Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-04
SOUTH DAKOTA LEGISLATURE
Doings of the Last Day by the Assembled
Solons at Pierre.
ONE SENATOR CALLS ANOTHER A LIAR
Customary scenes Enacted I'm Each
House ns the Session Draws to n
Close-Appropriation Break
Last Years Record.

PIERRE, S. D., March 3.-(Special Tele-
gram THE house started the morning with
forty-one bills on its calendar for the last
day and disposed OF two of them at the
forenoon session. Resolutions were adopted
donating to the speaker his chair and gavel
and other minor matters.
A bill passed to preserve official ballots
until the time Of court had passed: amend
ments to the bill fixing the salary of the
adjutant general engineer license and fish
protection were concurred in. An attempt
to pass the Watertown normal school bill
over the governors veto failed by AZ yeas
and AZ noes. An attempt to pass per-
manent educational appropriation bill over
the veto failed by SO yeas and "A noes
Tue house in the afternoon devoted the
time tc passing bills providing for the let
ting of contracts for the printing of supreme
court reports; appropriating money for a
deficiency at the reform school, appropriat-
ing money for the expense of selection OF
endowment and indemnity lands providing
for disposal OF dead and down timber on
state lands appropriating 800 for the pur-
chase of portraits Of Governors Mellette and
Sheldon; providing regulations for construc-
tion of sewers; allowing the attachment Of
adjacent territory to independent school dis
tricts regulating the practice of osteopathy
| requiring itemzed expense accounts from
state officers before issuance of expense
warrants; approprating money for addi-
tional legislative supplies; appropriating
s6,257 for deficiency in the expense of the
account of the railroad commissioners; le
galizing settlement between Aurora county
and Treasurer Eastman; creating a state
board of embalmers and licensing its prac
tice.
The bill to appropriate money to ]. B. Nc
Cloud for care of horses and men in the
Indian uprising of 1S9091 was cut from
S2,772 to $500 and passed. The bill to create
an immigration department in the office OF
the land commissioner failed to pass, did
the bill to compel state officers to turn in
fees and perquisites. recess was then
taken
The house at the evening session passed
bills applying the principles of the refer
endum to cities and municipalities; appro-
priating s1,050 for the expenses of the trial
of John Rondon from the unorganized county
of Shannon; providing for a sugar beet
bounty of 1 cent per pound for period of
OF seven years; requiring railroads to put
in sidetracks for mills and small elevators.
The bill to allow a levy Of the additional
mill for deficiency was lost.
Bills were passed providing the manner
of procedure to secure the laying of side
walks in cities of the third class; appro-
| priating money to Banker and Hunt as eX-
pert plumbers in the investigation of the
buildings at the reform school; authorizing
counties to issue bonds to fund outstanding
Indebtedness; to allow cities and towns to
| levy poll tax.
| Work of the Senate.
The senate started with ten bills on the
calendar and disposed of nine of them at the
! forenoon session, the bills passed being:
Providing for the manner of contest of state
offices and recount of the ballots; for the
protection of large game; to prevent the
moving of buildings from lands before the
payment of taxes; relating to meeting of
boards of commissioners; abolishing the
offices Of insurance commissioner, passed 26
to 10; providing for printing and distribut
ing daily journals; pertaining to duties Of
road supervisors.
| The general appropriation bill as passed
carr-as $S91,7j0, which is $107,39S greater
| than the general bill of two years ago and
almost equal to the total appropriations Of
the last session. The total appropriations
will be nearly $1,500,00O,
| The senate had little business before 1t at
| the afternoon session and adopted resolu-
tion presenting the president with, his chair
| and gavel. The bill defining the first and
second judicial circuits passed and the
mutual insurance bill was killed.
An attempt to pass the ballot laws over
the veto of the governor failed by 26 yeas to
10 noes. The bill to allow redemption of
property sold under chattel mortgage, which
passed yesterday, was called up on the pre-
tense that it had not receiveG'a third read
ing and on reconsideration it was killed.
The closing scenes in the senate came
near being a riot between Lawson and the
Ia.
resolution to resubmit the dispensary
amendment Senators Stilwell, Loomis,
Gregory, Ashford, Gunderson, Overset Reed,
Johnston, Littlefield and Williams took oc-
casion to explain their votes, saying they
voted for the resubmission because of the
action OF the house in refusing to pass the
dispensary bill, and they believed the latter
should be brought squarely before the peo-
pie that their views might be presented in
no unmistakabe manner to the legislature.
Smith of Pennington suggested the con-
sideration which caused the change in senti-
ment Johnston started for him and
Looms in resenting the imputations was
called a liar by Jones. The senate packed
about the would be contestants and the
sergeant at arms prevented further trouble.
Loomis moved the appointment OF an in
veStigating committee of three populists ana
two republicans to investigate the charges
and If they were proven to be true the
guilty member would be expelled and IL
proven false those making the charges
would be so treated.
The senate in allnight session wranged
over the house resolution to resubmit the
dispensary amendment, which was opposed
by the populists generally by all the tactics
at their command, but enough voted with
the republicans to carry 1t and II was
adopted by a vote Of 90 to a.
Senator Hanten returned from the COM
mittee room and stated that he was author
lied to state for Smith that he only meant
party good by his remark in regard to
consideration. Lo0mis and Gunderson OBJ
jected to so lame an apology and demanded
that Jones be included in the apology and
that the committee be called up n to pre-
sent report as to their findings. This
brr ught out hot remarks from Jones, who
presented a resolution for an investigating
committee to investigate the charges made
against him. This was afterward with
drawn. At / o'clock the committee is yet
calling witnesses and no direct apology
has yet been presented by the parties con-
cerned
Arrested for Attempted Murder.
HURON, S. D., March Especial Tele-