Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-03-09

killed. Bills passed:
Providing that in case OF n disputed
claim the auditor shall call the govern
or. secretary of state and presiding
Judge of the supreme court as a board
to pass on the claim; appropriating
$50 for the expense of selecting state
lands: providing for county registra-
ton OF physicians and a state board of
medical examiners: fixing legal hoii-
DAYS. adding Lincoln's birthday and
Labor day to the list; providing q
manner of fixing damages In the lay
ing cut Of highways; providing speclai
polling places in school districts.
Pierre. S. D., March 2.-The house
passed senate bills increasing salaries
OF supreme ana circuit court judges
and the governor by n vote of oS to 70.
The bill was opposed by Messfs. Stod-
dard and Cooper and advocated by
Messrs. Glass, Wilmarth and Pussy.
The bill increases the salaries of the
governor and supreme court judges 10
SO, 900 per year and that of circuit
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 at the reform
school by the people of Plankington;
appropriating $500 fuel deficiency at
the state university; allowing counties
to redeem tax titles: regulating salaries
of states attorneys; abolishing days or
| grace: defining due diligence in the
collection of checks and drafts; au-
thoriZing the warden of the peniten-
tiary to furnish stone for the childrens
home; appropriating money for care OF
insane in unorganized counties, and
the bill making threshers' liens prior to
all other claims on grain.
Senate bill No. 161, providing for is
sue Of bonds by townships and munich
| palities for the purpose of securing
| water, started a 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 n government OF cities,
| which was killed by the senate. 1t
tock an hour of w%rangling to finally
| cut out his amendment and pass the
original senate bill.
A motion to pass the educational APP
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 re~considered and the bill was lost
| by a vote of "a to II.
An effort to pass the educational APP
preparation bin 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 1 mill to meet the
heavy appropriations of the legislature
was given first and second readings
under suspension of the rules, and the
house resolution for an amendment
to the constitutional resubmitting the
~dispensary amendment was pushed to
a second reading.
House bills passed were: Establish
ing depository for state funds: general
game law. Senate bills passed fixing
terms of court in the Sixth circuit; re-
pealing township artesiar well law;
providing for the construction of sew
ers; regulating the practice of oste-
optathy.
Pierre, S. d., March 3.-The first
contention in the house yesterday
morning was owe the right of petition,
which Cooper raised over the refusal
of the house to receive n petition ia
voring q bill killed several days ago.
This was followed by another. the re-
port of the conference committee on
the general appropriation bill. Dwight
opposed the acceptance of the report,
which carried. and a conference was
asked for, i'm which the house commit
tee vas instructed to refuse to con-
sent to any bill which increased the
aggregate of the house bill. The COM
mittee on temperance presented a
unanimous report against the passage
of the senate dispensary bill. The re-
port was adopted-95 to 37-and this
action 'cinched''-46 to 80. This set
tied the fate Of the dispensary bill at
the present session, rs it is now too
late TO take action in the two houses
on any other measure.
The report was presented by Repre-
sentative Purdy, who spoke at length
in favor of the action of the commit
tee.
The senate passed the bill raising
the tax levy, and killed the house reso-
luton to resubmit the d~ispensary
amendment, which will be recon.
sidered. a resolution passed for an
amendment TO prohibit state officers
taking passes.
Ihe house passed these senate bills,
For deficiency appropriation for EN-
ployes; providing for printing reports
of appointive officers which have In
the past been submitted to the gov.
ernor alone: deficiency for the publica.
ton of the constitutional amendments,
appropriation to pay Judgment for
fuel furnished ut the agricultural col
lege; appropriating money to pay Da-
Ivison county for the care Of prisoners,
allowing claimants not in possession
to dispose of their interests in real es-
tate: TO prevent fraudulent voting al
lcaucuses.
Senate joint resolutions We're passed
authorizing the procuring and preser
walton of the minutes of the ~constitu
tional convention which framed the
first constitution of the state. and fol-
an amendment TO the constitution to
require amendments TO secure n ma.
jority of all votes cast at an election
to be declared carried The ballot
measures vetoed by the governor, to
prevent a name from appearing more
than once upon a ballot and allow