The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1901-02-14
Che legislature
Proceedings Of the
90 Week in the -.
y. State Law Mil 49,.


Pierre, Feb. 5.-Friends of the state
| university, the agricultural college, the
| Madison normal and other institutions
| have reached a further agreement
| with reference to the scope and charter
OF the school established at Aberdeen
two years ago.
The act creating the schools describ-
ed it as an institute Of technology and
the term was SO broad and general that
the regents of education declined to
recommend an appropriation for IL in
their annual report, as they would have
done il the charter had been specific.
They could o tell, they said, what
kind of a school to establish. This i'm
al agreement gives the school the title
Northern Normal and Industrial
School" and the bill will further read
as follows: =.
"To give instruction in manual train
ing and instruction to persons Of both
sexes in the science and art of teaching,
also to give instruction in the industri-
al and mechanical trades, arts and sci
ences, and in the allied branches OF
learning"
In this connection another bill will
be pressed confirming the Hatch and
Morrill, funds to the agricultural col
lege at Brookings, although the passage
OF this bill is mere surpluSage, as
these funds are now irrevocably vested
In that institution.
This measure, which has been given
the form of a joint resolution, was
presented by disinterested parties and
Is sc popular that 1t could be pushed
through despite Che opposition Of eth
err institution. II reads as follows:
"The federal funds created by the
acts of congress known as the Hatch
act, approved March 2, 1887, and the
Marrill act, approved August 80, 1890,
are hereby confirmed unto and direct
ed to be paid exclusively to the state
agricultural college and experimental
station located ut Bookings"
Pierre Feb. Still another would-be
solver of conundrums proposes to set
tie the judicial circuit puzzle by in
producing a bill to make Beadle county
"a part Of the Third circuit. If this
were done it would give that circuit
the necessary population to entitle its
judge to the increased salary voted by
the legislature last week. And yet
another party proposes to attach Bea-
die to the Fourth OF Mitchell circuit.
1t is unnecessary to say that neither
plan is approved by those Immediately
concerned.
Dsar,.a Esah cn;I Inanaatnr NJouo.
raises the objection to the pending oil
bill that it seeks to prohibit the i'm
p~ortation of no oil except for being I'M
safe, that by reason Of this it will let
in a poorer quality of oil than is now
shipped here, that it will give his sue
cessor a salary of not more than $500
or $500 a year, and that the sum set
aside for the purchase of instrumen s,
20 per lent of the fees, is too large az
the state has a great deal Of apparatus
ON hand at the present time.
Pierre, Feb. 5.--The name Of J M.
Greene, national committeeman, is
frequently mentioned ip connection
with the Office of commissioner of i'm
migration If that bureau should be es-
tablished by the legislature. Mr..
Greene is one OF the Oldest and most
hustling citizens of the state. He is
not a real estate man and as he has ac-
cumulated an independent fortune he
would administer his powers from an
unselish standpoint.
Pierre, Feb. 6s-Representative Bur
CESS bill for the creation Of a 8 ate
sheep inspector is worthy Of earnest
consideration. 1t provides that all
sheep shipped In shall be inspected as
to their condition and IL found dis
eased shall be denied entrance. The
inspector and deputies will be paid en-
tirely from inspection fees. the inspec-
tor at the rate of $500 a year and ex-
penses, the deputies at the rate Of 81
per day.
The senate took no action Saturday
on the oil bill, which 1t considered al
most the entire day in a committee of
the whole, beyond laying 1t over until
today. Prof. Akeley Of the State Uni
yersity gave some scientific informa-
ton. drawn out by questions pro-
pounded by Senator Sweet, and the in
terests Of the company presented by
Prof. Burton.
Pierre, Feb. 7.-Bill to give harvest
hands q lien on grain was killed in the
senate at the first stroke. The cham
pions of the ''downtrodden lapo.ing
man, IL any were present, did not
utilize the occasion as they would have
done a few years ago. The time Is not
long past when such an opportunity
would have been seized with avidity.