Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-02-23
SOUTH DAKOTA LEGISLATURE.
The Proceedings Of the Lawmakers Dur
Ing the Week.

4 fEocecuihEb ot the ISaWmAh0rs Dur
Ing the Week.
TUESDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
Pierre, 8. d., Feb. 13.-Sweet's wolf
bounty repeal bill. which was forcibly
taken from committee and killed Mon
day during the absence OF twenty-five
members, was the subject of a merry
row In the house yesterday afternoon
at the conclusion OF which the record
Of Mondays proceedings was ex-
plunged and the bill again given the
breath OF life and referred to a friend
ly committee which will report IT for
passage when the coast Is clear.
The excuse for expunging was found
In q faulty Journal record OF which
Everett OF Sphinx and his followers took
advantage. The debate was the warm
est OF the session, being participated
In by nearly half the members, Bene-
dict, Goddard. McDougall and Ander-
son fighting the Sweet bill, Heath, Ev-
erett and Lindgren contending for the
right to expunge the proceedings by
which the bill was buried. The vote
stood 80 to 80. The wolf bounty men
are respondent over the result and de-
clare the action of the house irregular
n revolutionary.
Bills were introduced In the house
making y Of towns and chairmen
OF supervisors inspectors of public
scales and repeating he text book uni
formity law. Bills were passed allow
ing each member OF the house free
scholarships at the educational insti-
tutions for ten students and fixing a
fine Of 500 for defacing the American
flag.
The senate adopted the majority re-
port OF the committee against woman
suffrage and defeated the anti-cigaret
bill by indefinite postponement OF the
committee report.
Tha ...a I'm as.ylna tha
power to remove constitutional officers
for cause was passed as amended by
the ena 10 include the removal of
statutory officers summarily. Edgerton
and Gilmore, republicans, voted with
the f~usionists against the bill.
The house bill placing a license on
transient merchants Of no more n
500 nor less than $75 In cities and not
more than $50 nor less han $50 per
month in villages passed. A number
Of important bills introduced by the
appropriation committee relating to
fiscal laws and bonds Of officers were
put over one day on request or Chair
man Stewart OF the appropriation com
mittee.
The supreme court heard the initial
motion in the board Of charities Gaze
yesterday, denying defendants motion
&c dismiss made on the ground that
the action Shouts have been begun by
the states attorney on summons ana
complaint like other civil actions. De-
PENDANTS sought to get time, but the
court allowed only one week for prep
aration for final hearing.
WEDNESDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
Pierre, S.. D., Feb. 14.-Both houses Of
the Legislature will hold a morning ses-
sion today and take a special train out
this afternoon Tho gnn.t. IaggaI a
bill regulating the placing OF children
of dissolute parents in good homes, also
providing that local funds Of i%nstitu-
tons must be turned into the state
treasury.
Martin offered an amendment to the
bill regulating bonds Of state officers,
increasing the state trcasurer's bond
from $3.50, 900 to $500, 600. The amend
ment was adopted n the bill recon-
mitted to the judiciary committee.
The bill requiring state officers to
turn over fees was amended In the in
terest Of Frank Crane, clerk OF the SUI
court, to apply only TO those Off
GERS now receiving stated salaries and
as amended was passed.
The general educational bill was put
over until Wednesday, February 20.
In the house The bin creating the Of
Of chaplain OF the penitentiary at
81 900 per year was killed, but will be
reconsidered. Benedict uied to revive
the wolf bounty Gght by a motion to
the action by which the
was ~eXpunged Tuesday, but on
motion OF Goddard the whole matter
was deferred one week.
A senate bill ap~propriating S25, 900 to
pay the expense OF criminal prosecu-
lions in unorganized counties was