Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-03-11

fit either to sign or veto the new Ap'
erdeen bill, and it became a law by
limitation at midnight.
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FRIDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
The Closing Hours.
Pierre, March 4.-The 1899 session
of the South Dakota legislature came
10 a close yesterday, and, as usual,
the last hours were characterized with
q rather riotous rush OF business.
The house began the last day with
forty-one senate bills on the calendar
and a number were lost for want OF
time, though the final adjournment
did not occur until late last night.
The senate had nearly a clear calendar
when it's session opened yesterday n
the senator's had much sport va
each other during the day. The house
resolution to resubmit the ~dispensary
amendment was the only bone OF con-
tention, but that developed into a Bit
ter fight, which lasted nearly all
night.
The first grand rush for home took
place at $3.50 this morning, when O
special train over the Northwestern
pulled out for the east. A second train
at z o'clock left the capital practically
deserted.
The total amount carried in the gen.
eral appropriation bill, now ready for
the governor, is 1891, $50, as against
$890,24O for all purposes appropriated
two years ago. The total appropri-
ations of this legislature for general
and special purposes, deficiencies, etc.,
will reach nearly $1,400, 900. 1t is ex-
pected that the governor will cut II
the Springfield normal appropriation
and several other items.
The governor has approved the spe-
cial appropriations fornew dormitories
at Madison and Spearfish, asylum Tor
the feeble-minded at Redfield, new
buildings and improvements at Iank-
ton asylum and the agricultural-col-
lege, and for a deficiency In the main
tenance fund of the state university.
Governor Lee will veto the bill abol-
ishing the Office of insurance commits
sioner.
Senate Session.
The senate passed the following
house bills: Providing manner Of con
test for state offices and recount OF
ballots; for protection of large game;
TO prevent moving buildings from
lands before taxes are paid; relatlng
to meetings of boards OF county com
m~issieners; a~bolishing Office OF insur-
ance commissioner; providing tor
printing and distribution OF daily ana
permanent journals and documents;
pertaining to duties OF road supervls-
ors in counties not organized into civil
townships.
There was all kinds OF fun at the
afternoon session OF the senate. SEN
ator Tom Reed, OF Kingsbury coun-
ty. was in the chair. The new car
was equal to the occasion, and though
pandemonium reigned for a time, he
eventually demonstrated his suprem-
acy.
The vetoes of Governor Lee of the
two ballot bills, both party measures,
were sustained. A resolution was
adopted presenting the president with
his chair and gavel.
The bill defining the First and Sec
ond judicial circuits was passed. n
the mutual insurance bill was killed
An attempt to pass the ballot law
over the veto of the governor failed
by &c yeas and 10 nays.
The bill to allow redemption of prop
erty sold under chattel mortgage,
which passed Thursday, was called up
on the pretense that it had not re-
ceived a third reading, and on recon
sideration it was killed.
The senate had an all-night session
and wrangled over the house resolu-
ton to resubmit the dispensary
amendment, which was opposed by
the populists generally by all the
tactics at their command, but enough
republicans voted TO carry 1T, and II
was adopted by 20 to IA.
House Proceedings.
The house passed n bill at its morn
ing session providing for the preserva-
ton of the official ballots cast at any
election during the time allowed to
contest elections.
The yetoes of the governor of the
Watertown normal school bill and the
bill providing for a permanent levy
and appropriation to state educational
institutions, were sustained, the
friends of these measures lacking the
constitutional two-tbirds for passage
The house voted to concur In the
senate amendments reducing the ap.
preparation to adjutant general from
$3.50 TO $3.50, and extending the pro.
visions of the fish protection bill to all
sections of the state. An agreement
was reached by both houses upon the
new state depository act. The house
killed the j. b. McCloud claim fol-
boarding soldiers and their horses, and
passed n bill a~propriating SLABS fol
deficiency in the maintenance fund oil
the reform school for the year ending
June 80, 1899.
At the evening session the house
passed bills applying the principles o
the referendum TO cities n munich
palities; appropriating s. 1850 for tho
expense of the trial of John Rondc
from the unorganized county of Shan
non; providing for a sugar beet boun,
ty of / cent per pound for a period OF
seven years; requiring railroads to put
IN sidetracks for mills and small ele'
~vators; providing the name of pro
cedure to secure laying of sidewalk
in cities of the third class; appropriate
ing money to Banker and Hunt as eX'
pert plumbers i'm their investigation oil
buildings at the reform school; au'
thorizing counties TO issue bonds &c
fund outstanding Indebtedness, and tc
allow cities and towns to levy poll tax
The bill to allow a levy of an addition
al mill for the deficiency was lost
Resolutions were adopted donating &c
the speaker his chair and gavel, ano
other minor matters.
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