The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1899-01-26


meeting TO work for uniform brand
and bounty laws and TO urge q revision
of relations with Mexico. Bills passed:
Requiring county auditors to keep in
dex anu tract books of real estate; To
reimburse Hanson county for the eX-
penseS OF the Phelps murder trial; re-
curing state officers and employees 10
file receipts for all expenditures on cK-
pense account: granting soldiers free
tuition in state educational institu-
tons; permitting crops to be mortgag ed
for more than one year for the pur-
chase price of land.
Bills introduced: Gunderson, attach
ing lands in the Missouri river to Clay
county Tor taxation; legalizinS assess
ment of taxes on land in the Missouri
river for 1897 and 1898: Johnston. pro-
viding for the organization of life in
surance companies in South Dakota
and relating To reinsurance; Williams.
TO allow live stock To run at large IN
winter after SO directed by county
commissioners or township supervis-
ors; Tyler, TO regulate trials in dsbar-
ment of attorneys: Edgerton, requiring
supplies TO be purchased within the
state and counties; l.ittleficld, requir-
ing the secretary of the board of rail-
road commissioners to be Il stenog-
rapher; King, providing for a uniform
system of township fire guards and the
election of township fire marshal;
Reed. for valued insurance policy;
Jones. To amend the law in regard to
qualifications of county judges: Han
ten, repeating the law permitting cleo
I pioneering and hiring persons 10 cleo
tioneer; amending the law for punish
ment of manslaughter; Stewart re-
lating to the publication and sale of
supreme court reports.
In the house, the speaker appointed
on the engrossing force W. Moyes of
! McCook county. III. j. GieSen Of Brown
and Ira ID. Woodward of Roberts. The
Judiciary committee reported favorably
bills for the initiative and referendum.
J for court of Cancellation. and fixing
nine hours rs days labor on public
! works. The Pussy minority report on
J the war resolution was indefinitely
/ postponed. Bills introduced: Roselle,
providing for a state board of med
zeal examiners. and for county ..agis-
tration of physicians; Harrington, TO
reimburse the first worlds fair COM
/ mission and employees, appropriating
/ S2,6iS; Myron, defining the Jurisdiction
! OF justices of the peace in unor@aniZed
! counties: Narnum, for the relief of
! ChriStof Bank for lands taken by the
state in error; Thayer to empower
) school districts which have exceeded
! the limit OF indeDtc 1ness TO refund
/ bonds; to provide Il special tax for the
redemption of school bonds: Nielsen
! holder, to prevent the sale of tobacco
! or cigarettes to minors under the are
! of eighteen years; Stransky, providing
! for the selection of official papers by
! competitive bids: Cooper. a resolution
{ for Il constitutional amendment extend
! ing the term of Office of legislators and
! the governor TO four years.
Bills were passed to prevent the
! spread of disease among swine and for
the election of eight justices of the
! peace III counties with more than 90
600 population. The bin to allow sol
! diers and sailors to attend the state
educational institutions free of charge
| brought on q wrangle which had not
ended when adjournment was taken.
Pierre, s. H.. Jan. 19-In the senate
! the bills introduced were: Gunarson,
prescribing severe penalties for depre-
! dations, trespass or unlawful use OF
state lands; Tyler to regulate the prac-
/ tice of the barber trade. establishing
board to issue licenses: Stewart 10 re-
peal criminal penalties for usury;
O'Brien. appropriating $1,000 for COM
/ missioner of South Dakota at the Oma-
In exposition.
Bills were passed TO appropriate
S2,TI2 to j. b. McCloud for board of
men and horses during the Indian uD-
rising of 1S90-'91: libting the time in
which tax certificates may be paid and
tax deeds taken; giving soldiers and
sailors free tuition in state schools.
In the house. the tangle which was
on at adjournment yesterday was
Strengthened out by eXpungng por-
ton of the record. and the bill in dis
pute was put III shape for further ac-
ton.
Favorable committee reports were
made on bills To require all fees col
lected by state officers to be paid into
the treasury and for the redemption OF
property sold under chattel mortgage
foreclosure after sale had been made.
A fight was made to indefinitely post
pone consideration of the bill 10 make
nine hours a days labor on public
works. and after n fight against it by
the farmer element. the motion to in
definitely postpone was lost
Bills introduced We're: Woody. COW
ering into the state treasury all fees
and perquisites from any state institu-
ton or state office; Wilson, abatlng
road taxes of those who use wide-tire
wagons: Pussy. providing means of
collecting taxes on herds of cattle: Ny
ron, relating 10 the levy and collection
of taxes in unorganiZed counties. A
number OF bills prepared by W. Il.
Sherrard. of the children's home. were
introduced by Goddard. among them
being one 20 prohibit the taking Of chill
dren from play provided for them: al
lowing abandoned children 10 be cared
for; requiring parents or guardians to
pay for keeping children at homes pro-
vided for them; to provide for adoption
Of children: 10 prevent importation Of
dependent children, and declaring GER
70 in, ..arsnnc 20 ha i1i,hiio ra,,irlarS