Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-02-09


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| hodfs OF the senate Session yesterday
| was taken up with fight over the
! committee report in the fellow servant
| bill. which was killed-23 to 10. This
! was followed by another long debate
! on the bill making railroads RESPONSE
| bic Tor damages by fire. notwithstand-
| ing contributory negligence. The fa-
vorable committee report adopted on
| this bill-33 to 10.
Bills introduced: Ways and means
| committee. general +, venue bill: spe-
| cial hill for levy on collection of taxes;
I JOINT resolution for an amendment to
| the cons tuition. prCvi ling that the
membership of the house shall not be
| less than sixty nor more than seventy
! five. and that the membership of the
senate shall not be more than thirty
! five nor less than twenty-five: Scham-
ber. gopher bounty bill: local option
! by county on petition of 20 per cent Of
the voters of the county; Pease to ap-
propriate SIS 700 for n reform school
building: Timer. enlarging exemptions
from executions: Hanlon, permitting
counties by popular vote TO determine
! whether $50 of personal property shall
be exempt from taxation; Bottum, per-
/ tanning to bonds of independent school
districts.
Schamber presented petition ask
ing for the attachment of Mcpherson
county to the Brown county circuit
The committee 10 select public lands
! under the resolution of King was
named: Johnson. Toy. Snow. Over
seth. Jackson. King, Tyler. Gunderson
and Vance. The senate bill providing
for township fire guards and fire mar
shals passed The bill for purity Of
caucuses was defeated, but notice of
reconsideration given. The senate bill
to prevent any officer or legislative
member from receiving or soliciting
passes was left i'm unfinished business
by adjournment
In the house the committee reported
, fayorahly on the bill providing that
the penitentiary shall furnish stone
and labor for the erection of the Chill
dren's home at Sioux Falls. The house
bin for the creation of Ninth judicial
circuit, composed of the counties of
Hand. Beadle. Sphinx and Kingsbury
was lost for lack of two-thirds vote,
! and notice for reconsideration given.
Purdin introduced a resolution declar-
ing the members opposed TO SO ex-
travGgant appropriations and opposed
TO granting any land appropriation to
new institutions which would call for
! further appropriations in the future.
This was hotly debated, and. Oh mo-
tion of Glass. all after the words '.ex-
trayagant appropriations" was sticken
out. and as amended passed. The
| move was aimed at the new institu-
tions at Aberdeen and Waterfowl
of n committee to investigate the bills
Tor pruning reports ana journals.
NM Tm ,,tt mn,r ~ g., lis oa opn f sAI.ss.te ,.,
Brass and Woodruff
Bills introduced: Providing for the
incorporation OF CITIES ana ciassihca-
h;hi, o,aot;nnaor;nr ahnnt Lii H.
nianas. poolord nnndo of y'o,,;n,, Ia,,,.
and coIioc,;nn of taxes. Thnrsr ~.
Cnirinc Jeosas of lands In orga nized
towpsh,ns to bo c,assad with the town
cIerk. Foley Iimiting rho tina fnr
commencinS civil actions AGAINST sber.
ins. Murdv nrovidipg for free tayt
hooks and onnronriotinc $40 OoO for
the nurnose. Wi,martb general reve.
me hin
RilIs nassed. To nrnvida for tbe care
of abandoned children: reatiye 10
drawing iurors in counties NOT organ
ized into ciyi, townships: n railroad
bill TO regulate the control of roads