The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1893-01-20
LEGISLATIVE.
FOURTH DAY.

| ~oIS 10 report percentage OF actual value OF
| property assessed.
No. is, by Mr.. Dollard:- Provides penalty
Tor non n-payment of taxes by telegraph, eX-
! press and sleeping car companies.
No. 10, by Mr.. Dollard: Requiring railroads
10 construct viaducts in towns Of :, 900 inhab-
itants.
NO. Il, by Mr.. Thornby: To establish an
institution for feeble minded children at
Custer, Hermosa or Buffalo Gap.
No. IS, Coint resolution by Mr.. Crawford:
| Urging prosecution Of railroads by the at
torney general for violation of article 3 of
the constitution, referring to the legislative
department.
It's understood this bill is particularly
directed against giving of passes to mem
| bers.
No. 10, by Mr.. Crawford: Prohibiting spec
ifcation of a particular kind of money to
pay obligations.
No. 20, by Mr.. Horner: State Medica! ex-
aminers TO regulate practice of medicine
| No q, by Mr.. Horner: AS to the state
board of health
NO. ~, by Mr.. Hart: Requiring an officer
ieVying on property to give the last name to
the debtor or agent
| No. %. by Mr.. Hart: Making court stenog-
rapher's rates 10 cents per 100 words for long
hand transcript
! No "A, by MIR. Hart: Enlarging the pur-
poses for which private corporations may
form.
| No. ., by Mr.. Hart: method for vacat-
ing town plats.
| No 26, by Mr.. Hart: Opening streets
through state property in Sioux Falls.
! No. u, by Mr.. Lawrence: Organization of
town on petition of residents.
No. Is, by Mr.. Star: Protecting breeders of
| fine stock, and furnishing fraud in the matter
of pedigree
| No. %, by Mr.. Foote: Providing fire breaks
No. so, by Mr.. Footc: Attaching Lyman
county to Brule county for judicial purposes
No. 81, by Mr.. Brockway: For construc-
tion of sewers in cities.
| Adjourned to 2p m. Monday.
HousG-The speaker announced the stand
ing committee on temperance as follows:
Chamberlain Of Moody, O'Neill of Edmunds
Dilger Of Yankton, Kelly of Minnehaha
Lynch Of Meade, Bean of Douglas, Reid of
kingbury, Belk of Codington, Sessions OF
Sanborn.
Also, clerks of committees, us follows:
Judiciary, w. A. Moore of Aberdeen; rail-
ations, f. F. Hewitt of Ipswich; ways and
| means, II. q. BesancOn of Harold.
Also, assistant enrolling clerks: G. fl
Hopkins, II. l.. Hopkins, E. s. Jenne, b. B.
| Bowen
| The following bills were introduced:
No. 4, by Mr.. Fowler: Resubmission of the
prohibitory clause of the constitution.
! No. 5, b Mr.. Price: Providing for state
and county boards of health.
This bill contemplates protection against
cholera epidemic.
No t, by Mr.. Price: Licensing of physi-
| clans by the state board of health.
No. z, by Mr.. Gilbert Raising the kerosene
test from 119 to 140 degrees.
Nos by Mr. Donahue: Appointing state
and district engineers; licensing steam en-
gineers and testing steam boilers.
No 10, by Mr.. Ruswick: Adding mustard
TO the noXious weeds law.
No II, by Mr.. Hooper: One years time for
divorce and two years, if the offense COM
planned of was committed outside Of the
state.
No H. by Mr.. Ravndahl: Providing for
| farmers Institutes, disseminating agricul-
tural knowledge and publishing an annual
hand book for farmers. The sum of S, 900 a.
an annual appropriation is asked.
No 49, by Mr.. Ravndahl: Making railway
commissioners elective.
No. IA, by MIR. Ravndahl (by request; The
| Lyon municipal saloon bill. Indefinitely
postponed by a vote of As to 80.
| No. Is, by Mr.. Packard; Creating the
Office OF commissioner of immigration.
No. IT, by Mr.. Hooper,: Preventing acQ uire-
ment of color of title to real property with
out actual adverse possession.
No IT, by MIR. Hooper: Repeating the town
| ship artesian well law.
No. is, by Mr. Hooper; Abolishing the
office of engineer of irrigation.
No. l9, by Mr.. Harrington: Fixing the H.
! cense on billiard tables in unincorporated
towns at $50 annually.
No. 20, by Mr.. stuverud: A county audit
ors' salary bill
No q, by Mr.. Holmes: Electing city boards
of education on the second Tuesday in May
No. %, by Mr.. Cleveland: Raising the as
sessment exemption from s25 to 500; alsc
allowing the exemption to include any kind
OF property; also, fixing March, instead OF
May, for possession of property sold for taxa
| ton.
No. %, by Mr.. ForneL: One years resi-
dence for divorce.
House bill Mol, introduced by Mr.. Summer
| side, presenting Ex-Governor Melleute with
the chair he occupied during his official
| term, was passed by a vote of 60 to l3.
The ventilation resolution was adopted
and as the work will require a couple of days
| the house adjourned until 2 O'Clock Monday
| SEVENTH DAY.
| SENATE-The senate adopted a resolution
allowing clerks on request Of a ma ajority OF
any committee; but a republican caucus
subsequently agreed that it must take a
majority of the senate to endorse such
request.
! No. 32 by the appropriations committee:
Providing for a deficiency of 500 in the legis-
lative supply fund.
| No SO, by Mr.. Lawrence: Amending the
| Australian ballot law SO that u straight
ticket may be voted by one check.
No, 81, by Mr.. Burleigh: Providing for pub
| lie drainage bitches.
| No. 55, by Mr.. Berkman: general rail
road law; providing that the commissioner
| fix the maximum rate. The bill is patterned
| after the Minnesota law.
No. 81, by Mr.. Major: Relating to school
district officers.
| No. 81, by Mr.. Gunderson: Naming depOsi-