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

governor o. Minnesota an invitation
to S nd two delegates TO q conference
OF representatives OF Minnesota, South
Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska,
Iowa and Wisconsin to be held in st.
Paul on the fourteenth Of this mon h
to consider the Russian thistle ques-
ton. The legislature will undoubted-
~ pass the bill and the commissioners
will be sent, although the thistle ques-
ton is not attracting much interest
at the present time in this state.
Ole of the most important COM
mittess In this state Is that on Agri-
culture This committee is headed
by Senator Lawrence and it has some
most important bills under consider
alton. One OF these which is of high
interest to all farmers is the bill which
provides for the inspection of sheep.
This measure directs the state veter-
ian and his deputies to inspect all
sheep coming InJo the state and
whenever they find any animals
afflicted with scab to promptly dip
them and not TO permit them to run
at large until so treated.
Another measure interests hog deal
ers largely. In the Southern counties
there is considerable bog cholora and
certain parties "o are interested in
making soap mae a practice of going
through the country buying from the
farmers the dead hogs. They, it is
said, pick up small pigs which have
died from disease and when unnoticed
or i'll the night throw their ]carcasses
among the healthy hogs which then
die and become plumber forthe rogues.
TO prevent this practice the bill pro-
vides that caicasses OF hogs which
have died from this complain t shall
not be sold but shall be buried.
The following bills were introduced
in the house:
To prevent extortion in the sale OF
Appropriation for the sale and lease
OF public lands in 1896.
Appropriation for the releasing of
public lands govern payment for
school lands used for railroad right
OF way.
Providing Tor the holding of court
in other than county seat.
Providing for the organization of
civil townships.
Providing for the collection of
taxes by distress and sale in cities.
InstruCting board of agriculture to
loo ate state fair for tive or ten years.
Senator Smith of Faux who by the
way is a. gold MAI and who was in
cllned to poke iun ~ his silver colleag-
ues had read the following substitute
which he said wde like the memorial
introduced a panaca for I'LL avs but
improved On thodght by covering
OF them. This memorial called
on Congress to restore the prices CT
wheat to a dollar a bushel and whisky
to five cente q glass the historic rates
10 arrange so that the rain would
fall at the proper time, there should
be no drouths and wheat should run
fifty bushels to the acre and other
provisions equally desirable. This
memorial created a general laugh but
no more. Mr.. MCGEE then called at
tentIon to the fact that the memorial
limited the coinage to the American
product including North and South
American products vas about nine
tenths OF the product OF the world they
might as well 60 a step further and
make outright free coinage.
Mr.. Boyce to even up matters
moved to amend by restricting to the
product OF the United States. Mr..
Sinclair moved to amend by restrict
ing it to the product OF South OAK
ota. BY this time the memorial was
in a wild whirl OF hilarity and despite
the earnest efforts of Its advocates it
vas likely to be smothered with a
laugh. Mr.. Bennett after pointing
out the injury to the credit of the
state by adopting what would mean
to the m~oneyed men OF the EAST who
were expected to lend the statemoney
to tide over the Taylor default moved
to postpone and despite Gen. Pease's
effort to secure immediate action the
senate by q la'ee vote postponed I'M
til February 81. The memorial will
probably then be killed.