Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-02-12
Legislature
Proceedings Of the
- Week in the -.
State Law Mil -.


Pierre, 8. d.. Feb. 4.--The expected
fght.in the house to-day on the lease
bin was cut short by Goddard moving
recommitment to the judiciary COM
mittee, which motion carried by so to
III, and the fate Of the measure is
practically cettled. House committees
reported favorably on bills increasing
powers of the state board of assess
ment. and the senate bill to pay funds
from counties direct to asylum au-
thorities was SC amended that the In
tended effect of the bill is killed. On
this report bad faith was charged on
the part a a minority Of the commit.
tee and on motion 1t was sent back.
An adverse report was presented on
bill for $4,000 appropriation for
armory at Huron. The principal house
bills introduced were TO authorize In
CORPORATION Of electric railway compa-
Ries and defining their limitations. and
making twenty years the limit of q
street railway franchise. The house
passed bills to allow boards Of educa-
ton and townships to refund bonds
without = vote of the people, and pro-
Viding penalties for buying liquor for
a minor or intoxicated person. The
house bin authorizing appropriations
Tor county fairs was killed. Senate
bills passed by the house were those
10 appropriate s4,4So for deficiency at
the Aberdeen normal, and locating the
state fair permanently at Huron. The
latter was passed after q fight.
In the senate n number of senate
bills we're pushed th Trough, among
them being those to extend and en
large powers of trustees of ~insorporat
ed towns; appropriating one for
burial of deceased soldiers; establish
Ing a mining experiment station at the
school of mines, and adopting the
anemone as the state floral emblem.
The senate passed the house bill pro-
yiding for completion OF codes and ap-
prcpriating $500 for that purpose. In
the senate a bill was introduced ap-
propriating $3.50, 000 for new buildings
ut Brookings college. The senate went
into executive session on the appoint
ments of w. e. Upton OF Armour, d.
~. AEOL8da Va hLC4b U dhN AAlhnA
H. Powers Of Yankton, as members Of
the board OF charities and corrections.
Pierre, s. D., Feb. s. - The senate
bill to allow the Judge to appoint an
acting states attorney In case the
regular states attorney 10 In any way
disqualified to act In a case, started q
fight in the house just before adjourn
ment, and after several sharp pass
ages with \ h~alf-dozen members on
their feet at once clamoring for recog-
milton, the bill was indefinitely post.
poned.
The house passed house bills allow
ing sureties on bonds to limit their
liabilities; to protect large game; to
protect quail, and several printing APP
preparations. New house bills were
those to prevent children from hand
ling firearms; to publish reports OF
the state horticultural society. and to
appropriate money for the agricultural
college. A favorable house report on
the bill 20 tax products OF mines was
unanimously adopted. The bills to
grant greater powers to the state az.
sessment board called out q contest
on report, but were finally placed en-
calendar for q special rider Feb. O..
The senate passed bills to require a
bond for good behavior of dependent
children placed by societies; filing pay
of members OF the board of agriculture
at So per day and expenses, and re-
lating to the canvass of votes on con-
stitutional amendments, The princi-
pal bills introduced were those to pro-
vide for assessment insurance compar
MES; making thefts Of parts OF en
gines e felony; authorizing the state
board of charities and corrections to
dispose Of certain lands In the reform
school; providing penalty for theft OF
gas, water DR. electricity. and appro.
prfating $4,000 for a building at Spear.
fish normal school.
A house caucus with over fifty mem.
bers present decided to call the vaAled
policy insurance measure out of com.
mittee tomorrow unless it La reported
by them.
Pierre, s. D., Feb. 6. - Both houses
adjourned without tr~ansacting any
public business, and a recess was
taken to Tuesday next out of respect
for the governor. Both houses adopt
ed resolutions of sympathy. and or
dered the flag on the state house ia
float at half-mast until after the funer
al of the governors o n Committees
of both houses appointed to attend the
funeral are Senators Branson, Lawson
Boyland, McDougall and Burke; Rep
reseentatiyes Muhlbeier, Porter. May,
Bromley and Hutchinson. Both houses
adjourned to Tuesday of next week..