Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-24
IN SOUTH DAKOTA LEGISLATURE.
DoInRs of n Day by the Assembled
SoIons AT Pierre.

PIERRE, 5. d., Feb. 23.-tSpecial Tel
egram)-In the house this morning petit
lions were presented from Roberts county,
asking for the passage OF the Gunnarson
dispensary bill and from the pages of the
house asking for a raise Of so cents per
day, on the ground that the clerks were
drawing So per day for doing nothing and
the pages were entitled to pay for the work
they were obliged to do.
Majority and minority reports we're pre-
sented on senate bill to reduce the Board
OF Charities and Corrections to three.
a light came up over the adoption OF the
committee report on the Aberdeen normal
school bill. Populists, as a rule, lined up
against the measure. The unfavorable mi
nority report was defeated, A to 40, and
the favorable majority report adopted, A
to Al. An effort to advance the bill on the
calendar was lost, 4S to 40, and the Finche
motion following, carried.
Smith of Custer attempted to force his
bill to prevent trespass on the free range
country out of the committee and in doing
so secured an unfavorable report. After a
warm fight over compensation the chief
clerk was allowed So per day for $50 days
to complete the permanent journal.
In the afternoon Stoddard introduced a
joint resolution urging the State Board OF
Equalization and Assessment to assess all
corporate property under its control" at
the same proportionate value as other prop
erty assessed in the state. Under the rlle
1t could only be introduced by the consent
of the house and the consent was secured
by 40 to 81. A motion to advance 1t on
the calendar was killed.
The house then went into committee OF
the whole to further consider the general
unnrnnrint inn hill and thn rnut 90 tho of,ar
noon was taken up in this and the final
passage of the bill after the committee re-
port had been adopted.
An effort was made to secure an appro-
p~riation for an assistant in the public ex-
aminers' Office which failed. The first fight
came on the matter of an appropriation OF
10000 for a litigation fund for the Railroad
commission. This was opposed by Glass
and Wilmarth and defended by a number OF
members and finally carried after the vot.
Ing down of a number of amendments look
ing toward changing the amount. The only
other fight was on an appropriation OF
81 1000 per year for the maintenance of the
School for the Blind at Gary. On this prop
osition Wilmarth and Pussy made a fgh
against the rest of the committee
and after they were defeated and
the committee report had beer
oiopNVu, dlltIIlDlbu 10 carry Oul
his views in the way of an amendment
covering the same ground before the bill,
was read and again after it was read. He
was defeated both times.
In the senate the Hanten resolution for a
constitutional amendment permitting coun-
ties by a vote to exempt certain property
from taxation, practically a single tax meas
ure, was defeated.
The report of the conference committee or
a bill to provide for permanent annual ap-
preparations for educational institutions was
presented and adopted and the bill passed as
reported by the committee. 1t carries the
institutions to 500, 900 per year. This was
also adopted in the house.
Consideration of the governors appoint
ments was postponed to March 1 by a vote
of % to IS.
Bills were passed regulating the erection
\ of walls in common; defining negotiable in
struments; to provide a beet sugar bounty
of ! cent per pound, to be continued for
seven years, passed by 81 to s; providing
for courts of Cancellation and the house
election registration act, which will be re-
considered.
Joint resolutions were passed to provide
for procuring records of the constitutions
conventions and to require that a constitu-
tional amendment to carry must receive 8
majority of all votes cast at the election.
The bill placing telegraph and telephone
companies under control of the railroad
commission was made a special order fol
Tuesday.
The general appropriation bill was made q
special order for tomorrow.
A few unimportant bills were introduced
and tomorrow is the last day for introduc.
ton of bills.
A. w. Eddy general counsel, and L.. j
Drake, general manager of the Standard Oh
company, Chicago, are here to look after the
oil inspection bill, which is under considera-
ton.