The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-03-19
SUMMARY OF WORK OF SOLONS
appropriations Will Reach About Two Million Dol
lars-Session One of the Freest of Sensa-
tons Since Statehood

/ amount equal to the constitutional
limit of two mills on the dollar. Ac-
| cording to the estimates this should
| furnish a revenue during the next BIZ
ennial period of $2,000,OO0, and this
would cover the amount of the appro-
priations.
Besides this, Carrolls amended bill
provides for raising the assessment
as returned by an amount equal to
$l00,000,000. Berg's bill taxing cor
porations is also intended to increase
the revenues by 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 constitutional
amendment permitting a loan of S., 1000
to any one party, where the limit is
now only $1,000, and notwithstanding
one-half of the lands from sale and
! leasing for q long term, as well as
investing the moneys in all evidences
of state Indebtedness. AS this propo-
sition affects a fund now amounting
to S5,000,000 and which will ultimately
reach more than $4,000 900, 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
{ tinnal guard at Watertown extends
/ the number of the states institutions
| permanently located, while the pas
sage of the capital removal resolution
| dence that the state is not yet ready
| to settle down and 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. He has ten days in
which to examine these bills and sign
! them or veto them, and it will not be
! 1,
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 a 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 C in
the eyes OF the people as compared
with the valued policy insurance law
and the anticompact law, which held
the center of attraction during most
of the session to the exclusion of mat.
tiers Of probably larger general effect
Taken as a whole, 1t has been a
busy session without any startling
sensation to call the attention of the
people toward the present capital OF
the state.