Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-02-14

80 CIVIL S-sNtLl ZIG td We tCif DIGSGllI-
I'd to the county commi sioners.
For form to be used by abstractors.
To amend laws relating to the board
Of health and the practice OF medicine.
The following bills were introduced
in the house:
Amending school laws regarding off,
,ers of townships.
Relating to formation OF school dis.
,ricts.
Providing for attaching inorganic
I'd counties to organized ones for ju-
iicial purposes.
Regarding the keeping of records
Of u~norganized counties.
Protecting the public against errors
in abstracts.
Relating to mortgaging of personal
property.
Appropriating $500 for injuries
sustained by Mrs. Roberts at the
insane asylum.
Making the unpaid taxes assessed
against live stock a lien on the brand.
Defining manner OF laying out high
ways.
Providing for assessment by jury
Tor private property taken for public
use.
Relating to repeal.
To create the office Of county exam
iner and to look after the fLnus OF
townships.
Regulating fees Of physicians and
surgeons.
Appropriating $4,000 acres OF land
to normal school at Springfield.
Tho nrinpinIa fantnra nf tnluuS rpN-
CO dlngs was the passage through the
house OF a memorial to Congress recit-
ing the present depression and hard
times and praying the enactment of
Tree coinage OF silver. No debate fol-
lowed the report OF the committee on
this matter but as soon as the vote
was taken and before it was counted
a dozen members rose and explained
their votes. Messrs. Glass, Henry.
Miltmore, Russell, Donohue, Crndel
and Truman, all republicans, spoke
strongly against the measure and de-
clared that they could not vote for
it,. They said that the Yankton plat
form called for free-coinage OF silver
OF the American product only and
that anything further was unre-
publican, and Messrs. Dowdell and
CroChers, populists, spoke as strongly
in favor OF the memorial. Mr.. Glass
declared that it was founded squarely
open the party platform adopted at
1ankton and that anyone who voted
against 1t was voting against princi-
pies enunciated by the republicans OF
South Dakota. The vote resulted 43
to 80 in favor. Leaving o IT the pop
ullsts, who all voted aye, there were
80 republicans opposed to the bill and
20 in favor.
Mr.. Colvin's bill providing that in
cases where the state is q party wit
nesses for the state shall bepaid from
the state treasury passed.
Mr.. PERKINS, bill providing that up.
On the full payment OF any school
fund mortgage the county auditor
shall fully satisfy the sum upon the
records, passed.
Mr.. Donohue's bill ~annexing Now
lin, PEyatt, Sterling and Jackson
count es to Stanley, Mr.. Hatton's
bill providing that the district school
DO I'd may publish an itemized list
OF expenditures and receipts and Mr..
McCaughey's bill providing that all
books, statements and blanks used
by county and state officers shall be
passed upon by the secretary OF state,
auditor and public examiner passed.
A considerable fight was made upon
this latter bill but it's evident Justice
and the strong presentation of the
case made by Mr.. McCaughey carried
it through.
In the senate Mr.. Rice's bill provid-
ing that the state treasurer shall de-
post funds in his own name "a i've s.
urer and not DIS an individual, and
that both treasurer and his deposit
cries shall report TO the governor
monthly, passed. This is a bill sug.
by Governor Sheldon to cor
rect the looseness which has hereto
fore prevailed. 1t is seen to be espec-
tally important from the fact that
when Mr.. Taylor left no one was able
to find out where he had deposited
the state money or how much he had
hand.
Mr.. Rice's bill fixing the maximum
charges for telephones at 81 per
month for business houses and So
per residents, passed. The violation
IHls law 10 iitue u iiiSleiieduOr,
The following bills also passed:
Mr.. Wilson's bill making q number
I changes in the law covering teach
8 and certificates.
Mr.. Doran's bill fixing the fees OF
sheriffs for delivering ballot boxes at
MIR. Brooberg's bill 100 repeating
the laws Of 1890 relating to grain
warehouses;.
Mr.. Kincsbury's bill providing for
the annual election of school district
officers and his bill providing for
elections to determine the d vidlng of
townships into districts.
House bill neutrality-suspicious. author
county mutual insurance com
panies passed ayes 81 nays Is.
Mr.. Francis's house till providing
hat assignment mortgages must be
recorded was beaten, ayes 20nays29, |
Dut Mr.. Towards bin providing that
and executors must render
annual accounts, passed.
Among the bills unfayorably report
I'd was Mr.. Hebal's bill providing |
hat one member of the board of