Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-21
SOUTH DAKOTA LEGISLATURE
DOings Of Day by the Assembled solons at
Pierre.
CONFERENCE ON SCHOOL APPROPRIATIONS
Governors veto on the wntertown
Normal school Biii sustained; On
the Aberdeen Measure In
definitely Postponed.

PIERRE, s. D.. Feb. 2O.-(special Tele-
gram THE house calendar shows forty
eight house and twenty-six senate bills ready
for final action. a communication was read
from a firm OF San Francisco photographers
asking the legislature to purchase views Of
South Dakota troops takeu at that city. a
bill appTopriating money to J. II. McClud
for care Of men and horses ia the Indian
trouble OF 1890 was killed. On rejection OF
the committee report on the Copper revenue
bill the Indian bill met the same fate, but
notice of reconsideration was given. The
osteopathy bill was returned by the com
mIttee without recommendation. Then fol-
lowed a long discussion on raising the COM
pensaton of house employees to the same
amount as that OF last session, which, after
being tangled beyond recognition by amend
ments, was put over for a day for action.
Bills introduced were:
BY Wllson-Fixing rates of legal printing
Vt SO cents per square for the first inser-
tion and 80 cents for further insertions.
BY Hawgood-Making a highway perma-
nent after twenty years use and to pro-
vide for insurance of public buildings
BY FoleyTo repeal the law Of 1897 allow
ing compromise OF taxes.
BY Vamum-To prevent employment of
convict labor in competition with free
labor
BY Sophy-Providing for the testing of rail-
road scales by the railroad commission.
BY Russell-To create the county of
Roosevelt out of the western portion OF
Stanley.
Senate bill to establish an industrial
school at Aberdeen was given its first and
second reading. A senate message an
nounced non concurrence in the house
amendments to the percentage appropriation
bill for educational institutions and the ap
pointment of Senators Cooper, Bulow and
johnson as conference committee on the
bill The house committee appointed was
Representatives Thayer Pusey and Lien.
On motion of Wlmarth the vote by which
the senate bill to fix the interest rate at
per cent in redemption after foreclosure,
was lost was reconsldered and the bill
passed. sc to /. The rest of the afternoon was
taken up in the discussion of the general
appropriation bill in committee OF the whole
and several reductions were in the bill as
presented. Only about half the report was
passed upon when the committee arose and
1t will be completed tomorrow.
In the senate the general appropriation
bill was passed, carrying 10000, about
$4,000 less than the house bill A resolu-
tion was presented asking that the secre-
tary be given 200 days at $3.50 per day after
the close of the session to complete the
permanent journal
The senate passed a number of bills this
afternoon, principal among which were one
to punish trespass on public lands, permit
ting justification Of appeals to the supreme
court to be made before the clerk of a
circuit court; directing the warden of the
penitentiary to furnish stone for Children's
home; making judgments lien as soon as
filed; licensing and regulating BARRIERS;
legslating a settlement with Treasurer
Eastman of Aurora county; permitting mu-
nicipal corporations to issue bonds for the
purpose of securing water for domestic pur-
poses under the provisions of the consti-
tutional amendment of 1896; permitting cit
les to fund outstanding Indebtedness; Joint
resolution memorializing congress not to
pass the railroad pooling and anti-scalping
bills, amended to include only pooling bill
The bill to reduce the salaries of register
of deeds and auditors was indefinitely post
poned. Hantens good citizenship bill
was postponed for thirty days
The veto message the Aberdeen and
Watertown Normal school bills was called
up for action and the Watertown veto was
sustained by a vote of % to 49, Further
action of the Aberdeen veto was then in
definitely postponed.
The senate passed a bill relating to teach
Ing the effects of narcotics in schools. A
resolution was adopted for sessions at 10 in
the morning after today.