Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-03-08
DOlNGs AT PIERRE.
work OF THE SOUTH DAKOTA
LEGISLATURE.
An Impartial Record OF tho Work Ac.
complished by Those Who Make Our
Lsws-Aow the Time Has Been Occu.
pied Daring the Past Week.
The Lawmakars.

The Lawmakers.
Only the House was in session on the
sd. and that body, owing to the absence
OF so many members, attempted the pas
sage OF no bills and soon adjourned.
= Only seventeen Senators responded to
the roll call and nothing save committee
work was done on the 18th. The
House had seventy-fi present and twen-
ty-six absent, all of the latter being ex-
cused. The calendar showed twenty-five
House n eight Senate bills ready for pas
sage. Committees reported two more
House and five Senate bills fayorably and
adopted reports fayOring the passage of
eight Senate bills and eleven House bills,
thus adding nineteen to the calendar. On
the railroad iobbers' bill, No. /, there was
minority and majority reports. The mi
norlty report favored the passage of the
Oil and on motion to adopt the minority
report the vote stood:
Neas-Anderson, Austin, Crooks, Croth-
!ers, Egge, German, johnson, klindt, Luz
cas-, Miltimore, McCaughey, Oliver, Otter
ness, Peterson. Sharp, Shirley, White and
the Speaker. Total, IS.
/. Nays-Amerman, Boland, Campbell, Ca
wood, Crosmer, Dickover, Donahue,
Douglas, Egybroad, Francis, Fry, Glass,
Gold, tiullichson, Hair, Hatton, Henry,
Merrick, Hcsla, Hokenstadt, Holmquist,
Jones, Leach, Hubbard, Miller, Pakik,
Parker, Perrin, Reid, Ruswick, Smith of
Boz Homme, Smith of McCook, Truman,
Wick, Weber, Wheatlcy and Wilson.
Total, So.
House bill No. 21S, which provides for
good time to be earned by convicts in the
,penitentiary and provides also that con-
victs shall be restored to citizenship, pro-
vided they have not violated the laws of
the prison, without action of the Governor,
was passed.
~ number of new bills were introduced
in the Senate on the goth, but their first
reading was not reached. No. So, the rev.
,enuc commission bill twas again postponed,
its friends still fearing its fate. Senate
bills were passed as follows: No. POI,
amending the compiled laws. No. s63,
legalizing the tax levy of Fall River Coun-
ty, as made for the past three years. No.
-SO9, 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. 281, pro-
wiling 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
l's' vi AZSSioA0eOho POOV, 1CSuLulcoS vi IIlC
number of days employed in the session.
No. PIG, requiring u quarantine of diseased
sheep under penalty of a fine of not more
than $500 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 its distribution in Accord
ance with an agreement entered into by
the joint commission created when the ter
ritory was divided into two states. No.
sos, by Boyce, a long and intricate bill af-
fecting the redemption of property.
In the House on the 18th Mr.. Donahuc
introduced a bill providing that anticipa-
tory warrants shall state on their face the
date they will become due. The following
bills were passed: House bill No. 2O3, pro-
viding that the printing for state institu-
lions shall be exempt from the contract
law, but Mr.. Donalue gave notice of re-
consideration. Amended House bill No.
23S, making void chattel mortgages of
property not in existence except crops to
he grown within one year.. House bill No.
llG, fixing the maximum salary of regis
tiers and trcasurers at 81, 500. House bill
No. 255, allowing an 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 bill /
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 q committee be and is
hereby appointed, consisting of the Speak +
er, Representatives Truman, Glass, Gold,
Circuit, Kuhns, Hair, Dickover, Barron,
Parker, McKinnon, Russell, Hcrrick 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 he lust to |
the common carriers.
There was a tiresome grind in both |
Houses on the 9th from 10 until 6, with i
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. 1879, empowering county commissions (
ers to rebate taxes on property DESTROYED
by fire or cyclone, and alter practically !
wasting an hour and a half i'm minor
amendments and foolish delays on House I
bill No. 161, which would make it unlaw- !
full to leave cellar and well holes on UNI
fenced lands uncovered, it was showed TO /
the foot of the calendar. House, bill No.
26S, 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 100000 TO
$S50,OO0 was made a special order for $3.50 /
on the 2Sth.
The Senate on the 9th defeated the Kcl- |
ley bill, b~ut.passed a bill to enable the
state to bid in property in suits where the
states interest appears, and No. 1888, to al |
low cities to select government land and
sell the same. The bill appropriating
$500 to pay Senate clerks vas also passed,
and the Senate spent several hours in the /
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