The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-03-07
DOINGS AT PIERRE.
WORK OF THE SOUTH DAKOTA
LEGISLATURE.
An Impartial Record Of the Work Acc
complished by Those Who Make Our
Laws-How the Time Has Doen Occu-
pied During the Past Week.
The Lawmakers.

NiiuS DiIisNoo tSol DOotROlCuS
its friends still fearing its fate. Senate
bills were passed as follows: No. POI,
amending the compiled laws. No. 263,
legalizing the tax levy of Fall River COun-
ty, as made for the past three years. No.
300, which provides the limit of salaries of
treasurer, auditor and clerk of court in
counties of 10000 or upward, but which
will effect only Minnehaha. No. PSI, pro-
viding for the construction of dams and
reservoirs for holding water for irrigation
purposes. Joint resolution No. 20, to sub
init a constitutional amendment fixing the
pay of Legislators at $500, regardless of the
number of days employed in the session.
No. PIG, requiring a quarantine of diseased
sheep under penalty of a fine of not more
than 5000 or Imprisonment of not over five
years. No 297, to enable town and road
supervisors to dam up surface waters to
save their rapid escape in the spring.
Joint resolution authorizing the Governor
to receive 1921 due the old territory I'M
der the act of the General Government re-
funding the direct tax and assuming re-
spOnsibility for it's distribution in accord
ance with an agreement entered into by
the joint commission created when the ter
ritOry was divided into two states. No.
305, by BOyce, a long and intricate bill af-
fecting the redemption of property.
In the House on the 26th Mr.. DOnahue
introduced a bill providing that antlcipa-
tory warrants shall state on their face the
date they will become due. The following
bills were passed: House bill No. 2O3, pro-
viding hat the printing for state institu-
tons shall be exempt from the contract
law, but Mr.. DOnahue gave notice of re-
consideration. Amended House bill No.
238, making void chattel mortgages of
property not in existence except crops to
be grown within one year. House bill No.
116, fixing the maximum salary of regis
terS and treasurers at 81, 800. House bill
No. 255, allowing al appeal from the
county commissioners to the circuit cOurt
when the commissioners sit as a board of
equalization. Mr.. Miltimore presented
the following resolution:
Whereas, A bill known as House bin
No. l has been reported adversely, and the
report adopted by this body: and
Whereas, There is a strong demand for
legislation on matters therein contained,
therefore be it
Resolved, That a committee be and is
hereby appointed, consisting of the Speak
er, Representatives Truman, Glass, Gold,
Orcutt, Kuhns, Hair, Dickover, Barron,
Parker, MckinnOn, Russell, Herrick and
Wick, whose duty it shall be to draft and
submit to the House for consideration on
or before March 2, a bill regulating the
duties of the Observation-Disclosures, rates
for freight traffic in this state, which shall
as near as may be answer the demands of
the people and at the same time be just to
the common carriers.
There was a tiresOme grind in both
GI., ,> %1a Oc%l, r,D,, A. .n%;l ~ ,r.tb
but two hours recess. In the afternoon
the House passed Senate bill No. &, a long
irrigation bill amendatory of what is
now known as the Melville law; defeated
House bill No. 1872, relating to the reas-
SeSSment of property not caught i'll the first
round by the assessor; passed House bill
No. 1919, empowering county commission
erS to rebate taxes On property destroyed
by fire or cyclone, and after practically
wasting an hour and a half in minor
amendments and foolish delays on House
bill No. 161, which would make it unlaw-
full to leave cellar and well holes on un-
fenced lands uncovered, it was showed to
the foot of the calendar. HOuse3bill No.
1858, providing that city councils may levy
city taxes not to exceed a maximum of 20
mills, was passed; No. 2S5, to amend the
constitution and raise the limit of the cur
rent state indebtedness from $2O0,OOO to
$3.50, 900, was made a special order for 1880
on the 2Sth.
The Senate on the 9th defeated the Kel-
ley bill, b~ut::passed a bill to enable the
state to bid in property in suits where the
states interest appears, n No. 1873, to al
low cities to select government land and
sell the same. The bill apprOpriating
5 $500 to pay Senate clerks was also passed,
and the Senate spent several hours in the
discussion of House bill No. 81, which is a
bill providing conditions under which
county money should be deposited. The
Joint resolution in reference to the read
iustment of the boundary line between
South Dakota and Nebraska, made neces-
sary by the change in the cOurSe of the
Missouri River was also discussed. Sew
enteen bills were read for the first time.
House bill No. II requiring mOrtgagors to
furnish mortgages copies of mortgages,
was Indefinitely postponed. The bill APP
prOpriating 10000 acres to the Springfield
Normal and $1,000 to the Northern Insane
Hospital at Redfield were defeated. No.
tees were given for reconsideration. Each
lacked but two votes of passage. House
bill No. 1S6, relating to county courts, pro-
viding for county judges pro tenn, passed
SO to /.
A resolution was introduced in the SEN
ate on the 2Sth for an investigation Of the
sworn charges of c. l.. LaneOf Ohio form
erly of Rediield, against Judges COrson
and Kellam of the South Dakota Supreme
Court. In the forenoon the Senate defeated
the bill preventing games, racing, etc., on
Memorial Day, but in the afternoon it was
recOnsidered and passed. 1t also passed
bills to set aside 10000 acres of public land
for the Northern Insane Asylum at Red
field and the same amount for the SPRING
field Normal School. The Kingsbury rev.
enue bill received just the necessary %
votes, but as the amendments had not
been properly incorporated the bill went
over. Senate bill No. 300, by Wilson, Civ
ing the lessor of water for irrigation a lien
on land and crops watered was passed.