The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1891-03-06
In the Legislature.

Ine mouse thursday almost unanl-
mously adopted the report Of the com.
mittee. abolishing the preparatory and
normal departments Of the state uni
versity.
| Mr.. GODDARD introduced q hill consti.
tuting Fall River and Custer counties
one senatorial district.
The following bills passed the house:
All county and state officers shall turn
tho fees into the treasury at the end Of
each month, except those receiving no
salary and the register Of deeds for
making abstracts; an amendment to
the constitution abolishing the county
courts; for printing 10000 newspaper
supplements Of the session laws, upon
bids to the secretary Of state, to cost
not to exceed $500; reducing court
stsnographers' fees from $40 to 81 per
dry, authorizing the governor to deed
the Hot Springs soldiers home to the
United States upon an appropriation
from congress rembursing the state for
the cost Of the building.
In the senate the revenue bill was
finished in committee of the whole and
the report adopted. The only fight
made against the bill was In the clause
taxing the net earnings on the amount
of capital stock used in business in the
state and the 10 per cent. dividends
earned by the express companies. This
taxes the express companies on the
same. basis as the railroads. The PEN
atty on delinquent taxes was fixed at
three per cent. after the LIST Of March
and one per cent. a month until paid.
The bill otherwise does not materially
change the existing revenue laws.
On Saturday the house passed num-
Der Of important senate bills, among
them Melville's township irrigation bill,
which met the approval Of all the mem
bers directly interested and received
a unanimous vote; providing that
counties shall bear the expenses Of the
return of fugitives from justice from
other states; also making the fiscal
year to end June 80; also the house
bill making Fall River and Custer coun-
ties one senatorial district and placing
Stanley county in the same district
with Hughes.
The following were introduced: BY
GODDARD, for payment under the contract
of the assignee Of the contractor of the
Hot Springs soldiers home; by Witt
mayer that insolvent debtors shall have
their assetts pro rated equally by the
creditors; by Mr.. Gardner, for state
librarian; by Mr.. Van Denacker, that
no person shall engage in farming who
has not passed an examination as to
qualifications under penalty of mis-
demeanor; by Mr.. Rowe, that clerks
Of the United States courts shall file
judgments; by Mr.. Dukes, that ply
sicians shall not charge more than $2
per visit.
The appropriation bill occupied the
attention Of the senate in the afternoon.
The original bill was raised $4,000. A
hard fight was made for larger appro-
priations for the deaf mute school and
the penitentiary, but only $4,000 was
added, and this for subordinate EN-.
ployees at the penitentiary. The ar-
preparation for the insane asylum was
raised 81, 400 on account of fuel and
the wages of a subordinate employee.
No appropriations were made for the
commissioner Of immigration or for the
salaries OF the commissioners Of the sol
diers' home,. The commissioner Of la
bor's salary was placed at $500.
"A bill for the establishment Of an
artesian..well experimental station at
Huron was passed unanimously. The
bill appropriates $4,000 on condition
that Huron raise the sum Of $4,000 to
support it.