The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-02-08
SOUTH DAKOTA LEGISLATURE.
The Proceedings of the Lawmakers Dur
ing the Week.
WEDNESDAYS PROCEEDINGS.

The Proceedings of the Lawmakers Dur
ing the Week.
WEDNESDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
Pierre, S. D., Jan. 31.-The Edgerton
bill placing the state fair under the
control of the state and appropriating
$4,000 for the payment OF premiums
was knitted in the senate yesterday aft
ernoon but got through the house with
practically no opposition. The bill still
has d chance to go through the SEN
ate.
Lawson of Brown began fight on
the bill when the senate assembled by
offering an amendment appropriatlng
$4,000 to pay the deficiencies OF the past
state fair. Edgerton replied with sup
pressed excitement that if it was in
tended to kill the bill it should be done
on it's merits and not by such amend
ments, asserting that If one deficiency
could be paid all might be. Johnson Of
Mitchell resented an i3nputation OF
Edgerton that Mitchell had not paid
up all premiums. The bill failed of the
necessary two-thirds vote, the ballot
standing 2S to IA, and was declared lost
When the Newly bill appropriating
10000 acres of endowment land for the
blind asylum came up LOOMS declared
that he should oppose it unless amend
ed to include al state endowment
lands not appropriated.
Il want it all given away SO there
Will be no more institutions created, ="
said LOOMS.
An amendment to carry out his view
was lost, after which the original bill
was passed, 33 to 8.
The substitute bill of the printing
committee fixing maximum fee of $40
for publishing certificates OF nomina-
ton was passed alter an amendment
OF Martin proposing to publish in three
legal rather than in three official pa
pers and one by Rowe cutting the
price down to S25 had both failed.
Stoddard's bill providing for the Gre
alton Of fence viewers was made a.
special order for To-Day at 5 o'clock
alter some debate. AT 3 o'clock
LOOMS moved an adjournment to fore
A.all Halls motion to reconsider the
vote by which tie license bill was car
ried yesterday, but on Halls assurance
that he bowed to the will of the ma
jority and would not attempt a recon-
slderation of the bill Loomis Withdrew
his men.
This presently foreshadows the sue
cesSfll passage through both houses Of
the Englesby bill to give the counties
the state liquor license.
Rowe moved to refer the wolf boun-
ty substitute offered Tuesday back to
the committee with instructions to re-
port bill, but on motion of Varnum
the substitute was Indefinitely post
poned and the repeal bin given its
second reading.
The senate passed senate bill GO for
the better protection of antelope; II,
tc pay Brown and Saenger for sup
plies furnished the commissions of
Insurance.; 6, for continuation of a
cause when an attorney is a member
of the legislature, and the house bill
for the creation of a state historical
society.
Thomas McKennett OF Webster was
appointed on the engrossing force.
The wolf bounty got o setback in
the house, the appropriation commit
tee making an adverse report on the
$4,000 deficiency bill.
The house passed the bill abolishing
the non-partisan feature of the law
for the selection Of official papers,
and it goes to the governor. Also the
house joint resolution No. S, reducing
the rate of interest on school funds to
per GEM; approprarirg $500 for a
deficiency in the fuel fund of the agri-
cultural college and $4,000 annually for
the state fair.
A number of unimportant bills were
introduced in both houses.