Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-03-08
legislative.

Pierre Correspondence:
The house committee Feb. % reported favora-
bly, on the senate bill by Sweet fixing liquor
licenses. the main provision of which prohibits
a druggist from handling liquor. with amend
ments reducing the license fee for brewers and
wholesalers. The committee also reported
favorably Oh the BARRIERS license bill and the one
creating a bureau of immigration, tile expense
being cut to $4,000 per year. Benedict secured
reconsideration of the vote by which the county
insane asylum bill was killed. aud 1t is alive
again. Special order house bills were passed to
allow counties to dispose of lands sold ut tax
sale for less than the face of tho taxes where tins
property Is not worth the amount involved, and
the bill to reorganize the militia. in the discus
sion of Which Packard declared Adjt. Gen.
Humphrey to be the best of such officials the
state ever had. A memorial to congress was
passed for the passage of the Grout bill; an APP
preparation Of SIS for 4 deficiency in making out
the muster roll Of the First South Dakota; the
sheep inspection bill was killed. The senate oil
bill was then taken up anu amended by turning
into the state tho fees for analysis when the
same Is made by u state empl0ye. striking out
''belOw grade" oil from that to be- admitted. anu
limiting the number of deputy Inspectors To
three, and pasSedit
The senate started ont Feb. 20 with a mlss on
the concurrence with the house amendment to
the general educational bill providing for Inter
national dictionaries, and by n vote of 80 to 10
refused to concur. Sweet and Loomis led the
light against tho concurrence, in the course of
which Sweet charged Bras, a house member,
with pushing the bill to be state agent of the In
ternatiOnal dictionary, and LOOMS charged that
The Legislature had already given $685. 900 to the
book trust. and 1t was time to call a halt. John
ston. Close and LOOMS were appointed senate
conferees on the bill. Bills passed were to pre-
vent parties interested from giving indirectly
testimony against deceased persons in claims
owned by them which they could not give d.
reCtlV. nrOyi0iNp fOr aSSngSmantn f Iva ctnCk at
a home ranch; attaching an island In the Mis-
souri, to Clay County for school purposes; pro-
viding for teaching humane treatment OF ami
mails in schools; memOrializing congress tor
drainage of Red River valley; house bills were
passed providing for the construction OF side
walks in villages: the jag cure bill allowing
counties to send drunkards to Kelley institutes;
dividing the cost of bridge construction between
townships and Il county; torrevent the desecra-
ton OF the United States flag; providing for the
rSSssulating the method Of making ' election isa
tickets when the ticket is split.
But two new bills were presented in the house
Feb. %. they being n valued policy insurance
Dill. and declaring express companies to be com
mon carriers aid placing them under control OF
the railroad commission. Not a bill of any kind
was passed. The whole day was put in at house
cleaning and getting old matters off the hands
OF the mouse. The senate took up bills on final
passage and passed every measure which came
to a vote. 1t passed senate bills legalizing the
incorporation of lIlkton; granting to cities Of
the third class power 10 bond for waterworks;
limiting time for beginning action on bonds or
warrants to six years; empowering cities to
maintain lighting plants. House bills also passed
providing that the n..sband or wife of an insane
person may, on application to II court. sell or in.
cumber property to pay debts or for the mainte-
nance OF the family; amending tile law regnlat.
ing the practice of dentistry; requiring the reg
istration of voters to he made annually: chang
ing the date of tho meeting of assessors to the
first Tuesday in April; empowering cities and
towns to reassess taxes for local improvements
where the first assessment las been declared
illegal OH a teclinlcality: lcgalizing the incorpo-
ration OF Irene; amending the law in relation to
drawing of jurors; permitting Lawrence County
to elect eight justices of the peace; requiring
guard rails on bridges; appropriating a 5000 de-
ficlency In tile fund for the burial of old soldiers.
and defining degrees of perjury.
The house continued house cleaning Feb. %,
and the only break was the introduction of bills
under the suspension of rules. as it was the last
day for Introduction. The rest of the day was
put in on committee reports and action on
amendments to house bills which lad come back
from the senate. Several of the committee re-
ports and the matter of concurrence called out
hot debates before they were disposed of. The
conference report on the general educational
Dill was adopted, and the wolf bounty bill went
into conference to fix what tile house thought it
lacked. Chiesman, Gross and Everett being APP
pointed as house c0nferees. Senate amendments
to the food and dairy commission bill were con-
CURED In. The house appropriation committee
brought in reports on the following special APP
preparation bills for new buildings and improve
ments: Vermillion. $4,000; Aberdeen. $4,000;
Brookings. $4,000; Rapid City. $4,000; Spring
field, / S,000,a and deaf mute school, S., 500: Spear.
fish. $500.
The senate on Feb. % passed senate bills re-
quiring reports of railroad commission. g and
other appOintive officers to be printed; pf, de
ing for care and lease Of the Fort Sisseton IN.
tary reservation by the state land department;
giving Faulk County an additional term of court;
giving officers of the children's home additional
powers to recover misplaced chlldren; fixing
salaries of county judges. advancing them about
% per cent; the proposed constitutional amend
ment providing that co per cent. of the voters
can move a county seat to a railroad. and max
Ing the minimum salary of registers of deeds
$4,000. The appropriation bill to reimburse Fred
I. Evans for work on the soldiers home at Hot
Springs called out a fight in the senate. and the
minority report was adopted. carrying $9,OOO.
The on appropriations introduced u
general bill carrying $95s. 500. This is about $5O.-
900 less than the house bill. House bills were
passed providing penalties for transportation of
diseased swine; defining how ballots are to be
marked on a mixed ticket; placing the organiza.
tion of the children's home under the control of
the board of charities and corrections; to pre-.
vent adulteration of linseed oil, and appropriate.
Ing $97G for the judicial expenses of Gregory
County prior to organization.
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