The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1899-01-21
PARTY PARTY MEASURES ARE 81
PROMINENT ii PIERRE
South DAKOTA Legislature VIII tiiiyea
Up This Week in Discussion
Of Partisan Bills.
ASKED 70 APPROPRIATE a MILLION
Estimated that the Appropriations.
Demanded OF the Legislature
This Session Will Amount
to ~ ,22b,O0O

Pierre Jan. ls,-The present week
gives promise Of being decidedly more
Interesting than the two that have pre-
seded it. Several party measures will
come mp for consideration that will oc-
casions considerable debate and give
rise to q deeper display Of party feel-
ing than has yet been witnessed.
Owing to the large number of mem
bers absent yesterday no attempt was
made to push the bill to abolish the in-
surance commissioner OF other party
Dllls, except in regular routine. Today
when the absentees return! the COM
missioner bill will be taken out OF its
regular order.
Appropriation bills are coming in
thick and fast. Citizens of plankinton
who restored the burned dormitory
for girls at the reform school mt u cost
of $4,000, desire to be reimbursed,
and III Madison aud Spearf1sh nor
mails are M for new buildings which,
are estimated TO cost S25, 1000 each. The
normal at Springfield would like some
help. and the school of mines ut Rapid
lily is after a commercial department..
Some IL has estimated that the leg
islatnre will be asked to appropriate
f1.225, 900. s.
The democratic members have held
u conference With the governor on the
subject of warden for the p%cnitentiary,
but succeeded in extracting nc assur-'
ances that Bowler will be named. In
fact, II is pretty well assured that he is
not i'll the race and populist leaders
give as a reason his attempt toIorce
the governor to take n stand and main
tain that il he had been content to wait
he would haze been made warden of
the ~penitentiary and Tompkins, stl-
perintendent of the reform school.
A proposed constitutional amentl-.
ment will be presented to permit the
.oaning of school funds in amounts as
nigh as $1,000 to a single borrower anil
increasing the amount that can be
loaned on a pnrcel OF land to IS per
cent of its assessed valuation in the de-
cision of the board.
There is also much talk of a pro-
posed constitutional amendment to int
crease the salaries of state officers, the
general sentiment OF all parties being
that it is impossible for a state officer
to live on the present salary and he
honest i'll the matter of fees. Parties
who Claim to know say the governor
ship has cost Lee $1,000 in addition to
his salary.
There is a strong feeling among the
members against Colonel Frost, of the
First South Dakota infantry, and but
for the fact that the volunteers will
soon he home a resolution of eensure.
would be introduced.
lnresponse to the demandsot q large
portion @ofethe farmer members, am
other bill will shortly a intrndueed to.
permit stock 49, IN at larse frni1Sn
lyemBEfI to April ii. butlsasing III
Ioptional with townships to put the law
into effect. a bill will also be intro
duced to reduce the penalties for cut
ting timber on state lands, now being
so sever it is impossible to secure
conviction.
The railroad commissioners will ask
an appropriation of $4,000 for the en-
suing two years, against $4,000 for
1s97-0S. a careful estimate of the say
ling to the people of the state on the re-
iuctions in state rates proposed by the
board in the suit now pending before
the United States supreme court places
the amount at $4,000 a year.