Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-03-16
THE SOUTH DAKOTA
LEGISLATURE ADJOURNS
After a Long Deadlock on Appcr'
tionment Matters an Agree
ment Is Reached.
COMMITTEES TO NOTIFY GOVERNOR
Several Senator's Protest That Duty Is
Being Neglected - some OF the
Measures Passed at the FL
nal Session.

Pierre, s. D., March 9.-The Seventh
session of the legislature of South Da-
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 were indefinitely postponed
The apportionmcnt bill had been the
bone or contention for two days and
n conference. committee vas out foi
hours.
After "a 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
or the legislature to adjourn. There Is
much bitterness over the failure to
pass an apportionment bill. and Sen
ators Johnson, Englesky, Sweet, Ed
gerton, Williams, Sullwell, Cahill,
Parks, Stoddard and Gregory signed a
protest condemnlng an adjournment
without performing their constitution
al duties.
The c~odiication bill which was sent
down from the house and amended by
the senate was finally adopted by a
conference committee and passed as
amended. The fight on the apportion-
ment bill was begun In the senate yes
terday morning, Lawson. of Brown,
moving to strike oEt 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 1t
came to the appointment OF conference
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
OH BIl n Dead One.
The oil bill which Gunderson has
been pushing for sixty days was indef-
initely postponed I'm the senate last
evening. Gunderson tried to get the
house conference committee to take
he thing up again, but could do moth
ing.
The senate passed the following
house bills: Prescribing a method for
levying taxes for sidewalk purposes;
providing hat makers OF notes must
De sued IL 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-
b /; providing for "a -four years
medical course for applicants for medi-
cal certificates; making contingent
notes taken by mutual insurance com
panies no~n-negotiable; fixing terms Of
directors and officers Of county mutual
companies.
The following resolutions were
passed: M~emorlaliZing for the re-
tirement of Colonel Frost as brigadier
general; asking congress to give a
clear title to the Sisseton military res
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 $S05.
Work In the House.
The house passed the following bills:
c jurisdiction and salary OF
county judges, salaries ranging from
$500 to $4,000 per annum; giving Faux
an annual term of court; TX
ing the maximum and minimum salary
OF register OF deeds at 81, 200 and $500.
providing for the recovery
OF children misplaced by the children's
home; the peddlers' license law.
The senate amendments to the codi-
bill were agreed to by the con
ference committee N the bill passed
IN both houses.
The governor vetoed the bill allowing
of the legislature ten scholar
ships each In the state educational in