Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-02-23

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tional institutions free of charge; per
hitting taxes to be paid In semi-annual
Northumberland and September.
Pierre, s. d., Feb. lin the house
the following bills were passed: Re
quiring engineers TO secure licenses;
defining duties of clerks and judges OF
county courts; appropriating $4,000
for improvements at insane asylum;
allowing cities TO bond for the purpose
of securing water works: allowing
cities 10 create boards of public works
and providing the II of care OF
insane. The appropriation committee
reported the general bill, which carries
$4,000, an increase of SS6,64S over
the general bill of two years ago. Rep
r~esentative Dwight was granted n
hours in which 10 submit a minority
report.
In the senate bills were passed APP
propriating S7,425 deficiency to the re-
form school; permitting county com
missioners TO pay bounties for the de-
struction of gophers on the petition OF
81 per cent of the voters; prohibiting
tVuulh JuhStS itpBl ditihp hhNy
works: authorizing county commission
are interested or related TO the parties;
curing defects in Acknowledgements in
territorial days; empowering cities OF
the first class TO issue bonds for water
ers TO take tax deeds and sell lands;
appropriation for publication of pro-
posed constitutional amendments and
repairing state house; prohibiting own
ers of threshing machines from per-
hitting children to be about such ma
chimes: permitting mortgagors TO des-
ignate in the mortgage where personal
property may be sold under foreclos-
ure; requiring county judges TO hold
regular terms of court, beginning the
first Monday in each month excepting
August, and prohibiting judges from
acting as attorneys.
Gov. Lee presented a communication
to the senate on the Yankton insane
asylum, declaring the building which
burned to have been a fire trap, and
recommending that the state erect no
more buildings which are not fire.
proof, further recommending that the
legislature set aside S100,000 for an in
ran fund TO meet an emergency
where state buildings have been de-
stroyed.
Bills signed by the governor to-day:
To appropriate money for deficiency in
salary of George Johnson, as railroad
commissioner; TO change term of office
of township supervisors; providing for
issuance Of bonds for refunding old
issues.
Pierre, s. D., Feb. 1S.--The house
took UP the third reading of senate
bills and passed two relating TO attach
ing territory to Clay cour ty, a bill to
prevent the acceptance of warrants in
payment of taxes or license unless pre-
scented by the party to whom they
We're issued, and to authorize the use
of Granthan's Code. The bill for per-
manent appropriations for state insti-
tutioLs was wrangled over for two
hours and finally indefinitely post
poned. but notice of reconsideration
was given. The hill as il will come up
for reconsideration is amended in sew
eral particulars from the original state
bill. 1t was declared by Wilnarth
that the amount i'm the senate bill of
e~ight-tepths Of a mill of the total levy
would give the institutions an annual
appropriation of $4,000, while for the
last year they got along on 1900.
and he moved an amendment to cut
the appropriation to siX-tenths of a
mill. This was defeated, and an
amendment to reduce TO seven-tenths
carried. Another amendment limits the
total amount which can be secured by
the institutions in any n year TO
$1,000 This placed il in shape
where ii did not satisfy its original
supporters, and the motion TO postpone
was carried-19 to 81. The bill for adj
ditional buildings at the state univers-
ity was indefinitely postponed. The
senate passed the bill authorizing the
Incorporation of state premium life in
companies and To reduce the
board of corrections and charities to
three members. On the second read
ing of the bill TO put telegraph and
telephone companies under control of
the railroad commission there was n
lively fight. Tyler presented an amend
ment placing press and special matter
at the same rate as any other matter,
and Loomis, as chairman. declared the
amendment carried and was sus-
TANNED ON appeal from his decision.
A motion TO indefinitely postpone was
lost. Another amendment by Tyler
prescribes severe penalties for the ac-
ceptance OF franks. There will prob
ably De another fight when it comes
up for final action.
Pierre. s. D., Feb. 20.-In the house,
Packard called up the percentage APP
preparation bin for educational insti-
tutions and 1t was passed. after having
BEEN amended to place the percentage
of levy at seventeenth of n mill: that
the amount to go to the institutions for
any one year should not exceed $780,
900, any surplus to revert to the state
general fund. House bills We're passed
providing for boards of review of as
sessment In cities and towns, and fix
Ing terms of court in the Second Judi
cial district. A communication from
Gov. Lee was read, showing hat the
total available cash in the treasury mt
the present time is only S., 900, and
asking that no more emergency appro-
priation bills be passed than were alb
solutely necessary. He called atten-
ton to the fact that there are number
less ways in which the legislature
might increase the revenue OF the state
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