Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-03-09
THE LEGISLATURE
Proceedings of south DakOta's Law
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| Pierre s. D.. March 1.-The house put
in the afternoon session in the passage
Of house bills and pushed through
motion for an evening session an the
ground that it was the last Nv on
which house bills could be paSsy. and
! receive consideration in the senate.
/ The bills passed Were.
Resolution for an amendment to the
constitution to resubmit the dispcnsary
question; for n state board of agricul-
/ ture; for q state fair board of five
members TO be appointed by the gov
ernor, and appropriating $1,000 per
year for premiums: appropriating Slao
deficiency In the salary of T.. f. Conk-
lin as railroad commissioner: 10 re-
quire convicts NJ the state penitentiary
to furnish stone for public buildings;
for state board of Insurance, and ap-
propriating $4,000 to pay premiums
on insurance of state buildings; to pre-
vent fraudulent practices Ivy joint
stock companies: providing powers and
duties of school boards
Senate bills passed appropriating
1 money for the services OF experts in
! the examination of the buildings mt the
reform school. and an appropriation
for deficiency in the expenses of the
railroad commission. House bills
passed Ivy the senate:
! Tie engineers license bill, which
! was amended 10 apply only TO institu-
: tons which employ five or more Ell
gineers under charge Of master me-
chanic; game bin, which was amended
by reducing the license fee for non
resident hunters TO S10: fixing terms
of court in the Fifth judicial circuit
! An attempt was made to kill the os-
teopathy bill in the senate on com
mittee report which failed, and an ef-
fort TO advance the house dispensary
: amendment on the calendar met the
same fate
! Delegations from Omaha and Chica-
go, representing firms which supply IA
/ baking powder company with materi-
! ais, were before the governor in oppo-
| sition to the pure food bill, which re-
quires all alum baking powders and
adulterated food products 10 be
marked as such q s. Hutchinson.
I representing Ried, Murdock & Co. ap-
! peared in favor of the bill, which was
signed.
! The house oil inspection bill was
read in the senate and amended TO
strike out ports Of entry and gravity
test. allowing oil Of any test TO be en-
tered, but providing that it shall be
marked as to quality
| The house at the evening session be-
gan by playing horse with the house
bill providing for stamping negotiable
paper for taxation. Glass supported it
as Il constitutional measure and the
house would neither pass nor allow it
TO be killed. but kept II in torture and
n
+, killed. Bills passed:
Providing that in case Of a disputed
claim the auditor shall call the govern
or. secretary of state and presiding
Judge of the supreme court as n board
I to pass on the claim: appropriating
$50 for the expense of selecting state
lands; providing for county registra-
tion of physicians and a state board Of
/ medical examiners: fixing legal holi-
days, adding Lincoln's birthday and
Labor day TO the list; providing the
manner of fixing damages in the lay
ing out of highways: providing special
! polling places in school districts.
| Pierre, s. D., March o-The house
passed senate bills increasing salaries
of supreme ana circuit court judges
and the governor by vote OF oS to 20.
The bill was opposed by Messrs. Stod-
dard and Cooper and advocated by
Messrs. Glass, Wilmarth and Pusey.
/ The bill increases the salaries of the
governor and supreme court judges TO
$1,000 per year and that of circuit
4, court judges to $1,000 per year. Other
/ senate bills passed: Providing for wa
| ter supply at the soldiers home; pay
ing for building erected ut the reform
school by the people of Planklngton;
appropriating $500 fuel deficiency at
the state university; allowing counties
/ to redeem tax titles; regulating salaries
Of states attorneys; abolishing days of
grace; defining due diligence III the
collection of checks and drafts; au-
thoriZiEg the warden Of the peniten-
/ t,ary to furnish stone for the children's s
! home: appropriatlng money FOR care or
+ insane in unorganiZed counties, and
the bill making threshers' liens prior to
al other claims on grain.
| Senate bill No. 167, providing for is,
sue of bonds by townships ard munich
palitics for the purpose Of securing
/ water. started fight from the fact
! that Wilmarth had. through the judici-
| airy committee. tackled as an amend
ment to il the whole of his house bill
providing for the government of cities,
which was killed by the senate. 1t
took an hoar of wranglirg to finally
| cut out his amendment and pass the
| original senate BILL
| A motion to pass the educational ap-
| preparation bill over the veto of the
| governor only received "A favorable
votes. TO AZ to sustain.
In the senate the vote by which the
| bill allowing the governor TO remove
appointees was indefinitely postponed
was reconsidered and the bill was lost
: by 4 vote os "a 70 81
! AL effort TO pass the educational ap-
I, preparation bill over the veto Of the
governor failed, but lated in the day,
on reconsideration. was passed--33 to
| 10. A bill from the appropriations
committee, authorizing an additional
state general levy of l mill to meet the
heavy appropriations of the legislature
was given first and second readings
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