Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-02-16
THE LEGISLATURE
Proceedings of south Dak0ta's Law


Pierre, S. D., Feb. lin the house
the attendance was SO light that little
! business was transacted. The appro-
priations committee, which had been
ordered to report today. asged for an
other week before reporting. Granted.
A joint resolution was passed asking
congress 10 pay axe on Indian allot-
ment lands, as was a bill requiring the
4 warden of the penitentiary to furnish
stone and labor for the children's home
at Sioux Falls. The senate discussed
several bills without coming TO any
: conclusion. The bill demanding that
railroads carry bicycles as baggage
called out discussion that consumed
the entire afternoon.
Pierre, S. D.. Feb. S.-The house took
up third reading and final action on
house bills under suspension of the
rules. Action ON the senate bill TO au-
thoriza county commissioners TO pur-
chase De Lands Trial Practice was
killed. The election registration bill
was amended slightly and passed. The
only other bill which secured favorable
action was an appropriation OF S911
W n. VI EfOLillltlS as utHNithtg IA Sdi
airy as deputy superintendent OF in
struction. The bill for the establish
ment OF Il Irvine plant AT the peniten-
tiary called out a bitter fight and was
supported on the strength of its being
a farmers bill" but after n number
Of dillatory motions il ven down
( with other bills Of the afternoon. Sew
eral of the bills known as the "Sher-
rard bills" drawn by Supt. Sherrard,
Of tina children's home at Sioux Falls,
and which related 10 the manner of
caring for children, called out warm
protests, and four of them went down
in straight order in spite of the efforts
Of a few friends of the measure TO Sc
cure consideration.
/, In the senate, the appropriations
committee reported an appropriation or
$1,000 TO enable the railroad commits
sion to prosecute the present railroad
suits before the supreme court and the
bill was advanced on the calendar II N
der suspension of the rules. Bills in
troduced:
Johnston, relating to life insurance
companies organized under state laws:
Gunderson, relating 10 building and
ioan associations; Hoese. requiring rail
roads t. sell / ,000-mile tickets for $50;
| Gunderson, permitting schools boards
TO transport children TO school; judicl-
airy committee, relating 80 affidavit OF
publication OF summons; curing defects
in acknowledgements by notaries in
territorial days.
Dispensary bills were introduced by
Senators Yanten and Stiles. Bills
passed:
Requiring railroads to furnish side
tracks for private grain warehouses Of
small capacity; regulating the practice
of dentistry; providing for the appor-
tionment Of a tax of eight-tenths of "A
mill for all state educational institu-
tons; regulating the printing of SUI
preme court reports; Furnishing intoxi-
cation in public places; appropriating
$500 deficiency for fuel at the state
university; authorizing the attachment
of adjoining tracts of territory TO indie
pendent school districts.
Pierre, S. D., Feb. 9.-In the house
the free school book bin was adversely
reported and the bill to reimburse the
citizens of plankinton for money ex-
pended in erecting building at the re-
form school returned without recon-
mendation. Several revenue bills were
favorably reported.
A motion by Wooley to begin holding
morning meetings on and after the
10th vas defeated.
Purdon offered a resolution declaring
the house to be opposed to the passage
OF any bill carrying an old or any de-
fciency until after the same had been
submitted 10 the attorney general as to
its validity or the liability of the state.
The resolution was killed. Bills intro
duced:
Harrington, method Of classification
and levy of taxes In cities; appropria-
tons committee, deficiency bill to ena-
BILE the railroad commissioners to carry
, on lltigation; Dawson, providing that
prisoners shall be taken to the state
prison by an attendant from that in
stitution; Wilson, to remove the school
Of mines from Rapid City to Vermil-
lion; Norgren, fixing pay OF election
boards at 50 per day and % cents per
hour for overtime; Thayer, requiring
school district officers TO report bond
elections to county auditor; Myron, TO
attach certain lands to Clay county,
submitting the proposition to n vote;
Knodt, relating to powers and duties
of boards of supervisors; Holdridge,
placing sole power of disbarment in
the hands of the supreme court; Haw-
good. TO restore boundaries of counties
Of the northwest corner of the state to
what they were prior to the act of 1897
and their Incorporation INTO Butte
county, by q vote: Lien, appropriating
$3.50 for the p OF selecting bal
ance Of er. Ut and indemnity
lands: Russell, appropriating money to
pay Judgment against the state by
James Morgan and Lyman county;
Meisenholder. relating to exemptions.
: The bin for the creation of the Ninth
judicial circuit came up as & special or
der. and as it developed considerable
opposition Ii was continued to next
Tuesday and made a special order.
The bill for an appropriation Of $50. 600
for IN asylum for predetermined at
Redfield passed. An effort to hold up
all special appropriation bills until
after the general appropriation bill had
beeu returned to the house was fought