Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-02-18
SOUTH DAKOTA LEGISLATURE.
TUESDAYS ~PRocEEpINGs.

to prosecute the rate ease before the
huprene 6opft. The shiie Was ad-
eanced on the calendar Under suspen-
sion of the rules,
Other bills iBtrodtced:, Hy tiaHteh
and Sites, state dispensary! Gunder-
son, regulating building and loan as
sociations; Hoese, requiring railroads
to sell 1,000-mile books for $50.
Bills passed were: Requiring rail-
roads to furnish side tracks for private
grain WAREHOUSES; Of small capacity;
regulating practice of dentistry; pro-
yiding for apportionment of tax OF
$40 mill for all state educational insti-
tutions; regulating printing of SUI
preme court reports; furnishing intoX-
ication in public places; fixing per
diem and mileage for the lieutenant
governor in attending the meeting of
the state cafvassihg board; appropri-
ating $500 as n deficiency for fuel at
the state university; authorizing the
attaching OF adjoining tracts Of terri
tory to Independent school districts.
The House.
The house PASSED Willmarth's regis
tration bill by 66 10 IA.
The only other bill which secured
favorable action was an appropriation
of S911 TO A. &. Somers as deficiency in
salary as deputy superintendent of in
struction.
The bill for Irvine plant at the pen
itentiary called out a bitter fight, and
was supported on the strength Of be-
ing a Farmer BILL" but after a num-
Der of diIutory motions IL went down
with other bills of the afternoon. Sew
eral of the bills known rs the "Sher-
rard bills" drawn by Superintendent
Sherrard, of the children's home at
Sioux Falls, and relating to the man
ner of caring for children, called out Il
warm protest, and four OF them went
down in straight order, in spite of the
efforts of a few friends of the meas
ures to secure their consideration.
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WEDNESDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
Pierre, Feb. 0.-The senate resolu-
ton was adopted that morning ses-
sions be held on and after Friday.
Bills were passed relating to qualifi-
cations of state and county superin-
tendents Of instructions; requiring
railroads TO construct crossings at all
highways; providing that clerks of
courts shall not receive higher salaries
than county auditors; making rail-
roads responsible for damage by fire,
regardless of contributory negligence.
a resolution was presented COM
mending Senator Kyle and ~censuring
Senator Pettigrew for their action on
the peace treaty.
House bills classifying cities were
lost. but will be reconsidered.
Bills were signed by the governor
as follows:
To prevent the spread of disease
among swine; to reimburse Hanson
county for the care of Lyman county
prisoners and wolf bounty.
The House.
The house appropriation committee
returned without recommendation the
bill appropriating $4,000 to reimburse
the citizens of Plankinton for restor-
ing the burned reform school building
at that point. The free school book
bill was also adversely reported.
The house voted down the resolu-
tions which followed h lead in the
senate, and provided for morning SEES
sions on and after February 10.
The bill for appropriating $4,000 for
n dormitory at the Madison normal
school failed for lack of a two-thirds
vote, but will be recOnsidered.
Bills introduced: BY Wilson, re-
moving school of mines from ltapld
CITY to Vermillion: by Norgren, de-
claring houses of i'll fame public nui-
sances, and making wners and lcssees
subject to fine and imprisanment; by
request, creating county of Gridley
and defining boundaries; by Russell,
appropriating S5,23j to Lyman county
to cover mount of Judgment secured
by it i'm the case against the state.
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THURSDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
Pierre, Feb. 10.-In the senate the
resolution was adopted that the oil
requiring the warden of the penitcn-
tiary to furnish labor and stone FOR
the children's home building be with
drawn from the governor, that its
labor provision might be eliminated.
The attorney general held that this
could not be done. The governor will
veto the bill, and another will be pre-
pared requiring the warden to furnish
stone only.
A resolution was adopted that
Smith, of Pennington, be appointed II
committee ON behalf of the senate to
act with one house member to inspect
the Plankinton reform school build
ing, to ascertain if the bills presented
for $40, roo are correct. The general
feeling is that the bills are eXorbitant.
Bills passed: Appropriating $l,4jO
for deficiency in litigation fund OF rail
road commissioners
Senator Cooper's bill, modelled on
the Indiana law, for assessment of
property, was discussed at length.
Hanten offered an amendment equiva-
lent to an Endorsement of single tax
on land. The amendment was lost, IL
to 20, and the bill passed, 81 TO 8. The
measure is very stringent with re-
spect to the assessment OF money,
stocks credits and all personal prop
erty, and was a republican caucus
measure.
Gunderson's join resolution for a
constitutional amendment providing
for four-year terms for members of
the Legislature, one-half to he elected
every two years, passed by 20 to IA.
The resolution thanking Kyle and
~censuring Pettigrew for their vote on
the peace treaty was passed, "a to 10.
Smith, of Pennington, offered a sub
stitute commenting the senators for
voting their convictions, without die
tation from shyster politicians, and
Dakota Items of Interest.
Ed Carr, of Deadwood, fell fifty
eight feet down a shaft in which he
yyos working near Portland. 4 com-