The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-31
WOLF BOUNTY TURNED DOWN
County Commissioner to Select Of
fetal Papers Regardless of Pol
Politics and Sisseton Agency
to BE Restored.

''OAA NOii6 IAc IOdI Oil, W1lcn was Dulleu
out Of the way yesterday, which was
amended requiring non-residents to ap-
point resident agents on whom notice of
road work can be served; fixing the legal
weight Of a bushel of speltz at forty-ive
pounds; ceding to the national govern
ment jurisdiction over crimes committed
on an Indian reservation; licensing tran
silent merchants; and senate bill to allow
county commissioners to select official
papers regardless of politics, and senate
resolution memorializing congress to re-
store the Sisseton agency
The principal senate bill was the res
olut1on to members of congress for an
appropriation for removing the sand-bar
at the mouth of Jim river.
The senate passed bills prohibiting the
killing OF antelope; setting aside 10000
acres of public land for the blind asylum
at Gary, and limiting the publication Of
certificates of nomination to official pa
pers. Senator Hall withdrew his notice
for motion to reconsider the bill to give
counties all the liquor license money, and
the light on this measure will be taken
to the house. The supreme court has set
Feb. II as the date for a hearing on quo
warranto to test the title to offices of
members of the board of charities and
corrections.
the houses has been rather listless, no
one appearing to take more than a pass
ing interest in the bills which were I'D
Tor final action, practically any measure
going through with but little or any pro-
test. But that is showing a change
Several bills which came up in the house
monday received severe jolts, the senate
putting in most of the day in talk The
first house break came on the adoption
OF committee reports when the bill for
county treatment of INDECENT inebriates
was taken out of the hands of the COM
mittee and placed on the calendar. This
bill Is being pushed by DR.. Roselle, one
Of the directors of the Sioux Falls Kelly
institute, and will go before the house
regardless of the committee action
Next came the defeat of the bill to
make insanity a cause for divorce and
scrap over the bill to limit the number
of ballots to be furnished to precinct,
which was amended in a number of par
ticulars, then sent back to the COM
mittee.
The Gross resolution against sitting
committee received the support of sew
eral Republicans, and was carried. Lind
gren, of Day, was opposed to such
committee, and gave as his reasons that
he had run against the committee last
session and found that the committee
members considered their own pet bills
as those of the most Importance to the
state, and others had to wait their pleas
7ure.
In the senate, Sweet, of Hutchinson.
who IS posing as an economist was very
bitter in regard to an adverse committee
report On his bill to repeal the wolf
bounty law, and proceeded to score the
committee, but was ruled out of order
by the chair. The committee report was
in the shape of substitute bill reducing
he OfNy md Mo oi11 6
guards around the payment of the boun-
ties.
Rowe, Of Stanley, declared that he was
not given notice of the meeting Of the
committee which took up the cons:dera-
ton of the house bill for increasing the
salaries Of the governor and judges, and
that he desired to protest On motion Of
Stewart he was allowed leave to file
minority report, which will attack the
measure on constitutional grounds and
on the grounds of manipulation which
leaves the third circuit out of it's provis-
ions, in this attacking the motives which
makes the discrimination.
The printers had got in their work on
the house bill to repeal the law requir-
ing publication of certificates of admin
istrations, and had secured an adverse
report from the senate committee on the
bill, with a substitute which requires the
publication only in official papers and at
a stated sum. A minority report favored
the absolute bill. Lawson of Brown,
championed the cause of the printers,
and made a strong speech in favor of
retaining that portion of the election law,
while Gunderson, of Clay. desired the
whole section stricken cut on the grounds
of economy. The majority report car
ried and the bill will have to go back
to the house for another wrestle
Hall, of Brookings, and Englesby. of
Codington, locked horns over the bill
to give all liquor license money to the
counties. Hall took the position that the
state needed the revenue derived from
its share of the license fee to assist in
paying the heavy appropriations required
by the various state institutions Eng!es,
by took the position that it was not fair
for the counties which licensed saloons
TO pay a share of the state revenue,
" hich was not demanded Of the prohi-
bition counties of which Brookings was
one, and that Brookings was particularly
anxious that the present system should
continue, as it helped to pay the heavy
appropriations asked by that county,
without paying any of the amount her
self. The adverse report of the COM
mittee was adopted, and the present law
will probably stand
Since the first day of the legislature
one of the subjects which has been Wig
orously agitated is the repeal of the wolf
bounty law. All the members from the
west side of the river, and a good many
from the north part of the state on the
east side, are interested in keeping the
law on the statute books while the
frauds that have been committed under
the law as it now stands leads numbers
to desire the repeal of the law. The par
ties most in interest have struck COM
promise, however, and have prepared a
bill accordingly, which will probably be
passed, which Is intended to correct the
worst features of the law by making
the boards of county commissioners the
judges to pass upon the pelts and scaIps
and throws other safeguards around the
operation Of the law which will remedy
it's most Objectionable features.
Chemists of the state university and
the Standard Oil company will appear
here for the senate committee tomorrow
to give their testimony in regard to the
oil inspection bill now pending. The
question of license money to counties Is
causing considerable di cussion and there
is talk of a Republican joint caucus to
discuss action on the matter as 1t is
considered to be a serious proposition to
take this revenue from the state.
The State Press association is In SEES
sion here today. At the forenoon meet
ing, a committee was appointed to draft
a bill to change the present law of pub
licadon of estray notices. Another ses-
sion VIII be held this afternoon and pa
pers read. A reception and banquet will
be rendered the members at the Locke