Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-03-19

, amount equal to the constitutional
limit of two mills on the dollar. Ac-
cording to the estimates this should
ennial period of s2,0o0,000, and this
would cover the amount of the appro-
priations.
Besides this, CAROLS amended bill
provides for raising the assessment
as returned by an amount equal to
500, 100000. Berg's bill taxing cor
porations is also intended to increase
the revenues by a considerable
amount.
In addition to new laws covering the
question of revenues, the legislature
has taken steps to solve the problem
of investment of the permanent school
fund by providing for a constitutional
amendment permitting loan of 5000
to any one party, where the limit is
now only $1,000, and also withdrawing
one-half of the lands from sale and
leasing for long term, as well as
investing the moneys In all evidences
of state indebtedness. AS this propo-
sition affects a fund now amounting
10 100000 and which will ultimately
reach more than $30,000,000, it is gen.
orally considered that the passage of
the resolution is one Of the important
pieces of legislation.
The location of the state fair at
Huron and the encampment of the ma
tional guard at Watertown extends
the number of the states institutions
permanently located, while the pas
sage Of the capital removal resolution
places before the people another evil
dence that the state is not yet ready
to settle down ana begin keeping
house in its own palace. 1t is pre-
sumed that there will be times in the
next two years when the people may
regard this as the most exciting If not
the most important act of the eighth
legislature.
A total Of, more than two hundred
bills have passed and either await the
governors signature or have been
sgned and are now on file with the
secretary Of state. Up to the close of
the session 103 bills and resolutions
had been placed on file as laws, while
others were in the hands of the gov
ernor, not less than eighty bills being
passed or amendments concurred in
and handed to the governor during
the last day. lie has ten days in
which to examine these bills and sign
them or veto them, and it will not be
known until that time just how many
new laws the people of the state have
have to become acquainted with.
Among those signed are the new code
bills, which supercede the compiled
laws of 1887 and become the absolute
law of the state except as amended
by laws OF this session.
The number of bills introduced dur
ing the session was below the aver
age, while the proportion of bills
passed was above the average.
: Much of the new legislation is in
the form OF amendment to existing
law, but one of the notable exceptions
is the medical examiners law, which
is new act on the statute books, as
well as the laws relating to the inspec-
ton and the larceny of live stock
These, OF course, are lost sight CO in
the eyes OF the people as compared
with the valued policy insurance law
and the anti-compact law, which held
tie center of attraction during most
of the session to the exclusion of mat
tiers of probably larger general effect.
Taken as a whole, IT has been a
busy session without any startling
sensation to call the attention of the
people toward the present capital of
the state.