Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-02-16
SOUTH DAKOTA LEGISLATURE.
III Proceedings OF tho lawmakers Dur
Ing the Week.
VIC

TUESDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
Pierre. 8. D., Feb. 6.-The special
exposition committees OF each house
disposed OF the Buffalo and st. Louis
projects today, reporting against an
appropriation for Buffalo and turning
the Louisiana Purchase exposition over
to the next legislature.
Representative McDougal's queen
resolution was killed In the senate by
the adoption OF an adverse report OF
the committee. 22 to IL. Lawson of
Brown tried to let McDougall down
easy by making a qualified indorse-
ment OF the resolution, but LOOMS de-
clared the language OF the document
was e-xtravagant and the matter not
a proper subject for legislation.
Edgerton's bill approPriating $4,000
for, the state fair passed the senate
n goes TO the governor. ~Stoddard's
cannon firecracker bill was also
passed.
The house bill giving the governor
power to remove constitutional Of
ficers not liable 10 impeachment was
amended to include all officers appoint
ed by the executive and authorizing
the latter to remove without assign
ment OF cause.
A number OF unimportant house n
senate bills were passed and a few lit
tie bills were introduced.
Johnston's senate resolution for an
Investigation OF the state, penal and
charitable institutions was amended to
include the soldiers home, and passed
by he house.
Three apportionment bills were in
troduced In the house by Burgess OF
B~rookings. providing a house member
ship OF SO and a enate membership of
IL; by Anderson, making the house 90
and the senate 48; by Goddard, making
the house SO and the senate As.
The food and dairy bill passed the
house. Nearly the whole afternoon
being expended in wrangling over its
provisions.
Levy for Institutions.
Senator Gilmore has introduced the
bill which passed the last legislature
and was vetoed by the governor pro
viding a permanent annual levy for
the benefit OF the several educat'
institutions OF the state. Sprin.
Aberdeen are taken care OF in re
bill. The measure could have been
saved two years ago IF 1t had been
adequate TO the needs OF the institu-
tons, but It was not. 1t would have
provided but 500, 900 for all the schools.
The regents who were then behind the
bill ask $3.50. 900 In their last report. 1t
Is doubtful II the present bill Will pro-
vide a sufficient fund; II not It can
not pass. If the schools could be taxi
en- permanently out Of the struggle for
appropriations II would have a purify
ing effect upon general legislation.
When the registration bill came up
Cor passage in the senate Monday aft
ernoon Senator Lawson suddenly dis
covered that II contained a feature
which would permit the board Of coun-
ty commissioners to appoint the regis
tration boards In the city OF Aberdeen.
Now II has happened that Brown
county has occasionally had popullst
commissioners M such n contingency
as a board OF popullst commissioners
appointing a registration board In ABB
erdeen or Sioux Falls was not to the
liking OF the Brown county senator
and his prompter. The matter will
probably be settled to the satisfaction
OF all concerned when the bill comes
up again Thursday.
Asylum Funds Low.
There is some speculation among the
concerning the condition Of
the funds at the Yankton asylum. The
auditors office discloses that the fuel
fund is entirely gone now. 1t should
Ia carried the institution over till
the last OF next July. The maintc-
nance fund has only so, 900 left In il
and there are five months left before
the expiration OF the fiscal year. The
appropriation is $51, 900 for the fiscal
yea These matters are likely to he
gone into pretty extensively If the af-
fairs OF the institutions are properly
Investigated and the fusion manage
will hay something to explain
along with the republicans. The
funds mentioned have either been
used lavishly or else the managers
have anticipated their purchase to
prevent the republicans from handling
the funds.
There is a strong movement on look
ing to the final adjournment Of the
February rs.
WEDNESDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
Pierre, S. d., Feb. THE wolf
substitute bill kicked up a musS
IN the senate yesterday without re-
but passed the house by one
more than a constitutional majority.
The LOOMS bill to elect county com
at general elections and
making commissioners elective at large
was amended to allow nominations to
made by district conventions and
passed. Martin OF Miner ridiculCl the
bill, saying II was preposterous to
that districts might nominate
ana then to say they Wee not capable
electing the men nominated. Close,
campbell, LeCraft, Newly and Stod-
lard, republicans, voted with the flu
against the bill.
The light OF the session was over the
,ll Dill, Stewart moving to strike out
he clause providing for the reserva-
ion OF 20 per cen of the fees OF in
to pay chemists FOR making
OF oil samples at the univer-
! Gunderson was aroused to white
leat over the notion, declaring that
IN unfair attempt was being made to
till the bill by depriving 1t of it's ss-
feature.
You have raised the salaries OF the
Judges and governor, but you would
Ieny the professors who make these
ests as much consideration"
The bill passed, 80 to IL.
The Merchants association bill, cut
homestead exemptions from $4,000
0 $1,000 and personal exemptions to
500, created n spirited debate, Mauch
eadlng an address in its favor and
lartin replied at length, opposing the
Ill as hostile to the spirit of Ameri-
institutions and dangerous to the
ONE. On motion of Close 1t was
mende TO make personal exemptions
Lawson OF Brown offered an |,
making the exemptions OF
ersons not heads of families $3.50 in
OF $3.50, and the bill passed. "a
D 20.
The bill attaching Beadle county to
ne Fourth circuit was killed by an
committee report.
Apportionment bills were introduced
! the senate by Englesby and in the
ouse by Seward providing a senate
membership OF 45 and a house member
hin OF Ill. -
In the house the committee on state
fairs reported adversely the bill to
the state board of regents Of
iucation TO seven members. I
A bill passed the senat on Saturday
, pay Major Mosher, formerly of the
battalion, $4S for services in or
the First South Dakota vol
nteer infantry. Mosher is not en-
tied to this money IL Governor Lee,
uditor Mayhem and Colonel Frost
ere correct In refusing II to him when