Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-03-02
THE LEGISLATURE
Proceedings of south Dnkota's Law
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Pierre. S. D.. Feb. 22-In the house
yesterday afternoon. on motion Of
Glass, action on the veto of the gov
ernor on the Watertown 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 was made to allow
the shipment Of game. which was de-
feated and the bin passed as originally
presented. TO appropriate $4,000 for
fuel and maintenance deficiency at the
insane hospital. OF this nearly $4,000
goes TO Gov. Lee for cash advanced on
fuel. Raising the salary of the secre-
tary of the railroad commission from
$500 TO $1,000 per annum. The senate
bill carrying $1450 for deficiency in
the railroad litigation fund passed. On
molten of Ifnnerton the vote by which
the McCloud appropriation bill was
killed yesterday was reconsidered. The
bill 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 10 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 ad-
Journed until tomorrow afternoon
further consideration OF the general
appropriation bill
The senate killed Tylcr's bill for leg
islative stenographers, and went TO
committee of the whole on the general
appropriation bill The ony changes
x,ynr in, I, he -, Iva
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. H.. Feb. 24.-ln the house
urging the state board of equalization
and assessment to assess all corporate
property under its control at the same
proportionate value as other property
assessed in the state. \ motion to ad-
vance the resolution on the calendar
was killed. The house went into COM
mittee of the whole for the considera-
tion of the general appropriation bill.
and the rest of the afternoon was
taken up in this and the final passage
or 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 n litigation fund for the
railroad commission. This was op-
posed by Glass and WilHlarth, and de-
Tended by number of members and
: finally carried after voting down a
number of amendments looking toward
changing the amount. The only other
contest was on an appropriation of
$1,000 per year for the maintenance Of
/ the school for the blind at Gary. On
this proposition Wilmarth and Pusey
made tight against this appropriation
committee report had been adopted.
, Wilmarth attempted TO carry out his
views in the way OF an amendment
covering the same ground, before the
bill was read and again after it was
read. He was defeated both times.
In the senate the Hanten resolution
for constitutional amendment per-
mitting counties by vote to exempt
certain property from taxation. practi-
cally single tax measure. was de-
, feated The report of the conference
committee on the bill to provide for
permanent annual appropriations for
educational institutions was presented
| and adopted and the bill passed AS
reported by the committee it carries
tifteen-twenteths of mill and limits
the amount TO he received by the insti-
tutions to 100000 per year This was
, also adopted in the house. Considera-
tion of the governors appointments
! was postponed to March by vote of
% to Is. Bills were passed regulating
the erection of walls in common, de-
fining negotiable instruments. to pro-
vide beet sugar bounty of l cent per
pound 20 be continued for seven years,
providing for courts of Cancellation,
and the house election registration
bill, which will be reconsidered. Joint
resolutions We're passed to provide for
procuring records Of the constitutional
| convention and TO require that a con-
stitutional amendment to carry must
receive a majority of all votes cast at
the election. The bill placing tele-
graph and telephone companies under
the control of the railroad commission
was made special order for Tuesday.
The general appropriation bin was
made a special order for to-day. A
few unimportant bills were introduced,
ard tC-morrow set aS the last day for
the introduction OF bills.
Pierre. s. D.. Feb. p. In the house,
the committee on compensation OF
house employees reported In favor of a
, raise of % cents dag for pages and
80 cents n day raise for messengers,
| which was adopted. Bills passed:
providing for the safe Keeping of pub
lie funds through a state board of au-
ditors and banks Of deposit; appropri-