Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-01-24
THE STATE CAPITAL.
WHAT THE LEGISLATURE Is
DOING At PIERRE.
An Impartial Record Of the Work Ac-
complished by Those Who Make Our
Laws-How the Time Has I~so Orcu-
pied During the Past Week.
Our Lawmakers.

LII NiS ltN VA LIN HNA W. kSSolultvltn
were introduced and referred to the APP
preparation Committee, one providing fol
an offer of $lO,O0 and other of $4,000 fol-
the arrest of Defaulter Taylor. A joint ex-
ecutive session was held which was adj
dressed by Attorney General Crawford.
and as a result a bill in each house was
rushed to its second reading and referred,
which makes an appropriation to enable
Crawford to institute suits and employ
counsel to enforce collection OF the proper
ty of Taylor at Newton. H.. and sue to re-
cover from the father of Taylor at Lafay-
cite, Ind, and from Mr.. McChesney at New
York. In the annua report of the Secre-
tary of State are mentioned the various
Taylor corporations which were unearthed
by the newspaper men and which are re-
ceiving much attention.
In the House on the l4th. Mr.. Russell OF
Yankton introduced a resolution that fines
be enforced on state printers for delay OF
bills. etc, but was Withdrawn after eXpla-
nation by the printer. Bill No. ~ passed
the House. 1t provides that anticipatory
warrants be drawn bearing I per cent. and
limited to the amount levied, the warrants
not to be sold at less than their face. The
resubmission bill passed its second reading
and went to the committee. The hance
now look favorable to its passage. Several
bills have been introduced to amend the
election laws. Bills creating the office of
oil inspector have appeared in both houses.
One bill provides that the county commits
sioners may furnish seed wheat: one would
make sheritf's fees for distributing ballot
boxes and notifying judges $3.50 for each
precinct. with no mileage: one would eX-
tend the time of redemption from tax sale
to five years and another would have town
boards instead of the county commissioners
appoint judges of election.
\ test vote was taken in the House on
| the 18th which shows positively that the
House will pass the ~resubmission bill by
| from ten to fifteen majority.
Senator Sinclair of Union made his first
appearance in the senate on the 18th, and
was sworn in by Judge kellam. Petitions
against resubmission have been but mea-
gerly signed. The total signatures are but
about 5000. halt of whom are not voters.
The case Of Olaf Nelson. elected from Ly-
man County. was referred to The Commit.
tee on Elections and Privileged Represent
ativeS. Senator Glass moved that the Com
mittee on Agriculture be requested to pre-
pare and present a bill for the suppression
of Russian thlstleS in the Senate. Chap
lam Blackburn made an appropriate prayer
asking divine help TO help bear the addi-
tional burdens imposed by late develop
mcnts. But a small amount of routine
work was dispatched in both houses.
The resubmission bill passed the House
Oh the 10Th by a vote of - to u.
The Senate on the l6tl, passed the joint
resolution changing the constitutional limit
of bonded indebtedness from ) to Is per
| cont for IRRIGATION n,r,,ns,e npIt- Thn,,
also rushed through a bin for an appropri-
alton for the per diem and mileage of mem
bers in the House. Several petitions
against resuhmission We're presented, and
numerous bills We're introduced. among
others a bill to provide for taking the cen
sus. The Senate bill was passed provid-
ing the Attorney General with funds to
prosecute suit against the bondsmen of
Taylor. An attempt was made to pass a
joint resolution for a constitutional conyen-
ton under suspension of the rules, but it
was lost, although a majority Of the Sen
ators voted therefor.
Members We're not backward on the 18th
in coming forward to vote the usual joint
resolution for an appropriation to pay the
per diem and mileage Of members. Sena-
tor Storlie introduced a bill eXempting
81 900 worth Of property from taxation to
individuals who put down artesian wells
with a flow of 800 gallons per minute. Re-
submission will come up in the Senate
about the 22d inst.
The Senate Temperance Committee has
agreed not to report the reSubmission reso-
luton until the I'D, SO as to give every OPP
portunity to the opposition to be heard. 1t
is further understood that a majority of
the committee will make a favorable re-
port on its adoption. The vote in the SEN
ate, however, is bound to be close, with
the chances still in favor of resubmission,
but only by a margin of one or two votes.
Senator Lawrence made a few knowing
clerks smile on the 18th by talking in favor
of economy by cutting down the per diem
of the clerks. They turned to the Journal
of the Senate and discovered that while
Senator Lawrence resided in the county
adjoining Hughes and not over thirty or
forty miles from Pierre, and had moved
his family overlandto Pierre several weeks
prior to the session, yet his mileage calls
for 500 miles. To its credit, be it SAID, the
Senate by a vote of q to Ii did not mistake
penny wise parsimony for economy. Few
new measures have been enacted into laws,
but proposed legislation is rapidly multi
plying. Many desired to adjourn until the
2lst, but a compromise was reached in an
understanding to adjourn next week from
Friday to Tuesday.