.
Joint resolution for appointment OF
q committee to visit public institu-
tions and report at this session.
Adjourned.
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,rs OF land before a tax deed can issue

ers OF land before tax deed can issue
thereon.
70 prescribe penalties for the un.
lawful manufacture and sale OF intox.
icating liquors, etc. (the prohibition
bill.)
Joint resolution: Calling on Secre-
tary Of State 20 furnish members for
use, during the session only. copies OF
the compiled laws and session laws OF
1889, read third time and passed.
1t was voted that the governors
message he made the special order for
Monday at $50 o. m.
Senate then adjourned to Monday,
the 18th inst. at 10 a. m.
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HOUSE.

A petition was presented relative to
the taxation OF railroad property the
same rs other property and the rs.
sessment OF notes. Ordered printed.
The bill relating to establishing
boundry lines between North AMI
south Dakota and other matters OF
Importance to South Dakota was
passed.
The toIIo wing bills were introduced
directing secretary OF the state to
furnish copy OF compiled laws OF 1887
and session laws OF 1889, for each
member OF the house.
Defining the duties OF county trea-
surer in several cases.
Relating to the hospital tor the in
sane at Yankton.
To prohibit the killing, ensnarIng,
entrapping or destruction OF quails In
the counties OF Pennington, Lawrence,
Meade, Butte, Custer and Fall River
for a period OF three years.
To require railroad companies doing
business in this state to employ at
least two experienced brakesmen on
all passenger and freight trains, and
providing a penalty for the violation
thereof.
TO amend section 5431 Of article 2,
chapter %, code OF civil procedure.
TO authorize the commissioner OF
immigration to publish in foreign Ian
guage, any advertising matter per.
tanning to his department.
To repeal chapter i28 ot the laws
of 1889, being an act entitled ian act
to provide for filing bonds OF town
ship assessors, and duties OF township
clerks"
To amend section 7 OF chapter 80
OF the political code.
To provide for the foreclosure Of
mortgages OF real property by action
in court only.
To provide for returns and records
OF births, marriages and deaths.
To reimburse owners oil sheep or
other stock tor damaee occasioned by
dogs.
Requiring the register ot deeds to
make abstracts OF title to real estate
and determining the tees therefor and
the disposition OF such fees.
| To regulate the regisJr alton and pay
ment OF state, county and municipal
warrants.
TO define and punieh trespassers on
| public and school lands.
To regulate the practice OF veterin'
ary medicine and surgery in the state
OF South Dakota.
To require engineers employed to
operate threshing machine engines to
obtain a ertificate OF authority from
the Judge OF county courts.
TO provide for the distribution o.
supreme court reports.
For the punishment OF pools, trusti
and conspiracies and as to evidence
IN such cases.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
A petition was presented urging the
necessity OF retrenchment and speedy
action pertaining to the adjustment
of matters pertaining to boundary
lines between North and South Dako
ts and the remodeling and codifyinl
tue territorial laws.
The following bills were presented:
To create the Office OF inspector o
mines, define it's duties and fix the sal
aries thereof.
To the qualified voters OF the state
the question OF amending section l
article IA OF the constitution, by add
ing the words, land such other charl
table and penal institutions as may
be established by law"
The Joint resolution relating to q
Joint committee to look after gralr
for farmers was amended to the effect
that the governor have supervisor
and control OF said committee.
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Lscalizine the official acts Of Charles

Leoalizing the official acts OF Charles
L. Murison, Notary Public.
For the appoint ment OF a state
veterinary surgeon and deputies.
Conferring upon women the right to
vote at city elections and to hold cer-
tain offices.
TO amend section 5l2s and 5l29,
article2 Of chapter Is, civil code COM
piled laws of 1887, entitled exemp-
tions.
To define the jurisdiction of county
courts and to provide for the practice
thereof and to fix the time OF holding
the same.
To amend 1644, compiled laws OF
Dakota pertaining TO duties OF county
treasurers.
TO provide for the location OF coun-
ty seats in counties in which the coun-
ty seats have not been located by a
majority vote.
Repeating chapter ITO OF the general
laws OF 1889. entitled an act to
amend an act TO provide for the es-
tabltShment OF board OF railroad
commissioners, defining their duties,
to sulqte the receiving and trans.
por .ation OF freight on railroads ia
this territory, passed at the 10th
Legislative Assembly OF the Territory
OF Dakota, and approved March 5th,
1885.
TO define the duties OF the clerk OF
the supreme court.
To regulate the duties OF the secre-
tary OF state.
IT., fix the fees and to definJ the du-
ties OF the CLERKS OF the county courts.
To provide for the retention and
returns Of election OF state officers,
county officers and members OF con-
gress and electors OF president.
Joint resolution No. 81 was taken
up and passed.
A resolution was offered designed to
govern the reading and referring OF
bills, which was referred to the com
mittee on rules.
Senate then adjourned.
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AFTERNOON SESSION.

The introduction Of bills was con.
tinued as follows:
To create a board OF regents for the
state OF south Dakota and to define
their powers and duties.
To define the jurisdiction OF county
courts and fixing the salary OF the
ludgeS thereof.
Governing state printing and pre-
scrlhing compensation therefor and
the manner OF awarding contracts for
the same.
Fixing the liability OF railroad cor.
porations for setting fires.
Respecting consent in cases OF adop-
ton.
Relating to meetings OF stockhold-
ers and boards>of directors OF corpor-
ations.
To authorize the amendment OF ar.
ticles OF interpretations.
A memorial to congress on the sub
ject OF pension legislation.
To provide for the appointment OF
q board Of charities and corrections,
and to define their power and duties.
Controlling the rates of toll for grist
or exchange pills.
To require corporations. firms and
individuals transacting general bank
ing business. to make q report OF
their recourses and liabilities to the
auditor OF the state, and to provide
tor examination OF the affairs OF such
banking institutions, to fix a mini.
mum capital, furnish the receiving of
deposits by insolvent banking In
stitutions ard provide for winding. up
OF their affairs.
To prescribe certain fees OF the
clerks oil the circuit courts.
To amend section "a OF the code OF
civil procedure.
Amending chapter 90, OF the general
laws of the territory Of Dakota OF the
year 1889, entitled, an act to give
publicity tc chattel mortgage sales.
A Joint resolution for an act to
amend section 8, of article 8 OF the
School lands.
To provide for the sinking oil arte-
sian wells and the construction OF
waterways theretrom.
The committee on school and pub.
lie lands was ordered to be increased
from seven TO nine members. -.
A resolution declaring that no bill
for an appropriation shall be INTRO.
duced alter Jan. 20 was referred to
the COMMITTEES on appropriations.
The governors message WIS then
taken up rs q special order, and the
RnfRte went into committee Of the
. n 62 kne same, and when they
Va. catg I| NRte referred the message
ls,s se<lnommiktees
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Senate

President OF the senate on the 18th
inst, made special report, stating
that no arrangements had been made
by the state officers for a janitor to
take care OF the senate chamber.
The watchman was appointed jani.
tor at an additional compensation Of
81 90 per day.
A message was received from the at.
torney general stating that by the
terms OF the constitution the ileuten.
ant governor was entitled tC twice the
amount OF the compensation OF sena-
tors, which would be 81 0 per day and
twenty Gently for every mile OF nee
essary travel and the committee on
mileage was instructed TO correct their
report accordingly.
The following bills were introduced:
Defining the duties OF supreme court
reporters and providing for the publ.
cation Of his reports and for his COM
pensations.
A iolnt resolution demanding Of
North DAKOTA possession OF pr operty
belonging to the state Of South Dako-
ia.
To secure more independent voting
at elections and to provide that the
printing and distribution OF ballots
shall be done at public expense.
TO amend article 8, chapter 8 OF
the political code.
Authorizing county commissioners
OF counties OF this state to employ the
attorney general to assist the district
attorney thereof in prosecutions Tor
homicide and compensate him there
for.
Providing for the purchase and dis
position OF the remaining supreme
court OF the Territory OF Dakota.
Governing printing and prescribing
compensation therefor, and the man
ner otawarding contracts for the same.
To provide for notice to owner o!
delinquent land before tax deed shall
issue.
To suppress and prevent the spread
Of infectious and contagious diseases
among domestic animals and to pro-
vide TOR the appointment OF three
state veterinarians.
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Report OF the committee on print.
ing favored letting all .he printing to
a Joint bid OF the Journal and Free
Press, and the report was made a
special order Tor 2 .. m. on the 18th
inst.
Joint resolution No. 81 In regard to
federal relations was passed after
slight amendment.
The iollowinr b,lls were introduced:
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The De Smet L..
JOB PRINTING
In the line cf
STATIONERY. BLANKS
AND BOOKS,
On short notice, at living rates.
FULL LINE DAKOTA BLANKS.

and the following three were appoint.
ed: L. o. Turner, 8. III. White and r..
r. King.
On motion the house adjonrned till
Tuesday morning at 10 q. m.
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bdCU IbRIrTdIIFU UHys
Respectfully submitted,
Sol. STARR, Chairman

The report was adopted.
The bill to provide for revising and
coditying the laws was taken up, and
after q prolonged discussion was re-
terred back to the committee, after
striking out all that portion relating
TO extra pay OF the speaker.
A report OF committee on appro
priation was received, read and ap-
proved.
Recess.
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HOUSE.

The following report OF committee
on salaries was received:
We recommend the following sums Tor
each officer and emploIe:
SPEAKER OF the house, per day, $500,
which sum shall be in addition to his per