Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-03-15

VA tsAS AkS4 tuilCy duu " il tuls
stituti0nala amendment allowing county seats to
be moved from country towns to n railroad by .
vote of 60 per cent. Gov. Herreid returned y
veto on the ballot reform bill, pointing out his
objections. and the elections committee WAS al
lowed to introduce bill to cover the objections
raised by the bill.
The house on March 6 passed bill to create "a
salarled board Of charities. A special apprupri-
alton of $4,000 for a building for the blind asy-
lllm was passed, as did a bill to raise the age Of
consent to ls. Burk's senate tax bill. which
Jailed for the lack of q two-thirds vote on the 9Th,
was reconsidered and passed. The measure
was passed which provides for forty-ive sena-
tors and elghty-three representatives. Bills to
Increase the fee for filing brands from 81. so To-
$3.50. to Increase the fee for examination before
tie state medical board to $40. and fixing the
qualifications for entrance to state educational
institutions, Ito purpose being to shut out pre-
paratory grades from the institutions. were ia
vorably acted upon. The bill to pay j. r. Nc
Loud of Hermosa $500 in full for his claim for
supplies furnished to troops failed to pass by
seven votes, but will be reconsidered.
The senate passed several house bills March
8. the principal of which were: To repeal the
bill to prohibit the sale of firearms to Indians;
providing for the reorganization Of the militia
under the name OF the state guard; appro-
priating 81 .ess, the deficiency in the building
fund at the spearfsh normal; appropriating ST.
GOO for q deficiency in the salaries of house en-
ployes; changing the terms of election of SUI
preme and circuit court judges; to make their
election occur at the same time with thai Of
other state officers; AMI providing severe pen
alties for fraud on hotel keepers. The appor-
tionment bill was taken up and caused a hot de-
bate In the committee of the whole. Martin
accused Lawson, chairman of the committee,
with having traded on the bill to secure votes
for the Aberdeen school appropriation. hut
afterward apoloslzed for that statement, but in
SlE1pn mar htg ma rfN UraC hRfnn Observation-Disclosures oh
against. Stewart, in his remarks, referred to
the habit of the Populists of attrlbutlng an evil
motive to every act of those who differ with
them. and also stated that the statements Of
Martin were not borne out by the facts. There
were several other passages between Martin
reported the bill, which wa passed as reported.
providing for forty-four senators and ninety
mint representatives.
The senate on March z presented Lieut.. Gov.
Snow his chair and gavel by unanimous vote.
The house general appropriation bill was passed
without q change. Senate bills were passed re-
quirlng all public printing to be done in the
of equalization by Knocking of the attorney
general and providing that no class of propert'
can be raised in a county unless all other classu.,
are raised in proportion, and memorializing
congress for a constitutional convention to pro-
vide for tile election Of United States
seholols ny u ulrecC VOC3 OF tile 1teO-
pie. House bills were pass \ increasing
brand filing fees to $3.50; Egge ,lating the
Incorporation of mutual insurassE companies;
'appropriating Sl,6I for building iind at Brook
ings College. and appropriatlng $500 in full for
the deficiency at the Madison normal school;
providing that a party in interest may testify
against tile estate of a deceased person; permit
election precincts applying particularly to towns
which are loo itcd In more than one township;
prohibiting any name from appearing more than
once on an official ballo..
The house on March 2 passed the house reso-
lutions for an amendment to exempt superin-
tendents OF schools from the tenure of Office act.
and recommending Maj. Braden for appoint
ment to the regular army. Senate bills passed
appropriating 81. $50 to Fred Evans for asoldiers'
home claim; ll,400 for q dormitory at the Mad
ison normal school; allowing action to be COM
menced or continued against an executor: pro-
vldtng the method of giving publicity to clattel
mortgage sales; providing for notice to tele-
phone and telegraph companies before disturb
ing their wires by moving thrashers; requiring
railroads to fence their tracks along tracts Of
lSnds Fenced by an owner; providing that any
fees or perqulsltes coming into the hands of
state ohicers shall be turned into the state gen.
eralfund; providing for the levy Of taxes for the
erection of library buildings and maintenance Of
libraries; providing for turning all fees received
by state institutions into the state treasury to be
drawn out by warrant; providing punishment
for kidnapping. making the penaItyfo for Kidnapping
and holding for ransom with threats, life i'm
prisonment; providing for waste gates In mill
DAMS: allowing the spreading Of ali taxes on the
records as consolidated tax" and requiring the
schedule to be printed on the back Of the tax
receipt. At the evening session senate bills
were passed granting cities power to suppress
illegal liquor trafic; giving thfashers q btIor
lien on grain for thrashing charges: prohibiting
the plea Of relationship or interest q . reasooV Nor
refusing testimony in . civil suit; for constrhc--
ton OF public libraries; providing for the care
and leasing Of Fort Sisseton military reservation.
and Burke's scavenger tax bill authorizing the,
state assessment board to make q lmil deficiency
levy,