Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-02-08
legislative.
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1lerrc Correspondence:
The principal house bills introduced jan %
We're: 10 lilngc the time of eecting supreme
and circuit court Judges to general elections;
providing for destruction of noNious weeds along
highways. and to provide indigeyt defendants
counsel ut county expense fixing the maximum
Zee at SD The bill for the construction OF pas
ture fences tabled. and the bill for the pro.
lection OF large game got through by a scratch;
the printers bill was cleared out of the storm by
substituting the senate duplicate bill. Other bills
which received favorable action were: For ex-
ira planiing of bridges before traction engines
shall be allowed to cross; 10 change the place of
registration from polling place to town clerks
oliice and allowing Authorizations in tax lists.
: The jag cure bill was passed
In the senate the principal bills introduced
Jan. -, were: To empower cities to maintain
library buildings; providing for organization of
state militia; requiring the payment of taxes as
the ilrst requisite of beginning an action on u
tax title and providing for flood gates by own
crs of dams. The printers hill, to allow com.
inissioners to name official papers regardless o'
politics passed. as did tile bill to give counties
all OF the liquor license money. Sen tor Stewart
called up his negotiable instrument bill on re-
consideration. and carried it through by a vote
oil 26 to lG. Senator Rove presented his minor
ity report on the bill for increase of salaries in
which he charges that the exclusion of the third
circuit is special legislation and q violation OF
the constitution.
The house met bills for third reading in diff
fercnt spirit Jan. 80. an passed number. those
passed. Deing the road bill, which was pulled ont
of the day before and came
pack amended to provide that nonresident
owners of land must appoint a resident of the
road distric. as agent. on whom notice of road
work can be served. The senate hill to allow
county commissioners TO select official papers
regardless of policy was taken up and passed
Further house bills passed were a constitutional
amendment allowing state school funds to be in
vested III 70 per cent. securities; a resolution
hcMoriaiizing congress for the election of sena-
tors by popular vote; fixing the legal weight OF
bnslel of speltz at A. pounds; appropriating S.
5oo 1or the fuel and light fund at the agricultural
college; ceding jurisdiction over crimes commit.
ted on Indian Reservations to national govern
mcnt; licensing transient merchants; creating Is
state board OF agriculture and approprlating 3d.
ooo annually for state fair purposes; appropriat-
Ing Sil5 deficiency in salaries of l.. T.. Conklin
and John Brennan as railroad commissioners,
and to allow holders of tax certificates to file !.
release OF the same, AMI the senate resolution
asking that the Indian Agency at Ssseton be re.
stored.
The senate on Jan. 80. passed bills to appro.
pirate money for the payment of a Judgment
gwen Brown q Saenger by the supreme court;
prohibiting the killing of antelope: setting aside
10000 acres of state land for the benefit OF tho
bind asylum and limiting publication of certifi-
cafes OF nomination to official papers at a fixed
iu"Ailhuu price, Inc house bill creating the
stale historical society was taken up and passed.
The bill to create Ninth judicial circuit was
put on Its passage in the house Jan. 81. killed
and then reconsidered and made special order
for Feb. 4. The principal bills introduced were
to appropriate $500 for boys dormitory Mt the
Spearilsh normal school: to license pcdlIers and
travelling vendors, the license to be paid to the
state, and ranging from $50 per year to $50 per
day, according to grade of business carried on,
and to place all state and mutual insurance com.
panies under the control of the state insurance
commissioner. The committee returned an ad-
verse report on the bill for a state experimental
farm in Lawrence Conty.
The principal senate bills introduced Jan. 81
not duplicates, provide that heirs of deceased
persons may maintain suit for damages before
death; fixing the maximum salary of clerks OF
court at 81 .s0O modification of the wolf bounty
making county commissioners viewers of scalps
and constitutional amendment for equal s!If.
frage. introduced by Williamson of Lake Still.
well secured a reconsideration of the board OF
agriculture bill, which was lost JAN 80, and
1t was made the special order for Feb 5. The
house bill to increase salaries of judges and gov
ernors passed without change. by a vote of 81 to
;. Mauch, Close and Stoddard. Republicans vot,
ng against the bill. with Martin. Bell and Wilkes
,Populists. The house bill to tax stock of non.
resident owners 50 cents per month per head
was amended and passed.