Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-21
INSURANCE BILLS TO FORE
valued Policy Goes to Governor and
A-nti-Compact Passes d
House.

PIERRE. SD, Feb. 2O.-(speclal Tele-
gram.)-The expected motion to again call
up the valued policy bill in the senate
today was not made and all that is now
required to make Il a law is the sigma
ture Of the governor.
Senate bills introduced today were: BY
Stoller, creating the Ninth judicial cir
cult of the counties of Mcpherson, Ed
munds, walworth and Campbell; by Bot
tum, authorizing sinking fund levies to
pay for artesian wells.
The senate committee reported against
II. r. 40, to secure a State Board Of As
sessment, and amended loo to increase
the power Of the board to increase valua-
tions, and favorably reported It. The SEN
ate passed house bills relating to uni
form FIRST and second grade teachers GER
tihcates; to prohibit the use Of firearms
by children; providing for Board Of Con-
troll Of charitable and penal institutions,
and resolution asking congress for the
abolition of the tariff on lumber.
The senate passed senate bills to pre-
vent pools and combines, and resolutions
providing for longtime lease OF state lands,
and increasing the scope of securities
which may be used as investments for the
funds.
The house held an all-day session and
practically cleared UP the calendar be-
fore adjournment. House bills passed we're
for the protection OF trust funds; in
c~reasing fees for purchase and lease Of
state lands; reducing interest on county
deposits; allowing no exemption on prop
erty on the purchase price for same, and
the compact insurance measure; allowing
incorporation of cities of 500 population
granting to boards of supervisors of towns
the right to establish fire limits; providing
more stringent penalties for violation OF
pure food laws; authorizing the incorpora-
tion electric street railways.
Bills killed by the house we're, to give
doctors preference right On professional
bills; requiring state mutual companies
to provide reserve funds; providing for the
annual meeting of school officers, and fix
ing compensation for same.
The house proceeded to make laws by
passing senate bills to adopt the anemon
es a state flower, in which debate was cut
of by the previous question:; requiring
bonds from repositories Of county funds;
giving right of action to any aggrieved
person in cases of seductlon; providing fol
a uniform system Of bell signals in mines
! appropriating $4,000 for cottages at the
Soldiers Home; appropriating money fol
deficiency in salary of a~djutant general;
legalizing certain acts Of the Board Of
Education Of Beresford; making ~convicts in
penitentiary competent witnesses.
The principal new bills in the house were
by Fillmer, providing for county examiners
to go over the records Of town officers; by
Gross. to provide for filling unused wells
by Jackson, to pay for horses killed OF
account Of CHAMBERS; by Hildebrandt, t
appropriate money to pay a judgment
against the state held by Margaret Mel
lette; by the committee on state affairs, t
provide for the admission of epileptics t
the Asylum for the Feeble Minded.
The a~nti-compact insurance measure wal
passed by a vote of "A to 6, but not unit
1t was amended to make 1t apply to join
stock companies, which practically relieves
state mutuals from its provisions, in which
effort there was a protest from Brown o
Sanborn, who introduced the bill and wit
objected on the ground that the move t.
go amend was coming from sources whicl
had been fighting insurance measures al
along. This called out several warm pass
ages, with personalities, between Brow
and Longstaff and others.
Welch attempted to secure the recon
sideration of the bill to require mutuals T.
provide reserve funds, but soon found hi
effort talked to death, as a majority o
the members have interests in mutuals.
The house appropriations committee kille
the bill for a Irvine plant at the peniten
tiary by adverse committee report, as the
did also attempts to increase the salarie
Of mine inspectors and public examiner.