Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-01-19
SOUTH DAKOTA LEGISLATURE.
fhe Proceedings OF the Lawmakers Dur.
ing the Week.

ing the w eek.
WEDNESDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
Pierre, s. D., Jan. 1.-THE leading chair
manships in the senate are practically
settled. Major Stewart Of Hughes will
head the appropriations committee; Law
son of Brown, apportionment; Hall OF
Brookings, judiciary; Varnum of Camp
bell, railroads.
In the house nothing has yet been
agreed upon, except hat Wilmarth of
Beadle will be the chairman of the ju-
dietary committee: Stiles of Minnehaha
wants to be chairman of the railroad
committee in the senate, but 1t is doubt
tul whether the controlling influence In
that body Will permit 1t.
Both houses of the legislature convened
at z y. m. In the senate the first business
was a motion by Campbell of Brown that
the senator's of the Sixth session be given
nlst choice OF seats, the fusionists the
second and that the other members draw
the remaining seats from the hat. The
Black hills senator's requested the privi-
lege of selecting their seats together.
Counties having more than one senator
were permitted TO select seats In the same
row. The motion was adopted without
division. The republicans selected their
seats along the side aisles and in the
front. The fusionists took theirs in a
body in the rear OF the room. The journal
was approved on the word of the journal
of the Sixth session.
The senate adjourned after the selection
of seats.
III Inc muse, I1IlnGlcy pI AlilNSndnd
and Davis OF Beadle, who did not answer
10 roll call yesterday, came forward and
took the oath. The election of officers
left over from Yesterday was taken up
and the republican slate was complete.
The oath was then administered TO all the
house employees.
The selection Of seats was begun. the
same program being carried Out which
was observed in the senate.
The fusion members of the house have
asked membership, ranging from one TO
three. on Zach of the house committees,
and three chairmanships, such as the ma
Jority may be willing to concede.
warren or Lawrence, Everett of Spiak
and Dean OF Hand were appointed a com-
mittee TO correct the permanent journal.
a resolution was adopted fixing Janu-
airy Is, February /, February Is and the
last day OF the session as pay days Of the
session.
Permission was given for the use of the
house chamber for a melting OF the State
Historical association on the night Of Ian
uary %, the call for the meeting being
signed by Governor Herreid, G. H.. Deland
II Doane Robinson.
A delegation Is here from the northern
part Of the state asking that the counties
Of Campbell, Mcpherson, Walworth, Pot
ter ard Faulk be set aside for a new judi
cial circuit to be known as the Ninth.
The attorney general has held regarding
the board OF charities and corrections
that there was II vacancy when the pres
ent appointments We're made and that the
appointments are not legal, but that this
does not inNalidate the acts OF the board,
as they were working under a claim OF
title.
.
THURSDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
Pierre, S. D., Jan. 1l.-Standing COM
mittees have been named, the chair
lnen being as follows:
Senate-Rules, Bennett; judiciary,
Hall; elections, Overseth; education,
Gunderson; state affairs, Cooper; ways
and means, Leach; appropriations,
Stewart; railroads, Varnum; federal
relations, Loomis; counties, Heath;
municipal corporations, Walters; pub
he buildings, Williams; public institu-
tons, Gregory of Sphinx; printing,
Johnston, mines ana mining, Jenkins;
state agriculture. Stoddard; live stock,
Edwards Of Brule; engrossed and en-
rolled bills, Williamson; insurance II
banking, Burke; public health. Sweet;
senate journal, Vance; warehouses and
grain, Rowley; interpretations, John
son OF Minnehaha; military affairs,
Englesby; charitable and penal insti-
tutions, Edgerton; school and public
lands, LeClaire; apportionment, Law
son; legislature expenses, Campbell;
highways, Johnson OF Hamlin; temper
ance, Gilmore; irrigation, Lacraft.
House-Judiciary, Wilmarth; educa-
ton, Bras: agriculture, 1indley; rail
roads, Chieseman; appropriations, Cd
land; temperance, Seward; ways and
means, Price; counties, Heath; munich
pal, Walters; printing and library,
Wade; engrossed bills, Goddard; state
affairs, Warren; insurance, Kelley;
banks, Day; mines, S~taller; Charita-
bic institutions, Porter; penal institu-
tons, Packard: highways, Peterson;
immigration, Wick: elections, Kinsley;
Indians, Schoeffer; manufactures,
Stobnow; lands, Trombo; health,
Locke; warehouses, Stobnow; military,
Patterson; live stock, Anderson; cor
p~orations, Benedict; apportionment,
Lindley.
First Bills introduced.
The following bills were introduced
and read for the first time;
No. by Gunderson, providing for
the construction of bitches and drains.
No. BY Gunderson, an act to pre-
vent the sale of dangerous and impure
oils.
No. BY Sweet, an act to encourage
the destruction of coyotes.
No. 4-By Stewart, an act regulating
negotiable instruments.
No. 5-By Englesby, organization Of
militia.
No. 6-By Hall, an act for continu-
ance Of causes where attorney is a
member Of the Legislature.
No. by Gilmore, an act providing
for farmers institutes.
No. S-By e. n. Johnston, an act to
change terms of Office of overseers of
highways.
No. 9-By Johnston, an act for con-
StructiOn Of fire guards nv townships