Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-03-02
THE LEGISLATURE
Proceedings OF south Dakota's Law
NIL.

Pierre. 8. d., Special. Feb. 21.-The
senate passed a number Of bills yester-
day afternoon. principal among which
were: To punish trespass on public
Lands: permitting justification OF APP
peals to the supreme court TO be made
before the clerk OF the circuit court;
directing the warden of the penitenti-
airy TO furnish stone for n children's
home: making judgments a lien as soon
as filed: licensing and regulating bar
bers; making a settlement with Treas
urer Eastman OF Aurora county; per
hitting municipal corporations TO issue
bonds for purposes of ecnring water
for domestic purposes under the con-
s%titutional amendment OF 1896; per-
hitting cities 70 fund outstanding in
debtedness: a joint resolution memo
rializing congress not 10 pass railroad
pooling and anti-scalping bills, amend
ed 10 include only pooling bills. The
bil TO reduce the salaries OF registers of
deeds and auditors was indefinitely
postponed. Hanten's good citizen
ship" bin was postponed for thirty
days. The veto message on the Aber-
deem and WATERFOWL normal school
bilAr WIS tt4lEN ID IOA slNllOn Az lnC
WATERFOWL veto was sustained by n
vote of % to IS. Further action on the
Aberdeen veto was indefinitely post
poned.
In the house the senate bill TO estab-
lish an Industrial school at Aberdeen
was given first and second readings.
A senate message announced noncon-
currence In the house amendments 10
the percentage appropriation bin for
educational institutions n the ap-
pointment of a conference committee
on the bill. A house conference com
mittee was appointed on motion of
Wilmarth. The vote by which the sen
ate bill 10 fix the interest rate at Z per
cent in redemption after foreclosure
was lost was reconsidered and the bill
~passed-S6 to 1. The rest of the after
noon was taken up in a discussion of
the general appropriation bill in COM
mittec OF the whole, and several re-
auctions were made in the bill. Only
about half the report was passed upon
when the committee rose and il will
be completed to-day.
Pierre. s. D.. Feb. 22.-In the house
Yesterday afternoon. on motion of
Glass, action on the veto OF the gov
n on the Waterfowl normal school
bill was made a special order for Fri
day morning. House bills passed: To
provide for the protection of large
game. An effort vas made TO allow
the shipment of game, which was de-
feated and the bin passed as originally
presented. To appropriate $4,000 for
fuel n maintenance deficiency at the
insane hospital. OF this nearly $1,000
goes to Gov. Lee for cash advanced on
fuel. Raising the salary of the score
tary of the railroad commission from
$500 TO $1,000 per annum The senate
bill carrying S1.450 for deficiency in
the railroad litigation fund passed. On
motion Of FinIerton the vote bv which
the McCloud appropriation oil was
killed yesterday was reconsidered. The
b.ll to place the collection of delinquent
personal property taxes in the hands
of the sheriff was killed. The house,
in committee Of the whole. considered
the bill TO provide a state board of au-
ditors and for repositories of state
funds. Several minor amendments
were presented and the bill will be up
for action Thursday. The house adj
journed until tomorrow afternoon
further consideration of the general
appropriation bill.
The senate killed Tyler's bill for leg
islative stenographers, and went to
committee of the whole on the general
appropriation bill. The ony changes
offered were in the line of advances on
the figures of the committee granting
increases TO the state university and
normal schools at Madison, Spearfish
and Springfield. Other advances were
made and an appropriation for the asy-
lum for the blind at Gary was intro
duced. The report of the committee
was lower than that Of the house, and
with the increases made by the senate
and cuts by the house the bills will not
be far apart. the only difference being
in items which will have to be adjust
ed by conference. The senate passed
the house bills appropriating money to
A. G.. Somers. to encourage reading
circles, and the pure food bill. The
senate adjourned to Thursday.
Pierre, s. D., Feb. Pain the house
Stoddard introduced a joint resolution
urging the state board of equalization
anu dSctcSIltut tO tsSess I'LL ~tOrDDfdte
property under its control at the same
proportionate value as other property
assessed in the state. A motion 10 adj
anc the resolution on the calendar
was killed. The house went into COM
mittee Of the whole for the considera-
ton Of the general appropriation bill,
and the rest of the afternoon was
taken up in this and the final passage
of the bill after the committee report
had been adopted. An effort was
made 10 secure an appropriation for an
assistant in the public examiners Of
flee, which failed. The first fight came
on the matter of an appropriation of
$4,000 for a litigation fund for the
railroad commission. This wa op-
posed by Glass and Wilmarth. and de-
Tended by a number Of members and
finally carried after voting down a
number of amendments looking toward
changing the amount The only other
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