Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-03-14

ton and to make improvements along
the Missouri river In the southern part
of the state.
Raising the fee for license to prac-
tice medicine to $40.
Amending the laws relating to mutu-
al insurance companies.
The senate passed the amended bill
for the codiication of laws and sent
the same to the house where the
amendments were rejected and a con-
ference committee appointed.
The resolution recommending Major
Frost for advancement to brigadier
general on the retired list passed the
senate with but five negative votes.
The proposed amendment to the con
stitution to release county superinten-
dents from the tenure of Office provi-
son. was killed by the senate as was
the bill to raise the age Of consent.
Pierre, March 9.-The seventh bien-
NAL session of the state legislature Is
now a part of history.
The adjournment has taken place.
and the members are now packing up
their belongings and preparing 10
leave for their homes. Many have al
ready left the capital. and others are
waiting for the next train out to go to
their homes after sixty days of law
making.
There will be no extra session. as the
forces of the minority--which opposed
the appropriation bills and the appor-
tionment hill were not strong enough
to block their passage.
They had hoped to hang both of
them up until after the hour Of ad'
journment had come and passed, and
thereby force the governor to call an
extra session. The main object of the
session was to force through the CAPT
tai removal bill and submit the ques-
ton to the vote OF the people at the
next general election, but in that they
failed.
The removal bill got through the
house, but failed to pass the senate,
the friends of Pierre being strong en-
ough to keep the bill back. 1t came to
a vote, was defeated. and the last hope
of an extra session went glimmering.
The closing hours of the house and
senate were void of special interest.
An adjournment could have taken
place early in the evening had it not
been for the fact that signatures had to
be affixed TO the bills which had been
passed, and which were passed during
the last few hours.
The bills had to &c to the engross-
ing and enrolling clerks and that took
time.
Both branches had their calendars
well cleared of bills when they were
called to order for the last session, and
the final scenes were more ones OF
waiting than anything else.
Pierre, March 1.-THE session of the
legislature just closed will bear close
scrutiny.
Efforts to subject it to adverse criti-
cism have been made according to the
usual custom, but none Of the charges
have stuck. While it may be urged
that nothing brilliant was accomplish
ed, it will have to be admitted that
work in hand a done in a ~creditable
manner. AS a matter of fact there was
no big game in the jungle. The times
in which it lived and moved were not
such times as tried mems souls or
brought heroism to light.
For these reasons the Legislative grist
was more or less commonplace, but it
was the best that could be produced
from the material furnished for the
grinding. 1t is popular to criticise To-
cal solons and to make cheap plays at
their expense, but when due allowance
is made for this weakness of the hu-
man animal it will be seen that those
who attempt to find fault with the
batch that has recently graduated
must stretch a point we'll nigh TO
breaking.