Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-03-02

| Gov Lee vetoed the house bill to al
low voter 10 call assistance in mark
ing his ballot when he cannot read the
English language and 10 prohibit "a
name from appearing more than once
on the ballot. Ii is not likely that these
bills can be carried over the veto.
| In the senate. the appropriations
committee introduced a bill appropri-
ating S6.31O for deficiency In the eX-
Ipenditures of the railroad commission,
of which S3.1S2 goes to T. II. Null and
IS1.11T to w. O. Temple as attorneys
fees. and the bill to reimburse experts
for examination Of buildings at the re-
form school. The general appropria-
tion bill was taken up for final action
and number of amendments present
ed. the principal of which were to in
crease the stenographers salary in the
governors office to $1,000 year, which
was carried. and several to restrict the
management of the fund provided for
the bling asylum at Gary. all of which
! We're lost. The senate went into COM
mittee of the whole on the dispensary
bill and adopted twelve of the twenty
four sections of rhe bill Many amend
ments were presented. few of which
were adopted. Work on the bill will
be continued to-day.
Up 10 date forty.threc laws have
been passed and signed and eight joint
| resolutions have been adopted. The
| governor has sent in two veto mes
sages to each house-the Aberdeen
and Watertown normal school bills to
the senate and two ballot reform bills
| 10 tie house.
The governor appointed DR.. c. w.
Stuteproth Of Watev'nwn member
of the state board of dental examin-
ers, to succeed himself.
| Pierre. S. D.. Feb. 2T.-In the house
| Saturday several inefficient efforts
were made 10 secure evening sessions
for the coming week, but all moves In
| tn.s direction We're failures. The Sift-
| ing committee fight was started again
on motion by Baskin that the speak
| er appoint committee for that pur-
pose. WImarth insisted again on the
appointment of his list, and the fight
was without either side gaining the ad-
vantage. Wilmarth carried his amend
ment, but the motion rs amended was
defeated The matter was then al
lowed to rest until just before adjourn
ment, when compromise was ar
ranged and the speaker. on instruction
l
mittee Narnum Thayer. Woolley.
Hawgood. Glass. Wilson. Odland of
: Turner. Pusey Woody and Woodruff.
The committee was ordered to make
/, its first report to-day.
| The house passed the following list
of bills: \ general lien law: defining
duties of road overscer in uuorganized
counties: providing method of grant
| ing railroad right of way across state
| lands; requiring school district officers
| to notify county auditor OF issue of
district bonds: providing for manner
of approval of official bonds of state.
county and town officers. The senate
| bill covering the same matter was
! taken up as a substitute for the house
| bill providing for the purchase of
printing supplies within the state and
passed The bill TO allow the governor
! to remove constitutional officers of
his own appointing for cause called
| out fight. but was passed on deal.
| The deal carries with il the normal
school bills for Aberdeen and Water
| town. and il is intimated that several
! other prOpOSiti0LS are contingent on
| the passage of the measure. a writ
! ten opinion by Attorney General Pyle
was presented, holding that the oil in
! spection bill passed by the house was
| I'm conflict with the provisions of tla
| interstate commerce law so far as ii
F! provides for test at ports of entry. and
the provision preventing the shipment
| into the state of cheaper grades of Oil
| was in conflict with the provisions of
| the constitution. On this opinion,
| Glass moved that the bill be reconsid-
| cred and recalled for amendment.
| This. the speaker held, could not be
done without unanimous consent. and
] Austin refused to allow IL TO come up
| in this manner The senate devoted all
| the afternoon to the dspensary bill
| and finally carried Ii to second reading
before adjournment. The bill comes
up for final action to-day. The princj-
pal amendment adopted was to keep
J out the appropriation which il carries,
/ and insert in it's stead provisions al
| lowing the different counties 30 issue
what are TO be known as dispensary
warrants for the purpose of putting
| the law into operation. These war
rants are issued with a provision that
| they are to be paid out of the profits
Of the dispcnsaries 10 be established.
| a fight WAS put up on an amendment
| by Rouck that the law was 10 remain
1 III oitIatltI uHtl IL lidi btfu subiiit-
ted to the people for approval. This
was finally killed. AS the bill now
! stands. with the appropriation feature
cut out. it will not require two-thirds
to carry it, and there is no question as
| to its passing the senate. and. in fact,
! both houses.
| Pierre, $. d.. Feb. 2S.-The house
sitting committee presented its first
| report yesterday. recommending four
senate bills and twenty-five house bills
| for consideration.
Repr, sentative Purdin offered res
| olution indorsing the action Of Gov.
' Lee in v9to:rg The Aberdeen ard Wa
/, tertown Lo:mai school bills. After Il
| short skirmish motion to defer ac-
| tion on the resolution for one day car
! ried. A resolution by Johnson of
Brown was adopted, limiting debate
| to fiveminute speeches. The senate
general appropriation bill was taken