The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-03-15
After a Long Deadlock on Appcr-
tionment Matters an Agree
ment Is Reached.
COMMITTEES TO NOTIFY GOVERNOR
Several Senators Protest That Duty Is
being Neglected - Some of the
Measures Passed at the FL
nal Session.


kota closed last night. The entire day
was spent in the passage Of bills and
just before supper all the bills on the
calendar had been disposed of and all
other bills We're Indefinitely postponed.
The apportionment bill had been the
bone OF contention for two days and
the conference committee was out for
hours.
After struggle lasting from 3
O'Clock Friday afternoon till 2 o'clock
this morning, during which both
houses were in a deadlock on the mat
ter of apportionment, both houses APP
pointed committees to wait on the
governor and announce the readiness
of the legisl; ture to adjourn. There is
much bitterness over the failure to
pass an apportionment bill, and SEN
ators Johnson, Englesky, Sweet Ed
gerton, Williams, Srlllwell. Cahill,
| Parks, Stoddard and Gregory signed a
protest condemning an adjournment
without performing their constitution
al duties.
The codif1cation bill which was sent
down from the house and amended by
| the senate was finally adopted by
| conference committee ana passed as
amended. The fight on the apportion-
terday morning, Lawson, of Brown,
moving to strike out all of the house
bill after the enacting clause and in
sert the senate bill. The house did the
same thing to the senate bill. When it
came to the appointment of conf ence
committees, Lieutenant Governor Snow
appointed Lawson, Stewart and Var
mum. The house boxer caucus took the
| matter out Of the hands Of the speaker
| and named Everett, Price and Seward
OIL Bnl u Dead One.
The oil bill which Gunderson has
been pushing for sixty days was indef-
| 1ritely postponed in the senate last
| evening. Gunderson tried to get the
house conference committee to take
the thing up again, but could do moth
ing.
The senate passed the following
house bills: Prescribing method for
levying taxes for sidewalk purposes;
providing that makers of notes must
be sued If at all in. the county where
they reside; repeating county seed
grain laws; re-establishing the boun-
| Diary between Meade. Pennington and
Lawrence counties; compelling state
officers to report to the governor Oc-
| tober 1; providing for four years
medical course for applicants for medi-
cal certificates; making contingent
notes taken by mutual insurance COM
directors and officers of county mutual
| insurance companies.
The following resolutions were
passed: Memorializing for the re-
tirement of Colonel Frost as brigadier
general; asking congress to give a
clear title to the Sisseton military fes-
| ervation; removing sand bar from the
mouth of the Jim river at Yankton.
The senate concurred in the house
| amendment increasing General Hum
phrey's back salary to $685. =,
Work in the House.
The house passed the following bills:
Fixing the jurisdiction and salary of
| county judges, salaries ranging from
| 5000 to $4,000 per annum; giving Faulk
county an annual term of court; fix
ing the maximum and minimum salary
of register of deeds at 1900 and $500,
respectively; providing for the recovery
of children misplaced by the childrens
home; the peddlers license law
The senate amendments to the codt-
fication bill We're agreed to by the con-
ference committee and the bill passed
in both houses.
The governor vetoed the bill allowing
| members of the legislature ten scholar
ships each in the state educational in
situations.
The Final Windup.
Pierre, S. d. March 11.-Practically
all Of the legislators have left for their
respective homes. The last little evi-
| dence of lacka of unity between the
house and senate was on the appor-
tionment bill The senate adopted the
,, report Of the committee by vote Of
u to II, providing for As senators and
| 80 representatives and sent the mea-
sure to the house. Here it was turned
| down As to 80. While Packard was en-
deavoring to get the bill reconsidered
in the house admist many protests
Heath moved that the body adjourn,
sine die, which was carried, with the
apportionment matter remaining
where the 1897 law placed 1t. The SEN
| ate at once adjourned when advised of
the houses acton. j
The Boxer" resolution which was
expected to be presented in the house
was never presented although In the
caucus it was supported unanimous
~. 1t was as follows:
Whereas, The custom heretofore and
recently practiced by certain federal
appointees and others of gathering at
the state capital at or near the opening
of each session of the Legislature for
the purpose Of controlling and debating
In the organizationsof the house and
senate and the selection of the SUBJ
ordinate officials In a gross violation Of
the properties. repuRnant to all good
citizens. and rejecting alike upon the
honesty and ability of the members Of
the legislature; and.
Whereas. The members Of the legis-s
lature are selected to serve the state
and are responsible. not to coterie Of
sell appointed bosses, but to their con &
stituency: therefore, be 1t
Resolved, That this hose does most
earnestly protest against any future
action OF the kind. as being vicious In
the extreme. ininiical to the public